Trisha Baga Greene Naftali / New York
Trisha Baga’s “Mollusca & The Pelvic Floor” positions the viewer at a crossroads between virtual fantasy and scientific verification. Upon…
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Bodys Kingelez MoMA / New York
In 1971, military dictator Mobutu Sese Seko took control of Congo, renamed it Zaire, and campaigned for a vast cultural…
Alexander Kluge Belvedere 21 / Vienna
“Pluriverse” is a brilliant exhibition threatened by a fatal oversight: only a few of its fifty-five films have English subtitles.…
Katja Novitskova Whitechapel Gallery / London
I catch sight of a partial phrase, rotating like a mobile above me: “though it lacks eyes, it can still…
Danh Vo Statens Museum for Kunst / Copenhagen
Nemo propheta in patria is a saying valid for many, but not for Vietnamese-born Danish artist Danh Vo. His art…
RAGGA NYC Mercer Union / Toronto
RAGGA NYC is a cross-disciplinary collective of Queer Caribbean artists and their allies. This growing network recently staged an eponymous…
Dimension Cracks: Rammellzee Red Bull Arts / New York
“RAMMΣLLZΣΣ: Racing for Thunder,” which closed at Red Bull Arts New York this past August, took on the intimidating task…
Tatiana Trouvé Petach Tikva Museum of Art / Tel Aviv
The most striking element in Tatiana Trouvé’s current exhibition “The Great Atlas of Disorientation” is the sharp contrast between its…
Miles Huston Reyes Projects / Detroit
For his recent solo exhibition at Reyes Projects in Detroit, New York–based artist Miles Huston has created seven virtuosic drawings…
Margiela / Galliera, 1989 – 2009 Palais Galliera / Paris
Maison Margiela’s much-needed retrospective provided a rare opportunity for the Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris to…
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…
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…