HANS-JÜRGEN HAFNER is a Berlin-based author, critic, and curator.
In Paris, a library overflows with the alt-iconographic displays that made the photographer synonymous with visual culture’s last new normal.
The new director of Vienna’s ALBERTINA on building a universal art institution to meet its many publics where they are.
While giving a systematically overlooked modernist his due, a Düsseldorf retrospective continues a long art-historical tradition of obscuring Soutine’s painterly ambivalence.
While its staging of 300+ works is uniquely comprehensive, a Frankfurt retrospective fails to contextualize Germany’s best-known woman artist.
