Wallace Ludel

1 week ago | bombmagazine.org | Wallace Ludel

One great engine of John Liles’s Bees, And After (Yale University Press), the 119th winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize, is how the poet illustrates the profound interconnectivity of the living. We all want what’s best for ourselves and our loved ones, we all have desires, we all want proximity to whatever or whomever it is we call home. The difference between the reader and the stones and critters of the world becomes a matter more of language than of who has how many legs.

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Elena Goukassian |Torey Akers |Wallace Ludel |Eudald Guillamet

The former home of the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) will be reborn again as an art school, albeit unaccredited. But first, it will need some renovations. This is according to its owner, the BMA Institute (BMAI)—a non-profit created expressly for the purpose of revamping the campus and headed by Laurene Powell Jobs, the philanthropist and widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. BMAI has already filed an application with the San Francisco Planning Department for renovation approval.

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Hadani Ditmars |Aimee Dawson |Martin Bailey |Wallace Ludel

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia Sebastian Rey, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy. The discovery, first reported by the Observerearlier this week, was made at Tello in southern Iraq—once the administrative centre of the ancient city of Girsu—and includes more than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 sealings. The tablets contain details about everything from scholarly texts to sheep and barley rations.

Mar 5, 2025 | theartnewspaper.com | Osman Can Yerebakan |Julia Halperin |Kabir Jhala |Wallace Ludel

Anne Imhof’s largest project in the US premiered this week at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, taking over the venue’s vast Wade Thompson Drill Hall with a three-hour long performance and installation curated by Klaus Biesenbach. The immersive show, DOOM: House of Hope (until 12 March), envelopes visitors in a bleak realm of dance, sound and sculptural forms in keeping with the Golden Lion-winning German artist’s stylised visual universe.

Feb 21, 2025 | theartnewspaper.com | Jori Finkel |Wallace Ludel

Unknown to each other and completely uncoordinated, the galleries Marian Goodman and Hauser & Wirth opened significant exhibitions in Los Angeles this week that have something in common: thoroughly and subversively empty rooms. At Marian Goodman, a historical survey of Bruce Nauman’s early years in the Los Angeles area, Pasadena Years (until 26 April), begins with mesmerising performance-based videos from 1969 and culminates with a 43ft-by-43ft skylit room where no art is hung or installed.