Plato in L.A.: Contemporary Artists’ Visions Getty Villa / Los Angeles
The introduction to “Plato in L.A.: Contemporary Artists’ Visions” takes the form of a pun: Jeff Koons’s Play-Doh (1994–2014). This…
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Post Zang Tumb Tuuum. Art Life Politics: Italia 1918–1943 Fondazione Prada / Milan
Last October, the New Yorker published an article by historian and New York University faculty member Ruth Ben-Ghiat, which asked…
Lucie Stahl Galerie Meyer Kainer / Vienna
A hovering oil barrel rotates in the center of a rectangular steel frame. Prayer Wheel (Total) (2018), a sculptural contraption…
Sanguine/Bloedrood. Luc Tuymans on Baroque M HKA / Antwerp
For his latest curatorial undertaking, Luc Tuymans created a fraught pairing of baroque masterpieces and contemporary works for a multitemporal…
Chris Marker Cinémathèque Française / Paris
“Chris Marker. Les 7 vies d’un cinéaste” presented an opportunity to discover or rediscover the French auteur’s multifaceted personality. Adopting…
David Wojnarowicz Whitney Museum of American Art / New York
Death isn’t fair: it reaps randomly but often strikes the most vulnerable — the ostracized, the weak, the defenseless. Those…
Lin Tianmiao Rockbund Art Museum / Shanghai
Many of the parts are rudimentary: tools, bones, a garden, a heartbeat. In Lin Tianmiao’s solo show, these constituents of…
Jean Dubuffet Hauser & Wirth / Zürich
When Hauser & Wirth gave Dr. Sophie Berrebi free reign to curate a monographic Jean Dubuffet exhibition in their Zurich…
Marta Riniker-Radich / Kunsthaus Glarus
Marta Riniker-Radich’s survey inside the modernist setting of Kunsthaus Glarus is flooded by light filtered through skylights and garden windows.…
Jack Smith Artists Space / New York
Anarchism and availabilism were the main rules of the singular utopia Jack Smith built throughout his life, a place for…
Sharp Objects: Daydreams Can Be Dangerous
“She wanted to shield her, from the bullet of an ordinary life.” —Rachel Cusk, Arlington Park
Mona Varichon Goodan Family Graduate Art Gallery, ArtCenter / Pasadena
On May 16, Mona Varichon graduated from ArtCenter’s two-year MFA program. She had her final critique earlier that day, laudable…
Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher Bonniers Konsthall / Stockholm
If you are a fan of the enigmatic musician Sun Ra, you’ll already like Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher’s exhibition…
Reena Spaulings Matthew Marks Gallery / Los Angeles
Seascape (2014) is a Turner riff at Water Lilies scale, painted by a robotic mop. One can mostly appreciate this…
Apostolos Georgiou Rodeo / London
Little is known of writer Peter Zabelskis. In 1986, Slate Press published his Loop: 50 Ideas for Pictures. These loops…
Friend of a Friend 2018 / Warsaw
Polish art continues to flourish with artists like Katarzyna Kozyra, Paulina Olowska, Wilhelm Sasnal, and Krzysztof Wodiczko entering a number…