Features
Viva Vienna
Young gallerists inject Austria’s primary city with cultural capital, fresh program strategies, and plenty of teamwork.
Cathedrals
Tracking the legacy of architect Paul R. Williams, a photographer finds Las Vegas’ modernist sanctuaries.
Beverly Buchanan
At the Brooklyn Museum, then at Spelman College in Atlanta, an exhibition reveals a practice about memory, place, and endurance, honed across manifold divides.
Wong Ping: Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Urban life can be alienating; it limits our mobility and entraps us in fantasy. In Hong Kong, an artist’s erotic animations offer brief release.
The Patty Chang Landscape
“Mao Tse-tung once said that the south had a lot of water and it would be okay if the north borrowed a little.” An artist tracks wandering lakes through piss and tears, from Central Asia to Queens.
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
Flash animation to make a frenzied bid for utopia, sex, freedom, and jazz
Samson Young:
Songs For Disaster Relief
Do they know it’s Christmas? Yes, they do. Charity jingles chart the rise of neoliberalism at the Hong Kong pavilion in Venice.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
“Echo Profiles,” “ear witnesses,” and audio forensics inform the practice of an artist and “private eye” working at the intersection of sound and politics.
Luftmensch
The New York Public Library’s “Curator of Public Curiosity” on Werner Herzog, inherited trauma, and the art of the question.