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Alia Farid, Material research, September 2024 Alia Farid: Talismans (Kupol LR 3303).

Alia Farid: Talismans (Kupol LR 3303)

February 27, 2025
Exhibition

Installation view, Joan Jonas, Empty Rooms, Gladstone, New York, 2025.
© Joan Jonas / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone.
Photography by David Regen.

Joan Jonas’ Empty Rooms at Gladstone Gallery

February 25, 2025
Exhibition

Nolan Oswald Dennis, Black Liberation Zodiac (Kgositsile’s Folly), 2022-ongoing. Wallpaper, bowl, water, cowrie shell; Approximations (1), 2021 Video, conference stand. 11 min 31 secs. Courtesy of the Swiss Institute.

Nolan Oswald Dennis: overturns at Swiss Institute

February 11, 2025
Exhibition

© Sung Hwan Kim © ZKM | Center for Art and Media, photo: Chiara Bellamoli

Sung Hwan Kim | Protected by roof and right-hand muscles

January 28, 2025
Exhibition

Christopher Joshua Benton, Where Lies My Carpet Is Thy Home. 2024. Astroturf. 6600 x 4200 cm. Commissioned by the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi for the Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial 2024-2025. Image by Lance Gerber.

Christopher Joshua Benton’s Where Lies My Carpet is Thy Home

January 24, 2025
Exhibition

Renée Green, Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 295

January 23, 2025
ExhibitionAcademics

Otto Piene, Light Room (Jena), 2005/2017. Installation view, Atkinson Museum, Porto, 2023. © Otto Piene Estate / DACS 2024. Courtesy Tate Modern. Photo: Atkinson Museum.

Otto Piene’s Light Room (Jena) in Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet at Tate Modern

January 7, 2025
Exhibition

Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas. Druzhba (2003-ongoing). Installation. High-performance plastic, UV print, Archival footage. 2023. Photo: @saisonlituanie2024.

Druzhba by Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas at the Palais De Tokyo and the Kadist in Paris

December 28, 2024
Exhibition

Haozhen Feng, Sam Webb, and Zairan Yu. Ghosts of the Future, 2024. Installation at Boston Symphony Orchestra. Image courtesy of the artists.

Haozhen Feng | Ghosts of the Future

December 20, 2024
Exhibition

Azra Aksamija, Palimpsest of 89, 2017. Installation, single-channel animation. Screenshot of project. Courtesy of the artist.

Azra Aksamija in RugLife at The Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco

December 9, 2024
Exhibition

Michael Rakowitz, 
The invisible enemy should not exist (Plaque with three rows of reliefs), 2022. Courtesy of the Benton Museum.

Michael Rakowitz in Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights

October 22, 2024
Exhibition

Slow Walking in Lisbon, 1995. Film still

Come Closer: Renée Green’s São Paulo Auroras

October 14, 2024
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