“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…
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"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…
Eleanor Antin and My Barbarian MCASD – Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), is the economically titled exhibition “Eleanor Antin and…
Nan Goldin “This Will Not End Well” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
“My whole life is based on memories. I remember everything that’s ever been said to me,” Nan Goldin remarks in…
Mary Ellen Mark “Encounters” C/O / Berlin
Were someone to grab me by the collar and demand a definition of good documentary photography, I might offer the…
“Nonmemory” Hauser & Wirth / Los Angeles
At Hauser & Wirth, seven works by the late Mike Kelley, mostly sculptures isolated from their conceptual contexts, sit with…
Kayode Ojo “EDEN” 52 Walker, New York
Kayode Ojo’s signature glitter finds its largest stage yet at 52 Walker, where one wall of the sprawling 3,385-square-foot space…
Gray Wielebinski “The Red Sun is High, the Blue Low” ICA / London
The title of Gray Wielebinski’s exhibition at the ICA is derived from the title of a 1978 essay by Samuel…
“WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the digital age” Centre Pompidou - Metz
In Paul Verhoeven’s film Elle (2016), the main character, played by Isabelle Huppert, runs a gaming company. At a meeting,…
Isa Genzken “75/75” Neue Nationalgalerie / Berlin
Don’t let the bizarrely vague introductory wall text by curators Klaus Biesenbach and Lisa Botti, which describes Isa Genzken as…
“OUT OF THE BOX – 20 Years Schaulager” Schaulager / Basel
As elegantly simple — and perhaps quintessentially Swiss — a premise to an exhibition as one is likely to encounter:…
Rita McBride “Particulates” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
In April of this year, the Hammer Museum expanded its real-estate footprint to include a former City National Bank at…
Yu Ji “A Guest, A Host, A Ghost” Orange County Museum of Art / Costa Mesa
Just as I was walking across the sloping exterior of the Orange County Museum of Art, I remembered that next…
Mire Lee “Black Sun” New Museum / New York
My lone star is dead — and my bespangled lute / Bears the black sun of Melancholia. — Gérard de…