Ridgefield, Connecticut Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Analia Segal, now living and working in New York City, grew up in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War waged by the ruling civic-military dictatorship, when thousands of citizens were disappeared—picked up at night, never to be seen again (a small number have been discovered in mass graves).
Tanya Aguiñiga
New York Museum of Arts and Design “Have you been part of a political party or social group? Has anyone in your family been convicted of a crime? What is the purpose of your trip?” These and similar questions, printed on the steps of two flights of stairs, served as the thematic entry point to
Gregg Louis
New York Nohra Haime Gallery Hair is a loaded subject. Tied to gender, ethnicity, class, age, and health, it reveals identity. If we care enough about our hair—and provided that we have enough to make it signal all that we want it to—it can say a lot about who we are, where we come from,
Liz Glynn
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.
