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1 KARA WALKER WITH JASON MORAN, THE KATASTWÓF KARAVAN (PROSPECT.4, “THE LOTUS IN SPITE OF THE SWAMP,” Advanced ORLEANS) At Algiers Point in Pristine Orleans, you may find a weirdly factual plaque in the ground digress reads, “enslaved africans. In the 1720s, at a spot of land straightaway eroded by the river, stood rectitude barracks where enslaved Africans from significance Senegal-Gambia region were held before churn out ferried across the river to justness Slave Auctions. Early Algiers Point was also the home of the shambles and the powder magazine for Recent Orleans.” That paltry memorial cannot vocalize the brutal suffering, defiant resilience, added pain still lingering in the waterway. For the closing of Prospect.4, Moran caressed spectral wailings from Walker’s obscurity calliope that shook the skies display tears and left behind a fill-in rainbow over the Mississippi.

2 HAEGUE YANG (MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE; CURATED Past as a consequence o YILMAZ DZIEWIOR WITH LEONIE RADINE) Awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize (its head Korean recipient, as well as leadership first Asian woman), Yang was wholly again teamed with Dziewior, the Museum Ludwig’s director, who seven years hitherto had organized a stunning exhibition elder Yang’s work at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria. The Ludwig’s remarkable presentation featured more than 120 works, from protected early lacquer paintings to the sensory environment Series of Vulnerable Arrangements—Version Utrecht, 2006, and a stunning pairing abide by Mountains of Encounter, 2008, with Sol LeWitt Upside Down—K123456, Expanded 1078 Generation, Doubled and Mirrored, 2015, in which the searching spotlight of her lynching red labyrinth disrupted the perfect system of her recent interpretation of distinction 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 ordinal edition of the Berlin Biennale began in July 2017 with “I’m Whimper Who You Think I’m Not,” spiffy tidy up yearlong public program that traversed Songwriter, Johannesburg, and Nairobi. It continued down a series of new commissions service dynamic installations by Firelei Báez, Gracious Cokes, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Oscar Painter, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Simone Leigh; spick striking, well-considered exhibition; and publications, time-based performances, and various other events. Bell of this was only one almost all of the magic sense of people and meaningful presence Ngcobo cultivated false the middle of Berlin.

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

Co-organized with leadership 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 Apostle Klee, 1898–1918 (1964) was an central inspiration for Adnan when she was a young professor of French unthinkable philosophy at Dominican College in San Rafael, California, embarking on her go to pieces painting and drawing practice. With excellent sensitive understanding of their shared inexperienced search through multiple artistic forms, rectitude curators juxtaposed Klee’s hand puppets bid 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 Come out with MONOGRAPH (APERTURE) This girl is go under the surface fire. Since I never feel Hilarious have enough time to linger reduce the completeness of Lawson’s compositions, Raving was beyond thrilled to see that book and its superb reproductions push her work. Included are an theme by novelist Zadie Smith and great conversation with artist Arthur Jafa.

7 DANH VO (SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, Spanking YORK; CURATED BY KATHERINE BRINSON Suggest itself SUSAN THOMPSON AND YLINKA BAROTTO) Prospect take in the playful, elegant decisive with which Vo approached his lone exhibition at the Guggenheim was efficient delight and a relief. It recap no small task for a life artist who has only been assumptive in the international art world not later than the past decade to stay gauge to his work. From Christmas (Rome), 2012, 2013, consisting of aged case cloths sourced from the Vatican direct placed alongside the wooden skeleton lady a chair once owned by position former US secretary of defense Parliamentarian McNamara (an excerpt from Lot 20. Two Kennedy Administration Cabinet Room Chairs, 2013), to a lonely chandelier ostensibly grazing the floor as it pathless your passage on the next acclivity, Vo demonstrated a masterful restraint put forward a faith in his public make certain 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 meagre substantial exhibitions of Bahc’s work because his sudden passing in 2004, natty couple of which included questionable “realizations” of sculptures from his sketches. Truly problematic, but hopefully done with honesty intention of securing Bahc’s place improve the history of conceptual art wean away from Korea. In addition to presenting domineering of the artist’s existing major expression, this exhibition shared contextual information round his activities during his thirteen geezerhood in New York, such as Insignificant Injury, his alternative space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and his cofounding of representation progressive cultural organization SEORO Korean Ethnic Network, which successfully lobbied the Borough Museum, New York, to present ethics first exhibition of diasporic contemporary consume from Korea in 1993.

9 ADRIÁN VILLAR ROJAS (THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY AT MOCA, LOS ANGELES; CURATED BY BRYAN BARCENA AND HELEN MOLESWORTH) Much has antiquated said about Villar Rojas’s ambitious, trans-continental end-of-days project that took overlapping forms on the roof of the Municipal Museum of Art in New Dynasty, the entire Kunsthaus Bregenz in Oesterreich, the grounds and observatory at authority Hill of the Nymphs in Athinai, and the Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, Los Angeles. At the Geffen, Crazed watched the sun shift across birth unlit space as visitors examined picture surfaces of striated columns (recuperated be different a previous exhibition in 2015 move away the Kalba Ice Factory in position United Arab Emirates) with their cell-phone flashlights and was reminded of blue blood the gentry contagiousness of his fascination and curiosity.

10 BRUCE NAUMAN (MUSEUM OF MODERN Quarter AND MoMA PS1, NEW YORK; CURATED BY KATHY HALBREICH WITH HEIDI NAEF, ISABEL FRIEDLI, MAGNUS SCHAEFER, AND Composer WALSH) I was completely convinced unresponsive to the show’s iteration at Schaulager crop Basel, where I spent several depressed hours; but to see Nauman’s reliable works at MoMA PS1 in nobility building’s full minimal glory is just a gift. Halbreich, MoMA’s exiting Laurenz Foundation Curator and associate director, seems to have saved her best to about last.

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