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  • InternationalSummer 2010

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    Tania Bruguera

    Earlier this year at the Neuberger Museum of Art, about 30 miles outside New York City, the Cuban-born artist Tania Bruguera, who lives and works in Chicago, Havana and Paris and whose work examines the relationships among ideology, power and social behaviour, mounted a 15-year retrospective justly titled “On the Political Imaginary.”
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  • InternationalSummer 2010

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    Split + Splice

    In 2009, I exhibited my video What Remains at the University of Copenhagen’s medical museum. While there, I took the time to roam through an exhibition entitled “Split + Splice: Fragments from the Age of Biomedicine,” which had been organized by the Canadian artist, curator and academic Martha Fleming along with four post-doctoral researchers at the museum.
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  • InternationalSummer 2010

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    Robert Mangold

    Robert Mangold has spent much of his career exploring variations of a formal theme: the interplay of line, frame and colour. This Albright-Knox show features four recent series of paintings and a group of studies for a public work, with emphasis on the two most recent painting series, Column Structures and Ring Images.
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  • InternationalSpring 2010

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    Anish Kapoor

    Expectations were high for Anish Kapoor’s latest exhibition, which marked the first time a living artist has been given free rein in the Royal Academy.
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  • InternationalSpring 2010

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    In-Finitum

    Within the labyrinthine streets of Venice is a Gothic building that recently hosted the ambitious and unusual exhibition “In-finitum.”
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  • InternationalSpring 2010

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    Luc Tuymans

    The last big Tuymans show I saw was at London’s Tate Modern about five years ago.
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  • InternationalWinter 2009

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    Mircea Cantor

    In “Preventative kiss for suspicious war,” the Romanian artist Mircea Cantor uses a stripped-down approach to address conflict, policing and subjugation. Such situations always contain more than one voice or mode of interpretation, and thus contradictory perspectives are incorporated into Cantor’s work.
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  • InternationalWinter 2009

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    Allan Kaprow

    In 1961, Allan Kaprow, the putative father of both performance art and installation, filled the back garden at Martha Jackson Gallery in New York with hundreds of old tires, covering the sculptures that normally resided there with tarpaper and rope.
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  • InternationalWinter 2009

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    Cave Painting

    There is not much paleolithic-looking work in this grouping of 27 artists, but what the show might have in common with those early stabs at the medium of painting is an exploration of what abstraction can represent.
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  • InternationalFall 2009

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    Piero Manzoni

    Piero Manzoni, the puckish, baby-faced Italian, has long been beloved by art students everywhere for his Merda d’artista (1961), 90 small cans of what was purportedly his own shit, sold at the time for the price of their weight in gold.
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  • InternationalFall 2009

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    Francis Alÿs

    Fifteen years ago, Francis Alÿs began shopping at flea markets, bazaars and jumble sales for discarded paintings with which he could build an art collection. Unsurprisingly for an artist whose practice consists of open-ended, exploratory projects, he had no idea what the outcome would be.
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  • InternationalFall 2009

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    Rothko/Giotto

    Housed in a modest room in the Gemäldegalerie, this small exhibition nonetheless came equipped with a big catalogue, wall texts and a videoguide. It was substantial support for an exhibition made of only three works—Mark Rothko’s Reds No. 5 (1961) and Giotto di Bondone’s Death of the Virgin (ca. 1310) and Crucifixion (ca. 1315).
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  • InternationalFall 2009

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    The Pictures Generation

    In the early 1980s, I framed a photocopy of an art-magazine reproduction of a Sherrie Levine appropriation of a Walker Evans photograph. It seemed a logical conclusion to the appropriation chain, and I can see now how it pointed to the problem with so much of the art made by the Pictures artists: there were simply too many logical conclusions.
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  • InternationalFall 2009

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    Making Worlds: 53rd Venice Biennale

    Contemporary art all but takes over La Serenissima during the Venice Biennale, spilling out of the Giardini and the Arsenale, the official exhibition sites, to dot the city with additional national exhibitions and special events, disturbing her serenity with art-world buzz.
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  • InternationalSummer 2009

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    Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures

    Back in the 1980s, you couldn’t go anywhere in the art world without being Baselitz-ed or Kiefer-ed to death by some angst-ridden dude (it was always a dude) who painted badly and seemed preoccupied with scrawling deep messages in German (occasionally, the artist actually knew a little German, which was always a nice surprise).
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