Film
Corporate Cartoon Capers
On the death and resurrection of Dave Green's 2026 film Coyote vs. Acme
By J. Hoberman
Wunderkammer
My Hongshan Jade Ornaments
The writer on his collection of ancient artifacts, all from Ebay
By Tao Lin
Polemic
Rhonda Lieberman, Writing in Style
Jeppe Ugelvig on the queen of consumer criticism
By Jeppe Ugelvig
ON SITE
The Art of Red Tape: On Mary Ellen Carroll
On the Conceptual artist's daredevil antics and bureaucratic maneuvers
By Kat Herriman
Top Ten
Chloe Aridjis's Phone Book
The novelist on her inspirations, from Lotte Eisner to a mysterious handmade brooch
By Chloe Aridjis
Ghosts
Future Nostalgia
Benjamin Paul on the emancipatory dimension of nostalgia
By Benjamin Paul
Features
Alexander Kluge, Germany's Time-Traveling Polymath
"No art ever died for Kluge": Remembering a maverick who worked in every medium
By Ben Lerner, Hal Foster, Thomas Demand
Features
Ground Rules: Judd's Adaptive Reuse
How was it that, by the '70s, this timeless approach could suddenly seem like a novel invention?
By Julian Rose
Features
The Case for Corny: a week at the Museum of Modern Art with Pageant
A Brooklyn dance collective tests the limits of performance—and the institution meant to contain it
By Nolan Kelly
Features
The Writing on the Walls
The urban evolution of offscreen word clouds
By Alec Mapes-Frances
Features
Cleaners, Shoppers, Treasure Hunters
Marysia Paruzel's fairy-tale photos make the case against Conceptual detachment
By Olivia Kan-Sperling
Features
Literalism: Art's Deadest End
How Manifesta 16, a biennial about the crisis of spirituality, mistook messaging for meaning
By
Kristian Vistrup Madsen
Features
After the Museum
The false choices behind "cultural heritage"
By Manuel Borja-Villel
Chicago
Lee Miller: From Surrealist Play to War's Witness
A fearless eye connects self-portraits and war
Art Institute of Chicago
By Robyn Schiff
New York
Jordan Wolfson: All Charge and No Aura
In the artist's sculpture show at Gagosian, "what provokes is the serene refusal to explain"
Gagosian | 555 West 24th Street
By David Rimanelli
Fashion Plate: The Image of Yves Saint Laurent
Photographs capture how the designer became a "stylish body rather than a mind intent on style"
International Center for Photography
By
Barry Schwabsky
Apex Predator: Sunny Leerasanthanah Considers the Burmese Python
Our hunt for invasive species "unsettlingly parallels state-sanctioned violence against human persons"
Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space
By Harmon Siegel
Fun House: When Isamu Noguchi Built a Giant Slide in Venice
In 1986, the artist turned the American Pavilion into a lighthearted beacon of transnationalism
The Noguchi Museum
By Kelly Ma
Ordinary Love: Fairfield Porter Painted What He Knew
Painting familiar landscapes, Porter evoked "the gulf between a moment and our memory of it"
Art Students League of New York
By Lauren Guilford
A Rose is A Rose: Mark Dorf's Botanical Recursions
At Ryan Lee gallery, AI-generated flowers breed like horticultural specimens
RYAN LEE
By Józefina Chętko
Powers of Suggestion: A Speculative History of New Amsterdam
The Historical hopes that "a few strenuously argued wall texts" will deliver what Rembrandt cannot
The New York Historical Society
By Katherine Rochester
Sim Chi Yin on Exile, Memory, and Hope for Return
The artist turns exile into an archive of loss
Storefront For Art & Architecture
By Mateus Nunes
Weather Report: Roger Brown's Climatological Canvases
At Gray, the artist paints the Great Lakes with stylish ambience
GRAY New York
By Jonathan Odden
Naples, FL
Music of the Spheres: Linling Lu's Color Scores
At the Baker, Lu's vibrant tondos "point toward the mathematics of music"
The Baker Museum
By Richard Speer
Los Angeles
New Tricks: Oliver Lee Jackson Transcends Materiality at Lisson
The nonagenarian artist brings a series of striking new paintings and sculptures to his first show at Lisson's Los Angeles outpost
Lisson Gallery | Los Angeles
By Andrea Gyorody
Muck Made Form: Liat Yossifor Piles It On At Michael Benevento
Yossifor's heavily impastoed canvases conjure both the bodily and the topographic, yet remain committed to abstraction
Michael Benevento
By Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
Amidst the Moments of
Michel Auder's Well-Documented Life
Photographs and films by Michel Auder at the new Jeni Abramson Gallery splash us with dreamy visions of lost, lush time
Jeni Abramson Gallery
By
Andrew Berardini
São Paulo
Healing Waters:
Carolina Caycedo's Reparative Participatory Art
A survey in São Paulo proposes postponing the end of the world
MASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
By Juan José Santos
Luisa Matsushita
The CSS vocalist makes a convivial turn to visual art
Teatro Cultura Artistica
By Mateus Nunes
London
Drawing Out of Painting: Frank
Bowling's Works on Paper
A retrospective in London shows how he uses painting as a machine to make drawings
Royal Drawing School
By Yuki Higashino
Sintra
Elegiac Homecoming: Grada Kilomba Plumbs Imperial Catastrophe
A survey exhibition asks how one inhabits and narrates space and time after displacement
Albuquerque Foundation
By Nuit Banai
Bologna
Alessandro Roma Finds Poetry in Fragile Ceramics
At CAR Gallery, clay blooms into color and form
CAR Gallery
By Giorgio Verzotti
St. Gallen, Switzerland
Chalisée Naamani Turns the Gym Into a Battleground
Her hybrid gym links Iranian ritual with resistance
Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen
By Jörg Scheller
Karlsruhe, Germany
Gerry Schum's TV Gallery Brought Art to the Masses
Schum's TV gallery made art a public transmission
ZKM | Center for Art and Media
By Allyn Aglaïa
Litomyšl, Czech Republic
Erotic Alchemy: Jan Švankmajer's Tactile Objects
An exhibition surveys the renowned filmmaker's art in two and three dimensions
Galerie Miroslava Kubíka
By Noemi Smolik
Istanbul
Smell the Roses: Tayfun Erdoğmuş Compiles an Archive of Nature
The artist plumbs the mystery of being by experimenting with materials
Arter
By Kaya Genç
Jakarta
Riar Rizaldi Recasts Indonesia's Cinematic Ghosts
Riar Rizaldi's haunted view of Indonesia
Museum MACAN
By Hung Duong
Tokyo
Requiem for Photography:
Hiroshi Sugimoto's Aesthetics of Ruin
A retrospective in Tokyo conjures a posthuman future
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / MOMAT
By Du Keke
Lunch Break
All Dogs Go to Heaven at Midtown's Museum of the Dog
Evaluating Victorian hound portraits and canine fossils at a Park Avenue temple to puppy love
By Alex Jovanovich
