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…
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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…
If It Need Be Termed Surrender
In the aftermath of organizing an unrealized exhibition at artist-run institution Odium Fati in San Francisco, K.R.M. Mooney offers a…
Sharp Objects: Daydreams Can Be Dangerous
“She wanted to shield her, from the bullet of an ordinary life.” —Rachel Cusk, Arlington Park
Mona Varichon Goodan Family Graduate Art Gallery, ArtCenter / Pasadena
On May 16, Mona Varichon graduated from ArtCenter’s two-year MFA program. She had her final critique earlier that day, laudable…
Liquid City / Bruges Triennial 2018
Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Modernity was first published in the year 2000. As described in the text, “modernity” was the natural…
MacArthur Park
It skulked within the sky: deterioration. Lightning skewered our chat; every rupture lacerated the clouds in thunderclaps like disembodied, stroboscopic…
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More / Riga Biennale
In his widely celebrated book Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More, anthropologist Alexei Yurchak describes the paradoxical structure…