Sissel Tolaas “RE__________” ICA Philadelphia
It’s a disturbing sight, at first: a person up against the wall of the ICA in Philadelphia, sniffing it. Then…
Reviews
“The Milk of Dreams”: A Posthuman Revolution at the 59th Venice Biennale
Cecilia Alemani has curated a posthuman biennial, or so the worldwide press reports. The New York curator used the term…
Glenn Ligon “Post-Noir” Carré d’Art–Musée d’art contemporain / Nîmes
“When, beneath the black mask, a human being begins to make himself felt one cannot escape a certain awful wonder…
Doreen Lynette Garner "REVOLTED" The New Museum / New York
We live in a time of complacency and apathy, when violence, climate disaster, and suffering are daily realities and yet…
Nikita Gale “IN A DREAM YOU CLIMB THE STAIRS” Chisenhale / London
Some whistles are like a kettle. In Nikita Gale’s Chisenhale installation of light, sound, and sculpture, something is under sustained…
“ARS22 – Living Encounters” Kiasma / Helsinki
Art-world professionals are busy biennial-hopping once again. There’s the big one in Venice, the new edition of Manifesta in Pristina,…
Tita Cicognani Hammer Museum / Los Angeles
What else would Tita Cicognani put in a Hammer Projects space for a summer solo exhibition but a hot tub?…
“Still Present!” 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
Kader Attia, the artist who co-directed this year’s edition of the Berlin Biennale, has placed repair as a strategy at…
Liz Larner "below above" Kunsthalle Zurich
On a clear moonless night, looking out from the shore, the horizon might disappear and the two great physical voids…
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster “Alienarium 5” Serpentine South Gallery / London
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster wants to know: “What if aliens were in love with us?” Influenced by her research into extraterrestrial life,…
Wolfgang Tillmans “Sound is Liquid” mumok / Vienna
Last November Wolfgang Tillmans released his first studio album, Moon in Earthlight, a fifty-three-minute-long soundscape that weaves together pop elements,…
Heidi Bucher "Metamorphoses I" Kunsthalle Bern
When the word skin is verbalized — to skin — the associations with this outer layer of the body start…
Barbara Kruger “THINKING OF YOU. I MEAN ME. I MEAN YOU.” LACMA / Los Angeles
One is a critic because one has never felt affirmed (Barbara Kruger never speaks in the third person). There is…
“Quiet as It’s Kept” Whitney Biennial 2022 Whitney Museum of American Art / New York
The eightieth iteration of the Whitney Biennial is subtitled “Quiet as It’s Kept,” an expression curator Adrienne Edwards remembers her…
Baseera Khan "I Am an Archive" Brooklyn Museum / New York
The advent and proliferation of technologies that encourage practices of accumulating and storing information has precipitated a contemporary preoccupation with…
Charles Ray Centre Pompidou and Pinault Collection – Bourse de Commerce / Paris
Plank Piece I and II (1973), a black-and-white photographic diptych showing the young Charles Ray’s body pinned against the wall…