Jenan Marcela 10/22/25 Jenan Marcela 10/22/25

Tangled Threads of Work and Play

Obsesión! Labor as Pleasure asks the harder questions without abandoning delight.

Jiayin Flora Song 10/21/25 Jiayin Flora Song 10/21/25

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.

Matilda Lin Berke 10/20/25 Matilda Lin Berke 10/20/25

Control Environment

Queering site-specificity in P. Staff’s Possessive.

Payal Khandelwal 10/18/25 Payal Khandelwal 10/18/25

Hybrid Mythology: In Conversation with Rajni Perera

On the occasion of their current exhibition, Perera discusses diasporic mythology, protective jewelry, and alternate dimensions.

M. Sullivan 10/17/25 M. Sullivan 10/17/25

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.

Editorial Team 10/16/25 Editorial Team 10/16/25

Editors’ Selects: October 2025

Standout exhibitions in New York City and beyond.

Anna Lustberg 10/15/25 Anna Lustberg 10/15/25

“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.

Teddy Sandler 10/14/25 Teddy Sandler 10/14/25

Echoes of Subjectivity in Abstract and Surrealist Translation

A Review of Luke Agada at Monique Meloche Gallery and Bethany Collins at Patron Gallery.

Rory Martin 10/13/25 Rory Martin 10/13/25

Windbreak: Meditations on John Zurier

Intangible and elusive sensations made visible in Zurier’s Pink Dust at Peter Blum Gallery.

Aliya Nimmons 10/13/25 Aliya Nimmons 10/13/25

Shared Sand and Soul: In Conversation with Ismail Ferdous

Photographer Ismail Ferdous reflects on his book Sea Beach as a site of migration, memory, and culture.

Nicolas Poblete 10/12/25 Nicolas Poblete 10/12/25

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.

Justin Kamp 10/11/25 Justin Kamp 10/11/25

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.

Jonah James Romm 10/10/25 Jonah James Romm 10/10/25

To Confound or Excite?

Nayland Blake toes the line between stark conceptualism and sexual thrill at Matthew Marks.

Ben Burton 10/9/25 Ben Burton 10/9/25

Review: “Back Home”/”Ecce Mole”

New York Film Festival’s oddball double feature on landscapes.

Leah Triplett 10/8/25 Leah Triplett 10/8/25

On Organization and Collaboration at EVA

Institution, legacy, and audience at Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art.

Spencer Klink 10/7/25 Spencer Klink 10/7/25

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.

Katherine Williams 10/6/25 Katherine Williams 10/6/25

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.

Charlie Parsons 10/5/25 Charlie Parsons 10/5/25

Time to Pretend

In Myth Information, Chloe Wise pulls a thread of artifice, painting intimate settings at an arm’s length.

Annalise June Kamegawa 10/4/25 Annalise June Kamegawa 10/4/25

The Fish that Plays the Reed Organ

Yuko Mohri’s Entanglements at Pirelli HangarBicocca animates the overlooked tchotchke.

Matt A Hanson 10/4/25 Matt A Hanson 10/4/25

Focus America at Contemporary Istanbul

Turkey’s biggest art fair marked 20 years, bringing galleries, artists, and speakers from the US to the Bosphorus.