Issue 243

What are the questions that you should ask yourself and your curator before sharing your artwork?

On the 100th anniversary of the birth of influential photographer, we revisit his landmark photo book, ‘The Americans’

How a filmmaker’s research into historic Afro-Asian solidarities led him to Zanzibar in search of a little-known political icon

On the occasion of the artist’s exhibition at Spike Island, his former collaborator dissects the 1992 sculptural installation

The elusive artist’s subtle works prompt viewers to question their ways of looking

The master performer reconsiders the critical legacy of the form by pulling a few strings

The intimate and resolute character of an artist who leaves no trace

Lynne Tillman meets with her long-time friend to discuss fairytales and the artist’s beautifully layered works

The director’s 1963 film, ‘The Cool World’, is a unique misstep in her lauded career

Thomas J. Lax, Rodney McMillian and Zoé Whitley reflect on the exhibitions and projects that shaped the iconic institution

Does our understanding of pre-Stonewall theatre rely on the memories of vanishing people?

Her pseudo-sacred sculptures at Lisson Gallery create a bricolage of Christo-medieval relics, high fashion and doomsday aesthetics

At the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the late artist’s conceptual practice exists in the polarity between obsessive documentation and rigorous anti-interpretation

The 2024 edition faces the challenges of past iterations while overcoming their many pitfalls with an impressive and beautiful showcase

An exceptional retrospective at WIELS, Brussels, showcases how the late artist meticulously documented his life’s journey by carefully observing his surroundings

Despite a lackluster inaugural exhibition, Hampi Art Labs shows promise as a revitalizing institution in the region

At Zurich’s Haus Konstruktiv, the artist reanimates a past work to make sense of Germany’s present

The artist’s new installation at SculptureCenter is a strained metaphor for colonization, gender binaries and time itself

A concise and subtle exhibition of drawings and gouaches at FLAG Art Foundation, New York, offers a melancholic meditation on beauty, glamour and artifice

At Alberta Pane Gallery in Paris, Regina José Galindo and Iva Lulashi take different approaches to articulating the experience of women in society