NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT Yale University Art Gallery Matthew Barney’s comprehensive and layered “Redoubt” explores themes of hunting, predation, guns, voyeurism, dance, landscape politics, metallurgy, and transformation through a unique take on the myth of Diana and Actaeon.
July/August 2019
John Bisbee
ROCKLAND, MAINE Center for Maine Contemporary Art “For the first time in my life, I’m doing basically three things that I have mocked my entire adult creative career—realism, political satire, and text,” Bisbee says. The show’s title is itself a capacious metaphor that embraces a multitude of references, including American labor, economics, and culture.
Tyree Guyton
DETROIT Museum of Contemporary Art As with much of Guyton’s work, he wants you to live simultaneously in two worlds: one of harsh social reality and the other of infinite possibility. The title of the show, “2+2=8,” alludes to a philosophy that embraces the latter condition.
Les Lalanne
NEW YORK Kasmin Les Lalanne, the French husband-and-wife team of Françoise-Xavier Lalanne (1927–2008) and Claude Lalanne (who died on April 9, at the age of 93), worked and exhibited side by side, like flora and fauna.
