Two Tales of a City
In Beijing Stories, the sculptural work of Chinese artist Liu Shiming is juxtaposed with Lois Conner’s photographs.
Tim Brawner’s Strange Twist
In Last Caress at Management, postmodern hyperrealism guides the viewer into an unsettling realization about the overproximity to reality.
Ecofeminist Interleaving: Faith Wilding at Anat Ebgi
Wilding’s symbology conflates natural and human worlds, suggesting our synchrony and shared fate.
“I’m not queer, I’m disembodied”: Luca Guadagnino’s Adaptation of “Queer”
Guadagnino’s 2024 film is a surreal presentation of eroticism, obsession, and loneliness.
Anagrams of Desire
One could say that Ana Jotta made a single letter in the alphabet her own, but also that she already lost her name to it.
Book Review: “The Lives of the Artists”
British writer-artist Susan Finlay squares in on a precarious life in the art world in this wry anti-memoir.
Home Is Where Everything Is
Cooper Hewitt’s triennial exhibit, MAKING HOME, is a righteous reminder of the corruption, history, and love within its walls.
Ballet, Bushwick, and a Techno Party
“The only way to be established is to establish yourself.” STAMINA at Project III takes doing-it-yourself to the next level.
Hey! We Can Do It!
At YveYANG Gallery, Huidi Xiang’s site-specific installation brings an animated film to life while centering on underrecognized labor.
Yolanda Yang Scratches Deep Below the Surface of Grief and Art
"The art is never just the object; it’s always the living thread of creation, the tension between what’s felt and what’s seen.”
Building Worlds at the Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition navigates a sense of place, presenting the many Brooklyns personal to the artists.
Enduring Tethers: Cecilia Vicuña’s “La Migranta Blue Nipple”
“An object is not an object; it is a witness to a relationship.”
“Small Talk” Eludes Legibility and Invites Infinite Encounters
Iván Navarro’s solo exhibition at Miriam Gallery dissolves symbols and rhetoric into syllables and sounds.
60 years ago, the Changed Ending of “My Fair Lady” Failed Eliza Doolittle
The 1964 film sacrificed Eliza Doolittle’s agency in George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion and resorted to romance as an easy solution.
Reclaiming Distorted Archetypes: THE BOYS CLUB (Redacted)
At Susan Inglett Gallery, a group show curated by Cortney Connolly rethinks Pop Art.
Flux and Flow at El Museo del Barrio
FLOW STATES is a celebration of culture that blurs the line of separation.
“Cult of Domesticity” at LUmkA
A bedroom exhibition unpacks the complexities and parallel truths around domesticity and femininity.
JinJin Xu: “Against This Earth, She Knocks”
A poet and artist documents how dislocation affects migrant women workers.
Tactile Oppositions in Linda Stark’s “Ethereal Material”
Stark engages with tarot archetypes to delve inwards and reveal complex possibilities of emotional states, desire, and being.
Book Review: “Enter Ghost”
Isabella Hammad’s 2023 novel chronicles the resistance of a production of Hamlet staged in the West Bank.