“Before and After Math”: Jim Shaw at Metro Pictures / New York

Now that Jim Shaw believes he’s washed his toxic obsession with Donald Trump out his system (see last year’s show…
Now that Jim Shaw believes he’s washed his toxic obsession with Donald Trump out his system (see last year’s show…
To dream is to attempt to solve a riddle that never ends — to answer a question with an ever-changing…
Ariana Papademetropoulos’s latest show at Vito Schnabel Projects is a soft, immersive experience that takes the viewer on a metaphorical…
Jean-Marie Appriou’s latest exhibition at Clearing Gallery, Brooklyn, is an invitation to ponder the significance and relevance of the archetypal…
Donatien Grau is faithful to his idols. Pierre Guyotat is one of them. In 2016, Donatien realized the exhibition “Pierre…
Mental Escape is a series of live interviews exploring how the art world responds to today’s challenges. Livestreamed from Flash…
Bearing organs, faces, fluids, and copious energy, Peter Saul’s paintings have a strange life of their own. If the paintings…
“The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist’s brush,” said Arshile…
Mental Escape is a series of live interviews exploring how the art world responds to today’s challenges. Livestreamed from Flash…
“Redaction,” the current show by Liam Gillick at Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, brings together a selection of key texts,…
“Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011” at MoMA PS1 is a vast group show that won’t let you look…
Conspiracy has always existed, but it inundated the mainstream in the US only after the Second World War. Its rise…
For the last installment of this series I talked to Yves Pedrono, a historian of western movies. According to him,…
Zoe Crosher’s work explores how Los Angeles shapes our subconscious. One of her photographic series, “Transgressing the Pacific” (2008), captures…
In his iconic “Hustlers” series (1993), Philip-Lorca DiCorcia photographed young men in West Hollywood waiting for their clients at dusk.…
Neville Wakefield has written fascinating texts on Californian artists such as Ed Ruscha and David Benjamin Sherry. He is also…