Forensics and Fables: the 12th Berlin Biennale
"Still Present!" supplies a provocative—but ultimately unsatisfying—answer to political art's existential woes.
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One Work: Pablo Picasso’s “Les Femmes d’Alger (Version L)”
One work in Picasso's celebrated series "Les Femmes d'Alger" centers on a lone figure in grisaille who could be read as the painter's dying wife.
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Richard Artschwager’s Late-Career New Mexico Drawings Take Viewers through the Plains of His Youth
The works are an understated coda to his adventurous output, which spanned Minimalism, Conceptual art, and Pop.
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León Ferrari’s Iconoclastic Work Proved That Only a Theist Can Be a Sinner
Generally considered a conceptual artist, León Ferrari (1920–2013) might just as aptly be described as an activist. His collages and assemblages eschew allusive subtlety for unambiguously…
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Constraint and Variability: Christina Ramberg’s Distinctive Brand of Figuration
Ramberg cultivated a brand of figuration that combined a Pop sensibility with graphic, mechanistic forms, which she deployed, rigorously and pointedly, in somber renderings of cropped female bodies.
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Anna Daučíková Explores the Body Through Glass
Anna Daučíková's exhibition at KW was largely devoted to photo- and video-based works from the late 1980s to the present that explore the Slovakian artist's queer identity.
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Henrike Naumann
A pair of black platform heels and a gas mask were among the objects greeting visitors to Henrike Naumann's three-floor exhibition at KOW, "Ostalgie."
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Alejandro Cesarco
Alejandro Cesarco's practice can be characterized as one of active reading, in which annotating, rearranging, translating, interpreting, and reframing existing texts and artworks are treated as…
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Julia Scher
A desire for intimacy via surveillance seemed to inform the works in Julia Scher's exhibition at Esther Schipper, "Wonderland," which provided a focused look into her practice since its beginnings…
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Berlin Biennale
Curator Gabi Ngcobo opens her introductory essay for the catalogue of the tenth Berlin Biennale by invoking an empty pedestal: that which once held a statue commemorating the nineteenth-century…
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