THE RIFT
Experience Machine
On the queasy merger of art theater and the experience economy
By
Aria Dean
On Site
Terry Iacuzzo and
Tony Oursler Talk Tarot
Visiting "Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions" at the Morgan Library & Museum
By Katherine Rochester
Music
2020 Music Group on Digital Outsiders, Fred Again, and Theo Parrish
The NYC-based music criticism collective on their three picks for August 2026
By 2020 Music Group
TOP TEN
Pan Daijing on Nina Simone and wuxia films
The Berlin-based artist and composer shares her favorites
By Pan Daijing
Passages
Yvonne Rainer on
Simone Forti
Yvonne Rainer remembers fellow choreographer and dancer Simone Forti
By Yvonne Rainer
Passages
Megan Metcalf Remembers Simone Forti
"Forti's seeming disappearances might have been a function of her being everywhere"
By Megan Metcalf
Passages
Jason Underhill on Simone Forti
The director of the Simone Forti Art Trust remembers the choreographer
By Jason Underhill
Features
"What Does It Mean to Be Animate?": The Films of
Diego Marcon
On Diego Marcon's sick children, dangling puppets, and suspended bodies
By Matthew McLean
Features
Command Presence: The Choreography of Police Work
Sophie Landres on the movement stylings of law enforcement
By Sophie Landres
Feature
Menace in Venice: Tina M. Campt on Arthur Jafa and
Richard Prince's Breakout Show
Curated by Nancy Spector, "Helter Skelter" has "menace and teeth" and is "impossible to unsee"
By Tina M. Campt
Feature
Polymarket and Philosophy
Simon Denny on the brave new cultural medium of speculation
By Simon Denny
Features
Ross Bleckner: The Toad Chapters
By Ross Bleckner, Ryan Sullivan
Features
Vanishing Point: Richard Serra's slowly disintegrating Shift
Jeffrey Weiss on the uncertain fate of Serra's land work
By Jeffrey Weiss
Features
Genre Mutation: Harmon Siegel on Spider-Noir
By Harmon Siegel
Features
Stone Age: The Art of Lee Ufan
"Lee may be more attuned to how humans might be like stones"
By
Barry Schwabsky
Berlin
The Kyiv Biennial in Berlin
Jörg Heiser on the itinerant biennial's sojourn at KW Institute for Contemporary Art
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
By Jörg Heiser
New York
Overexposed: Matt Saunders Develops a Public Image
At Marian Goodman Gallery, photographs "figure the condition of celebrity"
Marian Goodman Gallery | New York
By Harmon Siegel
Dirty Dancing: Martha Graham's Erotic Aesthetics
Examining the affective dimensions of the modernist legend's work at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
By Elinor Hitt
Joyous Apocalypse: Kyung-Me's Ink Paintings Blaze with Color
At Bureau, sunflowers explode "like a firework in negative—the flare dark, the background alight"
Bureau
By
Barry Schwabsky
American Dream:
Doug Aitken's Spectacle of Vibes
At the Shed, the artist's focus on beauty delivers an "ultralight portrayal of our cultural moment"
The Shed
By Kelly Ma
Serious Play: Pope.L Balances Anguish with Humor
Pope.L's "provocations find their strength in the process of playing around"
The Drawing Center
By Bennett Smith
Chromatic Relations: Peter Bradley Takes a Chance on Color
At Karma, the artist's poured paintings hold "beauty and dissolution in the same register"
Karma | 549 West 26th Street
By Mateus Nunes
When Mystical Abstraction Meets Political Tumult
Lilia Carrillo's paintings at the Americas Society plumb "hidden psychic urges, archaic forces, and oracular portents"
Americas Society
By Susan L. Aberth
Under the Skin: N. Dash Paints from Body to Land and Back Again
The artist explores how the "lamella of abstraction can be torn, rubbed, and chafed"
Hill Art Foundation
By A.E. Benenson
Public Works: Group Material Returns to the Subway
At Emmelines, the artist collective unpacks democracy in civic space
Emmelines
By Jonathan Odden
Sue Tompkins's Concrete Poetry Frees Words from Syntax
At King's Leap, documents and audio works perform an "unspectacular yet remarkable" play with language
King's Leap
By Theo Belci
Taos, NM
Building Materials: Earth, Air, Water, Fire
In Taos, earthen works reverberate "with a power both ancient and symbolic"
The Harwood Museum of Art
By Dan Beachy-Quick
Santa Fe, NM
"Indian Theater" Argues for an Expanded Field of Native Performance
The long-traveling show arrives in Santa Fe, offering a fulsome portrait of Indigenous self-determination
SITE SANTA FE
By Jessica Simmons-Reid
Los Angeles
Uncanny Valley XL: A Patrick Jackson Creep Out at François Ghebaly
A surreal billboard, silicone sex doll, and dusty labyrinth prod visitors to question what kind of reality is left in Hollywood
François Ghebaly Downtown
By Jonathan Griffin
Dorothy Hood Channels the Gods
A show of collages at Fernberger tells the story of the artist's bifurcated life
Fernberger Gallery
By Suzanne Hudson
Bristol, England
Dream Apartment: Nancy Lupo's Real Estate Fantasies
"The point is the fantasy of being moored," writes the artist
Spike Island
By Alex Bennett
Venice
Turbulent Times: Michael Armitage Paints the Traumas of History
In his largest European show, the Kenyan British artist contends with the masters
Palazzo Grassi
By Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith
Rome
Mourning Rituals: Portia Zvavahera's Everyday Spirituality
The Zimbabwean artist's paintings in memory of her grandmother are imbued with mysticism
Fondazione Memmo
By Ida Panicelli
Salzburg
Cosmic Interiors: Stano Filko's Manic Ambition on View in Salzburg
Surveying the vast oeuvre of a leading Eastern European neo-avant-gardist
Museum der Moderne Salzburg | Mönchsberg
By Hana Ostan-Ožbolt-Haas
Hamburg
The Shape of Energy: Nina Porter's Transformed Ashes
In sculptures and photographs, the British artist puts matter into motion
Kunstverein in Hamburg
By Jens Asthoff
Seoul
Becoming One with Wood: Kim Yun Shin Works in Unison with Materials
A retrospective at Seoul's Hoam Museum of Art reveals a multifaceted oeuvre
Hoam Museum of Art
By Shinyoung Chung
Lunch Break
Flights of Fancy
Artforum editors have a three martini lunch
By Theo Belci
