The Age of Sobriety? A Glance at Institutional Exhibitions during Art Basel Paris 2024
During Art Basel Paris this year, the big deal in the city was the return of the fair to the…
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Nick Goss “Isle of Thanet” Perrotin / Paris
What is immediately striking about Nick Goss’s work is the subversion of the perspective, which shifts from piece to…
Mohamed Bourouissa “Signal” Palais de Tokyo / Paris
At the 1920 Dada Festival in Paris, André Breton wore a sign made by Francis Picabia, a drawing of a…
Robert Smithson “Mundus Subterraneus – Early Works” Marian Goodman / Paris
In 1985, Grace Glueck wrote of the New York exhibition “Robert Smithson: The Early Work: 1959–1962” — which was the…
An end to the extravaganza? A quick look at museum exhibitions in Paris during Paris + par Art Basel 2023
I wrote last year that Paris was blooming, offering a vast museum program whose sheer scale seemed to have been…
Mimosa Echard: Escape More, See Less
With great homogeneity of purpose, French artist Mimosa Echard’s work unfolds from one exhibition to the next in an ongoing…
Judith Hopf “Energies” Le Plateau/FRAC Île-de-France & Bétonsalon
I have already had occasion to write a few words about Judith Hopf’s double exhibition “Energies” in my round up…
Gigantism in Paris and Other Considerations: A Glance at Institutional Exhibitions in Paris during Paris + par Art Basel
After several years of anxieties, deprivations, and basic fare, it feels as if Paris is back in bloom, offering a…
The Museum of the Future Is Already in Operation Today. A Conversation with Guillaume Désanges, President of the Palais de Tokyo
Guillaume Désanges was made president of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in January 2022. He succeeded Emma Lavigne, now…
Ugo Rondinone "burn shine fly" Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista / Venice
When thinking about Ugo Rondinone’s work, one will inevitably recall “Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno” (Palais de Tokyo, Paris,…
Charles Ray Centre Pompidou and Pinault Collection – Bourse de Commerce / Paris
Plank Piece I and II (1973), a black-and-white photographic diptych showing the young Charles Ray’s body pinned against the wall…
Julien Creuzet’s Complex Work: Plastic Poetics, Landscapes, Hybridizations
Born in 1986 in the suburbs of Paris, Julien Creuzet grew up in Martinique before returning to study in the…
EDITORS CHOICE 2021
To top 2021 off with a high note, we have invited our contributing editors to choose the contents that best…
Alain Jacquet “Jeux de Jacquet” Galerie Perrotin / Paris
Perrotin Gallery’s Alain Jacquet (1939–2008) retrospective is a pop-colored historical overview clustered tightly around some sixty two-dimensional works. The exhibition…
Gianni Pettena “Forgiven by Nature” La Verrière-Fondation d’entreprise Hermes & ISELP / Brussels
Like Arte Povera, Radical Architecture was a movement that came about in Italy in the late 1960s, born from a…
Robert Smithson "Primordial Beginnings" Marian Goodman Gallery / Paris
Between 1957 and 1961, Robert Smithson (1938–1973) exhibited works with a stylistic affinity to Abstract Expressionism, which was then mainstream…