Eva Hesse mumok / Wien
“Forms Larger and Bolder” at mumok in Vienna concentrates on a selection of drawings by Eva Hesse, all from the…
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“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…
Dirk Braeckman Zeno X / Antwerp
Zeno X gallery presents “Dear Deer,” an exhibition by Belgian artist Dirk Braeckman. The show features new works by the…
Len Lye Museum Tinguely / Basel
Light, noise, and motion form the nucleus of the career of Len Lye. This exhibition, spanning his early adulthood forward,…
Where Water Comes Together with Other Water / 15th Biennale de Lyon
It is, no doubt, a measure of biennial oversaturation that one can be deemed a success by what it hasn’t…
Wu Tsang Gropius Bau / Berlin
A gold curtain shimmers from a flagpole and catches the light; crystals cascade in thin streams and reflect rainbows; sunrays…
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…
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,…