Abbas Malakar 4/23/25 Abbas Malakar 4/23/25

Review of vanessa german’s “GUMBALL”

Sculptures made of crystals, porcelain, and poetry outline german’s process of spirituality and vulnerability.

Lodoe Laura 4/22/25 Lodoe Laura 4/22/25

Ramón Saturnino: “Aquí no es así”

Ramón Saturnino’s first solo exhibition approximates the architecture of the Mexico-USA border.

Editorial Team 4/21/25 Editorial Team 4/21/25

Editors’ Selects: April 2025

Highlight exhibitions in New York City and beyond.

Lydia Nobles 4/20/25 Lydia Nobles 4/20/25

Familiars Dance Among the Inverted

At All Street Gallery, Annu Yadav’s solo show, Gold God Meat, dazzles audiences with ritual, rupture, and reclamation.

Theodora Bocanegra Lang 4/19/25 Theodora Bocanegra Lang 4/19/25

Sealed Spirits

Curses and spirits embed themselves in Emma Rose Schwartz’s new exhibition at Derosia.

Catherine Sawoski 4/18/25 Catherine Sawoski 4/18/25

Outside the Box

Files boxes labeled with lesbian innuendos begin our surreal and sensual trip through the queer archives.

Xuezhu Jenny Wang 4/18/25 Xuezhu Jenny Wang 4/18/25

Review: While Being Plasmic Membranes

In exploring metamorphosis as a bio-social constant, the artist blurs the line between body and objecthood.

Spencer Klink 4/16/25 Spencer Klink 4/16/25

Eroding the Nature-Culture Divide

A group exhibition at Murmurs LA maps feminist ecologies as envisioned by nine female artists.

Katya Borkov 4/14/25 Katya Borkov 4/14/25

Veils of Velvet: Decoding Lior Modan’s Reliefs

Lustrous, ephemeral, and mysterious velvet reliefs subtly reveal the ambiguous spaces between reality, memory, and feeling.

Robin Waart 4/13/25 Robin Waart 4/13/25

Something Like

Each iteration of Jagudajev’s structural conceit is a redeal of a deck in which performers, participants, and the cards themselves keep changing hands.

Abbas Malakar 4/13/25 Abbas Malakar 4/13/25

Troy Montes Michie: “Black on the Face of the Moon”

Troy Montes Michie patchworks archival and personal media in an investigation of the self and its constituent identities.

A.E. Chapman 4/12/25 A.E. Chapman 4/12/25

A Thousand Kisses Deep: Joyce Wieland at MMFA

“Heart On” generates dialogue on care and identity as North America reckons with conversations on unity and division, accountability and erasure.

Katya Borkov 4/11/25 Katya Borkov 4/11/25

Archive and Absence: Ohan Breiding

Breiding examines violence in resource extraction through the lens of the archive at A.I.R. Gallery.

Shreya Ajmani 4/5/25 Shreya Ajmani 4/5/25

Hong Kong Art Week 2025 Recap

From art fair sales to buzzy debuts, Hong Kong Art Week delivered a celebration of art in motion.

Qingyuan Deng 4/4/25 Qingyuan Deng 4/4/25

Review of Jacob Jackmauh: “Admissions”

Jackmauh’s solo show at Parent Company stages a poetic collapse of memory’s excess.

Maria Owen 4/3/25 Maria Owen 4/3/25

Terran Last Gun’s Eternal Ledger Drawings

Working in a powerful tradition, Last Gun presents an exhibition of transcendent abstractions at Chapter NY.

Emma Thibodeaux-Thompson 3/31/25 Emma Thibodeaux-Thompson 3/31/25

Tavares Strachan’s Energetic Interrogations

The artist’s solo exhibition, Starless Midnight, entices viewers out of successive comfort zones.

Ben Burton 3/30/25 Ben Burton 3/30/25

Review: Chronicles of the Absurd

A film about the Kafka-esque repression of Cuban bureaucracy showcases secretly recorded audio clips.

Theodora Bocanegra Lang 3/29/25 Theodora Bocanegra Lang 3/29/25

Fugitive Forms and Fading Memories in Joan Jonas’s “Empty Rooms”

Joan Jonas reflects on personal and natural loss in her new installation at Gladstone Gallery.

Matilda Lin Berke 3/28/25 Matilda Lin Berke 3/28/25

Object Lessons

The real world privileges experience over interpretation. To make an omelette—you know.