Parsons Fine Arts MFA Students Help Us Navigate 2025
There is an undeniable heaviness to 2025. In her video work “What is Burden” (2025), artist Hannah Bang explores this weight. Projected onto the final…
Still Life Painting That Is Anything But Still
The title of Judith Linhares’s current exhibition at PPOW Gallery, The river is moving, The blackbird must be flying, consists of the 12th stanza of…
Adventures in the Louvre Is the Guidebook Nobody Asked For
It is not until the acknowledgments at the back of Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum, with…
Deborah-Joyce Holman’s Quietly Radical Black Femininity
Deborah-Joyce Holman’s “Close-Up” (2024), currently on view at the Swiss Institute, aestheticizes a Black woman’s mundane domestic activities in a moving image work that taps…
The Cinematic Dreaming of Ryuichi Sakamoto
TOKYO — At the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, a standing-room-only crowd watches the unfolding of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Shiro Takatani’s “TIME TIME” (2024). The shadow…
Ericka Beckman’s Surreal Visions of Late Capitalism
The expansive front gallery of the Drawing Center may get the most attention, but the smaller back space and the lower-level one have hosted many…
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Gift to New York
I have this vague, flickering memory of neon orange billowing impossibly through threadbare trees like the penumbric trails of large, unseasonal fireflies. I would’ve been…
Alex Strada Says “No” to NIMBYs
As I made my way up the winding path to DeKalb Gallery, a squat aquarium of a building on the Pratt Institute quad in Brooklyn,…
Christine Sun Kim’s Multidimensional Music
The fan kicked on with a loud drone. A giant red hand flopped forebodingly over the tape meant to protect artworks from viewers, before lunging…
Dona Ann McAdams’s Repository of Memory
A “black box” — variously a flight data recorder, theater, and camera — is essentially a repository for different modes of memory. Many are in…