Issue 256

In her latest series, the artist flirts with silhouettes and revels in cunning – the art of luring, hooking and capturing the viewer

How a DIY Culver City watering hole, opened by New York artists in the early 2000s, became LA’s art-world gathering place

In her Vienna studio, Müller navigates the margins of art history, delighting in gaps, absences and overlooked stories

In Manyen Distans, the photographer’s surreal image evokes the lougarou of Haitian folklore – a werewolf-like shapeshifter glimpsed at the threshold between worlds

The artist shares the last songs played at the Mandrake on a Sunday evening in 2024

His referential grottoes, forests, glaciers and mythical islands seem playful at first, yet closer attention reveals environments charged with psychological unease

For more than a decade, the artist has rendered flesh, desire and damage into paintings where the image itself becomes the body

As the President reshapes the nation’s capital, the city’s arts community struggles to withstand an administration obsessed with the arts

The influential sculptor, whose mammoth works adorned the Met’s façade, reflects on the spiritual blind spots and esoteric histories behind her nearby Guggenheim show

Novelist Stephanie Wambugu considers how the late artist’s eroding land works preserve memory and mark the passage of time

With his Bangkok-based studio, Supermachine, the designer proposes buildings to bend, weather and endure, imagining a city shaped by survival

The artist and curator reflects on the making of a form-defining exhibition, which lends its title to a new suite of columns in our January issue