Rochelle Goldberg “Psychomachia” Miguel Abreu Gallery / New York
Wild lilies, sand, sourdough bread, tuna cans, gold, eye shadow, desert dirt: these are among the distinctive materials that Rochelle…
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Nick Mauss “Bizarre Silks, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, etc.” Kunsthalle Basel
This show, conceived by Nick Mauss, opens — coherently — upon a threshold. A succession of flats commences, the first…
Frida Orupabo “12 self portraits” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Sant’Andrea de Scaphis / Rome
Frida Orupabo’s imagery is both archival and personal — blurring the line between the two, if such a division exists.…
Jeremy Shaw “Phase Shifting Index” Centre Pompidou / Paris
Six hours before President Macron ordered the closing of every nursery, school, and university in France, in an attempt to…
Cerith Wyn Evans “No realm of thought… No field of vision” White Cube / Bermondsey
If the stark, ascetic coda of Cerith Wyn Evans’s sculptures disintegrates under anything it is the sensuality of optics. Diluting…
Liam Gillick “Redaction” Casey Kaplan / New York
“Redaction,” the current show by Liam Gillick at Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, brings together a selection of key texts,…
Ragna Bley & Inger Ekdahl Malmö Konsthall
Abstract painting has a long history in Sweden. Indeed, modern abstraction may have been first manifested in the painting of…
Vivian Suter “Tintin’s Sofa” Camden Arts Centre / London
Recently, the life and work of Vivian Suter has been afforded an almost mythic quality. Born in Buenos Aires and…
“Circular Flow. On the Economy of Inequality” Kunstmuseum / Basel
It’s a new decade. One continent just burned and another is sure to. We are either at the precipice of…
“In Practice: Total Disbelief” SculptureCenter / New York
What is at stake when doubt is our primary stance toward the world? “In Practice: Total Disbelief” at SculptureCenter stages…
Kaarel Kurismaa Temnikova & Kasela Gallery / Tallin
“The Old Man and the Musical Score” at Temnikova & Kasela Gallery in Tallinn showcases works by one of Estonia’s…
Irena Haiduk Swiss Institute / New York
Irena Haiduk’s “REMASTER” was inaugurated by the circulation of five hundred keys, which physically open an exhibition that otherwise remains…
Lynda Benglis Museum of Cycladic Art / Athens
A childhood photograph of Lynda Benglis in Greece wearing a fustanella — the traditional male uniform connected with the War…
“Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011” MoMA PS1 / New York
“Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011” at MoMA PS1 is a vast group show that won’t let you look…
Keren Cytter Galerie Nagel Draxler / Cologne
After an unsuccessful attempt at seducing her neighbor, a young woman, who is the main protagonist in Keren Cytter’s new…
Singapore Biennale 2019
The French philosopher Jacques Rancière calls it the encounter. One could also call it the invitation. The idea is to…