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Recent essays and reviews

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• Valentin Carron, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Rämistrasse, Zurich

• Justin Matherly, Pathos The Pathetic, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal, Zürich

• Edith Halpert, The Downtown Gallery And The Rise Of American Art, The Jewish Museum, New York

• Depicting Duchamp, Francis Naumann Fine Art, New York

• Damon Zucconi, Imagine A World Without You, At JTT, New York

• Sky Is Always Clear, Yoko Ono At The Moscow Museum of Modern Art

• Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov, Stories About Ourselves At The Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University

• The Brotherhood of New Blockheads At The Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College

• The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I, The Met Fifth Avenue, New York

• Albert Oehlen’s ‘Fn Paintings’ at Skarstedt Gallery in New York

• ‘Aging World - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?’ At The Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea

• Wyatt Kahn at Eva Presenhuber, New York

• Olivier Mosset, Michel Parmentier, Niele Toroni At Philippe Piessens, Antwerp

• Hadi Fallahpisheh, Almost Alone At Tramps, New York

• Marta Minujín, Menesunda Reloaded At The New Museum, New York

• Joyce Pensato: Hello, I Must Be Going

• Chou Yu-Cheng And Tromarama, Edouard Malingue Gallery Visiting Petzel, 67th Street

• Albert Oehlen’s ‘Fn Paintings’ at Skarstedt Gallery in New York

• ‘Aging World - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?’ At The Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea

• Wyatt Kahn at Eva Presenhuber, New York

• Olivier Mosset, Michel Parmentier, Niele Toroni At Philippe Piessens, Antwerp

• Hadi Fallahpisheh, Almost Alone At Tramps, New York

• Marta Minujín, Menesunda Reloaded At The New Museum, New York

• Joyce Pensato: Hello, I Must Be Going

• Chou Yu-Cheng And Tromarama, Edouard Malingue Gallery Visiting Petzel, 67th StreetJames Lee Byars At Michael Werner Gallery, New York

• From The Schuylkill To The Hudson, Early Landscapes At The Pennsylvania Academy Of The Fine Arts

• Ragnar Kjartansson, Death Is Elsewhere, The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York

• Shirin Neshat, Looking For Oum Kulthum, Musée De l'Elysée, Lausanne, CH

• Against The Sun: Tahereh Fallahzadeh With Fia Backström At Baxter St, New York

• Life Is A Highway: Art And American Car Culture At The Toledo Museum Of Art

• Steven Parrino, Paintings And Drawings, 1986-2003, Skarstedt, East 64th Street, New York

• Matthew Barney, Redoubt, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

• Saâdane Afif, The Fountain Archives, Museo Jumex, Mexico City

• Marcel Duchamp + Jeff Koons, Appearance Stripped Bare (Apariencia Desnuda), Museo Jumex, Mexico City

• Charlotte Posenenske, Work In Progress, Dia:Beacon, Beacon, New York

• She Is Risen, Doreen Garner At JTT, New York

• Flamboyant At Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels

• Matias Faldbakken At Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

• Paul Cézanne: Redux And Renewal Of His Catalogue Raisonné

• Germán Venegas. Todo Lo Otro (Everything Else) At Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City

• Judith Linhares, "Hearts on Fire," At P.P.O.W., New York

• Tatsuo Miyajima, "Innumerable Life / Buddha" At Lisson Gallery, New York

• Win McCarthy, "Apartment Life" At Svetlana, New York

• Addicted To Remedios Varo (Adictos A Remedios Varo), Museo De Arte Moderno, Mexico City

• Southern Geometries (Géométries Sud), From Mexico To Tierra Del Fuego, Fondation Cartier, Paris

• Roni Horn, The Selected Gifts, (1974-2015), At Kurimanzutto, Mexico City

• Richard Artschwager, "Primary Sources" At Gagosian, Madison Avenue, New York

• Rina Banerjee, 'Make Me A Summary Of The World' At Pennsylvania Academy Of The Fine Arts

• Dieter Rams: Principled Design At The Philadelphia Museum Of Art

• Oouolyamtelbellembem Magical Crisis In The Special V.I.P. Spot, A Frozen Opera By Jared Madere

• Monumental Minimal At Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin (Paris)

• Suzanne Bocanegra, 'Poorly Watched Girls' At The Fabric Workshop And Museum, Philadelphia

• Amar Kanwar, 'Such A Morning' At Marian Goodman, New York

• Marc Kokopeli, 90% Years Later at Lomex Gallery, New York

• Seth Price: Hell Has Everything At Petzel, New York

• Contemporary Connoisseurship: Masterpieces of French Faience At The Frick Collection, New York

• Martha Rosler: Irrespective At The Jewish Museum, New York

• Minerva Cuevas At Videobrasil, São Paulo

• Lily van der Stokker, "Friendly Good" At The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

• Watch About It. Understanding Art And Artists At Art21.org

• Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment At Princeton University Art Museum

• Constructing Identity In America (1766-2017) At The Montclair Art Museum 

• Dr. Lakra, I Presume? At White Columns

• Hilma af Klint: Paintings For The Future, At The Guggenheim Museum, New York

• Kara Walker: Virginia's Lynch Mob And Other Works At The Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey

• The Poetry of Nature, Hudson River School Landscapes At The Worcester Art Museum

• Ree Morton: The Plant That Heals May Also Poison, At ICA Philadelphia

• Confessions Of A Poor Collector, Eugene Schwartz

• Romuald Hazoumè, Gagosian, Park & 75, New York

• Posters From 68. Paris -- Mexico, kurimanzutto, New York

• Charline von Heyl, New Work, At Petzel Gallery, New York

• Two Artists. Two Visions. One America. Arthur Jafa and David Wojnarowicz.

• Love Power Peace, Malick Sidibé At Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

• A New Look At Old Masters In The Worcester Art Museum

• Diana Thater, The Best Outside Is Inside At The ICA Watershed, Boston

• Inside Artist Christian Jankowski's Latest Exhibition, Petzel, New York

• Women Shaping Art, A Re-Review

• Outside In, Robert Bittenbender, Cosmo Freak, LOMEX, New York
  

Solo exhibitions

• Ashley Bickerton: The Flag Art Foundation, New York

• Kathe Burkhart: Mary Boone, New York

• Jay DeFeo: Mitchell-Innes-& Nash, New York

• Roe Ethridge: Barbara Gladstone, Brussels

• Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

• Barnaby Furnas: Boesky, New York

• LaToya Ruby Frazier: GBE, New York

• Gilbert & George: Lehmann Maupin, New York

• Robert Gober: Marks, New York

• Leon Golub: The Met Breuer, New York

• Ethan Greenbaum: Lyles & King, New York

• Wade Guyton: Petzel, New York

• Shirazeh Houshiary: Lisson, New York

• Jutta Koether: Bortolami, Philadelphia

• Becky Kolsrud: JTT, New York

• Sean Landers: Petzel New York

• Oliver Laric: Metro Pictures, New York

• Cary Leibowitz: ICA, Philadelphia

• Zoe Leonard and Kayode Ojo: Paula Cooper, New York

• Jean-Luc Moulène: Miguel Abreu, New York

• Torbjørn Rødland: Eva Presenhuber, New York

• Jason Rhoades: The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT

• Jean-Frédéric Schnyder: Presenhuber, New York

• Baily Sue Scieszka: What Pipeline?, Los Angeles

• Walter Swennen: Barbara Gladstone, New York

• Tracy Thomason: Marinaro, New York

• Alfredo Volpi: Gladstone 64, New York

• Jack Whitten: Baltimore Museum of Art

• Molly Zuckerman-Hartung: Rachel Uffner, New York
  
  

Group exhibitions

• Art and China after 1989: The Guggenheim Museum, New York

• Cosmic Communities: Daniel Buchholz, New York

• From Motherwell to Hofmann: Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

• Melancholia, Villa Empain, Fondation Boghossian: Brussels

• Outliers And American Vanguard Art At National Gallery Of Art: Washington, DC

• Unexchangeable (Inéchangeable): WIELS, Brussels
  
  

Sundry topics, events, and books

• A History of the Western Art Market by Titia Hulst

• Creative Collaborations in Art, Brooklyn

• Independent Collectors, An Internet Community For Contemporary Art, Berlin

• Innovators in Print, Paris/New York

• NADA Miami Art Fair, Miami

• Phenomenal Collecting, The Center for the History of Collecting, The Frick Collection, New York

• The European Fine Art Fair at the Armory, New York

• The Skin of the Bear