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View of “Sopheap Pich: Cambodian Metal,” 2025, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong. From left: Herons, 2024; Old Mould, 2024. Photo: Kitmin Lee.
A circular stage is surrounded by an audience seated in a dimly lit room with purple lighting. Two performers stand in the center, creating an intimate and artistic atmosphere. Arched walls and stained glass windows enhance the setting's grandeur.
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Barnett Cohen
On anyyywayyy whatever and the politics of opacity
By Shuli Branson, Barnett Cohen
The image depicts a vibrant, abstract painting featuring swirling, colorful patterns in shades of orange, red, blue, and yellow. The top portion includes a gradient blue sky with a small yellow-orange sun, while the bottom is filled with fluid, wavelike shapes resembling a surreal landscape.
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Ekow Eshun
On the curatorial vision behind “Black Earth Rising”
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Jennie C. Jones, Ensemble, 2025, powder-coated aluminum, stainless steel strings, instrument pins, concrete cast travertine tiles. Installation view, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo: Hyla Skopitz.
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Jennie C. Jones
talks about Ensemble, 2025, her commission for the Roof Garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Black-and-white abstract, blurred portrait of Brandon López playing bass.
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Brandon López
On improvisation as composition
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A video game forest scene with scattered trees, sunlight beams, a glowing white deer near a stone structure, and a mix of grass and shadows on the ground.
Gridded tree work by Charles Gaines.
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Charles Gaines
On the conception and methodologies of “Numbers and Trees, The Tanzania Baobabs"
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A large banner reading "I DON'T TRUST NOBODY BUT THE LAND" affixed to a red wooden building beside a street in a residential area, with trees and houses visible in the background under a cloudy sky.
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Layli Long Soldier
On translating poetry into sculpture
Patterned background of repeating vertical lines resembling stemmed plants, interspersed with small red dots, displaying a transition from sparse to dense arrangement across the image.
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Mataaho Collective
In conversation about Hautāmiro, 2025, at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Aotearoa New Zealand 
Installation view of two side-by-side pyramids made of jarred chile paste.
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Pratchaya Phinthong
Mines the alchemy of found objects in “No Patents on Ideas”
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LaToya Ruby Frazier.
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LaToya Ruby Frazier
On her monument to the Community Health Workers of Baltimore
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