Sharjah Biennial
Biennial themes are often underdeveloped, amounting to little more than mood-setting phrases that give a poetic gloss to eclectic displays of artwork.
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Immerse Yourself
Only a handful of movie theaters around the country are equipped to screen Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walkas acclaimed director Ang Lee intended it to be seen. Centering on an Iraq War hero’s…
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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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“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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New Worlds
Scrutinizing rural hermits, outcasts and commune dwellers in various countries, British filmmaker Ben Rivers seeks a link between individuality and the land.
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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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Ambient Aesthetics
Monitoring commodity prices, asset values, and the digital measurement of collective happiness, â?¨Mika Tajima creates artworks and installations—sometimes diffuse and cloudy, sometimes violent…
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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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