Storms in Italy leave a path of devastation, inundation in Venice, and a growing list of fatalities.
Jair Bolsonaro joins the ranks of rising far-right populists as he is elected president in Brazil, despite – or strangely because of – his vocal distain against gays, minorities and foreigners, women, humanitarians, and perhaps humans all around.
Google employees worldwide conduct a walkout over the company’s mishandling of harassment and discrimination cases and other issues of transparency as news surfaces of a 90 million dollar exit package offered to a senior executive accused of sexual misconduct.
The U.S. Midterm elections are this week; a reminder that American politics more often revolve around cycles of campaigns, rallies, and elections/re-elections than real substantive change. Still hoping to be proven wrong.
Welcome to the 069th edition of Prescriptions. Here is our review of the week in the arts.
Adam Wilkoszarski, After Season
New East Photo Prize 2018
An exhibition celebrating photography from Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia, the New East Photo Prize 2018 exhibition showcases selected work by the finalists nominated for this second edition. Through December 2, 2018 at Calvert 22.
Henrike Naumann, Untitled, 2013, installation view KOW
The Fuel of Your Lives Becomes Ashes in Ours
In light of recent events, KOW has changed its programming on very short notice and put together an exhibition to take a stance…a steadfast refusal to cater to a politics of cultural pacification. On view through November 10, 2018 at KOW.
Atul Dodiya / The Fragrance of a Paper Rose, 2018
The Fragrance of a Paper Rose / Atul Dodiya
The show features a series of new hybrid works by Atul Dodiya including paintings and installations centering on the painter Morandi and celebrating the beauty of a world haunted by the fear of loss. On view through December 22, 2018 at Galerie Templon.
Todd Hido
Bright Black World / Todd Hido
The images in the exhibition Bright Black World fill the viewer with unease while simultaneously a profound sense of wonder. A vision, as Todd Hido says, that “pushes the envelope of darkness.” At Reflex Amsterdam through November 17, 2018.
Ingel Vaikla, Roosenberg, video still, 2017, Courtesy the artist
Antarctica. An Exhibition on Alienation
Antarctica looks at the pattern underlying alienation – this “relationship based on the absence of a relationship” and explores how the term “alienation” functions in our world today. Exhibiting through February 17, 2019 at Kunsthalle Wien.
Elmgreen & Dragset / Courtesy Perrotin
Elmgreen & Dragset
Having worked together for over 20 years in a wide range of media, Elmgreen & Dragset create objects that echo Minimalist aesthetics. Their new works continue the ongoing interest in how we interact with space. On view through December 22, 2018 at Perrotin.
Ingel Vaikla
RECENT PROFILES
Elmgreen & Dragset, works of various media and installations on exhibit at Perrotin; Ingel Vaikla, among the several participating in Antarctica. An Exhibition on Alienation at Kunsthalle Wien; Todd Hido’s mostly landscapes “pushing the envelope of darkness” with Bright Black World at Reflex Amsterdam; Atul Dodiya with hybrid works in The Fragrance of a Paper Rose at Galerie Templon; Alice Creischer and Michael E. Smith among others in The Fuel of Your Lives Becomes Ashes in Ours at KOW.
