Feasts of excess: Zoe Williams
In her 1992 novel The Secret History, author Donna Tartt details the story of a group of youths studying the classics…
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Gil Yefman Tel Aviv Museum of Art / Israel
How can a young Israeli relate to the memory of the Holocaust without the risk of falling into the twofold…
May You Live In Interesting Times 58th Venice Biennale
How does one write a review for a “project” like the Venice Biennale, which includes an international mega-exhibition alongside a…
Lee Jaffe Eva Presenhuber / New York
As a musician, artist, poet, photographer, and filmmaker, Lee Jaffe has lived many lives in different countries. What has always…
Stefano Serretta Italian Cultural Institute / Stockholm
“Shoegaze” is a series of exhibitions taking place at the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm, in partnership with Konstfack. Envisaged…
Crossing Borders, Mobilizing Thought: The Farm in the Cave’s Seven-Hour Performance
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. If there is a common element in recent experimental…
Whether Line Fondazione Prada / Milan
Depicted today, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s “noble savage” would have a stylist. Perhaps more than one. This cynical statement prompts us to…
My Head is a Haunted House Sadie Coles HQ / London
Charlie Fox, author of the spellbinding collection of essays This Young Monster (2017), has created an exhibition that — with its…
MOMENTUM10 10th Nordic Biennial of Contemporay Art / Norway
The tenth installment of this Scandinavian biennial, held in the small paper-milling town of Moss, Norway, can certainly be seen…
Piero Manzoni Hauser & Wirth / New York
In the wake of recent major museum shows of Burri and Fontana, and gallery shows of Castellani and Agnetti, Hauser…
Celine Condorelli Kunsthal Aarhus / Denmark
A new commission by Kunsthal Aarhus, “Host” does precisely what its title suggests: it provides a setting for a film…
Carroll Dunham Galerie Eva Presenhuber / Zurich
Body parts are also abstract shapes in Carroll Dunham’s “Recent Paintings,” the figure playfully winking at geometry. His mid-scale canvases…
CRACK UP – CRACK DOWN 33rd Ljubljana Biennial
What is the place of comedy in a groundless world? Amid the volatility of contemporary society, where claims of truth,…
Global National Haus am Lützowplatz / Berlin
Some things are over in no time at all, and some things linger, even if one would like them to…
Pipilotti Rist Louisiana Museum of Modern Art / Denmark
You may recall “Underwater Love,” the1997 track by Smoke City that featured subtle guitar lines, a constant drum beat, and…
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…