North Adams, Massachusetts MASS MoCA “The Archaeology of Another Possible Future,” the title of Liz Glynn’s monumental show, is enigmatic only until you see the reality, which lays out her view of a pressing question: “What happens to stuff, and the people who make stuff, in the age of an increasingly virtual, dematerialized economy?”
Hugh Hayden
New York White Columns and Lisson Gallery Hugh Hayden’s wooden sculptures—skeletons and furnishings fused with branches—evoke many associations. His recent debut solo exhibition at White Columns, which followed showings at Frieze London and FIAC Paris (after a 2018 MFA from Columbia University, where he served as Rirkrit Tiravanija’s teaching assistant), featured two large-scale works.
“Songs for Sabotage”
New York New Museum The New Museum’s fourth Triennial presented the work of 26 emerging artists, artist collectives, and groups from 19 countries. As in earlier iterations, this sparse, spaciously installed show, which filled the entire museum, had an agenda.
Robert Fones
Toronto Art Museum at the University of Toronto “Signs | Forms | Narratives” presented a concise, meticulously organized, and wholly thought-provoking overview of Robert Fones’s five-decade-long career. Over the years, this determinedly inquisitive artist has investigated history, modes of communication, and the parameters of vision by producing works that span sculpture, photography, painting, installation, books,
Jean-Michel Othoniel
Saint-Étienne, France Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain Jean-Michel Othoniel, who credits Saint-Étienne’s Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art as a source of his artistic vocation, helped to celebrate its 30th anniversary with an exhibition that was equal parts introduction to his work and personal homage to the artists who influenced his imagination as a boy,
Vanessa Brown
Calgary, Alberta, Canada Esker Foundation Purple, pastel blues, greens, pinks, and iridescent white inhabit the works in Vanessa Brown’s recent exhibition “The Witching Hour.” Brown presents a synthesis of delicacy and brute strength, demonstrating a fine balance between feminist aesthetics and traditional sculpture.
Sergio Camargo
New York Sean Kelly Sergio Camargo (1930–90) was an important Brazilian sculptor whose simplified objects direct their attention toward, without adhering to, the Minimalist movement and other, closer Brazilian influences. He spent an extended period in Paris, from 1961 to 1973, and was influenced by Brancusi, who lived in Paris until his death in 1957.
Donna Dennis
New York Lesley Heller Gallery The muscular ore dock sitting in Lake Superior’s frigid waters immediately caught Donna Dennis’s eye with its play of sturdy grids framing vast space, its bold forms dominating daylight yielding to black night, and its aloneness.
Danh Vo
New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Guggenheim proved a fitting setting for this mid-career survey of Danh Vo, its spiraling ramp and multilevel galleries complimenting the layered complexity that characterizes Vo’s examination of the intersection between private experience and broader social constructions of identity, colonialism, religion, war, and capitalism.
Matthew Cowan
Helsinki Photographic Gallery Hippolyte In “para field notes,” Matthew Cowan expands on a highly intriguing pro- gram that examines regional customs and folklore through art. His previ- ous projects have included “Walk on Roses and Forget-me-nots,” a survey of courtship rituals mounted in Braunschweig, Germany, and Wude- wasa, an exploration of the wild-man archetype that he
