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.
Olga de Amaral
PARIS Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain Olga de Amaral’s long overdue survey exhibition (on view at ICA Miami through October 12, 2025) reflects a recent wave of renewed interest in fiber art, as U.S. and European museums re-evaluate the ties between abstraction and woven textiles.
Kazuo Kadonaga
LOS ANGELES Blum Gallery Kazuo Kadonaga’s work seduces almost instantly. There’s a palpable glow coming off the waxy surface of wood, the matte sheen of washi paper, the tonal gradations of scorched bamboo, and the glossy finish of melted glass.
Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes
SEATTLE Koplin Del Rio The satire and sharp wit of the “Pelts” are welcome, though they forsake the resonant power of the “Terra Nada” sculptures, with their aura of generative potential.
Monika Zarzeczna
KINGSTON, NY 68 Prince Street Gallery Zarzeczna explores the “trans-state” of objects—items that have lost their original function but persist as memories, embodying an in-between realm where meaning shifts and systems evolve.
Chiharu Shiota
BOSTON Institute of Contemporary Art Watershed Ilan Natan Magat of Israel College has said that home “can be a structure, a feeling, a metaphor, and a symbol,” and one senses the truth of that statement in Shiota’s work.
Continentes de experiencias sensibles: Una Conversación con Federico Roldán Vukonich
Nacido en Paraná, Entre Ríos, el joven escultor Federico Roldán Vukonich es Licenciado en Artes Visuales por la Universidad Nacional de las Artes de Buenos Aires, y complementó su formación con programas, clínicas y talleres junto a diversos artistas del ámbito nacional.
Twisting Reality: A Conversation with Erwin Wurm
Every time Erwin Wurm produces a sculpture from a real object—cars, shoes, pieces of clothing—he creates something strange and wonderful, inviting us to consider different possibilities for the ordinary and familiar.
Resistances: A Conversation with Louise Gibson
Louise Gibson makes monumental sculpture from salvaged materials, pairing crushed and twisted metal with reclaimed fabrics. Her current exhibition “Beachheads,” at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop where she has been a resident artist, took around nine months to create and developed in parallel with her third child.
Albert Paley: Humanizing Space
Recipient of the 2025 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award It is a good time to position the work of Albert Paley within the Modernist canon, and not only because for decades he has been understood internationally to be one of the most important artists whose workis centered on metal.
