Jonathan Odden

But Live Here? No Thanks: Surrealism and Anti-fascism | The Brooklyn Rail Rather than narrating the history of the movement from manifesto to schism to journal to excommunication, or by mapping Surrealism as it radiated from Paris outward—strategies deployed by other recent...

"Stephanie Weber, Adrian Djukić, and Karin Althaus—the curators of But Live Here? No Thanks: Surrealism and Anti-fascism, a retrospective marking the movement’s centenary at the Lenbachhaus, Munich—offers Surrealism, again, in present tense." brooklynrail.org/2025/03/arts...

“The New Objectivity: A Centennial” "The New Objectivity" revisits interwar German art, revealing contradictions and dualities within the movement at Kunsthalle Mannheim.

"I’m convinced that the German interwar tendency known as die neue Sachlichkeit (The New Objectivity) was a kind of double portrait. ..." Grateful for the opportunity to review this important centenary in Mannheim @artforum.com @artforummag.bsky.social
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Ursula: Issue 12 Issue 12 of Ursula explores the inventive ways artists blur the boundaries between life and art. The cover features a work by Rashid Johnson, who reflects on family, identity and belonging in a conver...

Little blurb in Ursula 12 on Arnauld Pierre and Candace Clements's refreshingly new look at Francis Picabia's late career @hauserwirth.bsky.social
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"Thus, rather than settle for shooting wide or narrowing the aperture, Compressed Utterances and The Dada Archivist remind us of what collage as art does best: taking the sharpest features from each depth of field and compositing them into a single image." doi.org/10.1353/gsr....

“The Street” Such a question haunted “The Street,” an exhibition of twenty-three paintings by eighteen artists, curated by Peter Doig.

I was excited to highlight Satoshi Kojima's recent paintings as part of this show at Gagosian last fall @artforum.com www.artforum.com/events/the-s...