InVisible AFAC / Dubai
If, as media pundit Marshall McLuhan proclaimed, we become what we behold, then most Dubai residents are likely to be…
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Mathias Poledna Renaissance Society / Chicago
Two works — an architectural intervention and a new film — comprise Mathias Poledna’s exhibition at the Renaissance Society. Together,…
The Gentle Way (JUDO) Clifton Benevento / New York
A sculpture is the same sculpture still, regardless of how much its form changes, even when outside intervention or a…
Joshing the Watershed Del Vaz Projects / Los Angeles
A glass of absinthe, such as those as seen in two of Willa Nasatir’s rephotographed photos on display in “Joshing…
Dancing Museum MAM / São Paulo
A walk under the Oscar Niemeyer–designed marquise is one way to arrive at the MAM in São Paulo’s Ibirapuera Park.…
John Waters Marianne Boesky / New York
“Witty is always funny in the art world, but is funny acceptable, too?” asks John Waters. “It’s a thin line.”…
Markus Lüpertz VeneKlasen Werner / Berlin
German painting of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s was torn between an ironic relativism (Richter, Polke, Kippenberger, Förg) and an…
Paul Kneale Evelyn Yard / London
Paul Kneale’s “4 or 5 self portraits for free-form natural language descriptions of image regions,” his first solo show at…
Hayan Kam Nakache Fri Art / Fribourg
For the first monographic retrospective of Hayan Kam Nakache at Fri Art, the young artist of Syrian origin presented a…
Villa Design Group Mathew / New York
An omphalocele, a rare birth defect in which a fetus’s intestines or other organs develop in a transparent membrane sac…
Tobias Spichtig Michael Thibault Gallery / Los Angeles
Amid an organized geography of minimal abstract elements leaving no hope for the presence of human beings (a few large…
American Producers Between Bridges / Berlin
Artist Wolfgang Tillmans’s off-space Between Bridges moved to Berlin in January 2014 after five years in Bethnal Green, London. Its…
Zhan Wang Long March Space / Beijing
Chinese artist Zhan Wang is famous for his ongoing project of stainless-steel taihu rocks, which imitate the temporal traces of…
Inside China – L’intérieur du Géant Palais de Tokyo / Paris
A polyphony of sounds, materials and shapes emerge in the various works in the exhibition “Inside China – L’intérieur du…
Yu Honglei Antenna Space / Shanghai
Yu Honglei’s “Fat Mouse” looks like a primitive land infected by space-age aesthetics.Three spheres on tripods, each 1.5 meters in…
Mario Schifano Luxembourg & Dayan / New York
Whether through formal semiotics or a more conceptual approach, Mario Schifano’s artworks tell the story of a particular generation.