Jasmine Gregory “Si je ne peux pas l’avoir, toi non plus” CAPC – Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux
The CAPC – Musée d’art Contemporain is contained in a cavernous converted nineteenth-century warehouse in Bordeaux. It is a fitting…
Sarah Moroz
Careening through the 2024 Venice Biennale
Sheepish admission: despite living in an adjacent country, I’d never attended the Biennale di Venezia before, even though it’s a…
“Lacan, The Exhibition: When Art Meets Psychoanalysis” Centre Pompidou - Metz
French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan traveled in circles that often overlapped with the art world. He mingled with its…
“WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the digital age” Centre Pompidou - Metz
In Paul Verhoeven’s film Elle (2016), the main character, played by Isabelle Huppert, runs a gaming company. At a meeting,…
“Dans la tête de Balthus” Perrotin / Paris
Influence, in the art world, is always fluid. “I copied Giotto,” Balthus acknowledges in a video while smoking at his…
Tschabalala Self “Make Room” Le Consortium / Dijon
The exhibition “Make Room” opens with a work titled Hysteria (2022) — featuring a cubist-faced figure wearing a striped-and-polka-dotted dress…
Danielle Orchard “Page Turner” Perrotin / Paris
“There’s a lot of reciprocity between my lived life and my painting life,” Danielle Orchard notes, surveying her canvases at…
"The Real Show" CAC Brétigny
People want to see images that reflect their reality, but media distortions and the pace of digital technology have warped…
Robert Morris "The Perceiving Body" MAMC+ / Saint-Étienne Métropole
Robert Morris’s art is rooted in the corporeal: not only in its means of production — involving materials of heavy…
Sean Landers The Consortium Museum / Dijon
Sean Landers’s scrawl is the way into his peppery worldview: his forty-painting retrospective at Le Consortium often doubles as a…
Anastasia Mityukova’s Project Iceworm
“Project Iceworm” was a mid-twentieth-century mission undertaken — then abandoned — by the U.S. military to test nuclear missiles in…