Roni Horn Galleria Raffaella Cortese / Milan
Spread across three venues, Roni Horn’s exhibition at Raffaella Cortese in Milan celebrates the gallery’s thirtieth anniversary and its long-standing…
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“Painting After Painting” S.M.A.K. / Ghent
A recurring refrain in recent decades is that painting is dead. And yet, it continues —sometimes loudly, sometimes zombified. “Painting…
Klára Hosnedlová “embrace” Hamburger Bahnhof / Berlin
Klára Hosnedlová’s “embrace,” which inaugurates three years’ worth of Chanel-sponsored programming in the Hamburger Bahnhof’s main hall, foxes formal categorizing…
“The Gatherers” MoMA PS1 / New York
What are the stakes of insisting upon political hope, in all its felt potential for redeeming past injustices, when progressivism…
“Corps et âmes” Bourse de Commerce / Paris
In Kerry James Marshall’s seminal 1986 work The Wonderful One, the figure is an ineffable silhouette: its dimensionality is reduced…
“HEAD FOR THE HILLS!” Hammer Museum / Los Angeles
The Hammer Museum group exhibition “HEAD FOR THE HILLS!” takes its title from John Knight’s 1974 untitled slide projection piece.…
“STEADYSTATE” Zero… / Milan
Time, in “STEADYSTATE,” doesn’t tick — it lingers, loops, and evaporates. The group exhibition at Zero… in Milan, co-curated with…
Nora Turato “pool7” ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts / London
Nora Turato’s “pool7” is an elaborate attempt at an exorcism — of language, of self, and of what she repeatedly…
Pan Daijing “Sudden Places” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Intentional obfuscation runs through “Sudden Places,” the exhibition by Chinese-born, Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist Pan Daijing at the Walker Art Center…
Rineke Dijkstra “Beach Portraits” Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
There is no shortage of these images circulating around the internet, but coming face to face with them is another…
Julie Mehretu “A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory” Museum of Contemporary Art Australia / Sydney
Julie Mehretu has been lauded as one of the most important contemporary artists of our time. The New York Times…
Amy Feldman “Good Fortune” Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vienna
Visitors to Austria’s capital often seek traces of Vienna circa 1900 – a time when Gustav Klimt painted his opulent,…
Cerith Wyn Evans “Borrowed Light Through Metz” Centre Pompidou Metz
Cerith Wyn Evans has created a time-based installation that transforms Centre Pompidou-Metz into a vessel for experiencing “borrowed lights” across…
Alex Margo Arden “Safety Curtain” Auto Italia / London
Auto Italia’s street-facing window displays facsimile posters for Les Misérables. On them, a text addendum reads: “Tonight’s performance has been…
Julius Eastman and Glenn Ligon “Evil Nigger” 52 Walker / New York
To be out of joint takes having perspective and moral fire; it takes disdain for the status quo and convention.…
Mike Kelley “Ghost and Spirit” Tate Modern, London
“Ghost and Spirit,” the first major UK retrospective of Mike Kelley’s work, begins with “Personality Crisis” (1982). Three large signatures:…