Standouts at the 2025 Performa Biennial
Compelling commissions from Ayoung Kim, Pakui Hardware, Tau Lewis, Regina José Galindo, Robertas Narkus, and Lina Lapelytė.
Theaster Gates’s Harvest Season in Chicago
Gates transforms material and archive in two solo exhibitions across the city.
Salvation and Care in Clay
Reverend Joyce McDonald conveys an unmatched level of delicate sincerity in her biographic sculptures.
Reclaiming the Fantastic at the Studio Museum in Harlem
The Studio Museum reemerges as a global hub for Black creativity where artists, ideas, and community continually reshape the meaning of art.
An Ode to Waste
Notes on found-object art and one of its trailblazing practitioners, Rosalie Smith.
Sound as Body: Coco Klockner
Klockner stages vibrational intercourse and interrogates the objecthood of sound at SculptureCenter.
Cruising the Margins: Christy Gast’s Intimate Materiality
Gast presents a collaborative, queer and lesbian library at Nina Johnson.
In Conversation with Lucía Reissig
Reissig reimagines sculpture as a language of containment, where care, labor, and translation converge in material form.
Timekeeping and Shapeshifting in Clay: In Conversation with Jasmin Franko
Franko creates works that render speculative approaches to time and belonging through the lens of science fiction, afro-futurism, and archeology.
Art, Work, and the Invisible at NON STNDRD
A Matter of the Invisible is a flow through the oft-disregarded material conditions of capitalism’s past and present.
Alive With Ghosts
Nickola Pottinger’s “duppies” haunt and heal in her first museum solo show.
Fracture Aesthetic at Frieze Week
Standouts at Frieze London, Minor Attractions, and Echo Soho.
Tangled Threads of Work and Play
Obsesión! Labor as Pleasure asks the harder questions without abandoning delight.
Amiko Li’s Ouroboros of Motion and Stillness
Li’s solo exhibition is a meditation on decision paralysis, the illusion of choice, and the defiance of slowing down in a world that demands speed.
Next to Something Wonderful: Whiting Tennis’s “Refuge”
In his eighth exhibition with Greg Kucera Gallery, Tennis blurs the line between the real and the imagined.
To Confound or Excite?
Nayland Blake toes the line between stark conceptualism and sexual thrill at Matthew Marks.
The Fish that Plays the Reed Organ
Yuko Mohri’s Entanglements at Pirelli HangarBicocca animates the overlooked tchotchke.
Focus America at Contemporary Istanbul
Turkey’s biggest art fair marked 20 years, bringing galleries, artists, and speakers from the US to the Bosphorus.