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Los Angeles


Edgardo Aragón

Despite art criticism’s rampant overuse of words such as traffic (or interrogate or investigate) to describe the seemingly nefarious “activities” of works, there is no better

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Basel


Aleksandra Domanović

Not simply SMS-speak, the title of Aleksandra Domanović’s current solo show, “From yu to me,” is a shorthand way to describe edifice trended into obsolescence. In 2010, Yugo

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Berlin


Jonas Burgert

Jonas Burgert’s paintings and sculptures in “Gift gegen Zeit” (Poison Against Time) draw the viewer into a world in which everyone has lost their sense of “narrative gravit

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Nice


“L’Institute des archives sauvages”

The challenge taken on by the five curators of “L’Institute des archives sauvages” (Institute of Savage Archives)—Jean-Michel Baconnier, Christophe Kihm, Florence Ostende,

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Cork


Josef Albers

The simplicity of the one thousand–plus works in Josef Albers’s “Homage to the Square” series, 1949–76, is utterly deceptive. Layering colored square upon colored square,

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Beijing


Yang Fudong

ShanghART’s Beijing outpost and the adjacent ARTMIA Gallery have given over their spaces to two of Yang Fudong’s majestic and baffling videos: Close to the Sea, 2004, and Reviv

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Chicago


“This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s”

“This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s” examines artists’ responses to that decade’s cultural upheavals, including the rise of gender politics, the fall of

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New York


Julia Rommel

According to legend, Thomas Jefferson gave Delaware the nickname “the diamond state” (presumably for its strategic location on the eastern seaboard). Today, however, it seems a

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New York


Lee Maida

Something about Lee Maida’s six new works feels like they are trying to coax new tracks from the plethora of trails already trod—trying to find new ways of being with and withi

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Singapore


Lee Wen

Lee Wen is no coward, though he is famous for being yellow. In his ongoing “Yellow Man” series, the Singaporean performance artist is seen in videos and photographs with canary

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New York


Neil Goldberg

Neil Goldberg says that he aims to capture New York’s “neutral” moments in his videos and photographs: everyday events that are “blank,” “empty,” and consequently “

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Berlin


Brian O’Doherty

Brian O’Doherty’s overdue solo debut in Germany centers around Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, a series of objects that begin with a cardiogram O’Doherty made of the famed French

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