Anne Imhof “YOUTH” Stedelijk Museum / Amsterdam
My generation confronts the anxiety of death in a new and peremptory way. I was reflecting on this as I…
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cameron clayborn “nothing left to be” Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Berlin
US artist cameron clayborn (b. 1992) made the sculptures homegrown #1 and #2 in 2021, and yet the wafer-thin structures…
“New York: 1962–1964” Jewish Museum / New York
“New York: 1962–1964,” on view at the Jewish Museum, New York, is the last exhibition conceived by Germano Celant before…
Renée Green “Inevitable Distances” Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Zurich
Each Renée Green work is an exhibition in itself. Multipart in form, often originally site-specific, Green’s works are precise webs…
Carolee Schneemann “Body Politics” Barbican Centre / London
“Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics,” on view at the Barbican Centre, begins with paintings. The opening text reads: “I’m a painter.…
Cyprien Gaillard “HUMPTY \ DUMPTY” Palais de Tokyo and Lafayette Anticipations / Paris
Having received nearly simultaneous invitations from a pair of Parisian institutions, Cyprien Gaillard proposed an exhibition that could heap the…
Sissel Tolaas “RE__________” ICA Philadelphia
It’s a disturbing sight, at first: a person up against the wall of the ICA in Philadelphia, sniffing it. Then…
“The Milk of Dreams”: A Posthuman Revolution at the 59th Venice Biennale
Cecilia Alemani has curated a posthuman biennial, or so the worldwide press reports. The New York curator used the term…
Glenn Ligon “Post-Noir” Carré d’Art–Musée d’art contemporain / Nîmes
“When, beneath the black mask, a human being begins to make himself felt one cannot escape a certain awful wonder…
Doreen Lynette Garner "REVOLTED" The New Museum / New York
We live in a time of complacency and apathy, when violence, climate disaster, and suffering are daily realities and yet…
Nikita Gale “IN A DREAM YOU CLIMB THE STAIRS” Chisenhale / London
Some whistles are like a kettle. In Nikita Gale’s Chisenhale installation of light, sound, and sculpture, something is under sustained…
“ARS22 – Living Encounters” Kiasma / Helsinki
Art-world professionals are busy biennial-hopping once again. There’s the big one in Venice, the new edition of Manifesta in Pristina,…
Tita Cicognani Hammer Museum / Los Angeles
What else would Tita Cicognani put in a Hammer Projects space for a summer solo exhibition but a hot tub?…
“Still Present!” 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
Kader Attia, the artist who co-directed this year’s edition of the Berlin Biennale, has placed repair as a strategy at…
Liz Larner "below above" Kunsthalle Zurich
On a clear moonless night, looking out from the shore, the horizon might disappear and the two great physical voids…
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster “Alienarium 5” Serpentine South Gallery / London
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster wants to know: “What if aliens were in love with us?” Influenced by her research into extraterrestrial life,…