A Close Look At Mariusz Warsinski's Nagababa Chair
Mariusz Warsinski's Nagababa chair challenges societal expectations of a woman’s body.
Image, Object, and Compression with Asher Liftin
Liftin unpacks how his work manipulates object-image relationships and inhibits the viewer’s direct access to a world of optical illusions.
Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill: M*****
To mother is to be in alchemy with the universe to generate lifeforce. How then, could its volumes be contained with language?
Scratchy and Gritty, Pauline Rintsch’s Figurative Work Explores Interiority
Rintsch’s figures, which she boxes into tight-cropped frames, possess a feeling of existential confusion and youthful dread.
Ten Gates into the Future
A public art project wants you to imagine the future of Rome through vaporwave aesthetics, a feminist fountain, and an existential safari, among others.
Walking Around Covered in Magnets
Falling asleep thinking about Tolia, I hear a phrase: “Every parting surface is another entrance unfulfilled.”
BlackStar Celebrates Filmmaking from the Global Majority
In Philadelphia, BlackStar celebrates its 13th edition, spotlighting Black and Brown filmmakers.
Internal Reflections – Yuri Yuan
A lot of international students’ homes look like showrooms at Target and IKEA. It’s because we don't know for how long we will be here. A $20 lamp is good enough.
Betty Tompkins’ P.P.O.W Exhibition Recontextualizes the Female Body
Tompkins reexamines imagery meant for male self-pleasure, juxtaposing them with insults and violent rhetoric against women.
Christina Barrera’s “Revolutionary Festival”
Christina Barrera presents her politically engaged work in her first solo exhibition in NYC at MAMA Projects.
Curatorial Deviations
At Arsenal Contemporary, gaoyuan makes curatorial experimentations in the group show Theater of Energies.
Music for the Eyes: “Crafting the Ballets Russes” at the Morgan Library & Museum
“I listen to music through my eyes. I want my ballets to be music for the eyes.” – Bronislava Nijinska
Migration in Dialogue – Reiko Fueting
There is not one United States, but many, which coexist, overlap, and contradict each other.
Survival, Ghosts, and Jaguars in the Sonoran Desert
Julio Anta and Jacoby Salcedo talk about the conception of Frontera and an upcoming DC project.
Queen JustMean: Disrupting Gender Norms Through Performance Art
The Azerbaijan-born, Berlin-based Genderfuck drag queen shares a journey of change, empowerment, and taking up space.
A Former Lens-Based Artist Turns to Textile, Rendering Gestures of Care
Hana Miletić’s weavings are beautiful and complex, but deserve context.
Migration in Dialogue – Yi Hsuan Lai
The O1 visa gives you an opportunity to look back and reflect every three years, making you ask, “What was my progress?”
Messages in Flight: “Function–Fiction” at GOBI
Artists take inspiration from the imperial-era gobi to present thoughtful storytelling around collective histories and known rituals.
Other People’s Houses: The Creepy House
The only pictures on the wall are portraits of people unrelated to the family, and oil paintings of unknown provenance.
A Letter Home with Paul Rho
For Rho, the ocean is a temple — “Ebbs and Flows,” then, is a spiritual space that oozes with a quality of surrender.