The transdisciplinary documentary practice of Angelo Madsen Minax is characterized by a desire to discover ever more expressive and personalized methods of narrating desire in all its forms. Dense in …
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For the first time ever, the Preis der Nationalgalerie, Germany’s top prize for young contemporary artists, has been shared between four winners. The 2024 iteration of the prestigious award is …
The exhibition “Monotypes on copper and paper” by Cristina Iglesias is an extension of Hondalea (Sea Abyss), 2021, a site-specific public artwork in Spain for which the artist retrofitted an …
For decades, German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven (1941–2009) lived with her mother in the Harburg district of Hamburg. This is where she did End of century—Buch der Bilder (End of …
Nothing could have prepared me for the extreme visual extravaganza of Jenkin van Zyl, the nearly fifty-minute film Surrender, 2023. Not the huge, coin-sized, rodent-faced, silver, inflatable hellmouth at the …
Yve-Alain Bois with his Paper body sculpturesParis, 1968. An oblique autobiographyby Yve-Alain Bois; ed. Jordan Kantor. San Francisco and New York: no place press, 2022. 376 pages. THE PUBLICATION of …
Alex Prager generates a fiery enthusiasm for his Technicolor photographic tableaux, often of urban crowds staged for maximum visibility. A young blonde woman always seems to appear in these scenes. …
Rarely does the white cube do anything other than what it was intended to do: disappear. But “Precipitation,” Tania Pérez Córdova’s second solo exhibition with the Tina Kim Gallery, defamiliarized …
Each of us is “an archaeological site”, asserted Lucy Sante in her 1998 memoir, The fact factory. “What passes for roots is really a matter of sediment, accretion, chance and …
As an artist, Mark Prime is not concerned with the smooth, industrial finish, but with the rhythm of his hand and the density, opacity and translucency achieved by layering the …