#Episode V: Le Salon Turc
The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam recently acquired Ulay’s pivotal work Irritation – There Is a Criminal Touch to Art (1976),…
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#334 SPRING 2021
COVER → Helen Marten, Water Fidelity (Them), 2018. Detail. 310 × 1.250 × 500 cm. Installation view of “Fixed Sky Situation”…
#Episode IV: Parterre / The Stalls
The systems of governance that Michel Foucault and Deleuze & Guattari taught us to identify as “sovereignty,” “discipline,” and “control”…
#333 WINTER 2020-21
COVER → Nora Turato, wow this huge wooden horse is great!, 2020. Performance during the festival “MOVE” at Centre Pompidou, Paris,…
#332 FALL 2020
COVER → Liliane Lijn, Lilith, 2001. Patinated bronze, phlogopite mica, gas, brass and stainless steel fittings. 186.5 × 55.5 ×…
#331 Summer Issue 2020
COVER → Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Complication, 2013. Oil on canvas. 78.7 × 98.4 in. Courtesy of the artist; Corvi-Mora, London; and Jack Shainman…
#Episode I: An Introduction
On Monday, March 2nd, while having breakfast at the Hotel Albert 1er in Toulouse before running the workshop “Exposition collective…
#330 April – May 2020
COVERS → Tala Madani, Passage, 2019. Oil on linen. 22 × 16 × 1 in. Tala Madani, Digital Tan, 2020. Oil on linen.…
#Fair That Feels. Minor Attractions 2025
There’s a certain fatigue that often accompanies the mention of an art fair: the rows of booth presentations, the hum…
#“Corps et âmes” Bourse de Commerce / Paris
In Kerry James Marshall’s seminal 1986 work The Wonderful One, the figure is an ineffable silhouette: its dimensionality is reduced…
#Vienna Contemporary 2024: Less Hustle, More Art
Messe Wien Halle D, the shiny new home of Vienna Contemporary, provided a perfect shelter from the torrential rains that…
#“Soft Fantasy / Hard Reality” Silverlens / New York
“Soft Fantasy / Hard Reality,” is Silverlens New York’s current summer group show, curated by gallery co-founder Isa Lorenzo –…
#“Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum / New York
Visibility is a double-edged sword or, as French philosopher Michel Foucault once categorized it, “a trap.”1 The term’s duality is…
#Isaac Julien “What Freedom is to Me” Tate Britain / London
In Harlem Renaissance writer Richard Nugent’s 1926 story “Smoke, Lilies and Jade,” the narrator remarks that it’s “funny how characters…
#“Esfíngico Frontal” Mendes Wood DM / São Paulo
By observing expressions of human loneliness materialized in sphinxlike forms, “Frontal Sphinx” offers a constellation of images that reflect on…
#James Barnor “Accra/London – A Retrospective” Serpentine Galleries / London
Selina Opong, Policewoman #10 (c. 1954), in the crisp uniform of a new generation of professional Ghanaian women, stands to…