Zilvinas Kempinas
The work of Lithuanian artist Žilvinas Kempinas offers a reminder that art installations don’t have to be overproduced, big-budget affairs (think Urs Fischer or Matthew Barney) to deliver a genuine…
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Shoja Azari
Since Warhol, art’s flirtations with popular imagery have often been associated with entertainment and consumerism. If political at all, they take the form of commodity critiques that accept a glob…
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Magdalena Abakanowicz
Like discarded husks, Magdalena Abakanowicz’s representations of the human form always seem used up, dried out and left as refuse. The Polish sculptor is well known for her hollow burlap, bronze and…
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Jeffrey Vallance
The glorification of remains, whether of human or inanimate origin, is a venerable religious practice. In “Relics and Reliquaries,” Jeffrey Vallance presented a sometimes tongue-in-cheek, sometimes…
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Tania Bruguera: Politics By Other Means
The cuban artist's topical performances and installations lost some specificity—but found broader resonance—in a recent retrospective that included daily live events.
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Roni Horn
Entering either the second or fourth floor of the Whitney to see “Roni Horn aka Roni Horn,” a retrospective co-organized with Tate Modern in London, viewers were greeted by one or another version of T…
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Stuart Sherman
A cross between a magician, a mime, a comic performer in the mode of Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin, a theatrical impresario and a high priest, Stuart Sherman was a well-known figure in the downtown…
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Regina Jos Galindo
Perhaps few contemporary genres more potently raise the “Is it art?” question than the kind of politically motivated endurance art practiced by Regina José Galindo of Guatemala. This show consisted of…
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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Data is not information; information is not knowledge. This is the message one ultimately took away from Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s extremely tech-savvy exhibition. The Mexican-Canadian artist uses techno…
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Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
In the age of Google books and the Kindle, the printed word is beginning to feel like an endangered species. In its place we are offered downloadable texts that materialize at our command, only to eva…
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