Reviews

Tan Mu, Quantum Gaze (2023), oil painting of a quantum computer cryostat in luminous gold tones
March 23, 2026

Tan Mu’s Quantum Gaze at ERES: Painting the Politics of Access

In Seeing the Unseen at ERES Foundation, Tan Mu renders a superconducting cryostat as a disciplined image of authority, staged visibility, and delegated trust.

Installation view of Sayre Gomez: Precious Moments at David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
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Sayre Gomez at David Kordansky Maps Los Angeles as a Ruin in Real Time

Precious Moments is Gomez’s most expansive exhibition to date, using painting, sculpture, and video to show how spectacle, neglect, and private memory are.

March 6, 2026
Paulo Nazareth work from the AlemaN’o series, exhibited by Meyer Riegger, Berlin
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Paulo Nazareth at Meyer Riegger Makes Language a Site of Political Struggle

In ALLEMANN, Nazareth treats naming as material, tracing how one unstable word can carry colonial residue, racial coding, and social hierarchy across Brazil.

March 6, 2026
Installation view of Gideon Appah: Beneath Night and Day at Pace Gallery, New York
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Gideon Appah at Pace Turns Coastal Ghana Into a Theater of Time

In Beneath Night and Day, Appah expands his Swimmers and Surfers cycle into a painterly study of rhythm, color, and collective memory, where beach life.

March 6, 2026
Still from Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
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Prisoners of Love at Brown Turns Archive Into a Living Public Form

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme's installation in Providence builds an argument about incarceration, memory, and solidarity through sound, projected.

March 6, 2026
Installation view of Reimagine African American Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts
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At the DIA, Reimagining African American Art Corrects the Museum's Center

Detroit's new installation does more than add visibility, it reorganizes the museum's internal narrative by placing African American art beside its most.

March 6, 2026
Installation view of Barkley L. Hendricks: All is Portraiture at Marian Goodman, Paris
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Barkley L. Hendricks at Marian Goodman Paris Shows Portraiture as Social Thought

All is Portraiture in Paris makes a rigorous case for Hendricks as both formal innovator and acute social observer, extending beyond canonical portraits.

March 6, 2026
Installation view of Giangiacomo Rossetti: Résurrectine at Mendes Wood DM, Paris
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Giangiacomo Rossetti at Mendes Wood DM Paris Makes Melancholy Structurally Luminous

In Résurrectine, Rossetti stages painting as a chamber of delayed recognition, where mirrors, windows, and arsenic yellow bind art historical citation to a.

March 6, 2026