ArtReview October issue out now
In Art Previewed
Ten exhibitions on through October you don’t want to miss, in Berlin, Paris, New York, Rome, London and Basel. By Martin Herbert
Points of View: Our writers on what’s happening in the art world and beyond: J.J. Charlesworth, Maria Lind, Jonathan T.D. Neil, Andrew Berardini, Mike Watson, Mark Sladen, Jonathan Grossmalerman, Louise Darblay
Great Critics and Their Ideas
Philosopher G.W.F. Hegel on sploshing in painting, deconstructing mass desire and the posturing of art culture. Interview by Matthew Collings
Other People and Their Ideas
Artist Eric Fischl discusses his relationship to painting. Interview by Tom Eccles
Relations Without Relations: A response to Graham Harman
Critic Michael Newman makes a case for why human subjectivity still matters.
In Art Featured
Latifa Echakhch
The Morocco-born artist and Prix Marcel Duchamp winner talks to Violaine Boutet de Monvel.
Richard Tuttle
‘Known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns,” the fleeting permanence in the work of the artist and poet. Profiled by Sherman Sam.
Trisha Donnelly
Portentous, charged and enigmatic— the work of the San Francisco-born artist. By Martin Herbert
Jacob Hashimoto
The aerial, environmental installations of the Japanese-American artist. By Erik Morse
Art in Context—the first installment in our yearlong survey in which artists, curators and cultural commentators explore the question of what African art (of the contemporary flavour) does or can do within various local contexts across the continent
I. Gabi Ngcobo on Sabelo Mlangeni’s No Problem, and a visit to the site of Michelle Monareng’s Removal to Radium.
II. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on the tenses in Theo Eshetu’s The Return of the Axum Obelisk.
III. Cristina De Middel
Artist project: This is what hatred did, 2014.
In Art Reviewed
Reviews from the UK, USA, Europe and the rest of the world
UK
Including Beverly Pepper: Small Sculptures at Marlborough Fine Art, London; Inventory: More Pre-War Art From Inventory! at Rob Tufnell, London; Maid in Heaven/En Plein Air in Hell (My Beautiful Dark and Twisted Cheeto Problem) at White Cube Mason’s Yard, London; Eustachy Kossakowski and Goshka Macuga: Report from the Exhibition at Kate McGarry, London; Hayley Tompkins: Digital Light Pools at The Common Guild, Glasgow; Douglas Gordon: Pretty much every film and video work from about 1992 until now, at Glasgow Museum of Modern Art.
USA
Including Another, Once Again, Many Times More at Martos Gallery, East Marion, New York; Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place, 1958–2010 at Dia: Beacon, New York; Fixed Unknowns at Taymour Grahne, New York; Morag Keil: Would You Eat Your Friends? at Real Fine Arts, New York; Andrew Cameron and Emilie Halpern: Standard Candles at Samuel Freeman, Los Angeles; Allora & Calzadilla at REDCAT, Los Angeles.
Europe
Including João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva: Papagaio at Hangar Biocca, Milan; Wilfredo Prieto: Speaking Badly About Stones at S.M.A.K., Ghent; Carsten Höller at TBA21–Augarten, Vienna; Le Mouvement at various venues, Biel; Paul Chan: Selected Works at Schaulager, Basel; Bunny Rogers: Columbine Library at Société, Berlin; Roni Horn: Everything Was Sleeping as If the Universe Were a Mistake at Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950 at MUDAM, Luxembourg.
Rest of the world
IncludingYokahama Triennale 2014/ART Fahrenheit 451: Sailing into the Sea of Oblivion at Yokohama Museum of Art, Shinko Pier Exhibition Hall and various and other venues; Defying Stability: Artistic Process in Mexico 1952–1967 at MUAC, Mexico City; Os Gêmeos: A Ópera da Lua at Galpão Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo.
Books
33 Artists in 3 Acts, by Sarah Thornton; A man in a room spray-painting a fly… (or a least trying to…), by Francesco Pedraglio; Lives of the Orange Men: A Biographical History of the Polish Orange Alternative Movement, by Major Waldemar Fydrych; Shooting Space; Architecture in Contemporary Photography, by Elias Redstone.
The Strip: A new work from Maciej Sienczyk, introduced by Paul Gravett
Off the Record: Gallery Girl—in London
