Reviews

Separation Anxiety

Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art - Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Curated by Denise Johnson and Rebecca Trawick
By Micol Hebron

As most women know, few things will invite a quicker escort out of the art world than having a baby. Despite the high numbers of artists with children, parenthood remains highly stigmatized in the contemporary art world. You can’t [...]

Jeppe Hein

Indianapolis Museum of Art - Indiana

By Kaytie Johnson
Dutch-born, Berlin-based artist Jeppe Hein has gained international recognition for his production of experiential, interactive artworks that frequently rely on human presence as both activating force and critical component.  His interest in sculpture as an expanded field of social interaction-one in which the viewer is no longer a [...]

Kyle Trowbridge: Pleasure Seekers

Dorsch Gallery - Miami

By Bryan Barcena

The rise of Internet socialization has entrenched our generation in the most significant sexual and interpersonal revolution since that of the 1960s. The current generation is the first that has gained the ability to establish and arguably experience the de-personification and increased ephemerality of intimate relationships. The Internet revolution ushered [...]

Ernesto Pujol: Awaiting

Performance at Utah State Capitol Building - Salt Lake City

By Cara Despain

In Spring 2010, conceptual and performance artist Ernesto Pujol became the first-ever recipient of a visiting artist residency at the University of Utah. Pujol first became recognized in the art world for his elaborate narrative installations in the 1990s. His more recent performance-based work [...]

Cinema X: I Like to Watch

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art - Toronto
Curated by Paco Barragán

By Camilla Singh

The collision of emerging erotic practices against the grip of religious morality compels us to re-educate ourselves about human sexuality without prejudice. Paco Barragán’s iconoclastic exhibition “Cinema X: I Like To Watch” challenges the prevailing sexual mores.  He supports his call for [...]

Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection

New Museum - New York

Curated by Jeff Koons

“Skin Fruit”: A controversial show at the New Museum

By Ernesto Menéndez-Conde
Once more, Jeff Koons has created a scandal– but this time, not as an artist. His curatorial work for “Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection,” shown at the New Museum, has elicited many bad reviews. This [...]

Morten Viskum / In retrospect

Sørlandets Kunstmuseum - Norway

By Mari Sundet
In February, the Norwegian artist Morten Viskum (1965) opened his first retrospective exhibition at Sørlandets Kunstmuseum in Norway. An extensive catalogue was also published in conjunction with the exhibition, and these two forms of documentation serve the complementary purpose of cataloguing and categorizing an oeuvre that has, over the last [...]

Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present

Museum of Modern Art - New York
Curated by Klaus Biesenbach

How to keep performances alive?

The big problem with performance is that it only makes sense live.
-Marina Abramovi?.1
By Ernesto Menéndez-Conde

The Yugoslavian artist Marina Abramovi?’s retrospective “The Artist is Present” at MoMA gathers almost fifty works, and includes a live performance by Abramovi? and five re-performances by a group [...]

Cory Arcangel: The Sharper Image

Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami

By Irina Leyva-Pérez

Technology has invaded our daily lives in a permanent and dominant way. So it is not a surprise that artists have found inspiration in the equipment that they use every day. Cory Arcangel is one such artist, and “The Sharper Image,” his recent exhibition at MOCA Miami, is [...]

Production Site: A Compound Eye on the Artist’s Studio

Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago
Curated by Dominic Molon

By Jeriah Hildwine

“Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside Out,” represents the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s contribution to Studio Chicago, a year-long, citywide event focusing on the artist’s studio. In curating “Production Site,” MCA curator Dominic Molon faced the challenge (as with any themed group show) of striking a [...]