Hamburg

Thomas Baldischwyler

Visions of social upheaval and cultural touchstones are painted with a rosy, muted palette in Thomas Baldischwyler’s solo exhibition. Over a series of collaged images culled main

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Portland

Io Palmer and Modou Dieng

Io Palmer’s ongoing work Artstars, 2007–, comprises a team of players represented, in absentia, by a collection of white “uniforms” paired with common cleaning tools (mops,

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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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Berlin

Mat Collishaw

“Submission” is the name of Mat Collishaw’s first solo exhibition in Berlin, and the work on display assigns Collishaw’s subservience to the altar of art history. Collishaw

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Boston

Damián Ortega

Damián Ortega practices a sculpture of ingenious dis-engineering and gentle explosions. In it, the laws of physics––motion and rest, gravity and centrifugal forces––functi

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New York

Matthew Ritchie

In this exhibition, Matthew Ritchie gives new meaning to William Blake’s “eternity in an hour.” Line Shot, 2009, the show’s titular focus, is an animated opus that guides v

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Moscow

Anna Jermolaewa

This solo exhibition by the Vienna-based Russian artist Anna Jermolaewa offers a single video projection: Der Weg nach oben (The Way Up), 2008, which shows a group of rats trapped

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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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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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Zürich

Stefan Burger

Contemporary artworks that reference John Cage’s seminal 4' 33" are a dime a dozen, yet few are imbued with the brilliantly pithy spirit of the original, from 1952. So it was wit

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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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Los Angeles

William Powhida

Insider art-world jokes—as caricature, if not a kind of portraiture—speak volumes about the “contemporary” moment and often end up serving as important social and historica

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