This September, Centre Pompidou will close for five years, beginning an extensive renovation process that includes asbestos removal and essential…
A recurring refrain in recent decades is that painting is dead. And yet, it continues —sometimes loudly, sometimes zombified. “Painting…
Not every artist is obliged to resist or reflect the world around them. And yet, wandering through Art Basel and…
Virginia Overton has spent years testing the physical and psychological limits of sculpture — balancing weight against weightlessness, rough against…
In the text accompanying Oisín Byrne’s exhibition “Smell the Book,” writer Daisy Lafarge asks, “How does language make you feel?”1…
Standing in front of Donald Rodney’s Visceral Canker (1990) — a seemingly living work, which this survey exhibition at Spike…
Griselda Pollock once wrote of standing before Bernini’s statue of Apollo and Daphne (1622–25) and gasping. Without warning her psychic…
What does George Baselitz want to confess? What are his sins? These philosophically heavy questions are raised by the title…
Croatian-born Dora Budor’s inaugural institutional exhibition in the UK, titled “Again,” takes place at Nottingham Contemporary, one of many organizations…
The title of Gray Wielebinski’s exhibition at the ICA is derived from the title of a 1978 essay by Samuel…
In “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall,” a text by Emma Frith that accompanies Ellie Pratt’s exhibition “Taste Maker,” the author…
In the year 2000, not long after the Good Friday peace agreement,1 the Irish artist John Byrne opened the Border…
Since its initiation by the architect and painter Arnold Bode in 1955, Documenta has pushed the boundaries of curatorial frameworks…
Enlarged images from books, personal photographs, precarious structures in various states, platforms, knotted clay ropes, an array of meshed objects…
Artists at Risk (AR) is a non-profit organization at the intersection of human rights and the arts, with a mandate…
Creased, flattened-out drawings, loose cuttings, intricately labored paintings, slimy melted plastic, industrial-size tunneling machines, the flaccid limbs of figurative characters,…