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 ...

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 ...

In the Helsinki archipelago, as the days stretched toward the midsummer sun, birds were my consistent companions. Gulls circled overhead as I rode the ferry to Vallisaari. On this island, a former ...

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 ...

Tilt your ear to a Jack Whitten painting and you might hear music. “You gotta be able to think like John Coltrane to do what I am doing in painting,” the artist said in the final decade of his life.

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 ...

A soft, warm light morphs into a shadow of a woman’s braided hair on the back of her neck. There is the sound of faint footsteps as she moves around her flat, shifting objects in the kitchen, the ...

They arrive at my Salt Lake City apartment in the middle of the afternoon on the tenth of September, 2016, and we’re on the road within minutes. Dani and Sheilah, both art professors in Ohio, are ...

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), ...

Every time I visit Delhi from Colombo, which has been my primary home for three decades, I fight sensory overwhelm caused by the fragility of life in India’s capital through its intangible notions and ...

Snailing (Slippy slimy slug slut), the first solo institutional show in New York by Anne Duk Hee Jordan, features an immersive installation that explores the communitarian possibilities and limits of ...

The German American artist Eva Hesse kept meticulous diaries throughout the late sixties and seventies that account for both her personal and professional anxieties, her creative process and ...