Psychodrama of Interiors: Fabrice Schneider at Établissement d’en Face
Artists exhibiting at Brussels’s Établissement d’en Face are faced with an unusual choice. The long-standing artist-run space is currently situated in a former law…
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In Search of True Collectivity: Infrastructure and Intent at the Kochi-Muziri Biennale
Many international biennales have come to replace the single artistic director with a curatorial collective, ostensibly to decentralize authority. Yet a change in structure…
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Tour de Farce: Pat Oleszko at SculptureCenter
Pat Oleszko may be funny, but she isn’t joking. For nearly sixty years, Oleszko—a performance artist and sculptor who describes herself as an artist…
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Surviving the Ache: Yifan Jiang at 56 Henry
Daoist tradition teaches that at the time of death, souls journey to their next dimension by taking flight on cranes. Regarded as symbols of…
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Unsettled Vision: Aaron Morse on the Fantasized West at Philip Martin Gallery
Aaron Morse’s tall heavens evoke Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting Sky Above Clouds IV (1965); the big-sky country of the American West; and the empyrean orange,…
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Another Small Disturbance: Shannon Garden-Smith at MKG127
A mutual excitement is shared between two people who have encountered a Shannon Garden-Smith work. Vibrant carpets of sand, featuring marbled or herringbone designs,…
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Looking at Women: Gladys Nilsson’s Seriously Sexy Figures at the Menil Drawing Institute
Of the five figures depicted in Pablo Picasso’s enduringly outrageous Las Chicas de Avignon (the title he supposedly preferred over Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907),…
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Authentically Vaginal: The Life Force of Vaginal Davis at PS1
Writer, performer, visual artist, curator, filmmaker, musician. A queer icon, “drag terrorist,” and grand madame of the queercore punk movement. A Blacktress, the doyenne…
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Without Deference: The Political Clarity of Coco Fusco at El Museo del Barrio
Coco Fusco’s breakout came three decades ago at a high watermark of debates over identity politics and multiculturalism, movements she has assiduously critiqued ever…
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Body Believing: Jana Sterbak at Musée des Hospitalières and Esker Foundation
There is a quality of lore around Jana Sterbak. Alongside her temperamental performances and pyrotechnic affinities, she is the artist of burning crowns, interred…
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