“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,…
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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…
Martin Wong “Malicious Mischief” Camden Art Centre / London
In a poem from the 1970s, Martin Wong, in his angled scrawl, urges a “poisoned garden,” a “temple of dawn,”…
Roni Horn " I am paralyzed with hope" Centro Botín / Santander
It might be unusual to begin a review by quoting a philosopher who lived some 2,600 years ago, but I…
Isaac Julien “What Freedom is to Me” Tate Britain / London
In Harlem Renaissance writer Richard Nugent’s 1926 story “Smoke, Lilies and Jade,” the narrator remarks that it’s “funny how characters…
Ndayé Kouagou Fondation Louis Vuitton / Paris
“Maybe you are extraordinary, and if you are, leave my temple, it’s a space for average people.” A line from…
Marc Camille Chaimowicz “Nuit Américaine” WIELS / Brussels
“Nuit Américaine,” Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s solo exhibition at WIELS, spans more than five decades, grouping the iconic Celebration? Realife Revisited…
“Chryssa & New York” Dia Chelsea / New York
“Chryssa & New York,” currently on view at Dia Chelsea, marks a homecoming that is both institutional and personal. Although…
Barbara T. Smith “The Way to Be” Getty Center / Los Angeles
In a small vestibule painted library green (Benjamin Moore 699), personal artifacts from Barbara T. Smith’s archive, acquired by the…
“Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream” Centre d’Art Contemporain / Genève
The risk of partial reception or the flattening of content in thematic, muscular exhibitions like the one presented by the…
Roberto Cuoghi Fridericianum / Kassel
The first thing visitors hear upon entering the foyer of Fridericianum is a swelling, deeply unsettling noise. Cascade-like, akin to…
June Crespo “They Saw their House Turn Into Fields” Museo CA2M / Madrid
Metal artifacts are arranged neatly against the walls: the spectator is surrounded. From this description, you’d be forgiven for thinking…