Jack Shainman Gallery, 513 West 20th St. & 524 West 24th St, NY 10011

Yoan Capote: Collective Unconscious

Yoan Capote, Collective Unconscious, installation view at Jack Shainman Gallery, 2015

Born, raised, and still working in Havana, Yoan Capote has delivered the beautiful idiosyncrasies of and within Cuba to a general audience. Review by Shana Beth Mason

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Hollybush Gardens, 1–2 Warner Yard, London EC1R 5EY

Ruth Proctor: Putting it on

Installation view, Hollybush Gardens

Alex Borkowski finds an unusual, light-hearted ambivalence in Proctor’s work which is invested in the success and failure of actions and images.

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Breese Little, 30B Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DU

dark frame / deep field

dark frame / deep field, installation view, Breese Little

The exhibition sets out to examine the shifting role of aesthetics in communicating knowledge of science, space and the universe, taking inspiration from the photographs that NASA used in the 1960s to relay and dramatise the progress and excitement of the space race. Review by Theo Turpin

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Turf Projects Gallery & Workspace, Keeley Road, Croydon CR0 1TF

Tru Luv

Tru Luv, installation view

The teen-text reference of the exhibition’s title puts forward an ostensible sentimentality that is quickly undermined by the works on display. Joseph Constable reviews Tru Luv, the inaugural exhibition at Turf Projects.

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NoguerasBlanchard, Doctor Fourquet 4 28012, Madrid

AXOLOTLISM

Documentation of performance by Oreet Ashery: Cómo matar a un cerdo, 23 May 2015. Performers: Alex de la Croix, Julián Cruz, Nina Paszkowski, and Ana Sáez.

The exhibition 'AXOLOTLISM' takes as its point of departure an enigmatic story by Julio Cortázar, 'Axolotl' (1956), in which the Argentinean writer short-circuited the distance between observer and observee.

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Filmed 21st May 2015 at Drawing Room, London

Luc Tuymans in conversation with Ulrich Loock

A conversation on 21 May 2015 between Luc Tuymans and curator Ulrich Loock on the occasion of DE. FI. CIEN. CY - an exhibition of over 50 works on paper by Polish artist Andrzej Wróblewski (1927-57), Dutch artist René Daniels (b.1950) and Belgian artist Luc Tuymans (b.1958).

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Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol BS1 6UX, United Kingdom

Cally Spooner: Post Production

Off Camera Dialogue

In the days before ‘Post-Production’ opened, I watched Cally Spooner in the familiar, inglorious throes of post-production itself, making final video edits...

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Ort Gallery, 500 – 504 Moseley Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham B12 9AH

High Street Casualties: Ellie Harrison’s Zombie Walk

High Street Casualties, installation view

Anneka French reviews Ellie Harrison's High Street Casualties, which continues the artist’s research into the currency of capitalism in visual and popular culture, and the complex political and social workings of various groups, this time via zombies.

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Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Gl Strandvej 13, 3050 Humlebæk, Denmark

Peter Doig

Peter Doig, Installation view at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015

Doig's solitary figures and filmic landscapes, bedecked with polychromatic painterly jewels, sparks and washes, and often nodding to painters past, ring out joyfully. Review by Lizzie Lloyd

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Palazzo Grassi, Campo San Samuele, 3231, 30124 Venice

Venice Biennale 2015 - Slip of the Tongue

Martin Wong, INRI, 1984

Taking its title from Nairy Baghramian’s phallic resin covered concrete piece, ‘Slip of the Tongue’ is a scenario for chance, an opportunity in a conversation for diversion. Review by Bob Gelsthorpe

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Peckham Platform, 89 Peckham High Street, London SE15 5RS

Melanie Manchot: Twelve

Twelve, Triptych, installation view at Peckham Platform

Manchot's multi-channel video installation explores personal testimonies of those affected by addiction, and dramatically stages some of the rituals and ruptures that they have experienced during everyday situations or activities. The exhibition is reviewed by Philomena Epps.

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