Felix Gonzalez-Torres "The Politics of Relation" MACBA / Barcelona
Lucky reinterpretations do exist. In one of his best-known texts, Walter Benjamin describes Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus (1920) in the…
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Özgür Kar “Macabre” KUNSTVEREIN GARTENHAUS / Vienna
The allegorical Danse Macabre from the Middle Ages expresses Death’s equalizing power over humanity: in the end, everyone has to…
"I GOT UP" Hot Wheels / Athens
Four identical postcards displayed in the gallery’s entryway bear the stamped, enigmatic phrase “I GOT UP AT,” followed by the…
Oto Gillen "Wax Gourd" LOMEX Gallery / New York
A fine-grained texture permeates Oto Gillen’s photographs of New York City, as if the psychic friction of eight and a…
Olga Balema “Computer” Camden Art Centre / London
All for the little nature of water lilies, Claude Monet developed a portion of land and diverted a narrow arm…
Alice Neel “People Come First” The Met Museum / New York
The exhibition “Alice Neel: People Come First” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the first New York museum retrospective…
“Hartung 80” and “Rothko – Hartung, a multiform friendship" Perrotin / Paris
“Hartung 80” is the third exhibition that Perrotin has devoted to Hans Hartung — following those held in New York…
Pakui Hardware “Virtual Care” BALTIC / Gateshead
I was once told by a nurse, “If there is a pill for it, take it.” I was a teen…
Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings "In My Room” MOSTYN / Wales
The song “In My Room,” after which Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings have titled their debut institutional show — a…
Mathis Altmann "Butcher Block" Efremidis / Berlin
“The city was the sign of capital: it was there one saw the commodity take on flesh — take up…
Phyllida Barlow “frontier“ Haus der Kunst / Munich
British artist Phyllida Barlow had her late-blooming international breakthrough only after her retirement as a professor at the Slade School…
Alice Channer "Megaflora" Large Glass / London
The surfaces of Alice Channer’s sculptures actualize both evidence and emergence: evidence in their exposure of polyphonic, contaminating processes; and…
Joey Holder “Abyssal Seeker” Seventeen Gallery / London
Joey Holder’s exhibition complicates the concept of a “net-zero carbon” economy by which corporations can offset their carbon footprint. Current…
Leidy Churchman “The Between is Ringing” Rodeo / London
At first blush, the wound appears amoeboid. Afloat in decontextualized, atemporal amber, its charred kohl perimeter the blackness of clotting.…
“The Films of Guillaume Dustan (2000–2004)” Fri Art Kunsthalle / Fribourg
At the turn of the millennium, Guillaume Dustan was a spark plug of queer issues. His autofictional debut novel made…
David Hammons “Body Prints, 1968-1979” The Drawing Center / New York
David Hammons’s “body prints,” his early works on paper, are a groundbreaking series that launched the artist’s career. The technique…