Hoda Kashiha
Hoda Kashiha’s first institutional exhibition in Europe takes its name from her recent series “I’m Here, I’m Not Here,” 2020–21. Developed across four canvases, the work repeats a motif pulled from an...
View ArticleJudit Reigl
I asked a young painter to join me on my first visit to this survey of five decades of Judit Reigl’s work. Though my friend’s art jumps between figuration and blankets of monochrome color, she was...
View Article“Between your eyes and the images I see (a sentimental choice)”
Nine drooping tulips, languidly rendered by Elené Shatberashvili in Flowers, 2021–22, announce the nine young artists gathered here. All oil painters and recent graduates of Paris’s Beaux-Arts, this...
View ArticleAllora & Calzadilla
During the fifteenth-century age of exploration, European sailors believed in a mythic island called “Antillia,” rumored to be somewhere in the Atlantic, just beyond the edge of existing maps....
View ArticleAd Minoliti
Growing up, Ad Minoliti dreamed of becoming an architect; today, the artist’s stencil-sharp, high-key color abstractions and plush installations consider how childhood is collectively built. As...
View ArticleTirdad Hashemi
A sense of intimate, brutal absurdity suffuses Tirdad Hashemi’s recent work, much of it made following the killing of Mahsa Amini last September in the artist’s native Iran and the subsequent eruption...
View ArticleDjamel Tatah
Djamel Tatah confronted visitors to his recent show with an image of the aftermath of violence. Rendered at human scale, Tatah’s subject in this large-scale oil-and-wax painting (Untitled, 2020) would...
View ArticleSimon Martin
As Paris emerged from lockdown in late spring 2020, hollyhocks bloomed across the city in pinks, blues, and whites as sun-bleached and delicate as Simon Martin’s palette for “Ce qui dort sous les...
View ArticleBasma al-Sharif
Palestinian artist Basma al-Sharif weaves together French, English, and Arabic in her trilingual book and installation a Philistine, 2019–23. Handwritten on craft paper and string-bound with black...
View ArticleSuzanne Valadon
“Un monde à soi” (A World of Her Own), curated by the director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, Chiara Parisi, is Suzanne Valadon’s first retrospective in France in nearly sixty years. The title of the...
View Article“Un·Tuning Together. Practicing Listening with Pauline Oliveros”
Pauline Oliveros’s Tuning Meditation, 1980, asks participants to attend to a sound from somewhere within, one that is imagined, and then, as that inner sound is vocalized, to listen to sounds others...
View Article“Exteriors—Annie Ernaux & Photography”
“I do not aim to write beautifully, but true.” High on a wall in black vinyl lettering, Nobel Prize– winning writer Annie Ernaux’s words are posted in her mother tongue. In French, the word Ernaux...
View ArticleAurélia Zahedi
Aurélia Zahedi first encountered Selaginella lepidophylla, commonly known as rose of Jericho, in her father’s greenhouse in Lyon, France. The French-Iranian artist wanted to know the plant’s story,...
View ArticleNathanaëlle Herbelin
In her 2016 biography of Paula Modersohn-Becker, Être ici est une splendeur (Being Here Is Everything),Marie Darrieussecq asserts that the German artist was the first woman in the history of art to...
View ArticleGuillaume Dénervaud
Guillaume Dénervaud presented his exhibition “Thulite”—named for a translucent pink mineral—in two separate chapters: The first part opened at Villa Atrata, an eleventh-century chapel in...
View Article“Présences arabes. Art moderne et décolonisation. Paris, 1908–1988”
For “Présences arabes. Art moderne et décolonisation. Paris, 1908–1988” (Arab Presences. Modern Art and Decolonization. Paris, 1908–1988), the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, erected for the 1937 World’s...
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