Art
The Extravagant Intimacy of Pipilotti Rist
The New Museum seems to have taken it upon itself to produce spectacles that are as moving as they are eye-filling. Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest is something else again.
Review
Art
Invisible Ceramics and Women Made of Bread Fill a European Art Park
Bródno Sculpture Park has come to be one of Europe’s most enticing and important sites of relational and social sculpture.
Art
Found Furniture Pulverized into Conceptual Art
For his exhibition, Daniel Turner turned a set of steel and wood tables and folding chairs into a fine dust and sprayed it on the floor of Berlin's König Galerie.
Art
A Photography Biennial Asks a Perennial Question About the Medium’s Objectivity
This year, FotoFocus pushes beyond the baseline conception of photography as a documentary process — something artists have sought to have done pretty much since the advent of the medium.
Books
The Aviation Aspirations of Chinese Farmers
Xiaoxiao Xu photographed and interviewed men in rural Chinese villages who have huge dreams of flight.
Art
Fake Ruins Beneath a Denver Bus Station
Beneath a disused bus station in downtown Denver, the Mexican artist collective SANGREE has shed light on the ruins of an ancient condominium complex that never existed.
Art
Cross-Cultural and Indigenous Themes Dominate SITE Santa Fe's Biennial
The second edition of the SITElines biennial has a razor-sharp gracefulness that cuts with equal parts beauty and bitterness.
Books
Vintage Cameras and the Imperfect Photographs They Take
David Ellwand has collected over 100 vintage cameras and published the photographs he’s taken with them in RetroPhoto: An Obsession.
Art
The Unsettling Urge to Find Beauty Amid War
At Jack Shainman Gallery’s The School, a show of four artists explores how our memories of a place can shift radically after war.
Art
An Ecofeminist Artist's Tiny Revolutions
In the “anthropocenic crapitalistic global implosion,” care is a part of the uproar.
Performance
Carrie Mae Weems Updates Antigone’s Story of Defiance
Carrie Mae Weems has brought the play's undying themes to new life with her work Past Tense, which combines song, text, reading, and projected video.
Art
The Venezuelan Modernist Who Took Inspiration from Graphic Design
Gerd Leufert's visual art carries a freedom that the branding, emblems, and logos that he made as a graphic designer did not have.