Lydia Thompson’s ceramic and mixed-media sculptures combine architectural form with layered storytelling, exploring the porous, transitional nature of “home” as physical space and social construct. Her hand-built, perforated structures invite reflection on thresholds of movement, vulnerability, and resilience amid gentrification and migration.
Embodied Listening: A Conversation with Marc Vilanova
The work of Spanish visual and sound artist Marc Vilanova occupies the intermediate spaces between art, science, nature, and technology. His sculptures, installations, and performances are designed to “promote active listening to the often-unnoticed voices of the world around us.”
Andy Goldsworthy
EDINBURGH Royal Scottish Academy There’s a tough practicality about his approach, an unromantic ruggedness that recognizes the tensions and everyday realities of the context in which he works.
Liz Larner
NEW YORK Anton Kern Gallery Perhaps Larner is able to better illuminate, by way of cold metal abutments that strike at the core of material and form-based juxtaposition, that which is visually sensuous and apposite for organic-seeming sculptural objects. Indeed, her most pleasing forms are those that appear to be collected from nature and hardly contrived.
Steve Locke
NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS MASS MoCA Locke may be acting as witness, but he is also an artist. The work’s interpretive moment occurs in the neon words, “a dream,” which hover over the list of the dead. Which dream, and who gets to dream this dream?
Boston Public Art Triennial
BOSTON Various locations Ten years in the making, “The Exchange” (on view through October 31, 2025) offers a case study in impactful temporary public art that thoughtfully serves local communities while also warranting the attention of a broader audience.
No Hierarchies: A Conversation with Karla Black
Karla Black’s current exhibition at the Kunstraum Dornbirn places a magical art experience in a magical landscape, with the picturesque region near Lake Constance in western Austria serving as an integral backdrop.
Keith Tyson
MÄNTTÄ, FINLAND Serlachius Serlachius provides two very different perspectives on Keith Tyson’s “Universal Symphony.” While the elevated observation point offers a sweeping overview, disclosing what appears to be a grab bag of objects, the proximity afforded on the gallery floor amends and contradicts that original impression.
Appeasing Ancestral Spirits: A Conversation with Kwoma Artists Matthew Kuarchinj, Tobi Borungai, and Shiva Lynn Burgos
In a ceremony beneath the newly re-installed Kwoma Ceremonial House Ceiling in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chief Matthew Kuarchinj, Tobi Borungai, and Shiva Lynn Burgos performed a series of rituals to appease and release ancestral spirits within the work.
Michael Rakowitz
ATHENS Acropolis Museum “Allspice: Michael Rakowitz & Ancient Cultures” (on view through October 31, 2025) marks the first time that the Acropolis Museum has shown contemporary work next to historical artifacts. Named for a spice frequently used in the cooking of Rakowitz’s Jewish-Iraqi mother, the show is in many ways a search for the missing ingredient linking lost heritage, diasporic longings, and phantom motherlands.
