Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Gift to New York
“The Gates” was an artwork within an artwork, inscribing the populist impulse of Central Park into 7,500+ neon orange armatures with billowing fabric.
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Daisy Patton Paints Wedding Photos Back to Life
The artist resurrects moments of celebration in Before These Witnesses, whose subjects look back at us across time and offer themselves to be seen.
Cum Shots Across Art History
In Deborah Kass’s Art History Paintings, the politics of display are just the beginning.
Science/Fiction Is a Botanical Daydream
This photo history of plants tackles the problem of how to pull ourselves out of the blind, anthropocentric march toward climate disaster.
Su Yu-Xin’s Metonyms for the Earth
Her research-based paintings close the gap between subject matter and material by depicting natural phenomena via the elements that comprise them.
When Our Containers Can’t Hold Us
Kay Kasparhauser’s sculptural habitats, in which live isopods and springtails, hint at the necessity and limitations of care.
Anne Imhof’s Armory Performance Is a Bad Balenciaga Ad
DOOM: House of Hope is comically apolitical and tragically hollow beneath all the hype.
Barbie Turns 65 at a Museum
From the original doll of 1959 to the Barbies of today, an exhibition tracks the life of an icon that just became a senior citizen.
Anne Imhof’s Vapid ‘DOOM’ Performance Has Nothing to Say
Her first New York piece in a decade updates Romeo and Juliet for a new age, with vapes, selfies, and back tattoos included.
Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s Ballad of the Bomb
The US deployed the largest aerial bombardment in history during the Vietnam War. Here, the artist tells the plaintive story of those unexploded weapons.