NEW YORK Leo Castelli Gallery Morris’s final exhibition, “Banners and Curses,” his 40th at the Leo Castelli Gallery, opened in late October, just weeks before his death, at age 87, from pneumonia. This final gesture, an urgent wake-up call, aligns Morris’s darkly expansive vision with a contemporary moment commensurate with its prophetic and sublime cynicism.
The Sculpture Park at Madhavendra Palace
A Q&A with Noelle Kadar, Director of The Sculpture Park, Jaipur, India The Park’s second edition runs through November 1, 2019.
Rena Detrixhe
BOSTON Abigail Ogilvy Gallery Detrixhe begins with a drawing, then incises her relief-like design into the soil with hand-carved stamps made from discarded shoe soles.
“Artists In Residence”
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA The Mattress Factory Relationships across body, space, and time unite these new works by William Earl Kofmehl III, Laleh Mehran, OSGEMEOS (Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo), Karina Smigla-Bobinski, and Christina A. West.
Perla Krauze and Barbara Liotta
WASHINGTON, DC Mexican Cultural Institute Krauze and Liotta offer a different take on the pursuit of uncluttered intentionality that is at once rooted in the sensual exploration of stone and a need for order. While aspects of Land Art and Minimalism inspire both artists, Krauze engages viscerally with the land and the materiality of stone, traveling to the border to gather shards.
Monica Cook
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SCAD Museum of Art Nurture, fragility, and protection have always been prominent themes for Brooklyn-based Monica Cook. Using a variety of media, her work often explores these subjects within the human context, through gestures like feeding and grooming.
Tania Bruguera
LONDON Tate Modern Thanks to a series of experiential interventions by Cuban artist and activist Tania Bruguera, a street fair atmosphere recently took hold of Tate Modern’s cavernous Turbine Hall. In the central space, children performed cartwheels and people pressed limbs to a heat-sensitive floor, watching delightedly as ghostly imprints surfaced.
Components of Human Folly: A Conversation with Jacob Hashimoto
When Jacob Hashimoto entered the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he planned to become a Minimalist painter like Robert Ryman, Brice Marden, or Agnes Martin. At one point, he ran out of ideas and just sat by his easel.
Adriana Carvalho
MIAMI Miami International Airport On Concourse E, mia Central Gallery recently installed “Objet petit a,” which served as a mini-retrospective of Adriana Carvalho’s three-dimensional pieces.
Red Grooms: Benign Satire
It makes total sense to learn that Red Grooms was helped on his way toward his distinctive sculptural forms by an oddball comic strip. Smokey Stover, so named for the central character, featured a fireman who always wore his helmet back to front, and it got the attention of Charles Rogers Grooms, a Nashville schoolboy with a phobia about fire.
