Artists included in major biennial exhibitions, like the ones opening in Venice and at the Whitney Museum in New York this month, can find themselves subject to countervailing expectations. These…
"Long Light" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the first solo museum exhibition for David Lebe (b. 1948), frames him as an experimentalist less interested in capturing the real than in freeing his…
Geneva-born, Los Angeles– and Berlin-based artist Shahryar Nashat's exhibition "The Cold Horizontals" centered on a visually seductive eighteen-minute video shown on loop across eight abutting…
Brazilian artist José Leonilson (1957–1993) is a legendary figure in his homeland, where he is esteemed for the poetic vision he expressed during a period of social crisis. His work has rarely been…
In his determination to make the private public, David Wojnarowicz went beyond specific thematic material to forge a unique combination of politics and spirituality, of the known and unknown.