Artists exhibiting at Brussels’s Établissement d’en Face are faced with an unusual choice. The long-standing artist-run space ...

Artists exhibiting at Brussels’s Établissement d’en Face are faced with an unusual choice. The long-standing artist-run space is currently situated in a former law… ...

The year is 1974, and a pack of cigarettes costs 56 cents in New York. Photographer Peter Hujar spends 89 cents on an ...

Daoist tradition teaches that at the time of death, souls journey to their next dimension by taking flight on cranes. Regarded as symbols of immortality in ancient Chinese lore, these mythic cranes ...

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 ...

Launched in 1995, SITE International Biennial was the first biennial for contemporary art in the United States. Over the course of its eleven editions, the organization has primarily focused on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Historical hypocrisies are thus made into moments of sincere personal shortcomings rather than situated as forms of systemic oppression essential to the construction of the world’s most merciless ...

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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 ...