“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The painter Agnes Martin contemplated language with a great deal of skepticism. Though she produced an impressive body of written work, mostly compiled and published for public consumption, Martin ...

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 ...