But in his series All Night Menu, the writer and publisher Sam Sweet offers yet a third, new form of LA history: that of the ...

Between 1973 and 1978, Lynn Hershman Leeson hired photographers to document the life of her alter ego, Roberta Breitmore.

In Joyce Joumaa’s exhibition Prologue, music from the second, back gallery bled into the first: “اﻟﺑﺣر ﺑﻌﺷق اﻧﺎ – اﻟﺻﻐﯾرة ﻧﺟﺎة, I Love the Sea”(1979), a ballad sung by Nagat El Saghira. Small ...

Writer, performer, visual artist, curator, filmmaker, musician. A queer icon, “drag terrorist,” and grand madame of the queercore punk movement. A Blacktress, the doyenne of intersex outsider art, a ...

Visiting AMPHI Gallery for the first time, I was led to the back entrance near a nondescript row of parking spaces, lined up in front of rear doorways in a new development in Pasadena, California. It ...

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 ...

I take no pleasure in realizing the unpleasant aspects of something I’d otherwise be very proud of. In this case, the object of pride is the nearly finished Remai Modern, in Saskatoon, my hometown.

Entering The Roaming Peach Blossom Spring, Qiu Anxiong and Howie Tsui’s two-person exhibition at the Richmond Art Gallery, British Columbia, felt like stepping into a surreal heterotopia—where the ...

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, ...

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 ...

Premiering at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024 before opening this summer at the Broad in Tovaangar (Los Angeles), Jeffrey Gibson’s exhibition the space in which to place me is an earnest attempt at ...