I first saw Martin Wong’s prison paintings when I visited a two-person exhibition of Wong and the contemporary painter Aaron Gilbert at PPOW Gallery in 2021. Five of them were included in the show. I ...

Nasrin Himada. Nasrin Himada is a Palestinian curator and writer. Their practice is heavily influenced by their long-term friendships and by their many on-going collaborations wit ...

“Seeking liberation is rebellious.” —Katherine McKittrick, Dear Science and Other Stories Last summer, I was on the train with the artist and curator ...

Martin Wong Malicious Mischief, 1991. Copyright Martin Wong Foundation Courtesy of the Martin Wong Foundation and P·P·O·W, New York.

Martin Wong The Annunciation According to Mikey Piñero: Cupcake and Paco, 1984. Copyright Martin Wong Foundation Courtesy of the Martin Wong Foundation and P·P·O ...

Fontaine pleureuse, 1983 (Epoxy stone, wire and ivy) - MomusFontaine pleureuse, 1983 (Epoxy stone, wire and ivy) ...

Pablo Picasso is so famous and so ubiquitous and so dead that he is easy not to think about at all. It’s as though ...

In Matthew Wong’s oil painting See You On the Other Side (2019), a figure in blue stands at the edge of a frozen landscape and gazes out at a house beside a mountain. A red bird hovers just off shore, ...

When I used the term “Muslim body” in my curatorial note* for an exhibition in New Delhi last year, I did not anticipate the extent to which it would draw institutional ire. I had used it as an ...

Shelly’s personae are disturbingly elaborate and just as self-contradictory, confusing, and multilayered as the reality we live in, largely because they often come from real-life experiences. They ...

And, like the world, a lunatic asylum is a mosaic of the passions. —An asylum doctor in the Sarthe, 1837Upon discovering an illness, it is ...