Kai Althoff
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…
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William S. Smith
“The Equilibrists”
Organized by New York’s New Museum and Athens’s DESTE Foundation in collaboration with the Benaki Museum, the show features some thirty artists who started their careers during a period of crisis. Cau…
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The Digitized Museum
Introducing A.i.A.’s special issue on museums and digital technology, its organizers reflect on how new electronic devices, new institutional policies and programs, and a new emphasis on access…
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Biennials: Mixed Messages
Incorporating works from many participants in their own online community, the New York–based collective DIS has mounted a Berlin Biennale that simultaneously exploits and critiques trendy digital stra…
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Post-Consumer Report: A Conversation with Rodney McMillian
Rodney McMillian’s work is a journey, and viewers willing to travel can make seeing it a journey, too. Three exhibitions on view at East Coast institutions comprise a tripartite midcareer retrospectiv…
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This Land Is Your Land: Earthworks on YouTube
As A.i.A. senior editor William S. Smith pointed out in his essay on Michael Heizer (whose 1970 installation Actual Size: Munich Rotary is on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art through April…
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Generation X: Catherine Opie on Robert Mapplethorpe
Last November, FotoFocus organized a conference at the CAC to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the exhibition and to celebrate members of the city's art community who stood up for Mapplethorpe's w…
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The Pleasures of Being Watched: Neïl Beloufa’s “The Colonies”
In addition to producing videos that blend utopian and dystopian modes of speculation, Neïl Beloufa also establishes, through architectonic structures, specific conditions for viewing those videos—and…
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Jackson Pollock
“Blind Spots,” the subtitle of this exhibition, is an allusion to the idea that Jackson Pollock’s late works, especially his so-called black paintings—monochrome drips on unprimed canvases—have been w…
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Björn Braun
“Nothing is ever wasted, only repurposed.” That’s how the press release for Björn Braun’s exhibition “New Towns” describes the Berlin-based artist’s process. It’s a policy that any Boy Scout could adm…
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