Eva Beresin: Offstage
In the Brooklyn Rail
Offstage is an exhibition of Beresin shapeshifting playfully with complex and loaded material, but not for the first time. Read more.
Medardo Rosso: Inventing modern sculpture
In the Brooklyn Rail
Italian sculptor Medardo Rosso (1858–1928), a self-described “European anarchist born on a train,” is the subject of a long-overdue retrospective at mumok—Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien. Read more.
Norman Reedus: In Transit
By Steven Pollock
In Transit, Norman Reedus’s collection of photographs channel urban angst; exploring streetscapes and impromptu still lives in NYC, Berlin, Tokyo, and Paris. Read more.
Robert Longo
In the Brooklyn Rail
At the Albertina, one can examine the metamorphosis from Robert Longo’s 1980 black and white charcoal drawings, each of which are Untitled (and named parametrically Eric, Cindy, Frank, and Gretchen) leading to 1989’s multi-media Combine, Now Everybody (For R.W.Fassbinder). Read more.
Visionary Spaces: Walter Pichler meets Frederick Kiesler
In the Brooklyn Rail
Regarding the arts, the nation of Austria is known for punching above its weight. At Belvedere 21 the stage was set for a double act, when the curators chose an undocumented 1963 meeting that took place in Frederick Kiesler’s New York studio with Walter Pichler. Read more.
Roy Lichtenstein: From The Ridiculous To The Sublime
In the Brooklyn Rail
Like a soldier trained to watch Bikini Atoll through Rembrandt’s eyes, Roy Lichtenstein, arguably art’s greatest humorist, takes us from the ridiculous to the sublime. Read more.
GERTIE FRÖHLICH: WHERE THERE’S SMOKE Retrospective at the MAK
In Whitehot Magazine
The MAK exhibition (In)visible Pioneer (12/9/2023-3/24) is not simply a retrospective-style survey of Fröhlich’s Gesamtkunstwerk but also the first step towards creating an accurate narrative of the life of this independent artist, who’s work is not easy to categorize. Read more.
Valie Export retrospective
In Whitehot Magazine
The Albertina Museum is hosting VALIE EXPORT Retrospective, a comprehensive exhibition devoted to the trailblazing Austrian media and performance artist (b.1940), till October 1, 2023. VALIE EXPORT challenges societal norms and explores themes of gender and power dynamics. Read more.
Interview with Kenny Scharf: I’m Baaack! At Nazuka Underground & Sogetsu, Tokyo
In Whitehot Magazine
„Yumano Karuma is making a reappearance in June.“ reads the enigmatic text I had just received from artist Kenny Scharf — stirring up memories of nearly 40 years ago from Scharf’s first trip to Japan, when he repurposed a white 1970’s Cadillac into Yumano Karuma or the Dream Car. Read more.
The Dream Mine: Painter Robert Hawkins in Conversation
In Whitehot Magazine
Even that pales compared to the boundless treasure seen in Robert Hawkins latest paintings, based on The Dream Mine, a listed Mormon mining company from which the artist has recently inherited some shares. Read more.
Peter Kubelka Now
In Whitehot Magazine
Peter Kubelka (b.1934) invited American curator and writer, Steven Pollock to interview him about his collection Schutt der Evolution or Leftovers from Evolution. Read more.
Rudolf Polanszky at Almine Reich Shanghai
In Art Daily
Apeiron, the title of Rudolf Polanszky’s exhibition, mirrors his “ad hoc synthesis approach” of building and dissolving purely abstract forms. With a selection of recent works, drawn from his Reconstructions series, Polanszky further implodes the Modernist palimpsest via his hybrid paintings and sculpture. Read more.
Rudolf Polanszky at Almine Reich
In Armine Rech
Almine Rech Shanghai is pleased to present Rudolf Polanszky’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, on view from December 10, 2021 to January 27, 2022. Read more.