Hudinilson Jr. "Tension Zone" ICA / Miami
Over the last few years, the legacy of artist Hudinilson Jr. has undergone a significant transformation in his native Brazil,…
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Sarah Brahim “Sometimes we are eternal” Bally Foundation / Lugano
“What is the meaning of life? That was all — a simple question; one that tended to close in on…
Morag Keil "Needs & Wants” Jenny’s / New York
The title of Morag Keil’s exhibition at Jenny’s, “Needs & Wants,” begs the question: What does this artist need and…
Ellie Pratt “Taste Maker” South Parade / London
In “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall,” a text by Emma Frith that accompanies Ellie Pratt’s exhibition “Taste Maker,” the author…
Nairy Baghramian “Jupon de Corps” Aspen Art Museum / Aspen
During my first visit to Nairy Baghramian’s survey “Jupon de Corps,” at the Aspen Art Museum, I felt privy to…
Aria Dean “Wolves” Progetto / Lecce
To question what language is — or what can be done with language, or to language — is a non…
Rodrigo Cass “libera abstrahere” Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel / São Paulo
For nine years, Rodrigo Cass was a monk of the Carmelite order in southeastern Brazil. He began painting with a…
“Inside Other Spaces: Environments by Women Artists 1956–1976” Haus der Kunst / Munich
There is always a feeling of reverence when experiencing an environment conceived many years before — especially when the artist…
“Anemoia” Human Resources / Los Angeles
Anemoia — the nostalgia for something, future or past, that you’ve never actually known — is a term coined by…
“Dans la tête de Balthus” Perrotin / Paris
Influence, in the art world, is always fluid. “I copied Giotto,” Balthus acknowledges in a video while smoking at his…
Doug Aitken “HOWL” Galerie Eva Presenhuber / Zurich
“HOWL,” the current exhibition of prophetic multimedia works by Doug Atkins, accelerates through Galerie Eva Presenhuber’s Maag Areal campus with…
Dominique Knowles "My Beloved" Hannah Hoffman / Los Angeles
What is creation if not negation — if not a definite stroke distinguishing some thing from the next? Death is…
Paul Levack The Gaylord Apartments / Los Angeles
The camera — a tool made for documenting the historic, the unbelievable, and the official — is now nearly one…
Alex Da Corte “Fresh Hell” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art / Kanazawa
In the heart of Tokyo in the mid-1980s, a young girl first encountered the enigmatic allure of contemporary art. Since…
Steve Kado “Spring!” Soldes / Los Angeles
Michel Foucault begins The Order of Things with an investigation of the seemingly nonsensical Chinese encyclopedia found in Jorge Luis…
Dean Sameshima “being alone” and Mark Verabioff “VERBIAGE;” O-Town House / Los Angeles
In Dean Sameshima’s photographs on view at O-Town House, taken covertly in adult movie theaters in Berlin, there is rarely…