Tosh Basco: Form and Feeling
I’m on the phone with artist Tosh Basco, explaining how hard it is to write about her work. “Well, I’ve…
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cameron clayborn “nothing left to be” Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Berlin
US artist cameron clayborn (b. 1992) made the sculptures homegrown #1 and #2 in 2021, and yet the wafer-thin structures…
“New York: 1962–1964” Jewish Museum / New York
“New York: 1962–1964,” on view at the Jewish Museum, New York, is the last exhibition conceived by Germano Celant before…
Wolfgang Tillmans: Multitudinal Pictures
Chance is banal. Immaterial. While it just so happened that photographer Wolfgang Tillmans was a teenager in the mid-sized West…
Renée Green “Inevitable Distances” Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Zurich
Each Renée Green work is an exhibition in itself. Multipart in form, often originally site-specific, Green’s works are precise webs…
The Dawn of Endcore
—1 — Is it the end? Has the end finally come? No one is sure exactly when it’s happening. We…
Carolee Schneemann “Body Politics” Barbican Centre / London
“Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics,” on view at the Barbican Centre, begins with paintings. The opening text reads: “I’m a painter.…
Even My Subconscious Is Self-Conscious: Okay Kaya
The preternaturally gifted artist, musician, model and actress Kaya Wilkins — known in the creative industry as Okay Kaya —…
Cyprien Gaillard “HUMPTY \ DUMPTY” Palais de Tokyo and Lafayette Anticipations / Paris
Having received nearly simultaneous invitations from a pair of Parisian institutions, Cyprien Gaillard proposed an exhibition that could heap the…
Sissel Tolaas “RE__________” ICA Philadelphia
It’s a disturbing sight, at first: a person up against the wall of the ICA in Philadelphia, sniffing it. Then…
“The Milk of Dreams”: A Posthuman Revolution at the 59th Venice Biennale
Cecilia Alemani has curated a posthuman biennial, or so the worldwide press reports. The New York curator used the term…
Inventing Male Archetypes that Privilege Softness and Introspection: Devan Shimoyama
Looking back at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s landmark exhibition “Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art”…
Glenn Ligon “Post-Noir” Carré d’Art–Musée d’art contemporain / Nîmes
“When, beneath the black mask, a human being begins to make himself felt one cannot escape a certain awful wonder…
A Whirlwind of Connections. A Conversation with Lafawndah
Lafawndah, sometimes known as Yasmine Dubois, is intent on holding space for growth in her music, traversing genres, and uncovering…
Two Kinds of Knowledge Shaking Hands: A Conversation About You Can’t Trust Music
In the winter of 2020, as planes momentarily cleared our airspace, making room for birds, winds, and silences, Julieta Aranda…
Plants in a Garden, Tended by Machines. A Conversation with Nora N. Khan
Andrea Bellini: As a curator and writer, you have stood out in recent years for your focus on both the…