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Aug 25, 2026 The Village That Wove Its Own Map A drone photographs the round adobe compounds of northern Ghana; the plan travels to Bolgatanga; eight weavers fill the ... Xanthe Somers: The Vessel That Talks Back Aug 24, 2026 Xanthe Somers: The Vessel That Talks Back Woven clay glazed until it reads as fabric; titles borrowed from an 1868 weaving poem; a basketry technique carrying the... Aug 24, 2026 Jane Yang-D'Haene: The Jar That Waited Thirty years in New York before she first touched clay; a decade later her moon jars sit in the Smithsonian — textured... Aug 24, 2026 The Not-To-Do List A chemist in Paris taught him to calculate a glaze that behaves the same way every time. He used it to write out the opp... Aug 5, 2026 Mona Hatoum: The Architecture of Unease A glass web floats overhead, a red world map rolls underfoot, and a metal tower forgets how to stand. Across three rooms... Aug 5, 2026 Anish Kapoor: The Void With a Body A black floor becomes a fall; a red membrane presses against brutalist concrete. At the Hayward Gallery, Anish Kapoor gi... Jul 19, 2026 Peter Fischli: Signals Without a Script Grey poles, loose cables, lights in white and orange that refuse a timetable. At the Fridericianum, Peter Fischli turns ... Jul 19, 2026 Video Craft: When the Screen Needs a Loom Encoding, looping, sampling—returned to cloth and clay. At San Francisco's Museum of Craft and Design, nearly twenty a... Jul 19, 2026 Olafur Eliasson: The Rainbow That Needs You A yellow corridor that drains colour from your hands. A rainbow that exists only from your angle. After Singapore, Auckl... Jul 19, 2026 Hard Feelings: The Whitney After the Shout Fifty-six artists, no manifesto title, a hang critics call roomy or sublime. The 2026 Whitney Biennial does not shout. I... Jul 19, 2026 Jongjin Park: Paper That Remembers Fire Tissue paper dipped in porcelain slip, stacked by the thousand, then fired until the paper vanishes. What remains is roc... Jul 17, 2026 In Minor Keys: Venice After Koyo Kouoh Not the fanfare — the minor key. The 61st Venice Biennale carries Koyo Kouoh's title and her absence: a call for softe...