Irena Haiduk Swiss Institute / New York
Irena Haiduk’s “REMASTER” was inaugurated by the circulation of five hundred keys, which physically open an exhibition that otherwise remains…
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Lynda Benglis Museum of Cycladic Art / Athens
A childhood photograph of Lynda Benglis in Greece wearing a fustanella — the traditional male uniform connected with the War…
“Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011” MoMA PS1 / New York
“Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011” at MoMA PS1 is a vast group show that won’t let you look…
Keren Cytter Galerie Nagel Draxler / Cologne
After an unsuccessful attempt at seducing her neighbor, a young woman, who is the main protagonist in Keren Cytter’s new…
Singapore Biennale 2019
The French philosopher Jacques Rancière calls it the encounter. One could also call it the invitation. The idea is to…
Eva Hesse mumok / Wien
“Forms Larger and Bolder” at mumok in Vienna concentrates on a selection of drawings by Eva Hesse, all from the…
“Museum” MMK / Frankfurt
Titling an exhibition “Museum” is nothing if not an ambitious gesture. At a moment when art institutions are being rigorously…
Tony Cokes Luma Westbau / Zurich
Heimo Zobernig’s schwarzescafé in the Löwenbräu art complex is currently hosting the first Swiss solo exhibition of US-based artist Tony…
Trisha Donnelly Matthew Marks / New York
In 1974, the CIA green-lit a 350-million-dollar cover-up operation to salvage a sunken Soviet sub from the depths of the…
Andrew Norman Wilson Ordet / Milan
“Something that feels like vision but does something your eyes could never do.” The voiceover of Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod…
Nam June Paik Tate Modern / London
Tate Modern’s Nam June Paik survey is zeitgeisty — immersive and Instagrammable, like Olafur Eliasson’s concurrent show in the Switch…
“Time Is Thirsty” Kunsthalle / Wien
Nostalgia for 1990s TV, film, web culture, or art should not seduce anyone who lived through it the first time…
Kendell Geers Goodman Gallery / Johannesburg
The Belgium-based South African conceptualist Kendell Geers recently held a wide-ranging and powerful gallery show in Johannesburg, the city of…
Jessi Reaves Herald St / London
Jessi Reaves’s New outfit standing container (all works 2019) is a darkling. Three antilopine console legs support an upturned, cankered…
Kara Walker Sprüth Magers / London
Coinciding with the artist’s Tate Modern Turbine Hall commission, Sprüth Magers London presents the first retrospective of Kara Walker’s films.…
Michael E. Smith Modern Art / London
Writing in “The Spirit of Things,” the critic Barbara M. Benedict considers the rise of consumer society in relation to…