Whitney Biennial 2026Whitney Museum of American Art, New YorkMarch 8 – August 23, 2026 Curated by Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer In Emilie Louise Gossiaux’s ballpoint-pen-and-crayon drawing Co-Shaping One Another with the Moon (2025), a nude human figure and…
“The First Novel Written by AI is Here,” an article proclaimed in 2018. The author doubted AI tools could ever write a good novel but nevertheless conceded that one “might just see fragments of meaning thrown into a neural network…
1: The Giantess When I first saw her in 2023, I had a job that paid me to tell stories about animals and an apartment in Berlin I rarely left. Most days I was squirreled under…
The 61st Venice Biennale, “In Minor Keys,” cites One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez as one of its inspirations—the story of Macondo, the town where the novel unfolds. A fragment that never made…
By Alt Går Bra (Branko Boero Imwinkelried and Agnes Nedregård)
In the 1990s and early 2000s, Aaron Cobbett’s analog camera immortalized queer nightlife in Manhattan’s East Village through fabulous photo shoots that both rivaled contemporary fashion editorials and rejected the fashion world’s unattainable beauty ideals. Most…
The tension between the global and the local has long been a productive site of debates within queer studies. Transnational queer scholarship in recent years has largely moved away from “including” Asia for globalization of queer theory,…
“Yves Saint Laurent and Photography”June 11, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026International Center of Photography (ICP) How best to present the dialogue between fashion and photography? Each medium depends on the other—for material, for inspiration, for documentation.…
At one point in Gangsterism, Isiah Medina’s 2025 experimental feature film, the protagonist, filmmaker Clem, confronts the comrade he suspects of unauthorized online leaks of his film. The respondent, seemingly the only white character in the film,…
The Prada Rong Zhai sits on North Shaanxi Road in Shanghai, behind a stretch of wall and a detail of guards. Built in the early twentieth century as a private mansion, with Corinthian columns, leaded-glass windows,…
