NEW YORK Uffner & Liu For eight years, Sacha Ingber juggled art-making with part-time work as a prop stylist on a Food Network cooking show. This might explain the recurring plates and utensils in her current exhibition “Two” (on view through May 9, 2026).
“MONUMENTS”
LOS ANGELES The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and The Brick Kara Walker, discussing her work with Hamza Walker last year, asked, “Where does it begin to take on a new life that embodies this question of its use value as a monument, as a holder of White Supremacist desire, as a relic of the Lost Cause? It’s holding all of these ideas that don’t work in the republic that we live in.”
Cal Lane
CAMBRIDGE, ONTARIO, CANADA Cambridge Art Galleries So, if Lane’s work has sundered the claims of the utile, does it represent a frontal attack on the lineage of the Duchampian readymade? Think about it: these pieces have, as their origins, objects that might have been used on a daily basis with nary a second thought.
Phillip Lai
BRISTOL, U.K. Spike Island Lai’s quotidian forms—bowls, basins, trays—signify sustenance and care but are emptied of any metaphorical intent.
Anila Quayyum Agha
SEATTLE Asian Art Museum By re-creating patterns and designs found in South Asian shrines, tombs, mosques, and palaces and literally projecting them onto viewers, Agha democratizes motifs that have often been employed in spaces marked by gendered and class-based divisions—arguably more in the spirit of Islam’s original intent than what it has become.
Elisabetta Di Maggio
TURIN Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Di Maggio’s technical language embraces mutability. Her work suggests organic remnant, decorative product, and artwork; and her co-ordination of eye, hand, and sharp-pointed instrument can fool the observer into imagining a machine was involved rather than a human.
“How To Dream Worlds”
SINGAPORE Singapore Art Museum By recognizing the spatiality of human life, SAM’s biennial posed thoughtful questions about the onset of a new era of crisis associated with the post-modernization of the contemporary world.
Enrico David
TURIN Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli The essence of drawing, its linearity and spatiality, are never fully lost, and David’s willingness to get under the hood of an artform is one of his work’s strongest appeals.
