I come from a dance background. Both of my parents are dancers—I came out of the womb, and they were like, “Here are your tap shoes, here are your ballet shoes.” I had a show coming up in New York, and Curtain Call seemed like the perfect subject matter; it was where my heart was leading me.
La emocionalidad de lo doméstico: Una Conversación con Nicolás Bacal
Nacido en Buenos Aires, el joven artista visual y músico Nicolás Bacal, con una licenciatura en composición electroacústica de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, se desempeña en el campo de las artes desde el 2007.
Digging Into the Guts: A Conversation with Damián Ortega
Damián Ortega, who divides his time between Mexico City and Berlin, began his career as a political cartoonist, and his observant wit remains evident in works that undermine preconceived ideas about art, structural and social systems, urban development, and the environment.
Martín Soto Climent
MEXICO CITY Museo de la Ciudad de México The act of non-imposition remains a priority for Soto Climent, who lives and works in Tepoztlán, a small mountain town about 90 minutes south of the city, where he is in close contact with nature.
Satpreet Kahlon
BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON Bellevue Arts MuseumWith a muffled soundtrack of poetry and music running through the darkened space, Kahlon’s exhibition became a total experience, immersing the viewer in an unsettling, unstable place, a site of exodus and arrival, captured in random flashpoints.
Sarah Lucas
LONDON Tate Britain Two monumental cast concrete marrows, Florian and Kevin (both 2013), greet visitors at the entrance to Tate Britain. These blatantly phallic forms are a fitting precursor to “Happy Gas,” an exuberant, if irreverent, survey of Sarah Lucas’s practice over four decades.
Through Negotiation: A Conversation with Shirley Tse
Recipient of the International Sculpture Center’s 2023 Educator Award For more than three decades, Shirley Tse—longtime CalArts faculty member, Guggenheim Fellow, and Hong Kong representative to the 58th Venice Biennale—has created sculptural interventions that interrogate notions of place, politics, and ecology.
Anne Wu
BROOKLYN Smack Mellon Descendants of Bauhaus or De Stijl interiors, Wu’s sculptures assert bright, clean lines and use commonplace industrial materials. They evoke Fred Sandback’s 1999 description of his geometric yarn sculptures as “drawing that is habitable” and prompt associations or recollections.
Radical Honesty: A Conversation with Shary Boyle
Shary Boyle has had a dynamic international career, yet, somehow, the United States is just catching on to her captivating interdisciplinary work. Boyle, who represented Canada in the 2013 Venice Biennale, works fluidly across many modalities.
