Little Boy Blue: A review of “House of McQueen”
A new biographical drama tries to capture the flair of one of the fashion world’s most boundary-pushing designers.
Standouts at the Affordable Art Fair 2025
In an uncertain market, the Affordable Art Fair adopts new strategies to create community.
Trajal Harrell Breaks the Catwalk
In Monkey Off My Back or The Cat’s Meow at Park Avenue Armory, Harrell brings us to a runway fashion show that tries to emancipate itself.
Lost Memories and Relics of Urban Living
Heidi Bucher, Hana Miletić, and Rachel Whiteread create a dialogue of time, memory, and nostalgia through architectural sculpture and textile craft.
Split Bodies, Unstable Flesh
Aineki Traverso, Nkechi Ebubedike, and Shiri Mordechay confront violence, desire, and the fractured body.
Standouts at The Armory Show 2025
Carceral critiques to Midwestern queer spaces: five booths that stand out amid the noise.
Specters of Queerness in “Weapons” (2025)
Zach Creggers’s Weapons offers an enticing exploration of familial dynamics and monstrous femininity. Warning: spoilers ahead.
Ballroom Culture and Community in “Legendary Looks”
The largest retrospective of Ballroom culture to date contextualizes the lives of performers and their artistry from an inside perspective.
Carpal Bones: “De Anima”
In Louise Bonnet and Elizabeth King’s dual exhibition, a karmic regression of bodies is shown through figurative intricacies.
Where Cruelty Is a Waste of Pain
Berlinde De Bruyckere’s Khorós at Bozar casts a haunting spell of myth-made flesh.
Rethinking Landscape with “Alien Shores”
Alien Shores at White Cube Bermondsey considers landscape as a charged space where histories unfold.
No Silence Will Ever Protect You*
On Laia Estruch’s HELLO EVERYONE at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
Illuminating Queerness through Haze and Shadow
Two San Francisco shows render intimacy and identity more clearly by turning up the opacity.
Drifting without Handlebars
No Handlebars at Below Grand is an invitation to let go of our oppressive logics and drift.