Whitney Biennial 2024 “Even Better Than the Real Thing” Whitney Museum of American Art / New York
Curating the Whitney Biennial is a fool’s errand by design. A snapshot of contemporary American art — a wide tent…
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An Illegible World. Sung Tieu
Sung Tieu has a studio in a leafy courtyard in Berlin’s Wedding district, where an assistant is busy scrubbing old…
Aki Sasamoto “Sounding Lines” Para Site / Hong Kong
To enter Aki Sasamoto’s exhibition “Sounding Lines” at Para Site, you need a half-minute journey to the 22nd floor. You…
Present Tense: Win McCarthy
“Now” is already too late and, in its lateness, a lie: the utterance of now is a now no longer.…
MY HAND, MY HEART, MY ART. A Conversation with Judy Chicago
I get a call from Judy Chicago’s studio manager while I’m washing the dishes in my flat. She asks if…
Before We Dreamt in Halves: 60th Venice Biennale
Today, Mother died. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure. — The Stranger, Albert Camus I’m not always sure…
Roni Horn Hauser & Wirth / Menorca
To get to Illa del Rey, on the northeastern side of Menorca, a short boat ride is necessary. This brief…
Peter Fischli: Quality
In The Right Way (1987), one in a series of films co-directed by Peter Fischli and David Weiss, a rat…
HOA, São Paulo. A conversation with Igi Lola Ayedun
HOA is one of the few art spaces in Brazil — if not the only one — to have a…
Accidental Composition. A Conversation with Paride Maria Calvia
Fittingly, the first time I “met” Paride Maria Calvia was when I worked in Donlon Books in London. From the…
WHERE’S THE ROMANCE? A Conversation with Peter Shire
As Peter Shire describes it, it’s “just another bucolic afternoon in Echo Park, Los Angeles, with the cars making whooshing…
Sin Wai Kin: Dreaming Before Language
1. Can a Word Contain the World? Language shapes reality; this much we know is true. On a good day,…
Diamond Stingily: Everybody Is Bronze
Diamond Stingily is a great storyteller. The first time I met her, she came over to the loft where I…
Mohamed Bourouissa “Signal” Palais de Tokyo / Paris
At the 1920 Dada Festival in Paris, André Breton wore a sign made by Francis Picabia, a drawing of a…
I Am a Stream of Consciousness
“Essentially, there are only two things in my life: spiritual practice and work,” LuYang tells me with the help of…
The Met: Fly Higher. A Conversation between Michael Abel and Nile Greenberg
An introduction: on Sunday, March 3, 2024, Michael Abel and Nile Greenberg of the architecture firm ANY met at the…