Tilt your ear to a Jack Whitten painting and you might hear music. “You gotta be able to think like John Coltrane to ...

Mimi Howard. Mimi Howard is a writer and critic based in New York whose work explores contemporary art and the legacies of ...

At three intervals throughout Vijay Masharani’s eighteen-minute video Good Attack (2021), the camera fixates on a sign ...

When I used the term “Muslim body” in my curatorial note* for an exhibition in New Delhi last year, I did not anticipate the extent to which it would draw institutional ire. I had used it as an ...

“What do you see when you look at pictures of President Trump’s cabinet?” asks writer David French in an interactive web exclusive that ran in the New York Times’s opinion section in late April 2025.

For the past few weeks, I’ve been mulling over an image from a single-channel video by interdisciplinary artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons. In Baño Sagrado (Rite of Initiation, Sacred Bath) (1991), ...

Jamie Ross creates and writes about films and exhibitions. The subjects of ongoing investigations include a secret Victorian drag club and natural history museum raided by Los Angeles police in the ...

The suburb of Westland, Michigan, where Mike Kelley grew up, may be one of the only cities in the US renamed after a mall.

Kelly Lycan is a photo-based installation artist who pulls apart our expectations of the photograph. Like a back door or a sprung leak, her work is both deceptive and expansive. It moves viewers ...

Ursula Biemann has been challenging, and excavating, how knowledge is produced for thirty years now, but in the past decade she has turned her attention to the environment. Her fieldwork has ...

Mehra’s work has this effect: one minute you believe you’re in on the joke, and the next minute you’re disassembled, caught up in the ways that the ghosts of colonialism and white supremacy continue ...

Hesse—and her legacy—is also the reason the editor David Richardson and I first met. For years Richardson and our friend Sal Randolph operated the publishing project dispersed holdings out of Hesse’s ...