In my book, Spoiled, I engage with a group of contemporary Asian American artists who expose and unravel the expectation that ...

Summer Kim Lee and TJ Shin. Summer Kim Lee is an assistant professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles. Her first book, Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the ...

Years, Abbas Akhavan’s current exhibition at the Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia (UBC), loosely draws on the Brothers ...

I got lost several times on my way to Casa Susanna, the exhibition I had set out to write about. It was a sticky Friday night in July—“date night” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as the Met ...

“A win-win situation is when both Pixy and Moro benefit from each other at the same time,” reads one entry in artist Pixy Liao’s book PIMO Dictionary (2018). “This situation is very hard to achieve.” ...

Entering The Roaming Peach Blossom Spring, Qiu Anxiong and Howie Tsui’s two-person exhibition at the Richmond Art Gallery, British Columbia, felt like stepping into a surreal heterotopia—where the ...

During the reign of Benito Mussolini, an enormous carved relief of the dictator’s head loomed over the streets of Rome, his downcast gaze surveilling the Italian public night and day. The oversize, ...

Historical hypocrisies are thus made into moments of sincere personal shortcomings rather than situated as forms of systemic oppression essential to the construction of the world’s most merciless ...

I first saw Martin Wong’s prison paintings when I visited a two-person exhibition of Wong and the contemporary painter Aaron Gilbert at PPOW Gallery in 2021. Five of them were included in the show. I ...

Tilt your ear to a Jack Whitten painting and you might hear music. “You gotta be able to think like John Coltrane to do what I am doing in painting,” the artist said in the final decade of his life.

A soft, warm light morphs into a shadow of a woman’s braided hair on the back of her neck. There is the sound of faint footsteps as she moves around her flat, shifting objects in the kitchen, the ...