Pallavi Surana is a writer and curator based in New York City. Many international biennales have come to replace the single ...

Many international biennales have come to replace the single artistic director with a curatorial collective, ostensibly to ...

Madeleine Seidel is a curator, writer, and editor based in Brooklyn, NY, and Atlanta, GA. Her work concerns filmmaking, time-based media, and performance, paying particular attention to artists based ...

Pat Oleszko may be funny, but she isn’t joking. For nearly sixty years, Oleszko—a performance artist and sculptor who describes herself as an ...

Daoist tradition teaches that at the time of death, souls journey to their next dimension by taking flight on cranes. Regarded as symbols ...

Donasia Tillery. Donasia Tillery is a writer, editor, and poet based in New York. Her work explores the intersections of race ...

Launched in 1995, SITE International Biennial was the first biennial for contemporary art in the United States. Over the course of its eleven editions, the organization has primarily focused on ...

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 ...

Leilah Babirye’s first solo museum show, We Have a History, at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, is comprised of twelve large-scale sculptures made between 2019 and 2024, three of which are on ...

For the past weeks, I’ve kept a new monograph on the artist Emily Mason on my glass coffee table, observing the sea of its yellow cover reflect and shimmer. It’s not a rigid object but a source of ...

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, ...

Historical hypocrisies are thus made into moments of sincere personal shortcomings rather than situated as forms of systemic oppression essential to the construction of the world’s most merciless ...