A View From the Easel
Siti Muinah
HOUSTON, Texas — For more than 25 years, the husband-and-wife artistic collaboration of Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand has blurred the boundaries between domestic life and conceptual art. In the…
Photography & Art
Borusan Contemporary Announces Dual Autumn Exhibitions Exploring the Evolution of Human Perception from Landscape to Algorithm
Neng Nana
ISTANBUL — Borusan Contemporary has officially announced its upcoming cultural slate for the autumn season, featuring a powerful pairing of exhibitions that investigate the mechanics of human vision, the architectural…
The Woolworth Mansion Vision Amid Legal and Congressional Firestorm
Dwi Wanna
NEW YORK — Disgraced billionaire financier and prominent art collector Leon Black is pushing forward with ambitious plans to transform Manhattan’s historic Woolworth Mansion into a private museum to showcase…
Confronting the Architecture of Erasure: A Review of Dana Mashoian Walrath’s The Book of Genocides
Suro Senen
By Noah Fischer Published in partnership with Hyperallergic Main Facts: A Graphic Reckoning with the Ultimate Atrocity Dana Mashoian Walrath’s The Book of Genocides (Harvard University Press, 2026) is not…
Unearthing Obsession, Fame, and the Absurd: Inside Sleth’s Play The Wreck of the Unbelievable
Ali Ikhwan
Main Facts In the competitive and often self-serious landscape of contemporary downtown theater, bold conceptual gambits are par for the course. However, few productions in recent memory match the audacious,…
Amplifying the Unheard: Alex Strada’s Public Address Brings the Realities of New York City’s Shelter System to the Bronx
Raul Delapena Setiawan
By Anna Lee September 18, 2026 Main Facts Across a dozen high-traffic street corners, parks, and public plazas in the Bronx, a profound dialogue is taking place between New York…
Navigating the Cracks of Contemporary Culture: Labor, Legacy, and Illusion in the Art World
Main Facts The cultural landscape of late 2026 presents a jarring juxtaposition between systemic labor unrest, institutional reckoning, and surreal urban observations. In New York and across major global arts…
Walking the Buffalo Trail Home: Monumental Puppet Procession Honors Indigenous History and Resilience Across New York City
By Anna Lee Published September 18, 2026 NEW YORK — Lower Manhattan transformed into a living canvas of memory, grief, and survival today as a migration of 40 life-sized buffalo…
Taryn Simon’s Father Country I Do Love You: A Mammoth Archival Detective Story at the Guggenheim
NEW YORK — In her ambitious, sprawling, and deeply unsettling new exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, conceptual artist Taryn Simon confronts the viewer with a paradox of the…
Industrializing the Ancient: Liu Wei Confronts Progress and Decay in The Met’s Genesis Facade Commission
By Rhea Nayyar Published in New York A decade after his last solo exhibition in New York City, Beijing-based multimedia artist Liu Wei has returned with a monumental intervention at…
