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Inside this issue
Martin Herbert's pick of must-see exhibitions this month.
Rick Lowe – Joshua Mack talks to the American artist about his life work, Project Row Houses, and its claim on understanding social engagement as art; meanwhile, Erik Morse considers the project's significance as art.
Individuality in the age of mass surveillance – Aoife Rosenmeyer considers Jill Magid’s strategies for infiltrating power systems, poetically carving out herself in the process.
From word to image – French poet and novelist Michel Houellebecq talks to Tom Emerson about about transitioning from the page to the spaces of Palais de Tokyo, where his exhibition opens on 23 June.
Kim Córdova looks at recent evolutions in Francis Alÿs’s interventions in the social and urban fabrics of cities as he moves from Mexico City to a more international context.
British artist Roger Hiorns talks to J.J. Charlesworth about his recent large-scale public art commissions and how they challenge any cosy notions of what the genre can and should do.
Our columnists have their say…
Jonathan T. D. Neil on why he’s moving from New York to Los Angeles; Jonathan Grossmalerman, ArtReview’s favourite painter of vaginas, finds out how the artworld really works; Maria Lind, curator and director of Gwangju Biennale 2016, looks at the work of Nazgol Ansarina in the context of contemporary Teheran; Sam Jacob argues that the idea of home should really be a generator of social change; Dan Udy looks at the history and legacy of ‘AIDS art’; and a sceptical J.J. Charlesworth puts Wolfgang Tillmans’s anti-Brexit campaign in context.
Plus…
Reviews from around the world, including
Warhol Avedon at Gagosian Gallery, Britannia St, London; Mungo Thompson at Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris; Maria Eichhorn at Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin; Rachel Harrison at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin; EVA International, various venues, Limerick; Gabriella Ciancimino at Prometeo Gallery, Milan; Michael Raedecker at Grimm, Amsterdam; Lou Cantor at Leto Gallery, Warsaw; Patricia Esquivias at Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles, Spain; Paul Fägerskiöld at Nordenhake, Stockholm; Keiji Uematsu at Simon Lee, London; Thomson & Craighead at Carroll/Fletcher, London; Barthes/Burgin at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; François Morellet at The Mayor Gallery and Annely Juda Fine Art, London; Glasgow International; Ruben Ochoa at Suzanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; Joan Snyder at Parrasch Heijnen Gallery, Los Angeles; Diane Simpson at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Cornelia Parker at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Lutz Bacher at Greene Naftali Garage, New York; Ben Vida at Lisa Cooley, New York; Stephen Kaltenbach at Marlborough Chelsea, New York; Asger Jorn at Petzel, New York; The Natural Order of Things at Museo Jumex, Mexico City; Eduardo Ventura at Sergio Gonçalves Galeria, Rio de Janeiro; Joshua Petherick at Minerva, Sydney; 20th Biennale of Sydney.
And…
Book reviews, a new comic strip by Chinese artist and internet-phenomenon Zao Dao, and the latest adventure of our backpage columnist and moonlighting curator, I. Kurator. |