NEW YORK NARS Foundation Set against the collapsing tides of the Anthropocene, Aotearoa New Zealand artist Gill Gatfield’s current installation (on view through September 20, 2025) brings the urgency of habeas corpus to New York City, a place long mythologized as a refuge, but also pulsing at the crossroads of data, capital, and control.
Do Ho Suh
LONDON Tate Modern Spanning three decades and multiple cities that he has called home—including Seoul, New York, and London—the exhibition coalesces around a Korean phrase that references an old idea of packing up a house and moving it through time and place. Rather than thinking of time as linear, however, Suh thinks of cycles of time and returns, carrying elements of one home to another.
Lines Between: A Conversation with Indriķis Ģelzis
Intricate connecting lines flow through Indriķis Ģelzis’s sculptures, installations, and drawings. The Riga-based artist grew up in the post-Soviet moment, the son and grandson of prominent architects who helped to shape Latvia’s built environment, so it’s not surprising that his work harnesses line and geometry not only to organize form, but also to convey information, both concrete and abstract.
Couzyn van Heuvelen
WATERLOO, ONTARIO, CANADA Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery Though van Heuvelen sticks close to the visual reality of things, and fidelity is paramount, scale is something else altogether.
Places Are Not Empty: A Conversation with Maksud Ali Mondal
Maksud Ali Mondal is interested in the transformation of organic matter. His research- and process-based sculptures such as Synthesized Forest (2024), You Are What You Eat (2023), and Autonomous Habitat (2022) do not so much grow as decay, following the disintegrative processes of nature.
Umico Niwa
HOUSTON Asia Society Texas Umico Niwa’s current exhibition, “Memory Palace” (on view through October 12, 2025), doubles as an exhilarating scavenger hunt through the Asia Society Center’s two floors, revealing something charming and playful about the capacity of architectural adornment to intimate and structure selfhood.
Wild Eye: Art and Nature on the North Yorkshire Coast
Can contemporary art heighten our awareness of the natural world, bringing the beauty and jeopardy of what surrounds us into sharper focus? The curators of the recently completed Wild Eye coastal art and nature trail in North Yorkshire, England, believe so.
Olafur Eliasson
LOS ANGELES The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA In “OPEN,” Eliasson encouraged careful looking as a means to “sense our way into” larger systems. That he mostly missed these goals didn’t dampen the possibility for enjoyment of his often spectacular installations, or his commendable ambition.
Freedom Is Never Really Free: A Conversation with Ai Weiwei
To say that “Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei,” the artist’s current retrospective at the Seattle Art Museum, is timely would be an understatement.
