Zhao Zhao Mizuma Art Gallery / Singapore
Entering the gallery I encounter a huge canvas, so large that it occupies an entire wall — tall enough to…
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Singapore Utopia Chan + Hori Contemporary / Singapore
A gang of avant-gardists wants to have a utopian impact on Singapore society. They hope to shape the present world…
The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100 GARAGE Museum of Contemporary Art / Moscow
Is it the elephant in the room or a non-issue that the Garage Museum is funded by fossil-fuel, given that…
Mia Habib TBA Festival / Portland
A swarm of people gathers in Pioneer Square, the amphitheater-shaped plaza that is Portland’s downtown hub. These thirty or forty…
Alex Ayed B7L9 / Tunis
From the garden behind the gallery, Alex Ayed summons a flock of pigeons that obediently shuffles its way into the…
Alexander Calder Centro Botín / Santander
Each “Calder Story” at Centro Botín is an untold one. More than eighty mobiles, maquettes, and architectural projects are on…
Sara Cwynar Blitz / Valletta
“My mission is to spark joy in the world through tidying,” says a smiling Marie Kondo — the pop-culture tidying guru…
Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts Kestnergesellschaft / Hannover
“A community for all the arts … a cultural center for the new age.” This sounds like another Bauhaus centennial…
Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival XXII Triennale / Milan
Put it this way: what we define as contemporary is mainly connoted by fragility. If we look at projects like…
Gil Yefman Tel Aviv Museum of Art / Israel
How can a young Israeli relate to the memory of the Holocaust without the risk of falling into the twofold…
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…
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…