“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…
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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…
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…