Whitney Biennial 2017 / New York
Hanging from the high ceiling of the Whitney’s glassy ground-floor lobby are the embroidered textiles of filmmaker and artist Cauleen…
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Condo / London
Condo, the brainchild of Vanessa Carlos of Carlos/Ishikawa, is back to liven up an otherwise quiet moment in London’s art…
Amsterdam Art Weekend
The most recent edition of Amsterdam Art Weekend featured more than fifty official participants alongside many more satellite pop-ups around…
Why Not Ask Again / 11th Shanghai Biennale
In the Chinese philosophical system known as feng shui, literally wind and water, qi, the metaphysical force of unity, is…
Culture in Chaos Unsound Festival / Krakow
There’s more to Unsound Festival’s theme of “Dislocation” than mirroring the name of this year’s controversial Berlin Biennale curators, the…
Le Grand Balcon / La Biennale de Montréal
Montreal, 1967: in celebration of the Canadian Centennial, a world’s fair representing sixty-two nations not only blessed the city with…
A Season of Girls / Toronto International Film Festival
People in Toronto are looking at girls. The girls are being digitally projected onto giant screens, where they walk around…
Incerteza Viva / 32nd Bienal de São Paulo
I’d seen the artist list, read the press release and scribbled a couple questions on the outbound flight. It was…
Reporting from the Front Architecture Biennale 2016 / Venice
The theme of this year’s Architecture Biennale, “Reporting from the Front,” focuses on the tangible effects architects can have on…
Volcano Extravaganza 2016 Fiorucci Art Trust / Stromboli
From Homer to James Joyce, the peripatetic journey of Ulysses underlied “I Will Go Where I Don’t Belong,” the sixth…
Uncountable Youth / Moscow International Biennale for Young Art
While state-run art institutions in Russia experience uncertain times due to funding cuts and the dismantling of existing infrastructures, the…
What We Do for Money Manifesta 11 / Zurich
Manifesta 11, the latest edition of the roving European biennial, seeks to explore what makes its current host city, Zurich,…
The Present in Drag / 9th Berlin Biennale
“People are going apeshit over this!” Or so an artist participating in this year’s Berlin Biennale told me, via e-mail.…
Waiting for the Barbarians EVA International / Limerick
Ireland’s biennial has been in existence since 1977. This year’s iteration includes more than fifty-seven international artists and is curated…
Glasgow International 2016
Glasgow, a Macintoshian architectural pearl in the Scottish Lowlands, is a city stippled by its histories of trade and manufacturing…
Marrakech Biennale 2016
The Marrakech Biennale’s executive president Amine Kabbaj seemed deeply emotional as he dedicated this 6th edition to Leila Alaoui, the…