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.
Knots: Ruth Asawa at SFMOMA
Vibrating and vital, Asawa’s works divulge multifarious energies that draw parallels between the mechanical and the metabolic.
Computer Dreams: On Information and Images
At Microscope Gallery, a survey of computer and digital technologies in art spans point-and-click adventure games to holographic works.
Brand me Tender: “One in the Hand, Two in the Fold”
A group exhibition at OXH Gallery considers culture’s entwinement with a commodity economy.
Through the Flowers
At MIT List Visual Arts Center, Elif Saydam explores urban eros in miniature.
Unwasted Moments: Re-evaluating “Tangerine” (2015)
Ten years on, Tangerine’s layered approach to time continues to offer up the urgency, energy, and spirit with which protections for trans people should be fought.
Daniel Giordano’s Praxis of Excess
Opening a site-specific installation for Upstate Art Weekend, the Newburgh-based sculptor sees red in The Green Lodge’s leafy idyll.
The Anti-Image in the Age of Visual Noise
Victory Over the Sun articulates a visual grammar of resistance.
The Engrossing Psychology of Ophelia Arc
The artist’s solo show, The Natal Lacuna, prioritizes a deeply psychological and feminine perspective of her past.
Jochen Mühlenbrink’s Illusions
A painter’s tricky techniques both obscure and reveal—and illustrate a contemporary logic of images.
“No Longer Me”: Displacement Echoed in Steel and Sound
Wael Haffar Habbal’s exhibition at GHOSTMACHINE trace journeys across a fractured landscape.
On a Field of Wild Glyphs
The 2024–25 Al Held Archives Fellow examines the mutability of linguistic signs and painterly abstraction.
“002 Fusion”: A Jest in Three Acts
On collaboration, caricature, and the marketability of Asian individuality.
“Rainbird” Ascends into the Ethereal
An experimental opera about death and resurrection uses music to craft a haunting sonic whole.
Palestinian Love and American Bureaucracy in “Mo” (2022–)
Netflix’s Mo, written by comedians, writers, and actors Mohammed Amer and Ramy Youssef, is a refugee story told with honesty and humor.
A Clown Walks into the Crowd
In Julia Masli’s Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha, laughter is the foundation of building community and collective problem-solving.