What remains after writing—after the body that held the pen is gone? Carmen Neely’s remains (2026) hung alone on a white wall ...

This episode features Abbas Akhavan, a Tehran-born artist based between Montreal and Berlin, who is representing Canada at ...

1. Writing is a way of loving. To love is to give life, continuity. This is a story about lives that were not meant to go on. But they did go on. Soon after artist Gabrielle Goliath was informed that ...

When I asked her about the genesis of her current exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary, Lines That World a River, Shahana ...

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Abbas Akhavan (b. 1977, Tehran) has lived in Canada for the past thirty years and is currently based between Montréal and Berlin. Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include the Walker Art Center, ...

In Continent of Misbelief at David Kordansky Gallery in New York, Jared Buckhiester stages American masculinity as a ritual of collapse and works inside what’s left of American power. Horse, chain, ...

This year’s Berlin Biennale title, The Present in Drag, spells out clearly what we can expect. The aim of the show is to reflect our contemporary moment back to us in a performative guise; in this ...

I got lost several times on my way to Casa Susanna, the exhibition I had set out to write about. It was a sticky Friday night in July—“date night” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as the Met ...

I first saw Martin Wong’s prison paintings when I visited a two-person exhibition of Wong and the contemporary painter Aaron Gilbert at PPOW Gallery in 2021. Five of them were included in the show. I ...

At three intervals throughout Vijay Masharani’s eighteen-minute video Good Attack (2021), the camera fixates on a sign hanging in a pet store above the cash register. The letters on the sign are ...

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 ...