Mark Dion has been creating works that mimic the vitrines and dioramas in natural history museums since the mid-1980s, often as a humorous means of critiquing established ways of gathering, organizing…
The Scottish artist Douglas Gordon is drawn to iconic figures. With 24 Hour Psycho (1993), for instance, he paid homage to Hitchcock, radically slowing down the director’s 1960 film…
Since the British-Ghanaian artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b. 1977) completed her studies at the Royal Academy Schools in London in 2003, her reputation as a talented painter of fictional portraits (she…
Phyllida Barlow’s exhibition “Demo” augurs well for her presentation in the British pavilion at this summer’s Venice Biennale. One part of “Demo” is dominated by a multifarious structure that fills th…
Lin May Saeed (b. 1973) is as much an animal rights advocate as an artist. Despite the progressive perspectives put forth by scholars like Donna Haraway in her book Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs…
The central character in the exhibition “An Atlas of Dramas” by Lausanne-based Guillaume Pilet (b. 1984) greeted the visitor with open arms. Formed from lumpy grayish polyurethane foam, and just short…
Vlassis Caniaris was born in Athens in 1928 and died there in 2011. He lived through dramatic moments in Greek history, including, most notably, the 1967–74 military junta. He studied in his home city…
Chief curator of this summer’s Manifesta 11, German artist Christian Jankowski speaks candidly about his artist-meets-nonartist plan for the global event, as well as his own irreverent artworks—videos…
German artist Ulla von Brandenburg’s work investigates theatrical devices, finding form in performance, film, installation, sculpture, and paintings (on canvas and on the wall). Her exhibition “Manchm…
It has been a busy year for Koyo Kouoh, and any respite seems inconceivable for the Senegal-based curator. Kouoh and I spoke as she was making final preparations for EVA International: Ireland’s Bienn…