During the reign of Benito Mussolini, an enormous carved relief of the dictator’s head loomed over the streets of Rome, his ...

Tara Anne Dalbow is a writer and critic living in Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Artforum, ...

In the season’s penultimate episode, we feature Andrii Ushytskyi, a Kyiv-based writer, dancer, and co-editor of Solomiya, an independent magazine founded in response ...

Katie Lawson. Katie Lawson is a curator and writer based in Toronto. She has curated exhibitions for the Toronto Biennial of ...

In the Helsinki archipelago, as the days stretched toward the midsummer sun, birds were my consistent companions. Gulls ...

Premiering at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024 before opening this summer at the Broad in Tovaangar (Los Angeles), Jeffrey Gibson’s exhibition the ...

Aaron Katzeman. Aaron Katzeman is a writer, curator, and Assistant Professor of History of Art at The Ohio State University.

The materiality of images—how they can seem textured, the way each frame is composed, whether they were shot digitally or on 16mm—compels us to experience the kind of dualities that define our lived ...

I first saw Martin Wong’s prison paintings when I visited a two-person exhibition of Wong and the contemporary painter Aaron Gilbert at PPOW Gallery in 2021. Five of them were included in the show. I ...

Tilt your ear to a Jack Whitten painting and you might hear music. “You gotta be able to think like John Coltrane to do what I am doing in painting,” the artist said in the final decade of his life.

When I used the term “Muslim body” in my curatorial note* for an exhibition in New Delhi last year, I did not anticipate the extent to which it would draw institutional ire. I had used it as an ...

A soft, warm light morphs into a shadow of a woman’s braided hair on the back of her neck. There is the sound of faint footsteps as she moves around her flat, shifting objects in the kitchen, the ...