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Documenta 13

More than 30 venues—166 international artists within a few square miles—a forum for ideas rather than conspicuous consumption: it’s Documenta 13! Held every five years in Kassel, Germany, and founded in 1955 by Arnold Bode, an art professor and designer from Kassel, this is the world’s most important and enduring contemporary art show. Depending on the curatorial vision of the exhibition...

THE ROAD TO DOCUMENTA

by Christopher Michno

I’ve been warned that Llyn Foulkes is preparing furiously for “Documenta 13” and as I get in touch to arrange a meeting, I’m wary, in part, due to his reputation for fractious soliloquies regarding fellow artists, critics, art magazines, and in general, the art world cliques that hold him at arm’s length. By his own account, Foulkes has been an outsider, a talented iconoclast shunned by the...

MIKE KELLEY: STRAIGHT OUTTA DETROIT

by Tulsa Kinney

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! ART STAR STOPS MAKING ART! That was going to be my headline after hearing the remark Mike Kelley made at the close of our interview. I was wrapping up our conversation, all ready to ask the final question, like Barbara Walters: "What's next, Mike?" But before I could, Kelley preempted me: "I've been working nonstop for years and years, and now I'm not in the mood...

SOAP DISH

by Greg Walloch

The mid-afternoon New York City traffic is uncharacteristically brisk on my way to interview performance artist Kalup Linzy. I arrive in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, half an hour early, with my photographer. Linzy greets us at his unmarked live-in work-space basement studio wearing a shiny dark gray satin shirt, white boxer shorts with orange and brown hibiscus flowers and a pair of rubber...

MILF AS MUSE

by John Tottenham

It is difficult to imagine John Currin’s work adorning walls more modest than those of the uptown Gagosian Gallery in Manhattan. Currin’s subjects have become progressively more well-heeled as his career has advanced. His signature subjects of yore—the ludicrously big-titted women and the frail women in bed and the nymphettes clinging adoringly to wilting bearded aesthetes—are a thing of the...

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Pick of the Week: Sculptures
Kayne Griffin Corcoran

Sculpture is a medium of art with infinite possibilities. Unbounded by canvas or wall, a sculpture is only defined by the space itself. Yet despite the limitless potential definitions, there is only ever one realized in the moment that the iron is cast, the glass...

Pick of the Week: Maren Karlson
In Lieu

It’s hard to pin down joyfulness. It’s a transient emotion that is readily batted away by the complexities and pains of everyday life. One can almost forget what it feels like. Luckily, one of the crucial functions of art is to remind us all that joy does exist. This...

Gallery Rounds: Haleh Mashian
Mash Gallery

"Figuratively Speaking" is a 25-year retrospective on the female figure as studied by the artist, Haleh Mashian. Haleh is an Iranian-born artist, who opened Mash Gallery in 2018. Since the works are presented undated, it is unclear exactly what Mashian’s “early work”...

Isabelle Albuquerque
Nicodim Gallery

Lou Andreas-Salomé, the psychoanalyst, writer and infamous lover, defined eroticism as “what ruptures the ego.” To enter into an erotic encounter is to break apart our neatly constructed selves, to invite destruction; it is also a chance for a volcanic eruption of...

Mildred Howard
Parrasch Heijnen

The profoundly moving installation Ten Little Children Standing in a Line (One Got Shot, and Then There Were Nine) (1991), positioned to be the first work encountered in Parrasch Heijnen’s career-spanning survey of Mildred Howard, imparts a sense of the Oakland-based...

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