“I don’t ever want to live in one place again,” Paul Thek declares in a letter to Peter Hujar in 1968, “too many pretty ...

This is her first exhibition at Mariane Ibrahim’s newest location—a historic townhouse turned gallery near Paseo de la ...

This episode features Abbas Akhavan, a Tehran-born artist based between Montreal and Berlin, who is representing Canada at ...

1. Writing is a way of loving. To love is to give life, continuity. This is a story about lives that were not meant to go on. But they did go on. Soon after artist Gabrielle Goliath was informed that ...

Between 1973 and 1978, Lynn Hershman Leeson hired photographers to document the life of her alter ego, Roberta Breitmore. Dressed in a glossy blond wig, white blouse, and polka-dot skirt, Hershman ...

Artists exhibiting at Brussels’s Établissement d’en Face are faced with an unusual choice. The long-standing artist-run space is currently situated in a former law office across the street from the ...

This is the first of two reflections Momus published on the occasion of Tehching Hsieh: Lifeworks 1978–1999, on view at Dia Beacon through 2027. Find the second, by Lisa Hsiao Chen, here. “I wanted to ...

Aaron Morse’s tall heavens evoke Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting Sky Above Clouds IV (1965); the big-sky country of the American West; and the empyrean orange, yellow, and black wrought by wildfires and ...

Louise Nevelson and I are twins, separated at birth by almost one hundred years—or maybe we’re friends, or she’s my godparent: a guiding light, a warning, an inspiration. Nevelson is an artist whose ...

In my book, Spoiled, I engage with a group of contemporary Asian American artists who expose and unravel the expectation that their work should heal and repair the wounds of racial difference as ...

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 ...

In a large room, yellow glass bulbs were suspended from the ceiling, arranged like pendulums in a Newton’s cradle, lingering precariously about a foot from the floor. Their color resulted from ...