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THE PROMISE OF TOTAL AUTO-
MATION Anne Faucheret curates this group
exhibition that uses a title, more eerie than
utopian, to ambivalently explore the drive to
have technology accomplish all human tasks.
Artists include Melanie Gilligan, Juan Downey,
Philippe Decrauzat and Alan Licht, Harry
Dodge and more. On view through to May 29.
Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsplatz 1.

JUMANA MANNA The young Berlin- and
Jerusalem-based artist is best known for her
feature-length film, entitled A magical sub-
stance flows into me, which necessitated
travel throughout Israel and Palestine to
reinterpret an ethnographic 1930s radio docu-
mentary on the “oriental” music of the
region. The corridor of the exhibition contains
a series of new vase-like sculptures. To May 1.
Malmö Konsthall, S:t Johannesgatan 7.

LARRY BELL The formalist artist was
born in Chicago but trained at what was to
become CalArts, adopting a bi-coastal practice

Jumana Manna A magical substance flows into me (video still) 2015

Marcel Broodthaers Maria 1966

John Akomfrah Vertigo Sea (film still) 2015 Larry Bell Lil’ Orphan Annie 1960 James Casebere Yellow Hallway #2 2003

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GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL From Apr. 8
through 25. Various locations. “ELECTRONIC
SUPERHIGHWAY” On view to June 12.
Whitechapel Gallery, 77– 82 Whitechapel
High Street, London. YOKO ONO Through July


  1. Musee d’art contemporain de Lyon, 81,


quai Charles de Gaulle. “DADAGLOBE
RECONSTRUCTED” Continues to May 1. Kun-
sthaus Zürich, Heimplatz 1. FERNAND
LEGER Opens on Apr. 9. Museum Ludwig,
Heinrich-Böll-Platz, Cologne. “L’IMAGE
VOLÉE” From Mar. 17. Fondazione Prada,

Largo Isarco 2, Milan. “LIFE ITSELF” To May


  1. Moderna Museet, Slupskjulsvägen 7, Stock-
    holm. “FIRE UNDER SNOW” To May 5. Loui-
    siana Museum of Modern Art, Gammel
    Strandvej 13, Humblæk. MATTHEW BARNEY
    To May 15. Astrup Fearnley Museum of Mod-


ern Art, Strandpromenaden 2, Oslo. MARRA-
KECH BIENNALE To May 8. Various loca-
tions. 20TH BIENNALE OF SYDNEY Mar.
18 to June 5. Various locations. ELMGREEN
AND DRAGSET To Apr. 17. Ullens Center for
Contemporary Art, 4 Jiuxianqiao Rd., Beijing.

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“The Promise of Total Automation”: Daria
Martin Soft Materials (film still) 2004

in the 1960s and 1970s that appealed equally
to the Light and Space–isms of California and
the Judd-isms of New York. This thorough
exhibition shows Bell’s many facets—literally, as
he often employed glass—including two major
installations from the 1980s and 1990s. To Apr.


  1. Hauser and Wirth, 32 E. 69th St., New York.


JAMES CASEBERE Photographing con-
structed architectural models as uncanny land-
scapes is now a thing, but the Michigan artist
made it so, focusing on domestic and architec-
tural spaces. On view through to June 12. Haus
der Kunst, Prinzregentenstrasse 1, Munich.

MARCEL BROODTHAERS An imperative
show if you can get to it: this is the first retro-
spective of the late Belgian conceptualist in
New York, made possible by MoMA’s 2011 acqui-
sition of the Daled Collection, containing more
than 60 key works. To May 15. 11 W. 53rd St.
JOHN AKOMFRAH This indelible three-
channel film was one of the toasts of Venice
last year: an epic work, inspired in part by
Moby-Dick, that ostensibly depicts the whal-
ing industry but quickly becomes an allegory
for migration, exploitation and so much more.
To Apr. 10. Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol.

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