France-Lise McGurn "Percussia" Simon Lee Gallery / London
The title of France-Lise McGurn’s exhibition, “Percussia,” is a fiction, an invented word designed to create atmosphere and set the…
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Malta roundup
As the plane neared its destination — the Maltese islands, just south of Sicily — I noticed tankers dotted around…
Patrick Staff Discusses “On Venus” at the Serpentine Galleries / London
Quinn Harrelson: Tell me about your exhibition “On Venus” at the Serpentine. Patrick Staff: It’s all new work. Although it…
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Carlos Andres Olivo Jr. To Myself Be True My soul your sight neglects to see My spirit,…
Reviving Pina Bausch’s Bluebeard: A Choreographic Analysis of Interhuman Relationships
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. “Dance, dance, or else we are lost.” So…
Stream of consciousness 12th Bamako Encounters Photography Biennial
As I descended the airplane stairs, having escaped Berlin’s chill for Mali’s warmth, my headphones delivered a drumbeat that evaded…
Larry Johnson & Asha Schechter Jenny's / LA
Maybe it’s the ebbtide of articles taking stock of the decade—the best-ofs, the what-did-it-all-means, the where-were-you-whens of last month—which makes…
How To Build a Lagoon with Just a Bottle of Wine / II Lagos Biennial
The venue of the second edition of the Lagos Biennial is an abandoned twenty-five-story office building in which windows are…
Huma Bhabha’s figures
This conversation revolves around The Company, Huma Bhaba’s (Karachi, 1962, live and works in U.S.) first exhibition at Gagosian gallery…
John Knight The Intermission / Athens
After the global financial crisis in 2008, the G20 Summit — the annual meeting of leaders from countries with the…
Art Basel Miami 2019
Midway through my three-day stay in Miami, following a visit to the Institute of Contemporary Art in the Design District,…
Reimagining Weimar Dance: An Interview with Alison Curtis Jones
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. Thinker. Artist. Innovator. These are just three words…
Andra Ursuta Ramiken Crucible / New York
While Ramiken Crucible’s space is undergoing renovation, Andra Ursuta has taken the opportunity to exhibit new work in an empty…
Yvonne Rainer: Exercises in Retuning
A commission for Performa 19, Yvonne Rainer resuscitated and wholly reimagined parts of Parts of Some Sextets, which first premiered…
Buck Ellison Balice Hertling / Paris
While gender stereotypes, particularly masculinity, are lately being called into question, the young photographer Buck Ellison explores advertising’s gift for…
Janiva Ellis 47 Canal / New York
A body is torn away from itself and reformed around a hard fist. Light bounces off the eye of the…