Arewà Basit on Her Amy Sherald Portrait and Alchemizing Trans Joy

Sep 9, 2025

In the international queer community, Arewà Basit is known as a dancing, singing don-diva who makes music, performs in drag, and co-leads the Black queer production organization Legacy. These days, she’s also making headlines for being the subject of a “controversial”...

Kimsooja Offers Refuge in an Anti-Refugee World

Sep 9, 2025

AMSTERDAM — Whenever I encounter artworks or architecture from the so-called “Dutch Golden Age,” perhaps more accurately known as its colonial period — a daily occurrence since my relocation to the Netherlands last year — I’m reminded of Teju Cole’s reevaluation...

Trump’s Tariffs Send Shockwaves Through the Art World

Sep 9, 2025

Thomas Fuchs had finished packing up several paintings from his Stuttgart-based gallery that he was preparing to exhibit at the Armory Show in New York last week when his shipping agent warned him about an unanticipated problem. The art would not be subject to...

The Works on Water Triennial Puts Commitment Over Spectacle

Sep 9, 2025

A group show on an island a boat ride away from Manhattan is unlikely to attract the same attention as flashier happenings on the city’s busy fall art calendar, yet their work is no less deserving of it. The Works on Water (WoW) Triennial at the Arts Center at...

Emily Kam Kngwarray’s Language of Country 

Sep 9, 2025

LONDON — An exquisite rhythm rolls across the sheer mass of Emily Kam Kngwarray’s paintings, produced in prolific bursts of creativity between 1980 and 1996, the last decade and a half of her life. As she worked at the forefront of a movement that sought to translate...