Donald Rodney “Visceral Canker” Spike Island / Bristol
Standing in front of Donald Rodney’s Visceral Canker (1990) — a seemingly living work, which this survey exhibition at Spike…
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Olivia Erlanger “If Today Were Tomorrow” Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Olivia Erlanger’s exhibition “If Today Were Tomorrow” starts in space. Space as in vantage point. Space as in site, both…
Pierre Huyghe “Liminal” Punta della Dogana / Venice
There’s an enigmatic peculiarity to Pierre Huyghe’s work, a riddle one can easily get lost in and miss the more…
Nancy Holt “Circles of Light” Gropius Bau / Berlin
Is Nancy Holt primarily a land artist? The notion of Land art conjures a time generations ago when landscape…
Whitney Biennial 2024 “Even Better Than the Real Thing” Whitney Museum of American Art / New York
Curating the Whitney Biennial is a fool’s errand by design. A snapshot of contemporary American art — a wide tent…
Aki Sasamoto “Sounding Lines” Para Site / Hong Kong
To enter Aki Sasamoto’s exhibition “Sounding Lines” at Para Site, you need a half-minute journey to the 22nd floor. You…
Roni Horn Hauser & Wirth / Menorca
To get to Illa del Rey, on the northeastern side of Menorca, a short boat ride is necessary. This brief…
Mohamed Bourouissa “Signal” Palais de Tokyo / Paris
At the 1920 Dada Festival in Paris, André Breton wore a sign made by Francis Picabia, a drawing of a…
Paul Pfeiffer “Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom” MOCA – Museum of Contemporary Art / Los Angeles
First and foremost, Paul Pfeiffer’s retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, “Prologue to the Story of the…
“A Cosmic Movie Camera” Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement / Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève
Examining last century’s art through a post-formalist lens reveals two key aspects: the gradual blurring of the line between viewer…
Jasmine Gregory “Si je ne peux pas l’avoir, toi non plus” CAPC – Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux
The CAPC – Musée d’art Contemporain is contained in a cavernous converted nineteenth-century warehouse in Bordeaux. It is a fitting…
Dora Budor “Again” Nottingham Contemporary
Croatian-born Dora Budor’s inaugural institutional exhibition in the UK, titled “Again,” takes place at Nottingham Contemporary, one of many organizations…
“Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum / New York
Visibility is a double-edged sword or, as French philosopher Michel Foucault once categorized it, “a trap.”1 The term’s duality is…
"Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living" Mori Art Museum / Tokyo
To mark their twentieth anniversary, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo presents “Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living,” co-curated by…
Meredith Monk "Calling” Haus der Kunst / Munich; Oude Kerk / Amsterdam
At Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, songs by Meredith Monk lure viewers into the church nave. Large LED screens, suspended from…
Rirkrit Tiravanija “A LOT OF PEOPLE” MoMA PS1, New York
The energy at the opening celebration of Rirkrit Tiravanija’s solo exhibition at MoMA PS1 was electric. On that cold and…