Alexander Scrimgeour
Mark Leckey
June 2013
WE DON'T NEED GOOGLE GLASS to remind us that Max Weber’s diagnosis of the modern age as charcterized by the “disenchantment of the world” no longer holds true. One refreshing feature of the show recently curated at Bluecoat by artist … READ ON
IN PRINT Summer 2013 [TOC]
Benoīt Maire
June 2013
Benoît Maire’s recent exhibition was more accessible than the French artist-cum-philosopher’s previous outings, even if it was hard not to feel that some aspects of it were pitched just over one’s head. At least the exhibition’s … READ ON
IN PRINT Summer 2013 [TOC]
Salvatore Arancio
May 2013
For his 2012 artist’s book, Wonders of the Volcano, the Italian artist Salvatore Arancio reprinted a work of nineteenth-century popular science, transforming the engravings that illustrated it into geologically implausible fantasy landscapes,… READ ON
IN PRINT May 2013 [TOC]
Katja Novitskova
April 2013
The two most eye-catching objects in Katja Novitskova’s recent show were images of animals mounted on aluminum cutouts: a stately pair of emperor penguins standing across from each other (Approximation I; all works 2012) and the head of a… READ ON
IN PRINT April 2013 [TOC]
Manifesta 9
January 2013
IN AN ERA when institutions from Dia:Beacon to Tate Modern are housed in industrial buildings, one might have found it unremarkable that the most recent edition of the itinerant biennial Manifesta took place in the headquarters of a disused… READ ON
IN PRINT January 2013 [TOC]
“Counter-Production”
October 2012
Addressing how artists “participate in and confront contemporary conditions of global production and capital,” this show ventures to frame the contradictions of contemporary art, perhaps even proposing its participants as a fifth column… READ ON
PREVIEWS
Tony Feher
May 2012
Tony Feher’s work can certainly be beautiful, but words such as poetic—often used to describe his art—tend to bowdlerize its achievements.… READ ON
PREVIEWS
Manifesta 9
May 2012
The itinerant Manifesta biennial this year occupies a former mine in the small Belgian town of Genk, a setting that is used to explore art’s connections with the legacies and consequences of coal extraction.… READ ON
PREVIEWS
Klara Liden
April 2012
Some eighty Christmas trees made up the centerpiece of Klara Liden’s recent exhibition at Reena Spaulings. Installed behind blue plywood fencing, the trees had been reclaimed from New York City’s sidewalks, where they had been awaiting … READ ON
IN PRINT April 2012 [TOC]
7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
Various Venues
January 2012
7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art VARIOUS VENUES April 27–July 1 Curated by Artur Żmijewski with Joanna Warsza and Voina Recognizing how often the “progressive” politics of contemporary art is merely a fig leaf for its easy… READ ON