Object Lessons
The real world privileges experience over interpretation. To make an omelette—you know.
Placemaking through Painting: Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori at Karma
Gabori’s practice renders maps of her homeland from memory.
Le’Andra LeSeur and the Eternal Ephemerality of Suspension
“We can float,” LeSeur announces in Monument Eternal, “we don’t have to break, we don’t have to shatter.”
Images Across the Veil: Tyler Mitchell
In his first solo exhibition with Gagosian, the artist pushes the boundaries of form and challenges photographic transience.
Teresa Solar Abboud: “Tu sombra sustituida”
In Mexico City, Teresa Solar Abboud nods at a shared biology that emerges from the soil.
Killing the Womanly Parts: NAATCO's Gender-Bending “Cymbeline”
In the National American Theater Company’s Cymbeline, every rageful man is played by an Asian American woman.
Shifting /\ Gazes Defines Space
At NARS Foundation, a residency show constructs an experiential meditation.
Review of Anne Imhof’s “DOOM: House of Hope”
Park Avenue Armory’s new commission is a series of vignettes and a study in dynamics.
Stripping Down to Our Hair at 601Artspace
A.E. Chapman weaves together Black and Native histories, queer liberation, domestic labor, and gendered performance.
Amazons. The Ancestral Future
A show illuminates how the everyday work of care and guardianship, so intimately connected to Indigenous life, is itself a form of warriorhood.
Who is the hunter, who is the prey?
Kai Oh’s recent works explore self-objectification and the fragmentation of narrative in contemporary visual culture.
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.
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.
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.
Building Worlds at the Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition navigates a sense of place, presenting the many Brooklyns personal to the artists.
“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.