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.
To Confound or Excite?
Nayland Blake toes the line between stark conceptualism and sexual thrill at Matthew Marks.
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.
Specters of Queerness in “Weapons” (2025)
Zach Creggers’s Weapons offers an enticing exploration of familial dynamics and monstrous femininity. Warning: spoilers ahead.
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.
Illuminating Queerness through Haze and Shadow
Two San Francisco shows render intimacy and identity more clearly by turning up the opacity.
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.
You Know You’ve Seen Me Somewhere: Catalina Schliebener Muñoz
Muñoz’s new show at Olympia investigates nostalgia and American soft power through the looking glass of popular culture.
Z.T. Nguyen: “Facts Are Bigger in the Dark”
The artist’s solo exhibition mythologizes transience, desire, pain, and what it means to be on the precipice of something.
Becoming Venus: In Conversation with Maria Yolanda Liebana
Glam, pleasure, and fantasía in abundance at the artist’s solo exhibition, The Venus Crusades.
Moments of Muscle Memory
Kang Seung Lee discusses regeneration, queer kinship, and the paradox of pleasure and pain.
“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.