Lygia Clark “Painting as an Experimental Field, 1948–1958” Guggenheim Museum / Bilbao
Anyone who spends time with young artists is familiar with the changes they experience during their first years working. This…
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Wolfgang Tillmans “Today is the First Day” Wiels / Brussels
“Today is the First Day” is Wolfgang Tillmans’s first monographic exhibition in Belgium. With works covering a period from the…
Sarah Lucas “HONEY PIE” Sadie Coles HQ / London
Take the song “Honey Pie” by the Beatles and turn it into a string quartet — that would be the…
Jenna Sutela “NO NO NSE NSE” Kunsthall Trondheim / Norway
It’s no small feat that the recently appointed director of the Kunsthall Trondheim, Stefanie Hessler, lured one of the most…
Laura Owens House of Gaga / Mexico City
To realize her site-specific installation at House of Gaga, Laura Owens locked herself up in the gallery with her assistants…
Rochelle Goldberg “Psychomachia” Miguel Abreu Gallery / New York
Wild lilies, sand, sourdough bread, tuna cans, gold, eye shadow, desert dirt: these are among the distinctive materials that Rochelle…
Nick Mauss “Bizarre Silks, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, etc.” Kunsthalle Basel
This show, conceived by Nick Mauss, opens — coherently — upon a threshold. A succession of flats commences, the first…
Frida Orupabo “12 self portraits” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Sant’Andrea de Scaphis / Rome
Frida Orupabo’s imagery is both archival and personal — blurring the line between the two, if such a division exists.…
Jeremy Shaw “Phase Shifting Index” Centre Pompidou / Paris
Six hours before President Macron ordered the closing of every nursery, school, and university in France, in an attempt to…
Cerith Wyn Evans “No realm of thought… No field of vision” White Cube / Bermondsey
If the stark, ascetic coda of Cerith Wyn Evans’s sculptures disintegrates under anything it is the sensuality of optics. Diluting…
Liam Gillick “Redaction” Casey Kaplan / New York
“Redaction,” the current show by Liam Gillick at Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, brings together a selection of key texts,…
Ragna Bley & Inger Ekdahl Malmö Konsthall
Abstract painting has a long history in Sweden. Indeed, modern abstraction may have been first manifested in the painting of…
Vivian Suter “Tintin’s Sofa” Camden Arts Centre / London
Recently, the life and work of Vivian Suter has been afforded an almost mythic quality. Born in Buenos Aires and…
“Circular Flow. On the Economy of Inequality” Kunstmuseum / Basel
It’s a new decade. One continent just burned and another is sure to. We are either at the precipice of…
“In Practice: Total Disbelief” SculptureCenter / New York
What is at stake when doubt is our primary stance toward the world? “In Practice: Total Disbelief” at SculptureCenter stages…
Kaarel Kurismaa Temnikova & Kasela Gallery / Tallin
“The Old Man and the Musical Score” at Temnikova & Kasela Gallery in Tallinn showcases works by one of Estonia’s…