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Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines, a presentation of zines made by North American artists over the past five decades, is an ambitious undertaking. Curated by Branden W. Joseph and Drew Sawyer, the exhibition is necessarily a sampling rather than a survey in light of the sheer volume of zines produced in that period.

When only works on paper are presented, as they are in Joanna Pousette-Dart’s current exhibition at Locks Gallery in Philadelphia, it provides an opportunity to encounter them as ends in themselves. Too often, works on paper are dismissed as merely means to an end, studies for a painting or mural, perhaps. That this is manifestly not the case here, however, does not deny the importance of correspondence, in both senses of the word: likeness and discourse.

Four canvases in acrylic and six in oil at Martos Gallery constitute a mini-survey of the German artist Hans-Jörg Mayer’s work over the past three decades. Conceived with Galerie Nagel Draxler in Berlin where he has had thirteen solo shows, the exhibition represents his first representation in any quantity in New York, and reveals an artist restive in his subject matter and engagingly unruly with his brush.

The title of Henry Taylor’s first major exhibition in France, installed in a neoclassical townhouse near the Champs-Elysées, doesn’t go unnoticed. The expression, which comes from Taylor’s mother’s lexicon, turns heads along with the rich colors of his beautifully rendered, loose paintings on view in the newest outpost of Hauser & Wirth, located in an enclave in the 8th arrondissement that has been historically associated with French luxury but has also a reputation fo...

Too elegant, too tactical, too perfect: such were the characteristics of Anish Kapoor’s hyperreflective sculptures of the unforgettable and exuberant exhibition held at Lisson Gallery in New York some four years ago. With immaculately polished surfaces, those optical devices, whether immense or human in scale, appeared as matchless catalysts for arresting phenomenological inquiries into the parameters of vision and the paradoxes of visual representation.

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Kapwani Kiwanga, an internationally recognized Canadian artist based in Paris, is known for her research-driven practice, which delves into marginalized or overlooked historical narratives. As an interdisciplinary artist, Kiwanga employs various mediums including sculpture, installation, photography, video, and performance to explore and convey her findings and ideas.

Bonnard’s Worlds, a retrospective currently on view at the Kimbell Art Museum and traveling to the Phillips Collection in 2024, is aptly named. Spanning almost five decades and comprised of 70 paintings, the show opens with bustling Parisian street scenes and panoramic Riviera landscapes. Instead of progressing chronologically, Nabi canvases are hung beside works from later in the artist’s career, and it’s all of one piece, as it turns out. In this brilliant installation, we disco...

“During World War II, it became nonsensical to get involved in painting men playing violins, or cellos, or flowers,”1 reflected Barnett Newman, as he rationalised the value of the (then) unappreciated abstract movement. Today, as we witness the escalation of regional conflicts in Africa, Eastern Europe or the Middle East, Newmans words resonate with renewed significance. In an era teetering on the brink of global conflict, abstract art emerges as a more fitting artistic expression refl...

The twenty-five works on view in Diana Al-Hadid’s debut solo show at Kasmin present an artist at the height of her powers, practiced in aligning the behavior of her materials—primarily gypsum, bronze, steel, and linen pulp paint—with the conceptual contours of her message.