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…
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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…
A Nostalgia Queen. A Conversation with Richard Kennedy
It was the last day of March, and I chose the corner with the sage-green marble tables and white sofas…
(LA)HORDE Julia Stoschek Foundation / Berlin
“The danger to the community comes from organized people.” – Yvonne Rainer, Journeys from Berlin, 1971 Pense-bêtes are sticky note…
“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…
O’Flaherty’s, New York. A conversation with Jamian Juliano-Villani
“Curator” is a pretty new word. It has made its way into dictionaries over the past few decades, and weonly…
General Idea: Cultural Criminals. A Conversation with AA Bronson
“We were cultural criminals, media parasites,” writes AA Bronson in the preface to the catalogue accompanying the traveling retrospective of…
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…
Ventura Profana: Ventures Across Time
What seems to propel Western history is an insatiable drive for transformation, construction, destruction, plunder, and conquest — strategies of…
Better Problems
NEW YORK, 2023 I thought I would share some thoughts with you. To let you in on the state of…
Show Them, Tell Them, Don’t Explain. A Conversation with Sara Sadik
Marseille-based video and performance artist Sara Sadik is best known for her emblematic work on the Maghrebi diaspora in France.…
Pol Taburet: In Love, In Life, In Violence: The Art and Process of Unbecoming
Sometimes people are simply cool. You know what I mean: when you meet someone, only to be struck by a…
P.Staff: Ardor, Attrition
What do you dream of When life’s not given?1 Venus crushes. Peony-dense, obliterating human experience in compacted flusters of sheer…
We are tragic sleepers
“We are tragic sleepers,” texts Miciah sometime in October. He and I happen to be birthday twins, as were our…
Isa Genzken: Tactical Slippage
Although a single word could never encapsulate the boundless range of Isa Genzken’s artistic production, one that comes close is…
“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…