Opaque Intimacies
Anna de Castro Barbosa’s sculptures render intimacy porous and estranged, resisting transparency while bearing desire’s traces.
Fracture Aesthetic at Frieze Week
Standouts at Frieze London, Minor Attractions, and Echo Soho.
Art as Place: Chiharu Shiota’s “Two Home Countries”
Chiharu Shiota’s latest solo exhibition is a compelling exploration of her fraught relationship with the notion of home.
Kids, don't run around the patio. It will seem bigger.
Esther Gatón creates a porous space where matter, memory, and meaning gently collide.
Tangled Threads of Work and Play
Obsesión! Labor as Pleasure asks the harder questions without abandoning delight.
Amiko Li’s Ouroboros of Motion and Stillness
Li’s solo exhibition is a meditation on decision paralysis, the illusion of choice, and the defiance of slowing down in a world that demands speed.
Next to Something Wonderful: Whiting Tennis’s “Refuge”
In his eighth exhibition with Greg Kucera Gallery, Tennis blurs the line between the real and the imagined.
“Huracán Architectures” Reveals Fragments and Resilience
From New York to Puerto Rico, Ruben Natal-San Miguel’s imagery makes monuments of lives and landscapes often overlooked.
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.
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.
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.