Face to Face: October 2025
Studio visits with Adam Shiu-Yang Shaw, Alex Schmidt, Esvin Alarcón Lam, and Benjamin Langford.
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.
Little Boy Blue: A review of “House of McQueen”
A new biographical drama tries to capture the flair of one of the fashion world’s most boundary-pushing designers.
Trajal Harrell Breaks the Catwalk
In Monkey Off My Back or The Cat’s Meow at Park Avenue Armory, Harrell brings us to a runway fashion show that tries to emancipate itself.
Ballroom Culture and Community in “Legendary Looks”
The largest retrospective of Ballroom culture to date contextualizes the lives of performers and their artistry from an inside perspective.
No Silence Will Ever Protect You*
On Laia Estruch’s HELLO EVERYONE at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
Dylan Rose Rheingold Unlocks Our Core Memories
In Dylan Rose Rheingold’s The Blueprint at Ward Gallery, the artist reignites childhood nostalgia and play.
Moments of Muscle Memory
Kang Seung Lee discusses regeneration, queer kinship, and the paradox of pleasure and pain.
Memory as Methodology: Ralph Lemon at MoMA PS1
According to Ralph Lemon, he’d be a better artist if he didn’t document his work.
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.”
Stop and Smell a Garden of Roses
John Jarboe’s immersive exhibition at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia imagines the gender journey as being “reborn.”