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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Memphis

Greely Myatt

To mark Greely Myatt’s twentieth year working and teaching in Memphis, his work is featured in nine venues around the city for nearly four months. This proliferation of exhibitio

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Zurich

Artur Zmijewski

“Where is the world?!” wails a group of Palestinian women in Jerusalem during a weekly protest against Israeli occupiers in Artur Zmijewski’s singularly brilliant new video D

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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

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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Paris

Saâdane Afif

To advertise the climactic event of Vice de Forme: In Search of Melodies, 2009—a sculptural, linguistic, and musical evolution—French artist Saâdane Afif created a graphic pos

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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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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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New York

Susana Gaudêncio

For her solo show last January at Lisbon’s Carlos Carvalho Gallery, the Portuguese, New York–based artist Susana Gaudêncio presented, among other pieces, Building Icons (Struc

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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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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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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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