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Manish Nai

In his latest exhibition, titled “Extramural,” Mumbai-based artist Manish Nai indulges his taste for grubby surfaces. This show recalls his previous productions, particularly h

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Paris


Takeshi Kitano

Takeshi Kitano, well known as the director of art-house films like Sonatine (1993) and Fireworks (1997), and additionally famous in Japan as actor, writer, and television personali

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Mexico City


“The Traveling Show”

Curated by Adriano Pedrosa, this sizable show explores and makes troublesome art’s relationship to the notion of travel. It opens with four works from nineteenth-century European

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New York


Julie Mehretu

Painter Julie Mehretu is currently the leading revivalist of the epic-landscape form. Over the past decade, her large canvases, which invoke everything from traditional Asian inkwo

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New York


“Retratos Pintados”

In the eternal return of contemporary aesthetics, the search for a new medium often leads to the recuperation of one that is felicitously outmoded. So it happens with “Retratos P

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Berlin


Mona Hatoum

Though modest in size, the exhibition featuring the 2010 winner of the Käthe Kollwitz Prize, Mona Hatoum, highlights the vicissitudes of her prodigious career over three decades.

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Houston


Jennifer West

Jennifer West’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States comprises five experimental short films in which she documents the traces of allegorical and alchemical performa

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New York


Arnold Odermatt

In his seminal book Camera Lucida (1980), Roland Barthes famously claimed photography’s equivalence, if not superiority, to painting, given the allusion it creates to that which

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Mexico City


“PanAmericana”

Curated by Jens Hoffmann, this group exhibition presents the work of twenty-two emerging artists from the Americas. After observing, during his travels, the scant communication amo

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New York


David Goldblatt

For more than half a century, David Goldblatt has patiently stalked his country from behind a lens; this past year, his output has witnessed renewed and deserved attention. Rather

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Mexico City


“Today I Feel Well”

This exhibition borrows its title from the microstory “Fecundidad” (Fertility), by writer Augusto Monterroso, and includes works by François Bucher, José León Cerrillo, Mari

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Berlin


“Who Knows Tomorrow”

In the competition for a place in public memory, Berlin’s colonial history has lost out to the cold war and the Holocaust. While the city is seasoned in displaying certain shards

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