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“Richard Kennedy: Street Prophecy”Through June 12 at Peres Projects, Berlin What the gallery says: “The group of new soft sculptures, paintings, and busts in this show depict an opera deconstructed into its various parts. The term ‘opera,’ borrowed from the Italian word for ‘work,’ implies a Gesamtkunstwerk (total artwork) incorporating diverse media, collaboration, virtuosity, and drama. Kennedy […] More

Jenny Holzer, Carrie Mae Weems, and Duke Riley are among the 35 artists and designers making works in support of essential workers that will appear on digital screens across New York, Boston, and Chicago. The project, titled “Messages for the City,” is now in its second phase, and has already included contributions from designers including Milton […] More

In 2011, Ai Weiwei‘s 12 bronze animal heads were erected at the Pulitzer Fountain at Grand Army Plaza near Central Park, launching an official multi-year world tour. At the unveiling, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg was in attendance, but the artist was nowhere to be found. Ai had been arrested in China for so-called “economic crimes,” […] More

“Lewis Hammond: Still Life”Through June 27 at Lulu, Mexico City What the gallery says: “The work of London-based painter Lewis Hammond seems to embody if not the macro aspect of the moment, then the micro, the personal, private experience of what many of us may currently be experiencing. Indeed, if Hammond’s tenebrous pictures felt relevant […] More

“MARCEL EICHNER: ME”Haverkampf Gallery What the gallery says: “In the fall of 2018, Marcel Eichner terminates the lease of his Berlin studio and moves to Spain. He not only leaves Berlin, he makes a radical cut. In the new surroundings, M.E. changes his method painting by painting. In 2020, he begins to create oil paintings […] More

“Dorthea Lange: Words & Pictures“Museum of Modern Art What the museum says: “Toward the end of her life, Dorothea Lange remarked, ‘All photographs—not only those that are so-called ‘documentary,’ and every photograph really is documentary and belongs in some place, has a place in history—can be fortified by words.’ Organized loosely chronologically and spanning her career, […] More

The South African-born artist Zanele Muholi is not a fan of boundaries. As a self-proclaimed “visual activist,” Muholi, who uses the pronoun “they,” refuses to be pigeonholed by sexual orientation, gender, or profession, though all of those things are integral aspects of Muholi’s identity. Britain’s Tate Modern museum was planning to open a major survey of […] More

When Klaus Biesenbach took the corner office as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, he gave up most of the trappings of his former life as a curator, swapping checklists for checkbooks. But there was one part of the job he couldn’t let go: studio visits. Now, even as the museum […] More