Editor's Letter
The Brief
Frieze New York art fair; Block Universe performance art festival in London; Karl Ove Knausgård curates a show at the Munch Museet, Oslo; Florine Stettheimer at the Jewish Museum in New York; and more.
First Look
Zahra Al-Ghamdi
by Eric Sutphin
Working responsively with materials like sand, plaster, refuse, and cotton, Saudi Arabia's Zahra Al-Ghamdi creates semi-abstract installations that address issues of habitation and belonging in the Middle East.
Atlas Oslo
Making Spaces
by Geir Haraldseth
With government support dwindling, Oslo's artist-run spaces have begun to experiment with unorthodox new funding models, combining alternative programming with commercial entrepreneurship.
Sightlines
Jorge Pardo
by Ross Simonini
Artist Jorge Pardo tells Ross Simonini what's on his mind.
Backstory
Center Stage
by Senga Nengudi
Senga Nengudi recalls a 1977 gallery show in Los Angeles where she first exhibited her "R.S.V.P." sculpture series, whose sand-filled pantyhose evoke the elasticity of the human body.
Books
Our Kind of Memoir
by Robert Atkins
Robert Atkins on Douglas Crimp's Before Pictures; plus related titles in brief.
Elements from the Actual World
by Jonathan Griffin
Jimmie Durham's wryly humorous sculptures, paintings, and drawings can be seen as the composite self-portrait of a man with a contentious relationship to all ethnic and national identifiers.
Everyday Alchemy
by Ara H. Merjian
With a subtle command of common materials and an unflagging formal inventiveness, Marisa Merz has established herself over the last six and a half decades as a key postwar Italian artist.
A Beckoning Angst
by Brooks Adams
Living a luxurious life while depicting physical and spiritual destitution, France's Bernard Buffet was both wildly popular and, in some quarters, critically reviled. A recent exhibition in Paris presented him as a painter of surprising complexity.
In the Studio: Ryan Gander
by Elizabeth Fullerton
With current shows in five countries, British artist Ryan Gander talks about his extremely diverse output—encompassing sculptures, paintings, installations, building interiors, sneaker designs, essays, and more—in light of his proclivity for oddly "functional" art.
Artworld
People, Awards, Obituaries.