Heidi Bucher "Metamorphoses I" Kunsthalle Bern
When the word skin is verbalized — to skin — the associations with this outer layer of the body start…
Reviews
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…
Jackie Winsor MAMCO / Genève
When Michael Fried published his notorious essay “Art and Objecthood” (1967), he likely did not expect “theatricality” to become such…
Zoe Leonard “Al río / To the River” MUDAM / Luxembourg
I usually say that an exhibition is not a book on the walls. For once, I was wrong. Zoe Leonard’s…
Caroline Kent “Chicago Works” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Caroline Kent’s installation at the MCA Chicago comprises two dimly lit spaces dressed to evoke studies: one space includes an…
"The Real Show" CAC Brétigny
People want to see images that reflect their reality, but media distortions and the pace of digital technology have warped…
Steven Parrino Gagosian / Basel
For all the mythology that dogs the legacy of Steven Parrino, two decades after his death at the age of…
“TUNE. Sound and Beyond” Haus der Kunst / Munich
It goes without saying that sound as an artistic medium has a rich and varied history; think only of the…
YuJi “Against Shadows” Sadie Coles HQ / London
The fragment involves an ambiguous altercation between singularity and dispersal, atomized integrity, and fracturing action. A fragment, like fragmentals, is…
Jasper Johns “Mind/Mirror” Whitney Museum of American Art / New York, and Philadelphia Museum of Art
Over the course of nearly seven decades, Jasper Johns has produced some of the most iconic art in America and…
Doug Aitken “New Era” MCA – Museum of Contemporary Art / Sydney
With the opening of his latest exhibition, “New Era,” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, American artist Doug…
Tacita Dean “Antigone” Kunstmuseum Basel / Gegenwart
Antigone, product of the incestuous entanglement of King Oedipus and his mother in ancient Greek myth and tragic heroine of…
Martin Margiela Lafayette Anticipations / Paris
Amid the nonlinear room scarved out of an aseptic and at times invisible set design, I couldn’t help but wonder…