The outsize legacy of Minimalism is so imposing that it is often difficult to talk about any contemporary artist’s work without referencing it (either as influence or counter tendency). Yet this pe…
A seemingly endless zigzag of tall white partitions, hung with an equally endless series of spare pencil drawings (500, to be exact), greeted viewers of Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys’s recent exhib…
Lever House, the glassy green box and ur-skyscraper of New York architectural Modernism, has also been the site of some of the city's more interesting contemporary art installations of late. This past…
One of the highlights of last year’s Venice Biennale was Pavel Pepperstein’s low-ceilinged den tricked out with black lights and a pounding rap-techno-Stravinsky soundtrack (in the otherwise mostly…
In the fall of 2007, Germany’s Bielefelder Kunstverein mounted a group show called “New Constructivism” that teased out the not-so-latent Constructivist tendencies of a new generation of abstract pain…
Deception and illusion: if the two words carry different moral values, they amount to much the same thing. Berlin-based Sinta Werner, whose work encompasses installation, video, sculpture and collage…
“No historic period passes without leaving a trace, and its aftermath does not disappear naturally, especially such a dramatic, extensive, radical and overwhelming tide as Soviet rule.” The words are…
The studio of Emil Michael Klein occupies a room next to the cold, empty lobby of an enormous '70s-era apartment block building. The building, in the Kleinhüningen neighborhood of Basel and blocks fro…
The current exhibition of works by Monica Bonvicini and Tom Burr is an odd coupling, estranged yet intimate, and feral at a studious remove. If the similarities in the two artists' bodies of work are…
Art Basel's closing two days, billed as Art Basel Weekend, was a rush of events -- screenings, panels, and parties -- sporadically attended by a somewhat diminished crowd. With most of the internation…