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…
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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…
The Reopening of the Swiss Institute / New York
After successfully raising 3.5 million of a five-million-dollar capital campaign goal, the Swiss-born, New York–based nonprofit Swiss Institute (SI) announced…
The Oil of Tehran
-Hafiz, for your sake, entered this tale- Walk with him, say farewell, he’ll tear the veil. —Khajeh Shamseddin Mohammad Hafiz…
Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions Getty Research Institute / Los Angeles
It was only a matter of time until we got our Harald Szeemann show. In 2011 the Getty Research Institute…
L’origine du monde-Selfies: Sabrina Tarasoff talks to Talia Chetrit
Sabrina Tarasoff: Before I ask you about your process, can you introduce the subjects of your recent exhibition “Showcaller” at…
Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher Bonniers Konsthall / Stockholm
If you are a fan of the enigmatic musician Sun Ra, you’ll already like Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher’s exhibition…
Reena Spaulings Matthew Marks Gallery / Los Angeles
Seascape (2014) is a Turner riff at Water Lilies scale, painted by a robotic mop. One can mostly appreciate this…
Apostolos Georgiou Rodeo / London
Little is known of writer Peter Zabelskis. In 1986, Slate Press published his Loop: 50 Ideas for Pictures. These loops…
Friend of a Friend 2018 / Warsaw
Polish art continues to flourish with artists like Katarzyna Kozyra, Paulina Olowska, Wilhelm Sasnal, and Krzysztof Wodiczko entering a number…