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SEOUL — With the recent slew of news about public shootings and political controversies, as well as the ever-glamorous reportage from the red carpet, it’s easy to forget times from an older United States. But a large-scale exhibition at the National Museum of...
Though kinetic artist Jesús Rafael Soto began his career in his home country of Venezuela, he developed the majority of his body of work in Paris, where he moved in 1950 to work with other artists in pioneering the kinetic movement. After his death...
The Guggenheim's newly opened “No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia” is a rapaciously forward-thinking show — it represents “a new curatorial model” (according to the museum's deputy director Nancy Spector) and “proposes a...
In previous columns, we've assembled lists of essential reading for artists (see here and here). But we have also, in our research, run across a few books that are not-so-essential — or downright inexplicable and bizarre. Here, then, are 20...
A retrospective featuring the immense oeuvre of Joel Meyerowitz, which has recently opened at at Paris’s Maison Européenne de la Photographie, plays a testament to the level of ground the Bronx-born photographer has broken throughout his 50-...
It takes guts to put on an exhibition with as dry a title as “A Brief History of Lines” at the Pompidou Center-Metz during the dead of winter, with the museum surrounded by snow. But this show, which is up through April 1, and which consists almost...
Thirty-two-year-old French-born Cyprien Gaillard is a rising — or perhaps already risen — star in Europe, having won the Prix Marcel Duchamp at FIAC in 2010 and Berlin’s Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst in 2011. At the Berlin show, the...
What would you think if you walked into a gallery and saw children drawing all over the walls with crayons the same size as they are? In the case of South Africa-born, Berlin-based Robin Rhode’s new show at New York’s Lehmann Maupin Galleries, you would be...
Wolfgang Laib is the holy fool of contemporary art. A monk-like figure who weaves his art out of natural substances that evoke spiritual regeneration — a permanent installation of his chamber made of beeswax opens at the Phillips Collection in March — he...
An all-female cast of Neolithic fertility idols, Egyptian slave girls, maenads, Celtic she-devils, lingerie models, and 20th century war victims populates the collaged paper scrolls and friezes in “From Victimage to Liberation: Works from the 1980s and 1990s...
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February 09, 2013