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…
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“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…
“Age of You” Jameel Arts Centre / Dubai
The details of Victoria Sin’s Illocutionary Utterances (2018) — makeup-clogged pores, hairs poking out of nostrils, wet teeth pushing against…
Yayoi Kusama “A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe” Gropius Bau / Berlin
Designed exclusively for Gropius Bau’s atrium, “A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe” invites visitors to get lost…
“Grief and Grievance” New Museum / New York
“Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America” was conceived by the late Nigerian-born curator Okwui Enwezor in 2018, and…
Alain Jacquet “Jeux de Jacquet” Galerie Perrotin / Paris
Perrotin Gallery’s Alain Jacquet (1939–2008) retrospective is a pop-colored historical overview clustered tightly around some sixty two-dimensional works. The exhibition…
Xinyi Cheng “The Horse with Eye Blinders” Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart / Berlin
The view from my bedroom window looks out onto a courtyard framed by a towering window-less wall. Some mornings, when…
Pedro Cabrita Reis and Cerith Wyn Evans Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
When the relevance of art for the functioning of society is under scrutiny, every show that can actually open is…
Lydia Ourahmane “Barzakh” Kunsthalle Basel
The correlation between one’s home situation and one’s life has been a tireless truism of this past year — and…
Alejandro Cardenas “ALEXANDRIA” Almine Rech / New York
These days, it’s not hard to imagine a future in which we can no longer go outside — everywhere we…
Emma McIntyre “Pour plenty on the worlds” Chris Sharp Gallery / Los Angeles
Like clouds, abstract paintings invite our own inferences and preoccupations, showing us what we want to see. Pushing against this…
Toyin Ojih Odutola “A Countervailing Theory” Barbican Centre / London
For her first UK solo exhibition, “A Countervailing Theory,” Nigerian-American artist Toyin Ojih Odutola presents forty drawings in the Curve…
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…