Paris

“The New Festival”

Call it what you will (a stage, an event, a platform?), but curator Bernard Blisténe’s performance-based program at the Pompidou may prove to be nothing less than a major triump

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Paris

Etienne de Fleurieu

The drawings in Etienne de Fleurieu’s solo exhibition, “I’m taking time away to dream,” are imbued with a subdued violence. A modern alchemist who turns dynamic violence in

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Berlin

Alicja Kwade

Three works summon a powerful sense of the uncanny in Alicja Kwade’s latest exhibition, “Border Cases of Fundamental Theories.” The Polish-born, Berlin-based artist’s pair

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London

John Latham

Perhaps best known for chewing up and spitting out a copy of Clement Greenberg’s 1961 book Art and Culture in 1966, John Latham (1921–2006) also produced a body of paintings wi

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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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Modena

Christian Holstad

Christian Holstad’s first solo show in Italy, titled “I Confess,” is something of a retrospective, given the large number of his works on view from the past ten years, but it

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New York

Siah Armajani

Siah Armajani’s latest exhibition takes up the brutal but largely invisible violence that erupted in the wake of this year’s contested Iranian presidential election. Although t

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Istanbul

Haris Epaminonda

To the right of the entrance hangs a small, framed book page that depicts a man looking up at a towering termite mound. The unusual scale and perspective of this landscape with fig

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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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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

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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Rome

Ariel Orozco

Ariel Orozco’s first solo exhibition in Italy encompasses various socioeconomic concerns with objects and images that subvert the viewer’s initial impressions. While the artist

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