Maya Yameng Li Shows it is Difficult to Remain Outside Algorithmic Systems, But Not Impossible

The premise of URBAN SURVIVORS? multimedia artist Maya Yameng Li’s solo show at Nguyen Wahed’s…

Summer Guthery Says “times is for People Who Need Something”

Summer Guthery makes me laugh the first time we meet. She’s giving a tour of…

Alexa Grae on their Modular Pop-Opera: “I Started Writing Songs for My Voice”

On the night of January 7, pre-show chatter rings of the walls of the “Meeting…

Nicolas Party: Dead Fish

In his latest solo exhibition, Dead Fish at Karma Gallery, Swiss artist Nicolas Party presents…

How to Show the Disappeared

How to display nothingness? That’s the question posed by On Absence, currently at the Anya…

Antiquarianism Isn’t Just for Octogenarians

Last week, I returned to The Winter Show Young Collectors Night, where Manhattan’s art-obsessed under-40…

Kristin Stewart’s Directorial Feature Debut is Unsorted, Wild, and Searing

Perched on an 8.5 foot bronze statue of Buddy Holly is a fit blonde broadcasting…

50 Departments Across the Metropolitan Museum of Art Will Unionize

Lauren Halsey, Installation view at the Roof Garden Commission. Photo by Hyla Skopitz. Courtesy of…

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With and Against Deep Time Sensibility

At Liu Shiming Art Gallery, through January 30, 2026, rhythm is staged through a central…

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…