Kanishka Raja’s posthumous solo exhibition “Ground Control” draws its title from a David Bowie song. In this instance, “Ground” refers to the textile surfaces on which the artist layered his…

Cinzia Ruggeri in her studio, Milan, 1982. Photo: Occhiomagico. “FASHION ALLOWED ME to explore the wearer’s intimate secrets, needs, and desires, but also a person’s crazes, fads, and nervous disorders,”…

Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger of Neu! with friends, Ratingen, Germany, 1972. Photo: Peter Lindbergh. WE MUST FORGIVE OTHERS for the terrible things they do, especially when love takes them…

Wolfgang Tillmans, Markt, a, 1989, medium and dimensions variable. WOLFGANG TILLMANS HAS CREATED an image of contemporary Europe that a lot of people carry around in their heads. Not the…

Ira Cohen, Neon Leon, ca. 1968, Cibachrome, dimensions variable. Jack Smith and unknown participant. A REDDIT USER POSTS, “My mom told me to unalive myself because I am gay.” The…

Pierre Buraglio, Fenêtre (Window), 1977, wood, glass, iron, 21 3⁄8 × 20 3⁄4 × 1 1⁄8″. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. SOMETIME IN 1975, Pierre Buraglio began…

Screening of Gregory J. Markopoulos’s Eniaios, 1947–91, at the Temenos, Lyssarea, Greece, June 10–11, 2022. Photo: Linda Levinson. DESPITE CONSIDERABLE OBSTACLES—meteorological, sociological, hygienic, economic—the fifth installment of Gregory Markopoulos’s Eniaios,…

Irma Vep, 2022, production still from Olivier Assayas’s TV miniseries on HBO. Mira Harberg (Alicia Vikander). Photo: Carole Bethuel. SOMETIMES THE WAY OUT is the way through. With Irma Vep…

Elsa Schiaparelli, September 1, 1937. Photo: Horst P. Horst. “HER ESTABLISHMENT in the Place Vendôme is a devil’s laboratory,” Jean Cocteau wrote in 1937, when Elsa Schiaparelli, ensconced in her…

The UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing is facing allegations of censorship following its removal, in early August, of a painting depicting a group of youthful Japanese kamikaze pilots.…