“A mundane diary of sorts,” according to the artist, Karen Lamassonne’s prolific output over many decades has documented her quotidian surroundings in the different places that have marked her nomadic life trajectory. In this second iteration of the traveling exhibition “Ruido / Noise”—which opened at the Swiss Institute in New York and will travel to Medellín, Colombia—images of intimate domestic spaces alternate with urban landscapes inhabited by fragmented, eroticized bodies that playfully illustrate second-wave feminism’s vindication of female sexual desire. Among the Colombian American

This was the first solo show in Europe for Cay Bahnmiller (1955–2007). Focusing on sculptures, works on paper, and books, the presentation featured an excellent selection spanning the period from 1989 to 2004—almost a miniretrospective, but excluding the American artist’s larger paintings. The show demonstrated Bahnmiller’s radicalism and her inventiveness in continually enlarging and rethinking her painterly practice, extending it to formats beyond the classic panel painting. It also underscored how much painting, for her, was a part of living. She thought of her work as an open process, a kind