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Berlin


Mona Hatoum

Though modest in size, the exhibition featuring the 2010 winner of the Käthe Kollwitz Prize, Mona Hatoum, highlights the vicissitudes of her prodigious career over three decades.

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New York


Julie Mehretu

Painter Julie Mehretu is currently the leading revivalist of the epic-landscape form. Over the past decade, her large canvases, which invoke everything from traditional Asian inkwo

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Mexico City


“Today I Feel Well”

This exhibition borrows its title from the microstory “Fecundidad” (Fertility), by writer Augusto Monterroso, and includes works by François Bucher, José León Cerrillo, Mari

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Seattle


“Kurt”

When approaching “Kurt,” an exhibition about the influence of Kurt Cobain, one may at first feel skeptical. Memorabilia and other artifacts attempting to preserve the late rock

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Chicago


Roger Brown

This absorbing exhibition demonstrates that Roger Brown’s interests went far beyond the making of his own vibrantly idiosyncratic paintings. Among numerous other pursuits, Brown

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Milan


Ettore Spalletti

Lia Rumma’s expansive new gallery, which encompasses over twenty thousand square feet and spans three floors, is perfectly suited to Ettore Spalletti’s poetic Minimal work, whi

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Mexico City


“Dracula Effect”

Premised on the “vampirization” of youth culture as haunted, romantic, and historically established fodder for art, this exhibition is one of three expansive group shows that a

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London


“The New Décor”

“The New Décor” seems like a straightforward title for a group show exploring sculptural objects and their domestic contexts, but it also questions the way these works functio

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Berlin


“Who Knows Tomorrow”

In the competition for a place in public memory, Berlin’s colonial history has lost out to the cold war and the Holocaust. While the city is seasoned in displaying certain shards

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New York


“Le Tableau”

Conceived by artist and curator Joe Fyfe as an antidote to the dominance of New York School abstraction in accounts of mid-twentieth-century painting, this exhibition argues for th

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Lodz


Robert Morris

Robert Morris’s ultimate importance is not as an artist but as a philosopher who happens to stage his arguments in the realm of art. This is not to negate the value of said argum

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Athens


Sarah Lucas

Sometimes the simplest idea can be very effective. A case in point: Sarah Lucas’s “NUDS” sculptures: nylon tights filled with kapok stuffing, resting on cement blocks atop wo

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