The day I went to see Roksana Pirouzmand’s everything was once something else, in Los Angeles, I woke to vibration—a push ...

This episode features Camille Bacon, a Chicago-based writer, editor, and the co-founder of Jupiter Magazine. In a far-ranging ...

For five months I lived with open windows in a suburb of San Juan, air ventilating through my apartment on days of both intense heat and rain. During one particularly dense rainstorm, the circulating ...

Launched in 1995, SITE International Biennial was the first biennial for contemporary art in the United States. Over the course of its eleven editions, the organization has primarily focused on ...

“It is worth wondering, perhaps, what the wishes are in kissing,” Adam Phillips writes. In his readings of Freud, Phillips suggests that a kiss is the admission that the self cannot wholly, singularly ...

Last year, from my parents’ windows in Penang, Malaysia, a dark arm of sand appeared on the surface of the water. It was small and skeletal, with an exposed spine and arteries: dredging pipes that ...

What’s left of art in Toronto? Since November 2023, three curators no longer hold their positions at contemporary art institutions in Toronto. Anishinaabe curator Wanda Nanibush’s “departure,” as the ...

“What do you see when you look at pictures of President Trump’s cabinet?” asks writer David French in an interactive web exclusive that ran in the New York Times’s opinion section in late April 2025.

Vaginal Davis, Hofpfisterei (detail), 2024/2025. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Steven Paneccasio. I arrived at the 14th Gwangju Biennale intrigued but skeptical about its goals. This year’s title is Soft ...

Ursula Biemann has been challenging, and excavating, how knowledge is produced for thirty years now, but in the past decade she has turned her attention to the environment. Her fieldwork has ...

The feeling arrived as a sense of wanting to get away. Then I thought I was too hot, my frequent complaint, never voiced, that the sunlight in LA is too bright and loud. For over an hour I passed, ...

Ed Ruscha is a great American art daddy, such that he has been called “the deadpan laureate of American art,” “the great American Pop and Conceptual artist,” “one of the most important figures in ...