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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San Francisco

“Toward Abstraction: Photographs and Photograms”

If the quiddity of photography is the realism it affords, then what is the medium’s relationship to abstraction? Most of the works in this tight, striking exhibition take up well

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New York

Robert Morris

Robert Morris’s Site, 1964, originated as a dance piece performed with Carolee Schneemann. Dressed in white workman’s clothes and a papier-mâché mask, Morris moved two eight-

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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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Paris

Meredyth Sparks

Referencing the work of Kazimir Malevich in much the same way she previously sampled images of 1970s cultural icons, Meredyth Sparks, in her latest exhibition, “Everything We Hav

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New York

Bryan Zanisnik

The five photographs in Bryan Zanisnik’s exhibition, “Dry Bones Can Harm No Man,” picture suggestively odd arrangements of objects in shallow spaces. Against flowered wallpap

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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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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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London

Olivia Plender

The weighty topic of national identity is dealt with in Olivia Plender’s new works on view in “AADIEU ADIEU APA (Goodbye Goodbye Father).” The artist’s concerns are multifa

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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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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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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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