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.
To the Dreamy Otherworld: A Conversation with Lauren Clay
At Picture Theory, Lauren Clay’s exhibition Love Feast indulges viewers in a dreamland within reach.
Yibin Wang Speaks About Self-Realization and His Creative Journey
Theater director Yibin Wang (b. Hangzhou, China) talks about self-realization and the rhythm of his creative journey.
Nicole Havekost: A Material Artist in a Material World
"I wanted to reference the body as being, in some ways, kind of wild—like we're trying to domesticate these things that we live in," Havekost explains.
Eva Hesse: Five Sculptures
At Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street, Eva Hesse: Five Sculptures concerns the artist’s mature period, which she realized in the last five years of her life.
Chellis Baird On Embracing Negative Space
Artist Chellis Baird discusses two new projects and her patient approach to her craft.
“Life on the Fringe”?
Tamara de Lempicka receives her first major U.S. exhibition at San Francisco’s De Young Museum.
Being an “Art Monster”
What does it mean to be a monster? Lauren Elkin asks this in her latest nonfiction book, Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art (2023).
Refashioning: CFGNY & Wataru Tominaga
Everything is freely given, but nothing is made easy in Refashioning: CFGNY & Wataru Tominaga, a joint exhibition on view at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
Reconciling Immigration Discourses Through Art with Marta Djourina
Born in Bulgaria and having moved to Berlin, Germany to study art at the age of 18, Marta Djourina speaks about travel, immigration, longing, and nostalgia.
Everyone in New York Has Biceps
Everyone in New York has biceps ≠ Every New Yorker has biceps.
And now you do too.