NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS MASS MoCA Locke may be acting as witness, but he is also an artist. The work’s interpretive moment occurs in the neon words, “a dream,” which hover over the list of the dead. Which dream, and who gets to dream this dream?
Boston Public Art Triennial
BOSTON Various locations Ten years in the making, “The Exchange” (on view through October 31, 2025) offers a case study in impactful temporary public art that thoughtfully serves local communities while also warranting the attention of a broader audience.
No Hierarchies: A Conversation with Karla Black
Karla Black’s current exhibition at the Kunstraum Dornbirn places a magical art experience in a magical landscape, with the picturesque region near Lake Constance in western Austria serving as an integral backdrop.
Keith Tyson
MÄNTTÄ, FINLAND Serlachius Serlachius provides two very different perspectives on Keith Tyson’s “Universal Symphony.” While the elevated observation point offers a sweeping overview, disclosing what appears to be a grab bag of objects, the proximity afforded on the gallery floor amends and contradicts that original impression.
Appeasing Ancestral Spirits: A Conversation with Kwoma Artists Matthew Kuarchinj, Tobi Borungai, and Shiva Lynn Burgos
In a ceremony beneath the newly re-installed Kwoma Ceremonial House Ceiling in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chief Matthew Kuarchinj, Tobi Borungai, and Shiva Lynn Burgos performed a series of rituals to appease and release ancestral spirits within the work.
Michael Rakowitz
ATHENS Acropolis Museum “Allspice: Michael Rakowitz & Ancient Cultures” (on view through October 31, 2025) marks the first time that the Acropolis Museum has shown contemporary work next to historical artifacts. Named for a spice frequently used in the cooking of Rakowitz’s Jewish-Iraqi mother, the show is in many ways a search for the missing ingredient linking lost heritage, diasporic longings, and phantom motherlands.
Visibilizando la incomodidad: Una Conversación con Tomás Espina
Con un vasto recorrido creativo, producto de su experiencia viviendo en distintos países latinoamericanos—México, Chile y Argentina—el artista Tomás Espina genera un tipo de obra que no pasa desapercibida por su contundencia material y capital simbólico, pudiendo desplegarse tanto en pequeños formatos bidimensionales como grandes instalaciones donde esculturas y objetos construyen un recorrido que lleva
June Crespo: Constructive Lessons in Looking
June Crespo’s sculptures make use of the wall and ceiling as much as the floor. They jut, protrude, hang, and, at one point in “their weft, the grass” (2024), her recent show at 1646 Experimental Art Space in The Hague, they penetrate.
Thinking Made Visible: A Conversation with Monika Grzymala
Berlin-based Monika Grzymala listens to line, orchestrating its shifting intimations into space, plane, landscape, performance, and sculpture. Her Raumzeichnung (Space Drawing) works—which she defines as thought guided by the hand—always push boundaries, reconsidering how we define artworks and their parameters.
Gill Gatfield
NEW YORK NARS Foundation Set against the collapsing tides of the Anthropocene, Aotearoa New Zealand artist Gill Gatfield’s current installation (on view through September 20, 2025) brings the urgency of habeas corpus to New York City, a place long mythologized as a refuge, but also pulsing at the crossroads of data, capital, and control.
