GRIMBERGEN, BELGIUM CC Strombeek Rirkrit Tiravanija’s “Another Sunny Afternoon” gives the word “free” a new currency. It appears in the image on the original exhibition flyer and emblazons every T-shirt coming out of the show’s screen printing studio.
Michael Murrell: A Life Lived in Art
Murrell’s sculptures—in bone, wood, iron, resin, and stone, handled with consummate skill and a deep respect for the material—hang from the ceiling, float above the honeyed maple floor, and repose on the floor, arranged in relationships that may seem random at first glance, though they are anything but.
Tomás Saraceno
NEW YORK The Shed These innovative works formed in tandem with energies outside humanmade culture act as a corrective for our obsession with ourselves.
Wanxin Zhang
SAN FRANCISCO Catharine Clark Gallery While figuration still dominates Zhang’s approach to ceramic sculpture, there is also a shift toward abstraction, both in his handling of the material and in the objects themselves.
The Measure of Modernism: A Conversation with Leonor Antunes
Inspired by Modernist outliers (from Carlo Scarpa, Anni Albers, and Lenore Tawney to Lina Bo Bardi and Egle Trincanato), Antunes follows extensive research into their work with acts of extraction and artistic translation.
El Resto de los Sueños: Una Conversación con Rodrigo Díaz Ahl
Con el ojo puesto en el estudio del cuerpo, la materia y el tiempo en las llamadas realidades poscoloniales, el artista argentino Rodrigo Díaz Ahl, especializado en escultura e instalaciones, comienza moldear su carrera desde muy joven formándose en dibujo, cerámica y escultura, trabajando en talleres de artistas y en paralelo, estudiando la carrera de Sociología.
Debra Weisberg & “Material Drawing Redux”
BOSTON Piano Craft Gallery The works in these two exhibitions are formidable—the result of long experience and dedication to process.
A Heart Trying To Break Free: A Conversation with Kendell Geers
Kendell Geers has spent years examining his personal experience, crisscrossing between life and art in order to create provocative and confrontational forms that challenge us to look closely and think deeply.
A.A. Murakami
LONDON Superblue Silent Fall is the sort of installation that engulfs and dislodges the sense of self, which is appropriate considering that it draws on Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden, offering a contemporary take on the Fall as we teeter on the brink of environmental catastrophe.
Firelei Báez
BOSTON ICA Watershed Firelei Báez, the third artist invited to create a site-specific work for the ICA’s East Boston annex, was the first to use the space successfully, taking the history of the location as a pivotal point of reference.
