May You Live In Interesting Times 58th Venice Biennale
How does one write a review for a “project” like the Venice Biennale, which includes an international mega-exhibition alongside a…
Reviews
Lee Jaffe Eva Presenhuber / New York
As a musician, artist, poet, photographer, and filmmaker, Lee Jaffe has lived many lives in different countries. What has always…
Stefano Serretta Italian Cultural Institute / Stockholm
“Shoegaze” is a series of exhibitions taking place at the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm, in partnership with Konstfack. Envisaged…
Whether Line Fondazione Prada / Milan
Depicted today, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s “noble savage” would have a stylist. Perhaps more than one. This cynical statement prompts us to…
My Head is a Haunted House Sadie Coles HQ / London
Charlie Fox, author of the spellbinding collection of essays This Young Monster (2017), has created an exhibition that — with its…
Piero Manzoni Hauser & Wirth / New York
In the wake of recent major museum shows of Burri and Fontana, and gallery shows of Castellani and Agnetti, Hauser…
Celine Condorelli Kunsthal Aarhus / Denmark
A new commission by Kunsthal Aarhus, “Host” does precisely what its title suggests: it provides a setting for a film…
Carroll Dunham Galerie Eva Presenhuber / Zurich
Body parts are also abstract shapes in Carroll Dunham’s “Recent Paintings,” the figure playfully winking at geometry. His mid-scale canvases…
Global National Haus am Lützowplatz / Berlin
Some things are over in no time at all, and some things linger, even if one would like them to…
Pipilotti Rist Louisiana Museum of Modern Art / Denmark
You may recall “Underwater Love,” the1997 track by Smoke City that featured subtle guitar lines, a constant drum beat, and…
Derek Jarman Amanda Wilkinson / London
Twelve paintings made by Derek Jarman between 1989 and 1990 make up the exhibition “Shadow Is the Queen of Colour”…
Anicka Yi Gladstone Gallery / Brussels
Anicka Yi’s first exhibition at Gladstone Gallery presents evidence of hybridization and symbiosis between different forms of life, whether animal…
Lydia Ourahmane Bodega / New York
Lydia Ourahmane’s exhibition “low relief” at Bodega is comprised of a set of sculptures that suggest an emergence of the…
Trevor Paglen MCASD / San Diego
Welcome to the end. The end of world, maybe — though more certainly the end of the exhibition. In a…
Sanya Kantarovsky Luhring Augustine / New York
Scenes of misery and melancholy, deadpan grotesqueries, and a small Ensorian carnival — and I keep coming back to the…
Céline Condorelli Kunsthal Aarhus / Denmark
A new commission by Kunsthal Aarhus, “Host”does precisely what its title suggests: it provides a setting for a film program…