TOP TEN
Controlling Time, Being Super Hot, and Walking Very, Very Fast: Georgica Pettus Names Her Fancies
The playwright on the artworks, essays, and experiences that have shaped her world.
By Georgica Pettus
FIGURE STUDY
Bunny Rogers and Diamond Stingily Go to the Opera
"You don't need opera, the grandeur of apparitions and murderous confessions, to access horror. Not in America, anyway"
By Kat Herriman
AESTHETICS
ROYGBIV: Julio Torres's Color Theories and the art of curatorial comedy
By Patrick R. Crowley
Documentary
Crimes of Fashion: Sofia Coppola's "Pseudy Portrait" of Marc Jacobs
"Sofia's crime is not her betrayal of the documentarian's fiduciary duty to biographical explication but the tasteful neutering of Marc's histrionic import"
By Matthew Linde
BOOKS
In Defense of Myth: On Daniel Spaulding's Joseph Beuys and History
"Spaulding attempts to repair a critical vocabulary that has long known what to do with Duchampian skepticism, but is much less sure about Beuysian belief"
By Pujan Karambeigi
BOOKS
Some Fiction, Some Exposition: On Lynne Tillman's Flaneurial Stories and Essays
"Side by side, the books make a case for the permeability of her fiction and her criticism; you can hear them like Pyramus and Thisbe whispering through walls"
By Aaron Fagan
BOOKS
Critical Mass: Harry Cooper on the Collected Writings of Michael Fried
"What still amazes me, and what I envy, is this: Fried intuited that his taste in contemporary art had a historical basis"
By Harry Cooper
ON SITE
Hard Feelings: The Whitney Biennial's Aesthetics of Vulnerability
By Harmon Siegel
PASSAGES
Nairy Baghramian on the Gift Marian Goodman Wouldn't Keep
"I can still hear her whispering and then suddenly singing Verdi out loud—Nabucco, her favorite"
By Nairy Baghramian
MISC.
Letterboxd: The First Lines of Matthew Wilder's Film Reviews
"People who are 'really into eighties movies' are never into the right ones"
By Matthew Wilder
FEATURES
Bringing the Bodies:
Florentina Holzinger Corrupts the Female Nude
With a brazen gynephilia, Holzinger's art luxuriates in the violence that high art and its histories conceal
By Caroline Lillian Schopp
FEATURES
The End of Neoliberal Art: Populism, Pluralism, and the Lessons of '76
If today's art world appears trapped between oligarchy and institutional drift, the 1970s offer a revealing glimpse of another configuration
By Katy Siegel
FEATURES
I Want More Space: Klara Liden's Art of Public Disappearance
"Liden's most poignant messages, concerning the ongoing 'redactions' of public speech in Germany, are indirect"
By Erika Landström
SPOTLIGHT
The Last Kids of TV: Marc Kokopeli's Art of Doomed Nostalgia
In his tender, darkly comic work, Kokopeli sends up millennials' wretched attempts to make contact with the media culture of their youth
By Theo Belci
FEATURES
Before Friend.com, There Was Winkie: On Tech Hype in End Times
What a blinking novelty computer chip from the '80s can teach us about our AI-assisted apocalypse
By Jonathan Odden
FEATURES
The Infinite Instant: The Polaroids of
Luigi Ghirri and
Robby Müller
"The immediacy of Polaroid picture-making predicted the digital snapshot of our time, the memory machine at its most omnivorous"
By James Quandt
FEATURES
Giddily Toward Oblivion: Gladys Nilsson Paints the Human Comedy
"To lament time's march or enjoy the moment? Nilsson's maximalist dreamworlds offer the possibility of both"
By Jeremy Lybarger
New York
The Sage in the Pencil-Thin Suit:
Marcel Duchamp at MoMA
"I wanted to find some other part of the show that was free, exciting. Where was the Duchampian poetry?"
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art
By David Rimanelli
Marcel Duchamp and the MoMA Exhibition That Didn't Ask Questions
"What does it mean that this show cosplays as 'neutral'?"
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art
By
Helen Molesworth
Merrill Wagner
David Zwirner | 537 West 20th Street
By
Barry Schwabsky
Yuko Mohri
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
By Kelly Ma
Suki Seokyeong Kang
Tina Kim Gallery
By Sofia Thiệu D'Amico
Nina Beier
times
By Katherine Rochester
Wendy Red Star
Sargent's Daughters
By Daniel Belasco
Rona Pondick with Hans Bellmer and Bruce Nauman
Nunu Fine Art New York
By Jonathan Odden
Jonathan Ehrenberg
Ulterior Gallery
By Avram Alpert
New Haven
Jes Fan
Yale University Art Gallery
By Gee Wesley
Baltimore
Elliot Doughtie and Danielle Mysliwiec
Mono Practice
By Kriston Capps
Chicago
Marshall Brown
Western Exhibitions
By Susan Snodgrass
Seattle
"Beyond Mysticism: The Modern Northwest"
Seattle Art Museum
By Lauren Gallow
San Francisco
Diedrick Brackens
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
By Jasmine Narkita Wiley
Shiva Ahmadi
Haines Gallery
By Maria Porges
Los Angeles
Ryan Preciado
Hollyhock House
By Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
Steven Arnold
Del Vaz Projects
By Jessica Simmons-Reid
Tacita Dean
Marian Goodman Gallery | Los Angeles
By Andrea Gyorody
Milton Avery
Karma, Los Angeles
By James Cahill
Berenice Olmedo
François Ghebaly Downtown
By
Andrew Berardini
"Nature Morte, 1982–1988"
Ehrlich Steinberg
By Jan Tumlir
São Paulo
Antonio Dias
Gomide&Co
By Felipe Scovino
London
Nat Faulkner
Camden Art Centre
By Allyn Aglaïa
Sylvano Bussotti
Champ Lacombe
By Alex Bennett
Paris
Beatrice Bonino
Fondation Pernod Ricard
By Marzena Jarczak
Madrid
Mónica Mays
Matadero Madrid
By Max Andrews
Rome
Mario Schifano
Palazzo Esposizioni Roma
By Ida Panicelli
Thessaloniki, Greece
Alexis Gritchenko
MOMus–Museum of Modern Art–Costakis Collection
By Yuki Higashino
Vienna
Nora Schultz
MEYER*KAINER
By Hana Ostan-Ožbolt-Haas
Leiko Ikemura
Albertina
By Lillian Davies
Berlin
Matt Mullican
Galerie Thomas Schulte
By Tal Sterngast
Cologne
Monika Baer
Kölnischer Kunstverein
By Georg Imdahl
Hamburg
Harald Popp
Galerie Karin Guenther
By Jens Asthoff
Istanbul
Semiha Berksoy
Istanbul Modern
By Kaya Genç
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2026
Various Venues
By Pablo Larios
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
MAIIAM CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM
By Nuit Banai
Bangkok
Sorawit Songsataya
STORAGE Bangkok
By Hung Duong
Singapore
Elia Nurvista and Bagus Pandega
Singapore Art Museum
By Christine Han
Taipei
2025 Taipei Biennial
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
By Franz Thalmair
