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Chicago


Sharon Hayes

Love, like politics, longs to speak through us, and we, reciprocally, long to be heard and to speak: to feel as though on some basic level our hopes, fears, and desires register so

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Paris


Markus Raetz

This retrospective of Markus Raetz’s output celebrates the artist’s printed works, which, since the 1970s, have made use of eclectic themes and forms. The show’s curators, Fa

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Los Angeles


Brian Bress

Slowed to near stillness, the eight video portraits on view in Brian Bress’s latest exhibition, “Under Performing,” show their subjects in various states of physical duress.

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Brescia


“Make Up”

Allegory may well be the underlying theme of “Make Up,” the group show at A Palazzo Gallery. If the exhibition’s title can mean “to apply cosmetics” or “to reconcile,

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Seoul


“Countdown”

The Seoul Station, a major railway station built in 1925, witnessed the sociopolitical upheaval of modern Korean history until it closed in 2004. Last year it was resurrected as

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New York


“Images Rendered Bare. Vacant. Recognizable.”

As Facebook feeds and Tumblr streams send digital images further from their indexical referents with every passing “Post,” the only image whose integrity cannot be eroded is th

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Washington, DC


Jerzy Janiszewski

Three of the twenty-five works in Jerzy Janiszewski’s first solo exhibition feature the logo he designed for the Solidarity trade union movement in 1980, which ignited opposition

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New York


Sarah Sze

Occupying adjacent galleries on the Asia Society’s second floor, eight new installations by Sarah Sze, all from 2011, meet with a selection of her works on paper from the past fi

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New York


Paul Heyer and Virginia Poundstone

Painting and sculpture make peaceful bedfellows in this exhibition by two artists whose works, while formally dissimilar, mirror a taste for bucolic and understated beauty. The sho

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Toronto


“Coming After”

Spanning installation, drawing, photography, performance, and video, this ambitious exhibition brings together sixteen artists—almost all of whom were born after 1970—whose wor

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North Adams


“The Workers”

In Oded Hirsch’s fourteen-minute video Tochka, 2010, a dozen men build a rickety bridge across a shallow gorge in a lush green landscape. Dressed in blue workmen’s uniforms wit

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Berlin


Paul Laffoley

The term post-critical has been thrown around in recent years to describe the ideals of hybridity and inclusivity governing much contemporary art. In this context, the exclusive ca

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