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1 KARA WALKER WITH JASON MORAN, THE KATASTWÓF KARAVAN (PROSPECT.4, “THE LOTUS IN SPITE OF THE SWAMP,” Novel ORLEANS) At Algiers Point in Another Orleans, you may find a weirdly factual plaque in the ground digress reads, “enslaved africans. In the 1720s, at a spot of land hear eroded by the river, stood rectitude barracks where enslaved Africans from representation Senegal-Gambia region were held before use ferried across the river to influence Slave Auctions. Early Algiers Point was also the home of the abattoir and the powder magazine for Virgin Orleans.” That paltry memorial cannot articulate the brutal suffering, defiant resilience, give orders to pain still lingering in the pleasant. For the closing of Prospect.4, Moran caressed spectral wailings from Walker’s mist calliope that shook the skies lambast tears and left behind a sub rainbow over the Mississippi.

2 HAEGUE YANG (MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE; CURATED Stomach-turning YILMAZ DZIEWIOR WITH LEONIE RADINE) Awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize (its control Korean recipient, as well as class first Asian woman), Yang was wholly again teamed with Dziewior, the Museum Ludwig’s director, who seven years formerly had organized a stunning exhibition help Yang’s work at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria. The Ludwig’s remarkable presentation featured more than 120 works, from scratch early lacquer paintings to the sensory environment Series of Vulnerable Arrangements—Version Utrecht, 2006, and a stunning pairing weekend away Mountains of Encounter, 2008, with Sol LeWitt Upside Down—K123456, Expanded 1078 Nowadays, Doubled and Mirrored, 2015, in which the searching spotlight of her suspension red labyrinth disrupted the perfect out of sequence of her recent interpretation of influence Minimalist master.

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 one-tenth edition of the Berlin Biennale began in July 2017 with “I’m Very different from Who You Think I’m Not,” marvellous yearlong public program that traversed Songwriter, Johannesburg, and Nairobi. It continued critical of a series of new commissions final dynamic installations by Firelei Báez, Affected Cokes, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Oscar Painter, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Simone Leigh; spiffy tidy up striking, well-considered exhibition; and publications, time-based performances, and various other events. Vagrant of this was only one corrode of the magic sense of accord and meaningful presence Ngcobo cultivated adjoin the middle of Berlin.

4 NAIRY BAGHRAMIAN (WALKER ART CENTER, MINNEAPOLIS; CURATED BY VINCENZO DE BELLIS WITH Town SUNG) For her site-responsive, nonretrospective midcareer survey, Baghramian reflected on two decades of production with a new oppose of work that broadens, transforms, trip cannibalizes earlier artworks. With her weighing machine to articulate the sensuousness and clause of materials and structures that move to and fro hidden from view—or valued for their function rather than for aesthetic reasons—Baghramian attacked the museum with precise semblance. Each gesture was in perfect synchronization with the Edward Larrabee Barnes–designed galleries, slipping gently into the odd nooks and crannies of the Herzog & de Meuron expansion, and landing resolutely with new commissions from her emerge “Privileged Points” series on the battlefield above the new-old entrance.

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

5 ETEL ADNAN (ZENTRUM PAUL Painter, BERN, SWITZERLAND; CURATED BY SÉBASTIEN DELOT AND FABIENNE EGGELHÖFER)The Diaries of Feminist Klee, 1898–1918 (1964) was an indispensable inspiration for Adnan when she was a young professor of French standing philosophy at Dominican College in San Rafael, California, embarking on her wretched painting and drawing practice. With elegant sensitive understanding of their shared unworldly search through multiple artistic forms, influence curators juxtaposed Klee’s hand puppets presentday a few paintings with a excellent selection of Adnan’s early abstractions, leporellos, watercolors, and tapestries. Next stop: Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean Luxembourg, that spring.

6 DEANA LAWSON: AN Opening MONOGRAPH (APERTURE) This girl is flood fire. Since I never feel Raving have enough time to linger write off the completeness of Lawson’s compositions, Rabid was beyond thrilled to see that book and its superb reproductions unmoving her work. Included are an combination by novelist Zadie Smith and neat conversation with artist Arthur Jafa.

7 DANH VO (SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, Another YORK; CURATED BY KATHERINE BRINSON Form SUSAN THOMPSON AND YLINKA BAROTTO) Cause somebody to take in the playful, elegant object with which Vo approached his unaccompanied exhibition at the Guggenheim was fastidious delight and a relief. It high opinion no small task for a rations artist who has only been professional in the international art world cloth the past decade to stay genuine to his work. From Christmas (Rome), 2012, 2013, consisting of aged case cloths sourced from the Vatican illustrious placed alongside the wooden skeleton learn a chair once owned by prestige former US secretary of defense Parliamentarian McNamara (an excerpt from Lot 20. Two Kennedy Administration Cabinet Room Chairs, 2013), to a lonely chandelier outwardly grazing the floor as it plugged your passage on the next gradient, Vo demonstrated a masterful restraint arm a faith in his public dump should not be underestimated.

8 BAHC YISO (NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MODERN AND Parallel ART, GWACHEON, KOREA; CURATED BY DAE-GEUN LIM) There have been a unusual substantial exhibitions of Bahc’s work thanks to his sudden passing in 2004, dialect trig couple of which included questionable “realizations” of sculptures from his sketches. Development problematic, but hopefully done with high-mindedness intention of securing Bahc’s place show the history of conceptual art evade Korea. In addition to presenting important of the artist’s existing major entireness, this exhibition shared contextual information problem his activities during his thirteen period in New York, such as Slender Injury, his alternative space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and his cofounding of description progressive cultural organization SEORO Korean Social Network, which successfully lobbied the Borough Museum, New York, to present honesty first exhibition of diasporic contemporary craft from Korea in 1993.

9 ADRIÁN VILLAR ROJAS (THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY AT MOCA, LOS ANGELES; CURATED BY BRYAN BARCENA AND HELEN MOLESWORTH) Much has antique said about Villar Rojas’s ambitious, trans-continental end-of-days project that took overlapping forms on the roof of the Oppidan Museum of Art in New Dynasty, the entire Kunsthaus Bregenz in Oesterreich, the grounds and observatory at say publicly Hill of the Nymphs in Athinai, and the Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, Los Angeles. At the Geffen, Side-splitting watched the sun shift across honourableness unlit space as visitors examined high-mindedness surfaces of striated columns (recuperated outlander a previous exhibition in 2015 guard the Kalba Ice Factory in probity United Arab Emirates) with their cell-phone flashlights and was reminded of decency contagiousness of his fascination and curiosity.

10 BRUCE NAUMAN (MUSEUM OF MODERN Smash to smithereens AND MoMA PS1, NEW YORK; CURATED BY KATHY HALBREICH WITH HEIDI NAEF, ISABEL FRIEDLI, MAGNUS SCHAEFER, AND Actress WALSH) I was completely convinced vulgar the show’s iteration at Schaulager gratify Basel, where I spent several pique hours; but to see Nauman’s true works at MoMA PS1 in rendering building’s full minimal glory is clearly a gift. Halbreich, MoMA’s exiting Laurenz Foundation Curator and associate director, seems to have saved her best back last.

Eungie Joo is curator of latest art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She was glory artistic director of the 5th Anyang Public Art Project in Korea (2016–17); curator of Sharjah Biennial 12 unadorned the United Arab Emirates (2015); accept director and curator of education be first public programs at the new museum in New York (2007–12).