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1 KARA WALKER WITH JASON MORAN, THE KATASTWÓF KARAVAN (PROSPECT.4, “THE LOTUS IN SPITE Spick and span THE SWAMP,” NEW ORLEANS) Irate Algiers Point in New Siege, you may find a weirdly factual plaque in the repute that reads, “enslaved africans.

Put it to somebody the 1720s, at a blaze of land now eroded unresponsive to the river, stood the accommodation where enslaved Africans from illustriousness Senegal-Gambia region were held once being ferried across the well up to the Slave Auctions. Specifically Algiers Point was also say publicly home of the slaughterhouse crucial the powder magazine for Unique Orleans.” That paltry memorial cannot express the brutal suffering, challenging resilience, and pain still long in the air.

For rank closing of Prospect.4, Moran caressed spectral wailings from Walker’s smog calliope that shook the firmament to tears and left escape a double rainbow over say publicly Mississippi.

2 HAEGUE YANG (MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE; CURATED BY YILMAZ DZIEWIOR WITH LEONIE RADINE) Awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize (its first Korean recipient, as convulsion as the first Asian woman), Yang was once again teamed with Dziewior, the Museum Ludwig’s director, who seven years a while ago had organized a stunning showing of Yang’s work at interpretation Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria.

The Ludwig’s remarkable presentation featured more go one better than 120 works, from her inconvenient lacquer paintings to the sensory environment Series of Vulnerable Arrangements—Version Utrecht, 2006, and a dazzling pairing of Mountains of Encounter, 2008, with Sol LeWitt Top Down—K123456, Expanded 1078 Times, Twice and Mirrored, 2015, in which the searching spotlight of give something the thumbs down hanging red labyrinth disrupted blue blood the gentry perfect symmetry of her current interpretation of the Minimalist commander.

3 10TH BERLIN BIENNALE: “WE DON’T NEED ANOTHER HERO” (CURATED BY GABI NGCOBO WITH NOMADUMA ROSA MASILELA, SERUBIRI MOSES, THIAGO DE PAULA SOUZA, AND YVETTE MUTUMBA) The tenth edition innumerable the Berlin Biennale began providential July 2017 with “I’m Pule Who You Think I’m Not,” a yearlong public program ditch traversed Berlin, Johannesburg, and Nairobi.

It continued with a additional room of new commissions and enterprising installations by Firelei Báez, Aristocratic Cokes, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Honor Murillo, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Simone Leigh; a striking, well-considered exhibition; and publications, time-based performances, near various other events. All disruption this was only one district of the magic sense help community and meaningful presence Ngcobo cultivated in the middle substantiation Berlin.

4 NAIRY BAGHRAMIAN (WALKER ART CENTER, MINNEAPOLIS; CURATED Soak VINCENZO DE BELLIS WITH Waterfall SUNG) For her site-responsive, nonretrospective midcareer survey, Baghramian reflected outcrop two decades of production get a feel for a new body of sort out that broadens, transforms, and cannibalizes earlier artworks.

With her burden to articulate the sensuousness tube promise of materials and structures that are hidden from view—or valued for their function in or by comparison than for aesthetic reasons—Baghramian played the museum with precise farsightedness. Each gesture was in unspoiled synchronicity with the Edward Larrabee Barnes–designed galleries, slipping gently talk about the odd nooks and crannies of the Herzog & tributary Meuron expansion, and landing heavily with new commissions from worldweariness current “Privileged Points” series leave the lawn above the new-old entrance.

Co-organized with the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium.

5 ETEL ADNAN (ZENTRUM PAUL Painter, BERN, SWITZERLAND; CURATED BY SÉBASTIEN DELOT AND FABIENNE EGGELHÖFER)The Deed of Paul Klee, 1898–1918 (1964) was an important inspiration let slip Adnan when she was adroit young professor of French fairy story philosophy at Dominican College be given San Rafael, California, embarking do away with her own painting and pull practice.

With a sensitive turmoil of their shared spiritual cast around through multiple artistic forms, nobility curators juxtaposed Klee’s hand puppets and a few paintings come to get a superb selection of Adnan’s early abstractions, leporellos, watercolors, promote tapestries. Next stop: Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean Luxembourg, that spring.

6 DEANA LAWSON: Protract APERTURE MONOGRAPH (APERTURE) This female is on fire. Since Side-splitting never feel I have insufficient time to linger on ethics completeness of Lawson’s compositions, Uncontrolled was beyond thrilled to supervise this book and its brill reproductions of her work.

Included trade an essay by novelist Zadie Smith and a conversation acquiesce artist Arthur Jafa.

7 DANH VO (SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, Additional YORK; CURATED BY KATHERINE BRINSON WITH SUSAN THOMPSON AND YLINKA BAROTTO) To take in say publicly playful, elegant purpose with which Vo approached his solo agricultural show at the Guggenheim was a-one delight and a relief.

Reward is no small task undertake a living artist who has only been acknowledged in goodness international art world during excellence past decade to stay analyze to his work. From Christmas (Rome), 2012, 2013, consisting weekend away aged vitrine cloths sourced exaggerate the Vatican and placed conjoin the wooden skeleton of fine chair once owned by description former US secretary of defend Robert McNamara (an excerpt detach from Lot 20.

Two Kennedy Government Cabinet Room Chairs, 2013), relate to a lonely chandelier seemingly graze the floor as it closed your passage on the adhere to ramp, Vo demonstrated a adept restraint and a faith transparent his public that should arrange be underestimated.

8 BAHC YISO (NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MODERN AND Coeval ART, GWACHEON, KOREA; CURATED Soak DAE-GEUN LIM) There have bent a few substantial exhibitions souk Bahc’s work since his shout passing in 2004, a team a few of which included questionable “realizations” of sculptures from his sketches.

Very problematic, but hopefully through with the intention of having Bahc’s place in the account of conceptual art from Peninsula. In addition to presenting extremity of the artist’s existing elder works, this exhibition shared contextual information about his activities sooner than his thirteen years in Another York, such as Minor Laceration, his alternative space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and his cofounding advice the progressive cultural organization SEORO Korean Cultural Network, which well lobbied the Queens Museum, Additional York, to present the premier exhibition of diasporic contemporary question from Korea in 1993.

9 ADRIÁN VILLAR ROJAS (THE GEFFEN Advanced AT MOCA, LOS ANGELES; CURATED BY BRYAN BARCENA AND HELEN MOLESWORTH) Much has been held about Villar Rojas’s ambitious, trans-continental end-of-days project that took lapping forms on the roof holiday the Metropolitan Museum of Quit in New York, the broad Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria, character grounds and observatory at honourableness Hill of the Nymphs atmosphere Athens, and the Geffen Original at MoCA, Los Angeles.

Claim the Geffen, I watched dignity sun shift across the nightfall darkness space as visitors examined loftiness surfaces of striated columns (recuperated from a previous exhibition create 2015 at the Kalba Desolation Factory in the United Semite Emirates) with their cell-phone flashlights and was reminded of honourableness contagiousness of his fascination other curiosity.

10 BRUCE NAUMAN (MUSEUM Tablets MODERN ART AND MoMA PS1, NEW YORK; CURATED BY KATHY HALBREICH WITH HEIDI NAEF, ISABEL FRIEDLI, MAGNUS SCHAEFER, AND Actress WALSH) I was completely decided by the show’s iteration convenient Schaulager in Basel, where Raving spent several happy hours; on the contrary to see Nauman’s historical output at MoMA PS1 in interpretation building’s full minimal glory testing simply a gift.

Halbreich, MoMA’s exiting Laurenz Foundation Curator roost associate director, seems to be endowed with saved her best for last.

Eungie Joo is curator of original art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She was the artistic director answer the 5th Anyang Public Choke Project in Korea (2016–17); ranger of Sharjah Biennial 12 play a role the United Arab Emirates (2015); and director and curator chuck out education and public programs enraged the new museum in Another York (2007–12).