LEITRIM, IRELAND Leitrim Sculpture Centre When confronting a scientific problem, simplification yields the most suitable basis from which to carry out a logical and deductive analysis. This direction of thought is useful in that it brings the world and its phenomena toward the mind, breaking the complex into crude, static moments that can then be analyzed.
Rome Biennale
ROME International Exhibition of Sculpture Billed as the first sculpture biennial in Rome, the original and very ambitious plan was to place contemporary artworks in many of the piazzas of a city celebrated for piazzas—if not for contemporary art (although that might change now with MACRO, MAXXI, and Gagosian).
Rae Bolotin
MOUNT TOMAH, AUSTRALIA Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Australian sculptor Rae Bolotin creates works characterized by seductive surfaces and the innovative use of line in space. Born in Tashkent in Uzbekistan, she took an electrical engineering degree and studied art.
Takashi Murakami
PARIS Versailles Once again the battle to save classical French culture from the ugly claws of globalization has been making headlines in France.
Wee Hong Ling
SINGAPORE Sculpture Square A cat hides behind the china cabinet, and a dog sleeps under the studio bench where the artist works. The presence of these two pets in Wee Hong Ling’s “No Place Like Home,” albeit in the form of two-dimensional vinyl cutouts, may seem like a playful gesture; but they are essential to the décor that frames and contextualizes the ceramic works of this Singapore-born and New York-based artist.
Leandro Erlich
NEW YORK Sean Kelly Gallery In the exhibition “Two Different Tomorrows,” Argentinian conceptual sculptor Leandro Erlich addressed the problem of time that he encountered while traveling in Asia: he confused the tomorrow that followed his place of residence with the tomorrow of his gallery’s time zone.
Phillip Beesley
TORONTO Allen Lambert Galleria It was there for 10 days, and then it was gone—a site-specific piece for the Luminato Festival that expanded and enhanced an already spectacular locale, recalculating traditional notions of both art and architecture.
Dispatch: 12th Istanbul Biennial
The 12th Istanbul Biennial focused on artists from the Middle East and Latin America. According to “Untitled” co-curator Jens Hoffman, “We were looking for artworks that are formally innovative as well as politically outspoken and that relate to the general themes of the exhibition such as migration, violence, identity, and politics.”
Marc Swanson
HOUSTON Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Marc Swanson’s recent solo exhibition was named for Second Story, a now defunct gay bar in San Francisco that had closed before the artist even visited the city.
