Samara Golden Yerba Buena Center for the Arts / San Francisco
In Samara Golden’s “A Trap in Soft Division,” her largest exhibition to date, the cyclical confinement of the present moment…
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DAS INSTITUT Serpentine Sackler Gallery / London
Throughout DAS INSTITUT’s latest self-titled show, currently at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, the body is suggested, performed, dissected and expanded…
Guy de Cointet Culturgest / Lisbon
When Paul Valéry viewed Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem “Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard” for the first time, he…
Nervous Systems Haus der Kulturen der Welt / Berlin
“Nervous Systems: Quantified Life and the Social Question” is about the manifold nature of human activity, specifically in terms of…
Tobias Madison & Matthew Lutz-Kinoy MoMA PS1 / New York
The flap of a butterfly’s wing in one location — or so the theory goes — may bring about a…
Jessi Reaves Bridget Donahue / New York
Anyone Knows How It Happened (Headboard for One) (2016), is the most formally straightforward work in Jessi Reaves’s solo exhibition…
Dadaglobe Reconstructed Kunsthaus / Zurich
Cutting across national borders erected in the aftermath of World War I, Tristan Tzara’s publication Dadaglobe was to be the…
Laura Poitras Whitney Museum of American Art / New York
Against a backdrop of escalating public-private turf wars and ever louder questioning of who owns the data associated with everything…
Andrew Birk Anonymous Gallery / Mexico City
Painting in its most classical form is Andrew Birk’s most direct and definitive reference in his recent, large-scale, fully immersive…
Justin Swinburne Michael Thibault / Los Angeles
The very beginnings of something and the debris from its demise can seem interchangeable — perhaps most especially when that…
De toi à la surface frac île-de-france, le plateau / Paris
Thérèse the Philosopher (1748) is an anonymous text that the Marquis d’Argens described as “so filthy that even a seasoned…
Rochelle Goldberg SculptureCenter / New York
The centerpiece of Rochelle Goldberg’s exhibition “The Plastic Thirsty” is a human-size pair of desiccated fish skeletons titled For every…
Marieta Chirulescu Fonti / Naples
The necessity to demolish the pictorial gesture and create scaffolding that functions as an energetic Laufstegen between a work in…
Henrik Håkansson Kunstverein / Freiburg
A felled beech tree is suspended in the main hall. Swedish artist Henrik Håkansson assumes responsibility for our collective destruction…
Stan Douglas Victoria Miro / London
Stan Douglas’s new video installation The Secret Agent comprises six projectors and screens arranged in two facing lines of three,…
Petrit Halilaj Pirelli HangarBicocca / Milan
“Space Shuttle in the Garden” — the first exhibition by Petrit Halilaj in Italy — is a kind of “best…