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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.