It is easy for the visitor to Kai Althoff’s retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, “and then leave me to the common swifts,” to grow irritated: the long wait for entry into the overcrowded galler…
“Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction,” which opens to the public Monday at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, presents a fascinating account of the chameleon painte…
The German artist Kai Althoff has been known to engage with museums and curators in some rather unusual ways. Visitors to Documenta 13, in Kassel, Germany, in 2012, may recall that a handwritten…
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…
The 2012 Whitney Biennial has used its opened-up fourth floor to present various forms of performance, tending toward the somewhat experimental. But the program made a nod to traditional theater wi…
“Professionalism kills all that I like about art,” Kai Althoff told Flash Art in 2002. The latest exhibition by this self-taught artist and musician (b. 1966), who recently moved to New York from hi…