Liz Larner "below above" Kunsthalle Zurich
On a clear moonless night, looking out from the shore, the horizon might disappear and the two great physical voids…
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Living in a Material World. A Conversation with Tenant of Culture
In July, Camden Art Centre opened “Soft Acid,” the first institutional exhibition of Tenant of Culture (the anonym for the…
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster “Alienarium 5” Serpentine South Gallery / London
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster wants to know: “What if aliens were in love with us?” Influenced by her research into extraterrestrial life,…
Kahrkiv / Venice. April 2022
The following are excerpts from conversations that artist Pavlo Makov had with various people from February 24 — the day…
No Word Can Hold the Person. A Conversation with Rindon Johnson
Rindon Johnson’s work is as much about poetry as it is about presence. Poetry, in how the American artist uses…
Wolfgang Tillmans “Sound is Liquid” mumok / Vienna
Last November Wolfgang Tillmans released his first studio album, Moon in Earthlight, a fifty-three-minute-long soundscape that weaves together pop elements,…
Heidi Bucher "Metamorphoses I" Kunsthalle Bern
When the word skin is verbalized — to skin — the associations with this outer layer of the body start…
Artists at Risk: A Conversation with Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen
Artists at Risk (AR) is a non-profit organization at the intersection of human rights and the arts, with a mandate…
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…
Beyond the Limits of Empirical Knowledge: Marguerite Humeau's New Way of Thinking and Making
Some might consider Marguerite Humeau’s artistic trajectory unconventional. Coming to art via design, she first studied textile design in France,…
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…
Tishan Hsu: Body Currents
As of late, “prescient” has become the preferred modifier for artist, Tishan Hsu. Indeed, as framed by the recent retrospective…
Stepping Towards Something Like an Experience: The Wu Tsang's Moby Dick
Hidden stories and marginal narratives have attracted Wu Tsang throughout her artistic career. The belief that history is nothing but…
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…