On a frigid January afternoon, I visited Lau in her newly minted studio, where we discussed her work’s relationships to death and ritual, the intersection of monstrosity…[read on]
Interview by Jack Radley // Apr. 10, 2020
Michael Wang unearths the intertwined roots of plant, animal and human histories. Working between his upstate New York studio and his Governors Island residency, Wang traces…[read on]
Interview by Jack Radley // Dec. 17, 2019
Moroccan-born, Berlin-based artist Bouchra Khalili never centers herself in her narrative work. Instead, she collaborates with individuals to radically rethink our understanding of the complex…[read on]
Article by Jack Radley // Jan. 11, 2019
For Bruce Nauman, touch is sensual and sexual, prohibitive and encouraged, instinctual and directed. Spanning both the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1, ‘Disappearing Acts’…[read on]
Article by Jack Radley // Aug. 24, 2018
In theory, The ICA Watershed’s premiere exhibition, ‘Diana Thater,’ makes perfect sense, but the ICA’s civic concerns are watered down by the spectacle of the show’s aesthetic emphasis…[read on]
Layers of painted brick unfurl along the façade of the industrial building that houses Tschabalala Self’s studio in New Haven, Connecticut. Inside, the…[read on]
Article by Jack Radley // May 30, 2018
Through visceral artworks on environmental scales, Claudia Comte explores patterns of nature: linguistic, ecological, musical and optical. The artist, born in a Swiss chalet surrounded by the…[read on]
Article by Jack Radley in St. Louis // Apr. 24, 2018
Mona Hatoum’s most recent exhibition, ‘Terra Infirma’, destabilizes universal notions of home, displacement, and global conflicts. After its premiere at The Menil Collection in Houston, the artist’s first American survey show…[read on]
Article by Jack Radley in Berlin // Apr. 3, 2018
In his first solo show in continental Europe, ‘The New Dialogue’, Cameroonian artist Ajarb Bernard Ategwa establishes himself as one of the most promising emerging portraitists; however, his portraits…[read on]
Article by Jack Radley in Berlin // Feb. 20, 2018
Mark Dion is in the midst of publishing what amounts to a small library right now, from ‘Apparatus: Carte Blanche no. 2’ to ‘Mark Dion: Theatre of the Natural World to The Incomplete Writings of Mark…[read on]
Article by Jack Radley in Berlin // Feb. 16, 2018
“It’s like I just walked out of a matinee, struck by sunlight,” remarked one viewer upon confronting the neon colors of Austin Lee’s air-brushed acrylic paintings at the opening of ‘Tomato Can’ his first exhibition with…[read on]
“No credible scientists would ever build anything like this because it would ruin their careers,” boasts Klara Hobza, smirking at the artistic endeavor standing before her,…[read on]
