“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…
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Clayton Schiff “Small World” 56 Henry / New York
To dream is to attempt to solve a riddle that never ends — to answer a question with an ever-changing…
Ariana Papademetropoulos “Unweave a Rainbow” Vito Schnabel Projects / New York
Ariana Papademetropoulos’s latest show at Vito Schnabel Projects is a soft, immersive experience that takes the viewer on a metaphorical…
Jean-Marie Appriou "Very Rich Hours" C L E A R I N G / New York
Jean-Marie Appriou’s latest exhibition at Clearing Gallery, Brooklyn, is an invitation to ponder the significance and relevance of the archetypal…
Donatien Grau’s Homage to Pierre Guyotat’s Eden, Eden, Eden on its 50th Anniversary
Donatien Grau is faithful to his idols. Pierre Guyotat is one of them. In 2016, Donatien realized the exhibition “Pierre…
Episode 2: Anicka Yi
Mental Escape is a series of live interviews exploring how the art world responds to today’s challenges. Livestreamed from Flash…
Peter Saul “Crime and Punishment” The New Museum / New York
Bearing organs, faces, fluids, and copious energy, Peter Saul’s paintings have a strange life of their own. If the paintings…
Arshile Gorky and Jack Whitten Hauser & Wirth / Online
“The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist’s brush,” said Arshile…
Episode 1: Miles Greenberg
Mental Escape is a series of live interviews exploring how the art world responds to today’s challenges. Livestreamed from Flash…
Liam Gillick “Redaction” Casey Kaplan / New York
“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” MoMA PS1 / New York
“Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011” at MoMA PS1 is a vast group show that won’t let you look…
Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy The Met Breuer / New York
Conspiracy has always existed, but it inundated the mainstream in the US only after the Second World War. Its rise…
Heaven, Fortune and the West / The Promised Land
For the last installment of this series I talked to Yves Pedrono, a historian of western movies. According to him,…
Heaven, Fortune and the West / Mysticism
Zoe Crosher’s work explores how Los Angeles shapes our subconscious. One of her photographic series, “Transgressing the Pacific” (2008), captures…
Heaven, Fortune and the West / The Dystopia
In his iconic “Hustlers” series (1993), Philip-Lorca DiCorcia photographed young men in West Hollywood waiting for their clients at dusk.…
Heaven, Fortune and the West / The Desire behind the Dream
Neville Wakefield has written fascinating texts on Californian artists such as Ed Ruscha and David Benjamin Sherry. He is also…