Reviews
Adam Ross
Hales Gallery - London
By Michele Robecchi
Adam Ross is an artist who periodically hops from abstraction to realism. As with many painters, the ostensible reason for doing so resides in his desire to examine his medium of preference and to establish a critical relationship between its two historical representational forms. But there is more. His landscapes [...]
Art in the Streets
Museum of Contemporary Art - Los Angeles
By Tucker Neel
It’s hard to see MOCA’s blockbuster exhibition, “Art In The Streets,” apart from its surrounding controversies. The show’s problems began back in 2010 when MOCA’s new director and “Art In The Streets” chief curator, Jeffery Deitch, had the artist Blu’s mural of dollar bill-draped coffins on the [...]
Miamicito
Dot FiftyOne Gallery - Miami
By Raisa Clavijo
Dot FiftyOne gallery recently hosted “Miamicito,” an exhibition assembling the works of fifteen contemporary Bolivian artists. The show, which was organized by Kiosko Gallery of Santa Cruz, included the works of: Alejandra Alarcón, Ramiro Garavito, Gastón Ugalde, Roberto Valcárcel, Douglas Rodrigo Rada, Raquel Schwartz, Alfredo Román, Roberto Unterladstaetter, Cecilia [...]
Singapore Biennale
By Victoria Lynn
Entitled “Open House,” the Singapore Biennale 2011 included 161 works by 63 artists from 30 countries. The exhibition revolved around notions of welcome and the artistic process. Building on earlier incarnations of ‘home’ that were explored in several international exhibitions during the 1990s, the Biennale considered interaction as a key leitmotif of our [...]
Uprooted/Transmigrations
Pan American Art Projects - Miami
Curated by Abelardo Mena
The Trojan Horse: Displacement and Resilience of the Uprooted Nation
By Joaquín Badajoz
The history of humankind sometimes seem to be, without diminishing other complex axioms and principles of civilization, the tale of the agonic paradox between sedentariness and migration. The parallel narratives that, from one point of [...]
Law of the Jungle
Lehmann Maupin Gallery - New York
By Denise Carvalho
In “Law of the Jungle,” shown at Lehmann Maupin, from December 9, 2010, to January 29, 2011, contradictory explored post-humanism meets form, examined here from a Brazilian art historical perspective. Making references to Anthropophagy (1928-1934) and Neo-Concretism (1959-62), the show suggests expanded shifts that contextualize and hybridize art [...]
Pooneh Maghazehe: IYIA EHI’AHYI, 1649
Central Utah Art Center
By Cara Despain
Continuing her ongoing investigations of collective versus individual identity, social psychology, the symbolic gestures and emblems that identify belief structures, as well as the architecture associated with these ideologies, Pooneh Maghazehe presented IYIA EHI’ AHYI, 1649-a site-specific performance at the Central Utah Art Center (CUAC) January 14, 2011. Focused on [...]
Allora and Calzadilla
Allora and Calzadilla: Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on “Ode to Joy” for a Prepared Piano
Museum of Modern Art - New York
By Marco Antonini
Ninth in a series of ongoing live and documented performances presented at the MoMA, Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on “Ode to Joy” for a prepared piano has been already labeled by many as Jennifer [...]
Dan Perjovschi: Hong Kong First
Para/Site Art Space - Hong Kong
Curated by Alvaro Rodríguez-Fominaya
By Robin Peckham
Para/Site, the only longstanding alternative space on Hong Kong Island, has demonstrated an erratic relationship with the notion of the parachute exhibition: lacking the space and resources to launch major researched retrospectives and surveys, the program often resorts to inviting international artists to produce new [...]
The End of History…and The Return of History Painting
Museum for Modern Art - Arnhem, The Netherlands
Curated by Paco Barragán
By Catherine Somzé
Since the much-debated comeback of figurative painting at the turn of the 21st century, the age-old medium is prospering as ever on the art market. But what role can it still play in contemporary visual culture as the media has taken over its [...]
