Plato in L.A.: Contemporary Artists’ Visions Getty Villa / Los Angeles
The introduction to “Plato in L.A.: Contemporary Artists’ Visions” takes the form of a pun: Jeff Koons’s Play-Doh (1994–2014). This…
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Last October, the New Yorker published an article by historian and New York University faculty member Ruth Ben-Ghiat, which asked…
Lucie Stahl Galerie Meyer Kainer / Vienna
A hovering oil barrel rotates in the center of a rectangular steel frame. Prayer Wheel (Total) (2018), a sculptural contraption…
Sanguine/Bloedrood. Luc Tuymans on Baroque M HKA / Antwerp
For his latest curatorial undertaking, Luc Tuymans created a fraught pairing of baroque masterpieces and contemporary works for a multitemporal…
Volcano Extravaganza 2018 / Stromboli
Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo: What is not in the documents is not in the world.…
Chris Marker Cinémathèque Française / Paris
“Chris Marker. Les 7 vies d’un cinéaste” presented an opportunity to discover or rediscover the French auteur’s multifaceted personality. Adopting…
Did I pay my therapy bill the day I went for lunch? Flora Bar / The Met Breuer
I’d never considered the basement lobby of The Met Breuer to be one of Midtown’s great dining rooms before visiting…
David Wojnarowicz Whitney Museum of American Art / New York
Death isn’t fair: it reaps randomly but often strikes the most vulnerable — the ostracized, the weak, the defenseless. Those…
Lin Tianmiao Rockbund Art Museum / Shanghai
Many of the parts are rudimentary: tools, bones, a garden, a heartbeat. In Lin Tianmiao’s solo show, these constituents of…
Jean Dubuffet Hauser & Wirth / Zürich
When Hauser & Wirth gave Dr. Sophie Berrebi free reign to curate a monographic Jean Dubuffet exhibition in their Zurich…
Constructive Gal
In the aftermath of organizing an unrealized exhibition at artist-run institution Odium Fati in San Francisco, K.R.M. Mooney offers a…
The Boundaries of Spatial Reasoning
Game State is a column by artist Oliver Payne covering the mechanics, aesthetics and ideas of video games. Famously, the…
Henning Strassburger Robert Blumenthal Gallery / New York
With their layers of scrubby brushstrokes, washes of color, and lively squiggles, the work of Henning Strassburger pulses with seeming…
Marta Riniker-Radich / Kunsthaus Glarus
Marta Riniker-Radich’s survey inside the modernist setting of Kunsthaus Glarus is flooded by light filtered through skylights and garden windows.…
Earning from Athens?
Last year Art Athina, the more-than-forty-year-old fair of the Hellenic Art Dealers Association, got a last-minute overhaul: two months before…
Jack Smith Artists Space / New York
Anarchism and availabilism were the main rules of the singular utopia Jack Smith built throughout his life, a place for…