Louise Nevelson and I are twins, separated at birth by almost one hundred years—or maybe we’re friends, or she’s my godparent ...

Ruby Sky Stiler. Ruby Sky Stiler grew up between Maine and New Mexico and lives and works in Brooklyn. Her multi-dimensional ...

In my book, Spoiled, I engage with a group of contemporary Asian American artists who expose and unravel the expectation that ...

Summer Kim Lee and TJ Shin. Summer Kim Lee is an assistant professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles. Her first book, Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the ...

Akhavan has often used the garden as a structuring principle in his work, as an artificial ecology that provides both a performative logic and helps choreograph how audiences move through an ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

Like her Minimalist and post-Minimalist peers, Holt had been working with prefabricated industrial materials for more than a decade by the time she made her first System. Installed at John Weber ...

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 ...

Re’al Christian is a writer, critic, editor, and art historian based in Queens, NY. Her work has appeared in BOMB Magazine, Brooklyn Rail, Art in America, Artforum, and ART PAPERS, where she is a ...