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Notes from New York: Embrace the Anomaly

2 weeks ago | artreview.com | Jenny Wu

With their semi-covert political messaging, could Anne Imhof’s DOOM and Alex Tatarksy’s Sad Boys act as a blueprint for future activist art? For three hours a night, for over a week in early March, German multidisciplinary artist Anne Imhof made valiant attempts, as part of her latest gesamtkunstwerk, DOOM: House of Hope (2025), to mould the atmosphere of the Park Avenue Armory’s Wade Thompson Drill Hall as her material.
Screen Memories of the Middle East

2 weeks ago | artreview.com | Jenny Wu

A group exhibition across two venues in New York explores news coverage of the ‘War on Terror’, and its psychological impact on a whole generationDuring the early 2000s, news networks began covering wars and conflicts at an unprecedented scale, with many airing graphic images from combat zones around the clock. SCREEN MEMORIES explores the psychological impact this media environment had on those growing up in the Middle East during that decade.
The 10 Exhibitions to See in April 2025

3 weeks ago | artreview.com | Jenny Wu |Louise Benson |Yuwen Jiang

Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from Olivia Erlanger and Phuong Ngo to the expansion of São Paulo’s MASP Olivia Erlanger: Spinoff Luhring Augustine, New York, through 19 April The New York-based artist Olivia Erlanger has spent a decade sifting through the spatial imaginary of America’s suburban middle class, scrutinising unsung architectural typologies such as garages – the subject of a research project she undertook with architect Luis Ortega Govela in...
Notes from New York: A Second Chance

1 month ago | artreview.com | Jenny Wu

Why faulty first impressions only tell half the story, and the beauty of never quite making up your mindI disliked Boris Mikhailov’s exhibition at Marian Goodman on my first visit to the gallery’s new Tribeca location, where I watched two of the Ukrainian photographer’s videos on the first floor.
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1 month ago | artforum.com | Jenny WuPlus icon |Jenny Wu

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Sohrab Hura: Our Motherless Age

2 months ago | artreview.com | Jenny Wu

At MoMA PS1, Hura explores the mother – or at least, his own – as a metaphor for social, political and economic safeguards Someone with rail-thin calves and bony ankles is wearing flip-flops in the snow. This seemingly undernourished photographic subject in unseasonable footwear, seen only from their knees down, stands out among the two dozen or so inkjet prints from Sohrab Hura’s Snow series (2015–) displayed in the main room of this survey of the artist’s two-decade career.
Notes from New York: All Together Now

2 months ago | artreview.com | Jenny Wu

How the recent tendency for ambiguous self-reflexivity is redrawing the lines of institutional critiqueEven for those not directly affected by the recent fires, whether those that spread widely across Los Angeles or the blaze in Tribeca, Manhattan, which damaged two of the neighbourhood’s galleries, it may feel like an indulgence to complain about hackneyed exposés and interventions in New York’s art scene.
The 10 Exhibitions to See in February 2025

2 months ago | artreview.com | Louise Benson |Jenny Wu |Alexander Leissle

Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from Sharjah Biennial 16 to Pap Souleye Fall in New YorkSharjah Biennial 16: to carryVarious venues, 6 February–15 JuneSharjah Biennial 16, titled to carry, presents an exploration of the things that we hold – physically, emotionally and culturally – across time and space.
The 10 Exhibitions to See in February 2025

2 months ago | asianamericans.einnews.com | Louise Benson |Jenny Wu |Alexander Leissle

Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from Sharjah Biennial 16 to Pap Souleye Fall in New YorkLuke Willis Thompson, Whakamoemoeā, 2025. Courtesy the artist, Coastal Signs, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne/BerlinSharjah Biennial 16: to carryVarious venues, 6 February–15 JuneSharjah Biennial 16, titled to carry, presents an exploration of the things that we hold – physically, emotionally and culturally – across time and space.
Mark Leckey’s New Dark World

2 months ago | artreview.com | Jenny Wu

In 3 Songs from the Liver at Gladstone Gallery, New York, the artist flirts with a religious turnApart from a few spotlights and the glow of the videos, this solo exhibition by Mark Leckey is submerged in darkness, evoking the black box experience of cinemas and concert venues. The exhibition is an audiovisual spectacle that loops roughly every 20 minutes.