You won't find Kanekalon, a synthetic fiber commonly used in artificial hair, on many checklists—which is just part of the reason it's the chief material in New York-based Icelandic artist Hrafnhild…
One of the excellent things about dOCUMENTA (13) is how the curator, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, laces the exhibition with multiple themes and enthusiasms, which makes for eventful and compelling vi…
Since 1991 Kassel's Hauptbahnhof is no longer an important hub, or even the city's "main station"; that was the year when Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe opened a couple miles away, connecting the city with hig…
Throughout its history, documenta has at times featured artworks in the sprawling Karlsaue Park, just down the hill from the Fridericianum and outside the Orangerie, but never on the scale and magni…
This 13th version of the mighty documenta-this year it's dOCUMENTA (13)- held every five years in the relatively small township of Kassel, Germany, begins with a gentle but pronounced wind. As you ent…
Warsaw-based MichaÅ? Budny is known for austere sculptures made from commonplace materials like cardboard, colored foil, paper, plastic and paint. With a subdued palette tending toward gray…
There is a significant backstory to the captivating new large-format color photographs in Ricarda Roggan's recent exhibition "Set/Reset." While traveling in Cyprus, Roggan stumbled upon some defunc…
Immersive experiences in nature have long had a special allure in the American tradition, offering the promise of freedom; a simpler, unfettered life; psychological invigoration and spiritual illum…
This was the first museum exhibition in Poland, and a major homecoming, for London-based Goshka Macuga (b. 1967), a 2008 Turner Prize finalist, whose eclectic, mixed-medium projects often involve su…
Back when massive parades celebrating longtime leader Josip Broz Tito were commonplace in Yugoslavia, Sanja Ivekovic Ì , a Croat who was born in 1949 and still lives in Zagreb, staged her own…