EDITORS' LETTER
Vital Acts: On the Public Work of Criticism
Artforum's new co-editors address the enduring stakes of art writing
By Daniel Wenger, Rachel Wetzler
FIGURE STUDY
Downtown New York's Favorite Hustler-Dealer
Grabbing martinis with Jenny Borland, the Jenny behind Jenny's
By Gracie Hadland
TOP TEN
Yuming Forever: Ei Arakawa-Nash on the J-Pop Icon Who Soundtracked Their Life
The Venice Biennale artist on Yumi Matsutoya's world of teen fantasy, queer becoming, and postcolonial reckoning
By Ei Arakawa-Nash
PHYSICS
Paul Chan on ICE Whistles and the Politics of Sound
"Whistling has become the lingua franca of the streets"
By Paul Chan
PASSAGES
Henrike Naumann (1984–2026) Made Fascism Feel Eerily Familiar
"She took on a story most found too uncomfortable to face"
By Alexander Koch
BOOKS
Ben Lerner's Transcription and the Literary Readymade
The writer's fourth novel is a work of art for a new age of mechanical reproduction
By Gemma Sieff
POLEMIC
When Criticism Was Life and Death
On "Problems of Criticism" and judgment in times of crisis
By Harmon Siegel
PREVIEWS
Summer Previews: The Season's Most Anticipated Shows
Artforum editors on twenty-five exhibitions opening between May and August
By The Editors
STUDIO VISIT
Out at Joshua Tree with An-My Lê
By An-My Lê
Features
Queen of Kitsch: Carlotta Champagne and the Art of Being Otherwise
Inside Vegas's Ho Château, a total artwork of American decadence
By Olivia Kan-Sperling
Features
Epic Fury: The Dark Art of Defense Tech
Palantir, Anduril, and the aesthetics of avant-garde fascism
By
Simon Denny
Features
Edge Conditions: The Restless Video Art of Hong Kong's Ellen Pau
On four decades of moving-image experiments at the margins of empire
By Pauline J. Yao
Features
Bronze Carnivores: How Confederate Monuments Disfigure the Present
Reckoning with memory, myth, and the Lost Cause through the LA exhibition "MONUMENTS"
By Horace D. Ballard
Features
Walking With Giants: The Return of the Totemic
On the misappropriation and restoration of a sacred Indigenous symbol
By Glenn Adamson
Amsterdam
"Vagrant and Astray":
Danh Vo's Wandering Objects at the Stedelijk
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
By Tom McDonough
New York
Elaine Reichek
Hoffman Donahue
By Glenn Adamson
Ali Cherri
Almine Rech | New York
By Józefina Chętko
Joan Semmel
Jewish Museum
By Julian Kreimer
Deborah Roberts
The FLAG Art Foundation
By Daniel Belasco
Michael Joo
Space ZeroOne
By Vinh Phu Pham
Stephen Felton
Kai Matsumiya
By
Barry Schwabsky
Dan Estabrook
Gitterman Gallery
By Donald Kuspit
Ridgefield, CT
Jennie Jieun Lee
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
By Alina Cohen
Cambridge, MA
Brittany Nelson
MIT List Visual Arts Center
By Harmon Siegel
Minneapolis
Dyani White Hawk
Walker Art Center
By Kathryn Savage
Chicago
Michelle Wasson
ANDREW RAFACZ
By Robyn Schiff
Fredrik Værslev
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, University of Chicago
By Julian Stern
Davis
Sahar Khoury
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
By Maria Porges
Los Angeles
Jay DeFeo
Marc Selwyn Fine Art
By Suzanne Hudson
Lauren Quin
Pace Gallery
By Tara Anne Dalbow
Daniel Ingroff
Tyler Park Presents
By Red Cameron
Wally Hedrick
Parker Gallery/The Box
By Daniel Gerwin
Guadalajara
Alejandra Laviada
Museo de Arte de Zapopan
By Paul Laster
São Paulo
Sonia Gomes
Instituto Tomie Ohtake
By Mateus Nunes
Sandra Monterroso
Zielinsky
By Juan José Santos
Salvador, Brazil
Vik Muniz
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Bahia
By Javier Montes
Cape Town
Cauleen Smith
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa
By Sean O'Toole
London
Julia Phillips
Barbican Art Gallery
By Meara Sharma
Paris
Leonora Carrington
Musée du Luxembourg
By Lillian Davies
Madrid
Esther Ferrer
Museo Casa de la Moneda
By Joaquín Jesús Sánchez
Barcelona
Trịnh Thị Minh Hà
La Virreina Centre de la Imatge
By Franz Thalmair
Rome
Rosa Barba
MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo
By Ida Panicelli
Vienna
Tobias Pils
mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
By Simone Menegoi
Brussels
Marcin Dudek
Harlan Levey Projects 1080
By Niels Van Tomme
Amsterdam
Jan Dibbets
H'art Museum
By Dominic van den Boogerd
New Delhi
Ravi Agarwal
Gallery Espace
By Meera Menezes
Beijing
Yang Fudong
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art ｜ UCCA尤伦斯当代艺术中心
By Yang Beichen
Seoul
Seokho Shin
Faction
By Shinyoung Chung
Brisbane, Australia
Jemima Wyman
QUT Art Museum
By Wes Hill
