‘Land of Dreams’ is the first time that Shirin Neshat has looked to America – where she has lived for 40 years – for the focus of her work. Almost augural, the exhibition opening followed the recent escalation of tensions between her native land, Iran and her adoptive home of the US. Throughout the show, she explores the American dream, as read by an Iranian. Her protagonist, Simin, serves as a guide both in portraiture and film and stands in for Neshat, allowing the artist some objective distance.

Every year since 2014, La Monnaie de Paris (Paris’ former mint), has welcomed a contemporary artist to exhibit over 1000sqm within its beautiful salons, many of which looking out onto the River Seine. Kiki Smith was the artist chosen to show her expansive collection of work in Paris’ famous historic monument for the last year of its contemporary art program. 

An exquisite melancholy has settled upon the galleries of Marcel Breuer’s inverted ziggurat on Madison Avenue: an air of dashed aspirations, commitment and farewell. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which rented Breuer’s granite fortress from the relocated Whitney Museum of American Art in 2015, will be vacating the building in July, three years ahead of schedule. (Costs were too high.)

“Birkenau.” The dread name—of the main death facilities at Auschwitz—entitles four large abstract paintings and four full-sized digital reproductions of them in the last gallery of “Painting After All,” a peculiarly solemn Gerhard Richter retrospective at the Met Breuer. 

The artist, who lives in the US, says she still feels like an American—even in the age of Trump.

I recognized Shirin Neshat by her black kohl eyeliner, which frames her kind eyes like war paint.

We met at Goodman Gallery in London, where the veteran artist is presenting a new body of work in her first solo exhibition in the city in two decades….

In her latest body of work, the Iranian artist turns her lens to America, her host-country, offering a fantastical response to the tumult of the contemporary moment Shirin Neshat wanders across the upper floor of the Goodman Gallery in London, gesturing around her. Dozens of faces gaze down, staring out intently from the walls of the space. An ex-convict with a tattooed torso, arms folded; a serene-looking man…

“Frankfurter Engel” is a replica of a cenotaph by Rosemarie Trockel that has been displayed in downtown Frankfurt since 1994 to remind people of the persecution and murder of homosexual women and men under National Socialism.

Whitish brings together the creative output of Ayşe Erkmen since the 1970s, chosen with a retrospective approach, with new works conceived and produced especially for this exhibition

The nexus between architecture and installation art has long been a topic worthy of exploration. Installation transforms space and interacts with the audience; it must be designed, constructed and installed and therefore relies on architectural components.

The Iranian-born artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat was 17 when she arrived in Los Angeles—and she hated it.

BUSAN ― Artist Chiharu Shiota is often compared to a "human spider" as the artist weaves webs around objects and bodies. Her life-size installations engulf the space and the viewer, stirring up sensations of both uneasiness as well as coziness.

The 47-year-old Japanese artist unraveled her life's path ridden with pain and uncertainty at "Shiota Chiharu: The Soul Trembles" at the Busan Museum of Art in Korea's southern port city.

Indian Ocean Current: Six Artistic Narratives features videos, collages, paintings, sculptures, interactive installations, and photographs by renowned artists Shiraz Bayjoo, Nicholas Hlobo, Shilpa Gupta, Wangechi Mutu, Penny Siopis, and Hajra Waheed—whose deep ties to the lands surrounding the Indian Ocean inform their work.