Jean Baudrillard Chateau Shatto / Los Angeles
More than any other photographer, we are invested in Baudrillard’s words. To separate the texts from the photographs would do…
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Äppärät Ballroom / Marfa
The group exhibition at Ballroom Marfa, curated by Tom Morton, begins with Damián Ortega’s The Root of the Root (2011–13)…
Ellen Cantor CCA Wattis Institute / San Francisco
In Women in Dark Times, Jacqueline Rose discusses the paintings of Charlotte Salomon, a German-Jewish artist who generated hundreds of…
Mette Ingvartsen MoMA PS1 / New York
At the beginning of Mette Ingvartsen’s 69 Positions, the audience enters an open, steel-tube cage lined with various performance documentation…
Vija Celmins Secession / Vienna
Once upon a time alchemists believed that there were four elements — earth, air, fire and water — out of…
Glen Fogel JTT / New York
Emotional nakedness and defenseless sensitivity will draw out much from a person, not all of it attractive. In a dark…
Anthony Pearson Marianne Boesky / New York
When we see an object, what we are really seeing is the light reflected off of it, which stimulates neural…
Sebastian Black C L E A R I N G / New York
Sometimes a joke is so bad we have to laugh despite ourselves; that is the spirit Sebastian Black sets up…
Gabriel Sierra SculptureCenter / New York
“It feels like we shouldn’t be down here,” said one woman to another as they prowled the dark bowels of…
I ♥ JOHN GIORNO Palais de Tokyo / Paris
John Giorno has had the good fortune of having great and illustrious lovers — they have photographed him, read his…
No Longer, Not Yet Minsheng Art Museum / Shanghai
In Cao Fei’s installation Rumba 2 —one of the eight rooms in the exhibition “No Longer, Not Yet” — toy…
Kazuko Miyamoto Circuit / Lausanne
If Harald Szeemann described exhibitions as “poems in space and time,” curator Matthieu Poirier makes them feel more like movies.…
Carol Bove & Carlo Scarpa Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens / Ghent
Before its presentation at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Belgium, the exhibition “Carol Bove / Carlo Scarpa” was curated by the…
Paulina Olowska 8 Rue Saint Bon / Paris
Paulina Olowska has had a string of major exhibitions over the past few years, many of them full of collaborations,…
Gary Indiana 356 Mission / Los Angeles
Writing and travel are corresponding activities inasmuch as they depend on distance. A chronicler is necessarily set apart from the…
Louise Bourgeois Garage Museum / Moscow
The phenomenon of “self-colonization” peculiar to Russian society — that is manifested in the ruling classes’ feelings of the foreignness…