The Editors

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Arakawa Visits Arakawa [sic and sic]

Postwar art historian Reiko Tomii examines Ei Arakawa-Nash’s engagement with Shūsaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins to consider how creation can unsettle nationalism and patriarchy. Reiko Tomii

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Gala Porras-Kim: An Alternative Proposal for the Life of Objects

Gala Porras-Kim, a recipient of the 2025 MacArthur Fellowship whose contribution to the Applied Arts Pavilion, developed with London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, gently unravels the extractive logic of the archive. Valentina Buzzi

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Singapore: “Elia Nurvista and Bagus Pandega: Nafasan Bumi ~ An Endless Harvest”

Yvonne Wang

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Seoul: “Proximities: Contemporary Art from the United Arab Emirates”

KEVIN JONES

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Riyadh: “Bedayat: Beginnings of Saudi Art Movement”

Chin-Chin Yap

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Irfan Hendrian: “CLOSED”

Ibrahim Soetomo

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London: “Yin Xiuzhen: Heart to Heart”

Chloe Chu

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New York: “Jakkai Siributr: There’s no Place”

Kelly Ma

News

Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu to Curate 2027 Istanbul Biennial

Having worked together since 2007, the pair will come together once again on the 19th Istanbul Biennial. Emmanuelle Richter

Shows

Whitney Biennial 2026: Care, Catastrophe, and Private Gestures

At a juncture when everyone is questioning what the US stands for, it is instructive to see how artists attempt their definitions. KELLY MA

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Printing the Unprinted: The Reversal of World Discovery

The Indonesian Pavilion at the forthcoming 61st Venice Biennale flips the familiar script of world discovery, casting a kingdom from the Archipelago as the explorer who encounters the West. TEXT BY INDONESIAN PAVILION

News

Weekly News Roundup: April 27, 2026

Barjeel Art Foundation opens its first museum in Sharjah, MMCA Korea and SFMOMA announce new partnership, Morad Montazami to lead 16th Dakar Biennale, and more. The Editors

People

The Essential Works of Rirkrit Tiravanija

Currently the subject of a major retrospective at Milan’s Pirelli HangarBicocca, the Thai artist dissolves the thresholds between public and private, self and other, performance and reality. AISHA TRAUB CHAN

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“Human Being Human” at The Private Museum

To be human here is not to begin again, but to keep going from what has already been lived. YVONNE WANG