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- Robert Mapplethorpe & Sterling Ruby @ Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
A very strange exhibition, and one of the best I’ve seen in a long time. The show is actually Ruby’s — or more precisely, Ruby selected photographs of Mapplethrope’s and then made sculptural works responding to them. But Ruby’s work seems to have nothing to do with Mapplethorpe’s at first glance; and the more you [...]
- Rainer Fetting
My review of Rainer Fetting’s Berlin exhibition, which briefly appeared here a few days ago, is now online at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
- Ceal Floyer at Kunst-Werke
My review of Ceal Floyer’s solo exhibition at Kunst-Werke is now online at Artforum.
- Stéphane Pencréac’h @ FRISCH
My review of Pencréac’h’s current Berlin exhibition is now online at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
- WHITE TRASH DUMMIES
On a recent trip to Paris, I was lucky enough to catch an exhibition of Duane Hanson, whose work I’ve long admired in reproduction but seldom seen in actuality. The sculptures most people and I know best stem from the latter half of his career, when he took to creating lifelike reproductions of mostly white [...]
- Terence Koh @ Peres Projects
Those of us who have watched Terence Koh’s meteoric rise with grotesque fascination have always wondered how the inevitable obverse process would measure up to the hype spectacle. His current exhibition indicates that the fall will be swift and dismal.
Koh is showing a single sculpture, Boy By the Sea, a work that featured in a [...]
- Political/Minimal
My review of Political/Minimal, the current group exhibition at KunstWerke, is now online at WhiteHot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
- Deflated: Jeff Koons in Berlin
The two Jeff Koons solo exhibitions currently on in Berlin - one a retrospective of the sculptures, the other a show of new paintings - confirm that Koons is the worst living artist anywhere. Koons is a sort of con man who specializes in “art” for a public that has been conditioned by a general [...]
- Richard Serra at Gagosian Britannia
The philosophical rigidity of Richard Serra’s sculptures stands for raw endurance. They last, they extend themselves past momentary interpretations, and yet they are not momentous; rather they nearly pass as organic forms. One at Gagosian is a vaginal maze that you can readily get lost in, its walls narrow and claustrophobic — a metallic birth [...]
- VILE: A Note on Jeff Koons Versailles
The mainstream media’s recent attempts at writing off the critics of Jeff Koons’s Versailles exhibition as “conservative” miss a simple point:
Jeff Koons is probably the worst living artist, if not one of the worst artists who ever lived. This is not a political argument, but an aesthetic truth.
In fact, the ponderous garbage that Koons [...]
