HELSINKI Taidehalli In “Introspective” (on view through March 8, 2026), Antti Oikarinen contemplates the nature of artistry, the inspiration and personal methodology that drive him to develop his ideas, and the emergence of meaning.
Simon Starling
KENDAL AND WINDERMERE, U.K. Abbot Hall and Windermere Jetty Museum Shedboatshed embodies many of Starling’s themes, including material transformation, cyclical journeys, and an unpicking of capitalist production.
Martin Puryear
BOSTON Museum of Fine Arts While Puryear’s forms may hint at the figurative, the language of abstraction has always been his vehicle for structural realizations that transcend any particular artistic style, or easy interpretation.
Manuel A. Rodríguez-Delgado
BUFFALO, NEW YORK The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art Two bodies of interrelated work simultaneously awkward and elegant, eccentric and meticulous artifacts scrupulously assembled from contemporary debris, read like scrappy and glitchy roadside attractions plucked from a Cormac McCarthy desert and plopped into an underfunded but pristine interstellar museum on a Samuel R. Delany planet.
Sandy Skoglund
SAN ANTONIO McNay Art Museum Sandy Skoglund, a multimedia artist whose work encompasses photography, sculpture, and installation, is perhaps best known for Radioactive Cats (1980), a photograph in which dozens of neon green cats infiltrate a drearily gray kitchen, its inhabitants somehow oblivious to the infestation.
Mella Shaw
DUNDEE, U.K. The McManus Shaw’s large-scale sculptural forms, which take the whale’s tiny inner-ear bones as their point of reference, are made from a clay body that incorporates whale bone ash, processed much like the cow bones that have been used in bone china for centuries.
Ro Robertson
SUNDERLAND, U.K. Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art In such interstitial spaces—temporarily land and temporarily water—Robertson has found a natural corollary for their sense of self, an identity in similar motion, once condemned as being against nature.
Alberto Giacometti and Mona Hatoum
LONDON Barbican Hatoum’s deployment of geometry and abstraction transcends the specific, yet the threat of violence is always close at hand.
Jessi Reaves
MINNEAPOLIS Walker Art Center Much of the material in these works, including cotton batting, velvet, sewing pins, mink fur, and hangers, points to classic markers of the domestic feminine. But Reaves’s approach to destruction and repurposing does not completely refute these themes and tropes; instead, it feels more like an acknowledgement and remixing.
Max Hooper Schneider
NEW YORK 125 Newbury Fusing nature and artifice while highlighting metamorphosis, conversion, and collaborative practice, these sculptures recall Hieronymus Bosch’s fantastic hybrid figures and exploration of alchemy and science, philosophy and religious belief.
