NEW YORK Tanya Bonakdar Gallery The profligate daughter, stylistically speaking, of Jessica Stockholder, Sarah Sze brilliantly but sometimes overwhelmingly delivers on her enthusiasm for arranging things.
Fiona Kinsella
HAMILTON, ONTARIO Art Gallery of Hamilton Like an unfolding origami crane, Fiona Kinsella’s work reveals itself in layers. Her exhibition “Cake” challenged viewers to “think beyond surfaces” and to cross the “gray line of how people perceive beauty.”
Jitish Kallat
CHICAGO Art Institute of Chicago During the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893, the Art Institute of Chicago hosted the first World Parliament of Religions—one of the most significant assemblies in the history of modern religion.
Gregory Witt
PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh Center for the Arts “Things That Float” featured five works of considerable panache, all incorporating a variety of industrial materials and technological devices.
Judith Page
NEW YORK Lesley Heller Workspace At once familiar and strange, disturbing yet comforting, Judith Page’s sculptures recycle personal items into enticing assemblages that probe the slippage between dreams and experience, memory and time.
The Kartoon Kings (Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio)
ANN ARBOR Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan In this era of video games like Call of Duty, it seems that nothing is more fun than ersatz warfare.
Mary Coble
WASHINGTON, DC Conner Contemporary Water and endurance: in Mary Coble’s recent exhibition “Source,” what might have conjured images of torture instead generated an engrossing meditation on purification and renewal.
Julia Shepley
BOSTON Boston Sculptors Gallery Julia Shepley’s recent exhibition presented a suspended, kinetic installation in eight parts, as well as smaller wall reliefs and mixed-media drawings.
“Art and Landscape”
HERZELE, BELGIUM HOVE Brick Factory Belgium’s Arpia landscape and art group recently acquired a disused brick factory in the Herzele region.
Phyllida Barlow
London Serpentine Gallery Phyllida Barlow has felt the need to assemble and experiment since she was a child. As one of Charles Darwin’s 16 great-great grandchildren, perhaps she was genetically predisposed to such a trait, but even though Barlow grew up in the aura of her famous relative, her mother always emphasized the need for
