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February 2018

Growing P.A.I.N.

February 2018

the life and legacy of Thing

By Solveig Nelson

February 2018

Elise Archias’s The Concrete Body

By Emily Liebert

Valeska Grisebach, Western, 2017, HD video, color, sound, 119 minutes. Meinhard (Meinhard Neumann) and Adrian (Syuleyman Alilov Letifov).

Valeska Grisebach’s Western

Errol Morris, Wormwood, 2017, still from a TV show on Netflix. Episode 1. Frank Olson (Peter Sarsgaard).

Errol Morris’s Wormwood

Cassils, Fountain, 2017. Performance view, September 16, 2017, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York. Background: Cassils, PISSED, 2017. Photo: Vince Ruvolo.

By David J. Getsy

Jasmina Cibic, NADA: Act II, 2017, HD video, color, sound, 13 minutes 1 second. Production still.

Jasmina Cibic’s NADA trilogy

February 2018

“The Overworked Body”

By Tobias Madison

February 2018

By Andrea Arrubla

Detail of June Tarpé Mills’s Miss Fury, May 10, 1942. Weekly Sunday strip. Photo: The Library of American Comics.

SERIOUS SEX BATTLE

Sarah Nicole Prickett on the Myth of the Wonder Woman

By Sarah Nicole Prickett

Christina Ramberg, Untitled (Two Women), ca. 1968, felt-tip pen on paper, 3 1/2 × 3 1/4". © Estate of Christina Ramberg.

HOW WOULD A COMB THAT CANNOT UNTANGLE HAIR LOOK?

On the art of Christina Ramberg

Howardena Pindell, Night Flight, 2015–16, mixed media on canvas, 63 × 77".

1000 WORDS: HOWARDENA PINDELL

TALKS ABOUT HER FORTHCOMING RETROSPECTIVE AT THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO

By Andrianna Campbell

Arseny Zhilyaev, Intergalactic Mobile Fedorov Museum-Library, Berlin (detail), 2017, fiberboard, vinyl print, chairs, books, ionization lamps. Installation view, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Photo: Laura Fiorio.

COSMIST RAYS: THE RISE OF COSMISM

MOLLY NESBIT ON THE RISE OF COSMISM

By Molly Nesbit

Franz Erhard Walther, Für Streik (For Strike), no. 41, 1967, canvas. Performance view, Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, 1970. From 1. Werksatz (First Work Set), 1963–69. Photo: Timm Rautert. © Franz Erhard Walther/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.

ACTIVE DUTY: THE ART OF FRANZ ERHARD WALTHER

CAROLINE LILLIAN SCHOPP ON THE ART OF FRANZ ERHARD WALTHER

By Caroline Lillian Schopp

Irena Haiduk’s Nine Hour Delay: Introduction Poster, 2012, an advertisement for the Borosana shoe.

OPENINGS: IRENA HAIDUK

By Laura McLean-Ferris

Alberto Savinio, La vedova (The Widow), 1931, tempera on paper mounted on canvas, 21 5/8 × 18". © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome.

Alberto Savinio

CIMA - Center for Italian Modern Art

By Barry Schwabsky

Jacques Henri Lartigue, Feu d’artifice à Nice (Fireworks in Nice), 1911, gelatin silver print, 15 3/4 × 11 3/4". © Ministère de la Culture–France/AAJHL.

École(S) de Nice

View of “Rasheed Araeen: A Retrospective,” 2017–2018. Wall, from left: Sonay Ke Chirya (Golden Bird), 1986; Mon St V, 1985. Floor: Once Upon a Time, 1994. Photo: Peter Cox.

By Zehra Jumabhoy

Gilberto Zorio, Piombi II (Lead II), 1968, lead sheets, copper sulfate, hydrochloric acid, fluorescein, copper braid, rope. Installation view, 2017. Photo: Antonio Maniscalco.

Castelo di Rivoli

By Elizabeth Mangini

Gerard Byrne, In Our Time, 2017, 4K video, color, sound, indefinite duration.

Lisson Gallery | 508 West 24th Street | New York

By Jeffrey Kastner

David Zwirner | 34 East 69th Street

By Johanna Fateman

“Cosmic Communities”

Galerie Buchholz | New York

Jean-Luc Moulène

Miguel Abreu Gallery | Eldridge Street

Fergus McCaffrey

By Rachel Churner

By Michael Wilson

Farah Al Qasimi

Helena Anrather

By Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Martos Gallery | New York

By Colby Chamberlain

Deli Gallery | 110 Waterbury Street

New-York Historical Society

By Donald Kuspit

Christie Neptune

island | gallery

Doreen Garner and Kenya (Robinson)

By Vanessa Thill

Glenn Kaino, (Sign) A Pen for Every Player (detail), 2017, wood, plaster, video (color, sound, 1 minute). Installation view. Photo: Tony Walsh.

Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati

By Jeffrey Saletnik

Maya Stovall, Liquor Store Theatre, vol. 4, no. 7, 2017, HD video, color, sound, 16 minutes 13 seconds. From the series “Liquor Store Theatre,” 2014–.

Cranbrook Art Museum

By Lisa John Rogers

Shana Lutker, a.k.a Public Opinion, 2017, leather, ink. From the series “Le ‘NEW’ Monocle: The History of the Fistfights of the Surrealists,” 2012–. Installation view. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer.

Vielmetter Los Angeles

By Suzanne Hudson

Channing Hansen

Marc Selwyn Fine Art

By Andy Campbell

By Catherine Taft

Andy Holden, The Opposite of Time, 2017, three-channel digital video, color, sound, 30 minutes. Installation view.

Andy Holden and Peter Holden

By Himali Singh Soin

Carl Kostyál | London

By Elisa Schaar

Haegue Yang, The Intermediate—Antenna Basket on Rings, 2017, artificial straw, powder-coated stainless steel, steel wire, artificial plants, TV antennae, 70 7/8 x 31 1/2 x 31 1/2". From the series “The Intermediates,” 2015–.

Galerie Chantal Crousel

By Riccardo Venturi

Centre Pompidou

By Zehra Jumabhoy

Daniel Dezeuze, Untitled, 1977, stained wood, approx. 111 x 42 3/4 x 15".

Musée de Grenoble

By Molly Warnock

Angelika J. Trojnarski, Rising, 2017, paper and oil on canvas, 59 x 47 1/4".

Angelika J. Trojnarski

Galerie Tanja Wagner

By Jurriaan Benschop

By Jens Asthoff

Eduardo Navarro, Letters to Earth (detail), 2017, bronze, walnut kernels, dimensions variable. From Köln Skulptur #9. Photo: Veit Landwehr.

KölnSkulptur #9

Skulpturenpark Köln

By Javier Hontoria

Lara Langer, What Decomposes Is Nature, 2017, photographic transfer, acrylic, and marker on canvas, 43 1/4 x 31 1/2".

Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Winter, 2017, wood, stones, Agnès B. wool coat, wool hat, and dress. Installation view. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij.

Evelyn Taocheng Wang

Galerie Fons Welters

By Huib Haye van der Werf

View of “Grazia Varisco,” 2017–18. Photo: Cesare Chimenti.

Cortesi Gallery | Milan

By Alessandra Pioselli

View of “Eva Marisaldi,” 2017–18. Photo: Francesco Ribuffo.

Galleria de'Foscherari

By Giorgio Verzotti

Marianne Mueller, Mirrors, 2017, mirrors. Installation view. Photo: Marianne Mueller.

Coimbra, Portugal

Marianne Mueller

Centro de Artes Visuais

By Barry Schwabsky

Viktor Timofeev, Four Characters in Search of a Random Exit, 2017, two-channel digital video, color, sound, indefinite duration.

Viktor Timofeev

kim? Contemporary Art Centre

By Neringa Černiauskaite

View of “Sol Pipkin,” 2017–18. Photo: Diego Berruecos.

Machete Galería

By Lee Escobedo

Paula Rego, Visions, 2015, pastel on paper on aluminum, 51 1/4 x 43 1/2".

Paula Rego and Adriana Varejão

Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel | Carpintaria

By Camila Belchior

K. G. Subramanyan, Ageless Combat I, 1998, watercolor and oil on acrylic sheet, 74 3/8 x 50 3/4".

K. G. Subramanyan

By Meera Menezes

Munem Wasif, Land of Undefined Territory 12, 2014–15, ink-jet print, 8 x 12".

View of “Hassan Sharif,” 2017–18. From left: Towel 3, 2013; Slippers and Wire, 2009; Rug 6, 2014.

Sharjah Art Foundation

By Melissa Gronlund

Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho, On the Back Stage, 2017, ink-jet print, 24 3/4 x 33 7/8".

Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho

SCAI THE BATHHOUSE

By Ryan Holmberg

Chen Chieh-jen, A Field of Non-field, 2017, digital video, black-and-white and color, sound, 61 minutes 7 seconds.

Long March Space 长征空间

By Yang Beichen

Simon Denny, Operation, 2017, resin, polystyrene, New Era cap, Adidas shirt, Nike Free shoes, acrylic paint, gaming cable, Apple earbuds, customized T-800 Terminator 2: Judgment Day figurine, fidget spinner, iPhone 5, Kindle Paper, various New Zealand coins, novelty Bitcoin ornamental coins, lanyard, nootropic power in plastic bag, Nike shoelaces, 18 7/8 x 80 3/8 x 26 3/4".

By Christina Barton

Christina Ramberg, Hand (detail), 1971, acrylic on Masonite, 9 3/8 × 7 3/8". © Estate of Christina Ramberg. — Christina Ramberg, Hand (detail), 1971, acrylic on Masonite, 9 3/8 × 7 3/8". © Estate of Christina Ramberg.

February 2018

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