New York

Regina José Galindo

On the opening night of her ten-year survey and first solo exhibition in New York, Guatemalan artist Regina José Galindo premiered a new performance for “Crisis,” a series she

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Houston

“Reduced Visibility”

If abstraction can distill the essence of an otherwise quotidian occurrence, it can also achieve a seemingly contradictory end—simply obfuscating the obvious, rendering any meani

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London

Gustav Metzger

In a BBC interview earlier this fall, Pete Townshend credited Gustav Metzger with teaching him the concept of an environment, the set of conditions under which Townshend, while pla

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Chicago

Allan Sekula

In “Polonia and Other Fables,” photographer Allan Sekula documents Polonia, the diasporic zone of expatriated Poles—an “imagined community,” in Sekula’s words—in whic

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Brussels

Ann Veronica Janssens

Following solo exhibitions by noted international artists such as Mike Kelley, Yayoi Kusama, and Dan Perjovschi, it now seems that the two-and-a-half-year-old art center in Wiels,

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New York

Emily Jacir

Famous aviatrixes stand you up, passenger planes mysteriously vanish midflight, and the elegant aerodrome is eventually stormed and conquered by hostile forces. Emily Jacir’s dep

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Atlanta

“Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities”

Physical representation of the black female is explored in this thoughtful and thematically rich exhibition. Curators Andrea Barnwell Brownlee and Karen Comer Lowe have brought tog

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Istanbul

Sarkis

Sarkis’s exhibition at the Istanbul Modern emphasizes the empathic relationship that the artist has always established with the locations of his shows—his constant desire to in

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Portland

“Broadcast”

“Broadcast” brings together artists who have, according to the exhibition’s press release, “engaged, critiqued, and inserted themselves into official channels of broadcast

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London

“Art Now: Beating the Bounds”

The premise of this exhibition is curious—its title, “Art Now: Beating the Bounds,” refers to a defunct English practice in which church parishioners would reaffirm the bound

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Paris

“Planet of Signs”

A nod to Roland Barthes’s seminal text Empire of Signs (1970), this group exhibition curated by Guillaume Désanges likewise references D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s 1917 book

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Milan

Florian Schmidt

For his first solo exhibition in Italy, the young Austrian painter Florian Schmidt, known for an analytic and occasionally site-specific approach, uses materials such as canvas, ca

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