Soon after artist Gabrielle Goliath was informed that her work Elegy was selected to represent South Africa at the 61 st ...

It was an ordinary Friday evening in September, perhaps already giving way to Saturday morning bleariness, when I turned to my partner half asleep and said “Bae, I think I’m going to join a union.” It ...

But in his series All Night Menu, the writer and publisher Sam Sweet offers yet a third, new form of LA history: that of the ...

In Kensington Market: Meditations on Home, photographer Wayne Salmon continues his decades-long rumination on the beauty of Black life within the wake of slavery. Through delicate, care-filled prints, ...

My quiet mother, my Umma, used to write me letters, then regarding them, say, “I don’t speak well but I can write better. Without the listener in front of me, my writing conveys my true intent.” There ...

What does an art practice that contends with feminism look like? In what ways can such a practice foreclose a confrontation with the complexities of gender expression and sexuality? Or reinforce an ...

Between 1973 and 1978, Lynn Hershman Leeson hired photographers to document the life of her alter ego, Roberta Breitmore. Dressed in a glossy blond wig, white blouse, and polka-dot skirt, Hershman ...

Every year, more cities mount biennials. Over a century of variations on a similar theme, and the purpose of this recurring model remains unclear – beyond, perhaps, attracting cultural tourism, and in ...

“It is worth wondering, perhaps, what the wishes are in kissing,” Adam Phillips writes. In his readings of Freud, Phillips suggests that a kiss is the admission that the self cannot wholly, singularly ...

In Joyce Joumaa’s exhibition Prologue, music from the second, back gallery bled into the first: “اﻟﺑﺣر ﺑﻌﺷق اﻧﺎ – اﻟﺻﻐﯾرة ﻧﺟﺎة, I Love the Sea”(1979), a ballad sung by Nagat El Saghira. Small ...

Kurimanzutto is a pristine, vaulted gallery in the San Miguel de Chapultepec neighborhood of Mexico City. As part of the recent exhibition XYLAÑYNU. Taller de los Viernes, cumbia music drifts over the ...

As the longest-running institutional survey of contemporary American art, the Whitney Biennial never fails to create “discourse.” Each iteration makes a claim about the cultural moment in which it ...