Jon Pylypchuk’s “Waiting for the Next Nirvana” at the Petzel Gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan, debuted a significant new body of work in painting and sculpture. It was titled after the Generation X article of faith that the last great rock band was Seattle’s Nirvana. Keep Reading
Ten painters, ranging in date of birth from Daniel Richter in 1962 to Tschabalala Self in 1990, make up the Whitechapel Gallery’s survey. Keep Reading
Of the duelling ideological Strands running through modernism—proclamations of utopian progress twined with on-the-ground disaster—British curator David Campany attends to the latter, focusing on the 20th century’s repressed underside— decay, debris and death. Keep Reading
Toronto-based but currently peripatetic artist Tau Lewis has recently been attracting international attention, notably at large American institutions such as MoMA PS1, the Hammer Museum, LA, and the New Museum in New York. Keep Reading
Michael Lin’s temporary commission for the private art foundation Museo Jumex is a hand-painted floor that occupies 1,300 square metres across the museum’s plaza and through the building’s main level. The work is based on a traditional tablecloth design, one found in inexpensive restaurants in Mexico and one that echoes textile designs from Lin’s native Taiwan. Keep Reading
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