Raqib Shaw, "Night Sonnets": Miniature Tradition at Midnight
Raqib Shaw's 'Night Sonnets' at White Cube Mason's Yard: Indo-Persian miniature heritage, industrial enamel surfaces, and nocturnal horror vacui.
Contemporary Istanbul 21: The Share of the Figure at Tersane
Examining Contemporary Istanbul 21 at Tersane Istanbul: the resurgence of figurative painting, local collector economics, and art fair dynamics.
The Bayeux Tapestry in London: The Long Memory of Narrative Figurality
Examining the prospective loan of the Bayeux Tapestry to London: medieval narrative figuration, textile draughtsmanship, and collective trauma.
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Opens: When Illustration Enters the Museum
Opening of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles: dismantling hierarchies between fine art, illustration, and cinematic storytelling in figurative culture.
Maurizio Cattelan, "NIGHT": The Hyperrealist Figure and the Limits of Irony
Maurizio Cattelan's major exhibition 'NIGHT' at Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin: hyperrealist silicone figuration, Miesian architecture, and limits of institutional satire.
Mustafa Horasan (1965–2026): An Interrupted Dialogue of the Body
On painter Mustafa Horasan (1965–2026): an investigation of body, memory, and mark-making in Turkish figurative art ahead of his memorial tribute at Contemporary Istanbul 21.
Faces Vanished from Museums: The 2026 Renoir Thefts
Analyzing museum security, international provenance, and the irreplaceable aura of the physical canvas in light of the 2026 European museum thefts.
Is Measuring a Face Equivalent to Understanding a Human Being?
The critical divergence between biometric registration and human recognition: questions of representation addressed to face, identity, and lived experience.
Image After the Physical Trace: On "Ontological Disclosure"
Analyzing Johannes Grenzfurthner's 'Manifesto of Reality: Cinema After the Physical Trace': ontological disclosure, indexicality, and the hand mark in the age of synthetic imagery.
Beeple, MMoCA, and Feeding a Museum Collection to the Machine
Examining the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art controversy: training AI models on permanent collections for Beeple, institutional ethics, and artist consent.