Reviews

Tilt-Shift LA: New Queer Perspectives on the Western Edge

Luis de Jesus Gallery - Los Angeles
Curated by Darin Klein
By Tucker Neel
“Tilt-Shift LA: New Queer Perspectives on the Western Edge” at Luis De Jesus posits queerness as an identity and an artistic goal, with curator Darin Klein assembling works by 15 artists of varying backgrounds and respective practices. While sometimes heavy-handed, the result is no [...]

Milton Becerra

Hardcore Art Contemporary Space - Miami
By Irina Leyva-Pérez
Milton Becerra is among the most visible and active contemporary Venezuelan artists, with a successful and solid career that covers more than three decades. Along the way, his work has been exhibited at prestigious institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in Paris; the Ludwig Museum [...]

Nelson Leirner: What’sWhat and Who’sWho?

Now Contemporary Art - Miami
By Irina Leyva-Pérez
Whenever we think about sarcasm from a political viewpoint in contemporary art, one of the names that immediately comes up is Nelson Leirner. He is known for his farcical attitude, especially towards society and the art market. Despite the obvious difficulties that this position has brought to [...]

Tom Molloy: New Worlds

Lora Reynolds Gallery - Austin
By Garland Fielder
Tom Molloy’s “New World” at Lora Reynolds Gallery in Austin, Texas, is a powerful statement achieved with grace. The mixed-media ensemble speaks volumes about heady topics such as race and politics but not to the detriment of the art. There is a clarity and uniqueness of vision [...]

This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s

Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago
Curated by Helen Molesworth
By Jeriah Hildwine
Political art risks providing lazy answers to the search for meaning, an undergraduate’s surrogate for personal significance in one’s work. In other cases (Richard Serra’s Stop Bush lithograph from the 2006 Whitney Biennial), established artists put the muscle of their name behind a cause more [...]

Aernout Mik

Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo - Madrid
Curated by Ferrán Barenblit
By Juan José Santos
Not so much a retrospective of the work of Aernout Mik as a review, this exhibition concerns relocation in the current framework of four of his videos: Glutinosity, Schoolyard, Training Ground and Raw Footage-perhaps with the intention of linking this work with [...]

Click or Clash? Strategies of Collaboration

Galleria Bianconi - Milan
Curated by Julia Draganović and Elena Forin
By Paco Barragán
Gallery Bianconi in Milan presents “Click or Clash? Strategies of Collaboration Second Stage,” a group show with artists Marco Giovani, Niklas Goldbach and Yves Netzhammer. The first stage of the show was held between October 2011 and January 2012 and showcased the work of [...]

David Maggioni: Tranquila

Galería Ruth Benzacar - Buenos Aires
By Marina Reyes-Franco
The best way to look at David Maggioni’s Tranquila installation is while descending the stairs to Ruth Benzacar’s underground gallery. From above and going down, you get the perfect view of what seems like a gigantic glowing white cloud that takes up almost all of the [...]

Eduardo Hoffmann: Hermanos Videntes

Galeria Lordi Arte Contemporáneo - Buenos Aires
By Juan José Santos
The path of Eduardo Hoffmann (Mendoza, 1957) has been marked by a set of styles, trends and formats that goes from his interest in surrealism to his current incursion in figurative expressionism. Working with various materials, such as wood, resin or canvas, his technical [...]

Mark Handforth: Rolling Stop

Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami
Curated by Bonnie Clearwater

By Heike Wollenweber
We often look past what we see daily on the streets of our cities and in the night skies above while getting caught up in the hustle and fast pace of urban life. With “Rolling Stop,” Mark Handforth reinterprets the city and stretches the [...]