A Kiss of Madness While Bathing, Tang Dynasty-Style at Othership

Bathhouses reimagined at the intersection of movement, ritual, and community are in vogue in New…

When Worlds Collide: A Marriage, Two Truths, and a Lie, Oh My!

  My 2025 finished on a few noteworthy notes, one of which was covering what…

For ‘Unveiled Desires,’ Eva Oh Brings Surrealist Art and Sex Work Into One Room

When I ask Eva Oh, a London-based dominatrix, to respond to sex work pioneer Margo…

Coerced Consent: Alx Velozo’s ‘Sick Play’ Challenges Medical Power

On a Sunday in December, the trans and disabled sculptor, performance artist, and educator Alx…

In Stockholm, Karim Boumjimar’s Insistence on Mutability is Defiant

I first heard of Karim Boumjimar through one of his classmates from the MFA-program at…

Archive Fever’s Poetics of the Past

At the opening of Archive Fever, people wade through a mist of sound and images…

Woven, Not Stranded: A Retrospective of The Web

Between a much anticipated opening in 1990 and its closing in 2013 The Web, 盘丝洞,…

The Opening Gambit: Generative Alterities and the Paradigm of the Salon

Stepping into The Opening Gallery’s new enclave at 41 Division Street is to enter a…

Shimmer as Protest, Music as Resistance: A Conversation with Théophylle Dcx on World AIDS Day 2025

Today is the first time since 1988 that the U.S. government is not recognizing and…

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I Attended Ten of Performa’s Twelve Walking Tours and It Was…

One November day, I found myself standing in front of a building on East 40th…

Giving the Finger to the Trappings of Genre: ‘Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product’

A show that first appeared at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm (2004), Vaginal Davis: Magnificent…

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Performa 2025: “What If You Went Live, What Would Happen?”

Centered, as always, around experimentation, inviting visual artists, who mostly do not work with the…

U.S. Labor Department Revives Leyendecker’s Queer Vision of Masculinity

  Top: “Americans First.” posted by the U.S. Department of Labor on October 18, 2025.…

Pop-up Exhibition Promotes Bodily Autonomy

In the pop-up exhibition Soft Weapons, viewers are asked to consider the works of 29…

Woodmere Highlights U.S. Fashion Icon in Their Jewelry Vault

“THE HIGH PRIESTESS OF FASHION,” exclaims the official Instagram account run by Mary McFadden’s Archive.…

In London, Frieze Week, Isabelle Binder-Lindbergh Harnessed the Invisible and Touched Hearts

Walking into The Langham Hotel in London, I didn’t expect this intimate luncheon to feel…

Sustainability and Spirituality Reign Supreme at Art X Lagos

Every November, the dry harmattan wind blows across West Africa, bringing with it a blanket…

Let It Grow: Megan Bogonovich’s Mutant Botanicals Take Root

At JLG Projects, at Jane Lombard Gallery, Megan Bogonovich’s sculptures appear as if they have…