Caroline Kent “Chicago Works” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Caroline Kent’s installation at the MCA Chicago comprises two dimly lit spaces dressed to evoke studies: one space includes an…
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"The Real Show" CAC Brétigny
People want to see images that reflect their reality, but media distortions and the pace of digital technology have warped…
Steven Parrino Gagosian / Basel
For all the mythology that dogs the legacy of Steven Parrino, two decades after his death at the age of…
“TUNE. Sound and Beyond” Haus der Kunst / Munich
It goes without saying that sound as an artistic medium has a rich and varied history; think only of the…
YuJi “Against Shadows” Sadie Coles HQ / London
The fragment involves an ambiguous altercation between singularity and dispersal, atomized integrity, and fracturing action. A fragment, like fragmentals, is…
Jasper Johns “Mind/Mirror” Whitney Museum of American Art / New York, and Philadelphia Museum of Art
Over the course of nearly seven decades, Jasper Johns has produced some of the most iconic art in America and…
Doug Aitken “New Era” MCA – Museum of Contemporary Art / Sydney
With the opening of his latest exhibition, “New Era,” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, American artist Doug…
Tacita Dean “Antigone” Kunstmuseum Basel / Gegenwart
Antigone, product of the incestuous entanglement of King Oedipus and his mother in ancient Greek myth and tragic heroine of…
Martin Margiela Lafayette Anticipations / Paris
Amid the nonlinear room scarved out of an aseptic and at times invisible set design, I couldn’t help but wonder…
Oliver Laric “Betweenness” Stedelijk Museum / Amsterdam
On the occasion of a donation by the private collection and curatorial platform Modern Forms, London, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam,…
Hurvin Anderson “Reverb” Thomas Dane Gallery / London
An unfinished, abandoned beachside resort, where nature has subsumed man-made limestone and concrete structures, provides inspiration for resplendent, imaginary landscapes…
Martine Syms “Aphrodite’s Beasts” Fridericianum / Kassel
Martine Syms’s video art, photographs, and autobiographical fiction are anchored by a first-person narrator — with all her potential for…
“La Mer Imaginaire (The Imaginary Sea)” Fondation Carmignac / Porquerolles Island, France
Imagining a direct dialogue with the sea while walking through the rooms of Fondation Carmignac, as the title suggests, is…
James Barnor “Accra/London – A Retrospective” Serpentine Galleries / London
Selina Opong, Policewoman #10 (c. 1954), in the crisp uniform of a new generation of professional Ghanaian women, stands to…
Virgil Abloh “Figures of Speech” ICA / Boston
Two phrases reverberate like battling incantations throughout Virgil Abloh’s exhibition at ICA Boston, both from the video Peculiar Contrast, Perfect…
Niki de Saint Phalle “Structures for Life” MoMA PS1 / New York
“Structures for Life,” a beguiling survey of the still vibrant and radical work of Niki de Saint Phalle conjured from…