Dor Guez Institute of Contemporary Arts / London
The Sick Man of Europe: The Painter is the first part of Dor Guez’s five-part international project that explores the…
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Anna Sew Hoy Various Small Fires / Los Angeles
Anna Sew Hoy is interested in the ability of materials to facilitate some sort of intimacy. Often she works with…
Akram Zaatari Salt Beyoglu / Istanbul
“Survey,” as a word, is always associated with the action of asking questions in order to bring a comprehensive overview…
Charlotte Herzig & Andreas Hochuli Kunsthaus Langenthal
Kunsthaus Langenthal presented an exhibition of two young Swiss painters; besides their respective virtuosity, Charlotte Herzig and Andreas Hochuli’s “Il…
Mélanie Matranga Karma International / Zurich
Mélanie Matranga’s “A perspective, somehow” turned Karma International into the kind of tasteful interior design store found on Zurich’s tonier…
InVisible AFAC / Dubai
If, as media pundit Marshall McLuhan proclaimed, we become what we behold, then most Dubai residents are likely to be…
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…