New York

Markus Schinwald

Markus Schinwald’s first solo exhibition in New York is subtle yet emphatic in its attempt to induce a state of unease in the viewer. An installation featuring large white pillar

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Paris

Grégory Derenne

Grégory Derenne’s interior landscapes––figurative paintings of television soundstages, art galleries, and shop fronts––balance photorealism with an exaggerated sense of

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Paris

Jean Michel Alberola

Jean Michel Alberola’s exhibition at this gallery offers his latest series of works, which range from paintings to wall drawings. Through a patchwork of figurative and abstract e

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Houston

Dana Frankfort

With their bright palettes and rough rectangular forms, Dana Frankfort’s latest canvases recall early Rothko. Hovering bodies of vivid colors, applied in jagged brushstrokes, ple

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Paris

Elina Brotherus

This gallery devotes two consecutive shows over the season to Finnish photographer and video artist Elina Brotherus: the current retrospective of medium- to large-format color phot

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Houston

Joseph Cohen

Prescriptive art can often unintentionally provoke apathy in the viewer—the adherence to a “rule-based” agenda may come across as shallow, if not didactic, pointing to self-i

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Shenzhen

“Permanent Migrants”

Located between a village and a shopping mall, “Permanent Migrants,” the inaugural exhibition in this pop-up alternative space, appropriately reflects the conditions of contemp

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London

“I shake you by the hand, comrade Bacon: British Art Abroad”

Taking its title from a visitor’s register at Francis Bacon’s landmark 1988 exhibition in Moscow (at the height of Glasnost), this small exhibition examines the rapports betwee

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London

Ryan Mosley

Ryan Mosley likes to borrow freely from art history. In his recent paintings, there are cartoonlike blobs of flesh that recall Guston, Gauguinesque landscapes filled with garish co

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Brisbane

Sixth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

When Queensland Art Gallery’s fifth Asia Pacific Triennial opened in 2005, it could not help but play second fiddle to the vast new Gallery of Modern Art it inaugurated, where it

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London

Nicholas Byrne

The list of works for Nicholas Byrne’s first solo exhibition at this gallery resembles something from the script of a fin de siècle operetta. There are paintings with names such

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Berlin

“Conversation Pieces: A Chamber Play”

Before the recent onslaught of curatorial-studies programs, curators were typically educated in art history, literature, or––as in the case of Jens Hoffmann––theater. Drawi

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