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.…
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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…
Nayland Blake Institute of Contemporary Art / Los Angeles
Since the mid-1980s, Nayland Blake has engaged the politics and aesthetics of identity in America. Biracial, queer, and gender nonconforming,…
Nora Turato Serralves Museum / Porto
For her first solo exhibition in Portugal, Nora Turato drove her two greyhounds, Taco and Tuna, all the way from…
Sidsel Meineche Hansen Chisenhale gallery / London
“Welcome to End-Used City” continues Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s ongoing consideration of techno-capitalism’s stranglehold on biopolitics. The focus here is the…
Vincent Fecteau CCA Wattis Institute / San Francisco
In Vincent Fecteau’s most recent solo exhibition at the CCA Wattis Institute — his first show in San Francisco, his…
Luke Ching Chin Wai | South Ho Siu Nam Blindingspot / Hong Kong
The past eight months of political protest have left the administration of Hong Kong speechless. In failing to acknowledge its…
FALSE SPACES TOKAS Project / Tokyo
For its second edition, TOKAS Project invited Hong Kong Arts Centre and independent curator Yuk-Yiu Ip to present a media…
Liz Magor Marcelle Alix / Paris
Halfway into Canadian sculptor Liz Magor’s exhibition at Marcelle Alix, I brazenly swung myself down on a plinth only millimeters…
Marguerite Humeau CLEARING /Brussels
Maguerite Humeau’s earlier exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo and Nottingham Contemporary (2016–17) focused on what allowed the human species…
Elaine Cameron-Weir JTT / New York
In Elaine Cameron-Weir’s “strings that show the wind,” three sets of paired sculptures stand, as if halted mid-procession, atop an…
Emily Mae Smith Galerie Perrotin / Tokyo
In past interviews, Emily Mae Smith has described her current style and aesthetic as a result of her own experiences…
Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality Cranbrook Museum / Detroit
“Landlord Colors” stages a comparative history of the art of sociopolitical upheaval, bringing together work from five far-flung locales during…
Gelitin & Liam Gillick Kunsthalle Wien / Wien
Like anything else, “Stinking Dawn” affects the way you see things as much as it reflects them, but it is…
Ettore Spalletti NMNM / Monaco
Experiencing Ettore Spalletti’s solo exhibition at the NMNM’s Villa Paloma — spread over three floors and seven galleries — is…
Whitney Biennial 2019 Whitney Museum of American Art / New York
The Whitney Biennial has historically been an occasion for artistic protest and institutional critique, and this year’s iteration proved to…