Jochen Mühlenbrink’s Illusions
A painter’s tricky techniques both obscure and reveal—and illustrate a contemporary logic of images.
“No Longer Me”: Displacement Echoed in Steel and Sound
Wael Haffar Habbal’s exhibition at GHOSTMACHINE trace journeys across a fractured landscape.
On a Field of Wild Glyphs
The 2024–25 Al Held Archives Fellow examines the mutability of linguistic signs and painterly abstraction.
“002 Fusion”: A Jest in Three Acts
On collaboration, caricature, and the marketability of Asian individuality.
“Rainbird” Ascends into the Ethereal
An experimental opera about death and resurrection uses music to craft a haunting sonic whole.
Palestinian Love and American Bureaucracy in “Mo” (2022–)
Netflix’s Mo, written by comedians, writers, and actors Mohammed Amer and Ramy Youssef, is a refugee story told with honesty and humor.
A Clown Walks into the Crowd
In Julia Masli’s Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha, laughter is the foundation of building community and collective problem-solving.
Dylan Rose Rheingold Unlocks Our Core Memories
In Dylan Rose Rheingold’s The Blueprint at Ward Gallery, the artist reignites childhood nostalgia and play.
Lipstick Traces: Taylor Mac's Satire Takes the Hand of Philanthropy in Its Teeth
Prosperous Fools turns a nonprofit ballet into a battlefield of ego, excess, and uneasy laughs.
BBBBBBBRYAN: Anti-Language, Anti-Painting
Bryan Castro’s solo exhibition at D. D. D. D. shares the frustrations of communicating through the digital digestion of word and form.
Indoctrinating Trauma and Inequality: “On Education”
At Amant, thirty-five selected artists provide a deep cultural investigation into the nature of what it means to educate.
HELLO ETERNAL LOVING PRESENCE
Seven graduating artists present standout works in the 2025 Hunter MFA Thesis Show.
You Know You’ve Seen Me Somewhere: Catalina Schliebener Muñoz
Muñoz’s new show at Olympia investigates nostalgia and American soft power through the looking glass of popular culture.
Z.T. Nguyen: “Facts Are Bigger in the Dark”
The artist’s solo exhibition mythologizes transience, desire, pain, and what it means to be on the precipice of something.
Seeing Time: Alicja Kwade’s Clockwork
The artist’s current solo exhibition at Pace interrogates the constructed nature of time and space, emphasizing fluidity and phenomenology.
Zoé Blue M.: Girls Just Want to Play and Bathe
The artist transports us into her table tennis bathhouse at Jeffrey Deitch, a land of radical feminine joy and community.
Faded Figures in a Greenpoint Window
Hoda Kashiha invites intimate interaction at episode gallery.
Gregory Kalliche’s “Anvil”: a Digital Gesamtkunstwerk
Anvil, before anything else, is a delicate portrait of perseverance at a time when being crushed feels inevitable.