Tokyo

Shinro Ohtake

“Shell & Occupy 4” features the latest examples of Shinro Ohtake’s “stickering” method—the white noise of found objects strewn together, then contained by oil paint. Th

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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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Hong Kong

MAP Office

“No man is an island,” wrote John Donne in 1624. Nearly four hundred years later, the cultural mythos of islands remains a powerful lure, provoking ongoing separatist propositi

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New York

Mercedes Matter

Viewing Mercedes Matter’s extensive body of work in this retrospective makes it difficult to resist the urge to read her oeuvre according to her biography. The extraordinary circ

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Berlin

Nan Goldin

As a photographer, Nan Goldin has inspired a legion of imitators who tend to confuse certain lifestyle traits with artistic substance, a privileging of content over form with an ex

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Portland

Arnold J. Kemp

It is tempting to view Arnold J. Kemp’s new work strictly in formal terms: modest collages with black paint, glitter, and googly doll eyes that form abstract patterns and pleasan

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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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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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New York

Sister Corita Kent

In 1967, Newsweek’s David Shirey dubbed Sister Mary Corita Kent the “hippest of all” nuns. The next year, after three decades of service, she left the religious order but kep

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Luxembourg City

“sk-interfaces”

A renewed interest in the human body in contemporary art is interwoven with the emergence of epistemic perspectives that call into question ontological and metaphysical distinction

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Hong Kong

“A Blow to the Everyday”

For “A Blow to the Everyday,” curator Yuko Hasegawa presents several works that transmute ordinary aspects of urban life. Japanese artists Kenichi Hagihara, Meiro Koizumi, Ayak

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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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