Essays

Painting of a person kneeling on the floor with crab claw hands

Tetsuya Ishida: My Weak Self, My Pitiful Self, My Anxious Self

The largest exhibition of the Japanese artist Tetsuya Ishida’s work ever mounted in the United States will open at Gagosien, New York, in September 2023. Curated by Cecilia Alemani, the show tracks the full scope of Ishida’s career. In this excerpt from Alemani’s essay in the exhibition catalogue, she contextualizes Ishida’s paintings against the background of a fraught era in Japan’s history and investigates the work’s enduring relevance in our own time.

Colorful painting of a person soaking in a bathtub

Come As You Are: Derrick Adams

Jewels Dodson visited artist Derrick Adams at his New York studio as he prepared for an exhibition of new paintings in Los Angeles in the fall of 2023. She reports on these works and on Adams’s embrace of joy, humor, and contradiction.

Jennifer Guidi’s Hawk Soars Skyward (Painted Natural Sand, Yellow-Orange-Pink Sky, Green, Purple and Black Mountains, Red, Blue, Purple, Turquoise, Yellow, Orange, Lavender and Green, Black Ground), 2023

Jennifer Guidi: Mountain Range

Invited to exhibit at Château La Coste in Provence, Jennifer Guidi created a new body of work that engaged with the cantilevered architecture of the gallery building, designed by Richard Rogers, and with the artistic heritage of the region. Amie Corry reports on the evolution of the exhibition and on its place within Guidi’s larger practice.

portrait of a person staring directly at the camera

Everywhere Light

Jake Skeets reflects on Richard Avedon’s series In the American West, focusing on the portrait of his uncle, Benson James.

A child stands behind a camera filming something out of the image frame, another child stands nearby to the right

The Bigger Picture
IntoUniversity

Precious Adesina charts the development of the UK-based nonprofit organization IntoUniversity.

Game Changer
Dorothy Miller

Scholar Wendy Jeffers is working on a comprehensive biography of Dorothy Miller, the groundbreaking curator who joined the Museum of Modern Art in its early years, building, over the course of decades, an innovative and remarkable program promoting contemporary American artists. Here, Jeffers recounts some key moments from this extraordinary life.

Double exposure of artist Marcel Duchamp, the first exposure showcases Duchamp looking out of the frame while the second exposure showcases Duchamp looking directly at the viewer and smiling

Still Life, Still

Harry Thorne reflects on Brian O’Doherty’s recording of Marcel Duchamp’s heart.

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Your body is a battleground), 1989

American Artists and Reproductive Justice

Salomé Gómez-Upegui traces the history of visual artists’ involvement in the fight for reproductive rights in the United States.

AI-generated artwork of a child staring at the viewer with their hair blowing to the side

A Wild Wild Wind: Bennett Miller’s AI-Generated Art

Benjamín Labatut addresses Bennett Miller’s engagement with artificial intelligence as a partner in the creation of a series of new artworks, asking what this technology—and its hallucinations—can reveal about our own humanity.