DECEMBER 30, 2020 GRACE EBERT Brussels-based director Soetkin Verstegen bills her methodical and nostalgic animation “Freeze Frame” as a “miniature cinema inside an ice cube.” Produced in a grainy, vintage style, the black-and-white short loosely follows workers as they harvest and attempt to preserve the frozen blocks. Amidst scenes of the monotonous, assembly-line efforts are insects, frogs,… More Freeze Frame: A Meditative Stop-Motion Short Explores Preservation and Decay Through a Tedious Ice Harvest

December 30, 2020 • Noemi Smolik on “Russian Avant-Garde at the Museum Ludwig: Original and Fake” WHAT HAPPENS when a painting is unmasked as a forgery? The colors, the forms, and the brushwork remain the same, and yet, everything has changed. The spell of authenticity, related to what Walter Benjamin called an artwork’s “aura,” has broken. A… More IMPOSTOR SYNDOME

SEHN SIE TIEF 9975 – 15432 – 32718 Galerie Krinzinger Enter slideshow “SEHN SIE TIEF 9975-15432-32718” is Christian Eisenberger’s most comprehensive exhibition to date at the Galerie Krinzinger. For the first time Eisenberger is working with all rooms of the gallery, linking his painting with land art photographs, sculptures and situative installations. Time and again… More Christian Eisenberger

Middle Ground Gavlak Enter slideshow GAVLAK Los Angeles is pleased to present “Karen Carson: Middle Ground,” the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery running from January 9 through March 6, 2021. Centered around her current bas relief works and her early “zipper” series, both bodies of work deploy geometric configurations to explore the convergence… More Karen Carson

December 29th, 2020 Sue Williams, Betsy Ross Composite (2020), via 303 Gallery Marking her eleventh solo exhibition at 303 Gallery, painter Sue Williams has brought a selection of dynamic new paintings to bear on the New York space, continuing her particular brand of incendiary, uncompromising social critique through her craft. In a body of work that expands across a range of… More NEW YORK – SUE WILLIAMS AT 303 GALLERY THROUGH JANUARY 30TH, 2021

BY ANDREW RUSSETH December 30, 2020 9:59am One recent morning in Hong Kong, while in the last hours of his quarantine, the New York–based artist Taro Masushio recounted a visit he made to a vast, little-seen archive of homoerotic photographs by Jun’ichi En’ya, who had worked as a photo-technician in Osaka, Japan. “I had just never seen anything like… More How a Covert Archive of Erotic Images Inspired Taro Masushio’s Bracing New Photos