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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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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Mexico City

“Presuntos Culpables”

“Presuntos Culpables” (Alleged Culprits) is a group exhibition of artworks—photographs, installations, videos, objects, and drawings—that explore confinement in prison. Per

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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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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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Los Angeles

Travis Somerville

Travis Somerville’s work addresses the tangled knot of issues surrounding the history of race in America. Using such loaded images as a noose, hooded clansmen, and the Confederat

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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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New York

Mariah Robertson

While most young photographers plunge into theory, politics, or portraiture to develop their themes, Mariah Robertson can’t get out of the darkroom. Her aim is to explore the pro

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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

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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New York

Emily Jacir

Famous aviatrixes stand you up, passenger planes mysteriously vanish midflight, and the elegant aerodrome is eventually stormed and conquered by hostile forces. Emily Jacir’s dep

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Baltimore

Hank Willis Thomas

Moving seamlessly across media, Hank Willis Thomas’s meticulously crafted works employ the formal language of late Minimalism to produce graphic, historically steeped meditations

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