“Anemoia” Human Resources / Los Angeles
Anemoia — the nostalgia for something, future or past, that you’ve never actually known — is a term coined by…
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“Dans la tête de Balthus” Perrotin / Paris
Influence, in the art world, is always fluid. “I copied Giotto,” Balthus acknowledges in a video while smoking at his…
Doug Aitken “HOWL” Galerie Eva Presenhuber / Zurich
“HOWL,” the current exhibition of prophetic multimedia works by Doug Atkins, accelerates through Galerie Eva Presenhuber’s Maag Areal campus with…
Dominique Knowles "My Beloved" Hannah Hoffman / Los Angeles
What is creation if not negation — if not a definite stroke distinguishing some thing from the next? Death is…
Paul Levack The Gaylord Apartments / Los Angeles
The camera — a tool made for documenting the historic, the unbelievable, and the official — is now nearly one…
Alex Da Corte “Fresh Hell” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art / Kanazawa
In the heart of Tokyo in the mid-1980s, a young girl first encountered the enigmatic allure of contemporary art. Since…
Steve Kado “Spring!” Soldes / Los Angeles
Michel Foucault begins The Order of Things with an investigation of the seemingly nonsensical Chinese encyclopedia found in Jorge Luis…
Dean Sameshima “being alone” and Mark Verabioff “VERBIAGE;” O-Town House / Los Angeles
In Dean Sameshima’s photographs on view at O-Town House, taken covertly in adult movie theaters in Berlin, there is rarely…
Tauba Auerbach “Free Will” Paula Cooper Gallery / New York
Walking into Paula Cooper Gallery’s space on 534 West 21st Street for the opening of Tauba Auerbach’s new solo show,…
Adelaide Cioni “Ab Ovo / On Patterns” Mimosa House / London
If Agnes Martin’s drawings and paintings are essays on “inwardness and silence,” as they have previously been described, then Adelaide…
Redd Ekks "X" Arcadia Missa / London
“X” speaks of cryptic notice: a point slyly declarative and deliberately obscuring. Beyond codification, “X” is a teasing mark of…
Carlota Guerrero “Registro 6: Manglar” Sainte Anne Gallery / Paris
Upon entering Carlota Guerrero’s exhibition “Registro 6: Manglar,” curated by Mariona Valdés, in Paris, visitors are asked to remove their…
Gretchen Bender “Image World” Sprüth Magers / London
Obliquely affiliated with the Pictures Generation of the 1980s, Gretchen Bender’s fierce use of film and television as source material…
“Esfíngico Frontal” Mendes Wood DM / São Paulo
By observing expressions of human loneliness materialized in sphinxlike forms, “Frontal Sphinx” offers a constellation of images that reflect on…
“Kingdom of the Ill” Museion / Bolzano
Illness is life-adjacent, a consensus we ought to have reached during the pandemic. Regardless, as Susan Sontag argued, illness is…
Beatrice Gibson “Dream Gossip” Ordet / Milan
On high ground overlooking Paris, poet Alice Notley reads the words, “I stand here in whose eyes / the name…