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In a large room, yellow glass bulbs were suspended from the ceiling, arranged like pendulums in a Newton’s cradle, lingering ...

Last year, from my parents’ windows in Penang, Malaysia, a dark arm of sand appeared on the surface of the water. It was ...

Jade Meili Barget. Jade Meili Barget is a curator based between France and Norway. She is currently the Live Curator at ...

Flora Weil, windris.ing, 2025. Courtesy the artist.

Tatum Howey is a writer and doctoral candidate based in Los Angeles whose work circles around questions of visuality and the ...

Not very long ago I read Toni Morrison’s Home. This, her tenth novel, chronicles the wayward journey of a young war veteran, Frank Money, making his way back home to Georgia. The novel reroutes the ...

Pablo Picasso is so famous and so ubiquitous and so dead that he is easy not to think about at all. It’s as though his most renowned artworks are in the next gallery along with his clownish public ...

My favorite page in Rabbit-Hole, the latest bookwork by Sonja Ahlers, contains only one image and one line of text. The image is a scan of a slightly stained photograph of the artist in a lacy white ...

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 ...

During the reign of Benito Mussolini, an enormous carved relief of the dictator’s head loomed over the streets of Rome, his downcast gaze surveilling the Italian public night and day. The oversize, ...

Amy Sillman is a highly regarded painter, writer, and curator based in New York. One might regard her as a consummate insider. The artist has a solo exhibition at Gladstone Gallery this May but hails ...