Echoes of Subjectivity in Abstract and Surrealist Translation
A Review of Luke Agada at Monique Meloche Gallery and Bethany Collins at Patron Gallery.
Windbreak: Meditations on John Zurier
Intangible and elusive sensations made visible in Zurier’s Pink Dust at Peter Blum Gallery.
Shared Sand and Soul: a Walk Through Cox’s Bazar
Photographer Ismail Ferdous reflects on his book Sea Beach as a site of migration, memory, and culture.
Raúl de Nieves Wants You to Reimagine the Sacred
De Nieves transforms Pioneer Works into an immersive cathedral lit through faux stained-glass visions of hope, faith, and love.
The Widening Gyroscope: William Kentridge’s All-Seeing Opera
Waiting for the Sibyl draws on the artist’s rich materiality and concern for historical palimpsests to craft a tale of fate ignored.
To Confound or Excite?
Nayland Blake toes the line between stark conceptualism and sexual thrill at Matthew Marks.
Review: “Back Home”/”Ecce Mole”
New York Film Festival’s oddball double feature on landscapes.
On Organization and Collaboration at EVA
Institution, legacy, and audience at Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art.
An Image Erased: In Conversation with Ken Gonzales-Day
Gonzales-Day discusses how his research on and experimentation with photography unpacks historical erasure, racial terror, and queer visibility.
Preslav Kostov: “Soft Focus” at Tara Downs
Manual obfuscation, blur, and glitches of the body set against a world of generative AI in Kostov’s presentation at Tara Downs.
Time to Pretend
In Myth Information, Chloe Wise pulls a thread of artifice, painting intimate settings at an arm’s length.
The Fish that Plays the Reed Organ
Yuko Mohri’s Entanglements at Pirelli HangarBicocca animates the overlooked tchotchke.
Focus America at Contemporary Istanbul
Turkey’s biggest art fair marked 20 years, bringing galleries, artists, and speakers from the US to the Bosphorus.
Material as Language: In Conversation with Man Yau
The Helsinki-based artist discusses materials as modes of expression and a collective experience of “being on display and under pressure.”
Standout Booths at SPLIT LEVEL
SPLIT LEVEL is New York’s newest art fair—here are four booths to watch.
Zoe Leonard: “Display” at Maxwell Graham
At Maxwell Graham, Leonard re-presents institutional objects to destabilize both our historical and present systems of thinking and power.
Let’s Circle Back Next Quarter
An inaugural group exhibition for Alyssa Davis Gallery’s new location.
Face to Face: September 2025
Studio visits with Zorica Čolić, Biraaj Dodiya, Austin Martin White, Łukasz Stokłosa, Chris Huen Sin-Kan, Leila Seyedzadeh, and Hannah Bang.
Cut Flowers Turn Towards the Midnight Sun
Brandi Twilley’s flowers meditate on life and death at Sargent’s Daughters.
Earthly Intelligence in the Desert
Eleanor Mahin Thorp explores ancestral relationships to the land as an alternative source of guidance for the future.