Tarek Atoui "Waters' Witness" Fridericianum / Kassel
A metallic clamor pulses across an arrangement of marble blocks, steel beams, cables, and handmade musical instruments, before a rustling…
Reviews
Harold Mendez "Let us gather in a flourishing way" ICA / Los Angeles
What’s there and what’s not there? Harold Mendez’s presentation at the ICA, Los Angeles, is an exploration into the meaning…
Robert Smithson "Primordial Beginnings" Marian Goodman Gallery / Paris
Between 1957 and 1961, Robert Smithson (1938–1973) exhibited works with a stylistic affinity to Abstract Expressionism, which was then mainstream…
Raphael Hefti “Salutary Failures” Kunsthalle Basel
Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993), a morality tale about the wonders of technology at the end of the twentieth century,…
"Don't Let This Be Easy" Walker Art Center / Minneapolis
Minneapolis: the site of a deadly reckoning that recently primed the world for a new wave of civil rights activism.…
Robert Morris "The Perceiving Body" MAMC+ / Saint-Étienne Métropole
Robert Morris’s art is rooted in the corporeal: not only in its means of production — involving materials of heavy…
Rose Wylie "where i am and was" Aspen Art Museum / Colorado
The story of British artist Rose Wylie’s career has become something close to lore for its unusual trajectory: despite having…
Olivier Mosset MAMCO / Genève
As one of the central figures of postwar abstract painting, Olivier Mosset is usually linked with Clement Greenberg’s precepts of…
Danh Vo “Danh Vo oV hnaD” The National Museum of Art / Osaka
Danh Vo’s much-anticipated first institutional solo exhibition in Japan finally opened at the National Museum of Art after the Japanese…
“Resistance of the Sleepers” UCCA Dune / Beijing
What else is spreading along with the virus? Sleep problems. Widespread lockdowns have blurred the boundaries between work and rest,…
Sveta Mordovskaya “Monuments” Cherish / Genève
Around the world, anti-racist protesters are toppling symbols of colonialism such as the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston,…
Peter Saul “Crime and Punishment” The New Museum / New York
Bearing organs, faces, fluids, and copious energy, Peter Saul’s paintings have a strange life of their own. If the paintings…
“Alpha Crucis – Contemporary African Art” Astrup Fearnley Museet / Oslo
“We originate in loss. Our lost ones line the sea. We need to get back to them — become amphibious…
Marina Pinsky “Four Color Theorem” C L E A R I N G / Brussels
The title of Marina Pinsky’s fourth exhibition at C L E A R I N G Brussels is taken from…
Hito Steyerl “The Tower” Thaddaeus Ropac / London
Hito Steyerl’s work The Tower takes its name from a real-life endeavor so bizarre it had to be made into…
Benjamin Hirte “First Houses” Galerie Emanuel Layr / Vienna
The great exodus has begun. Lockdown 2020 ensures reverse migration will be the death knell of dense urbanism. City life…