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Installation view, Joan Jonas, Empty Rooms, Gladstone, New York, 2025.
© Joan Jonas / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone.
Photography by David Regen.

Joan Jonas’ Empty Rooms at Gladstone Gallery

February 25, 2025
Exhibition

Lydia Yan’s poster project highlights the e-waste crisis in Guangzhou, China, urging reflection with the question: “What do we feed our children?”
Image: Adelaide Zollinger

Transversal Design for Social Impact

February 20, 2025
ResearchAcademics

Nolan Oswald Dennis, Black Liberation Zodiac (Kgositsile’s Folly), 2022-ongoing. Wallpaper, bowl, water, cowrie shell; Approximations (1), 2021 Video, conference stand. 11 min 31 secs. Courtesy of the Swiss Institute.

Nolan Oswald Dennis: overturns at Swiss Institute

February 11, 2025
Exhibition

© Sung Hwan Kim © ZKM | Center for Art and Media, photo: Chiara Bellamoli

Sung Hwan Kim | Protected by roof and right-hand muscles

January 28, 2025
Exhibition

Christopher Joshua Benton, Where Lies My Carpet Is Thy Home. 2024. Astroturf. 6600 x 4200 cm. Commissioned by the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi for the Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial 2024-2025. Image by Lance Gerber.

Christopher Joshua Benton’s Where Lies My Carpet is Thy Home

January 24, 2025
Exhibition

Renée Green, Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 295

January 23, 2025
ExhibitionAcademics

Still from Two Moon July, directed by Tom Bowes, 1986. Produced for The Kitchen by Carlota Schoolman. Courtesy of The Kitchen.

Judith Barry at The Kitchen

January 10, 2025
Event

Otto Piene, Light Room (Jena), 2005/2017. Installation view, Atkinson Museum, Porto, 2023. © Otto Piene Estate / DACS 2024. Courtesy Tate Modern. Photo: Atkinson Museum.

Otto Piene’s Light Room (Jena) in Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet at Tate Modern

January 7, 2025
Exhibition

Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas. Druzhba (2003-ongoing). Installation. High-performance plastic, UV print, Archival footage. 2023. Photo: @saisonlituanie2024.

Druzhba by Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas at the Palais De Tokyo and the Kadist in Paris

December 28, 2024
Exhibition

Haozhen Feng, Sam Webb, and Zairan Yu. Ghosts of the Future, 2024. Installation at Boston Symphony Orchestra. Image courtesy of the artists.

Haozhen Feng | Ghosts of the Future

December 20, 2024
Exhibition

Matthew Mazzotta and Ellamonique Baccus, Chester I. Lewis Reflection Park for the City of Wichita Department of Parks and Recreation, 2023. Photos: Matthew Mazzotta. Image courtesy of the artists.

Matthew Mazzotta’s Chester I. Lewis Reflection Park Wins the Chris Cherches Award

December 17, 2024
Awards

Joan Jonas in her studio with her dog Sappho, New York, 1972. Photo: Babette Mangolte, via The Museum of Modern Art New York.

Joan Jonas Exhibitions Named ‘Best Art of 2024’ by The New York Times

December 13, 2024
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