Lawrence Weiner adds a note of anxiety at Blenheim Palace
Can contemporary art operate critically within such surroundings?
Review: ‘Kerry James Marshall: Painting and Other Stuff’ at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies
Marshall tackles the history of slavery, race politics, black power or social emancipation in bold but ambiguous ways
Review: ‘Xavier Ribas: Nitrate’ at MACBA, Barcelona
Ribas’s work highlights the violence and arbitrariness of boundaries and frontiers
Review: Mel Bochner ‘Strong Language’ at the Jewish Museum
Bochner’s piled-up word paintings at the Jewish Museum are strangely anxiety-provoking
Review: ‘The Abandonment of Art’, Lygia Clark at MoMA New York
MoMA has mounted a welcome retrospective of Clark’s challenging and changing art
Paul McCarthy’s obscene art world
The paintings presented in Paul McCarthy’s exhibition at Hauser & Wirth are invariably obscene. Painted in the artist’s trademark palette –…