HIGHLIGHTS of 2025
Check out the list below for links to some of this year’s highlights, and special thanks for all the hard work and excellent subject curation from our contributors.
Photo by John Edmonds
The intimate magnitudes of NICK CAVE's AMALGAMS AND GRAPHTS
Logan Royce Beitmen interviews American sculptor, dancer, and performance artist Nick Cave about Amalgams and Graphs, two distinct series at Jack Shainman Gallery’s flagship Tribeca location that pushed his singular style and vision to an epic realm while maintaining an intimate and personal conversation with his audience
Richard Prince, Folk Songs, 2025, installation view. © Richard Prince. Photo: Maris Hutchinson. Courtesy Gagosian.
IT AIN'T ME BABE: Richard Prince's endless empty appropriations at Gagosian
Joshua Caleb Weibley writes about the endless empty appropriations seen in his recent Gagosian exhibition, Folk Songs
Singer, writer, and multifaceted creator Joseph Keckler discusses his new performance piece, A Good Night in the Trauma Garden, which was commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Live Arts and co-commissioned by ArtYard and Coffey Street Studios
Pulitzer Prize–winning culture critic Robin Givhan discusses her new book about fashion icon Virgil Abloh, Make it Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh. She profiles Abloh’s legendary work and impact, revealing how the son of Ghanaian immigrants was able to infiltrate all aspects of our culture and inspire millions
Lloyd Knight in Jamar Roberts' We the People. Photo: Isabella Pagano
LLOYD KNIGHT reflects on his 20 years with the MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY
Martha Graham Dance Company Principal Dancer Lloyd Knight talks in-depth with Catherine Tharin about his 20 years with the Company
Photo by Matthew Placek
An interview with VANGELINE, artistic director of the Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute
Catherine Tharin in conversation with Vangeline, a New York–based teacher, choreographer, & dancer specializing in the enigmatic & evocative practice of Japanese Butoh
Suzanne Barbezat talks with Isabelle Sakelaris about latest book, Frida Kahlo’s Love Letters (Frances Lincoln, 2025), which includes a selection of letters to Frida’s great loves along with translation and commentary
Author Stephen O’Connor discusses his forthcoming novel, We Want So Much to Be Ourselves, a story set in 1920s and 30s Germany, exploring Freudian psychoanalysis and featuring a historical background with clear parallels to the rise of Nazism in Germany and the horrific political realities of what is happening in the U.S. today
Anika Jade Levy discusses her debut novel, FLAT EARTH
Writer Anika Jade Levy in conversation with Nirica Srinivasan about her debut novel, Flat Earth
Timelessness & urgent relevance in the works of AUSTEN BRANTLEY
Austen Brantley, a Detroit-based artist whose sculptures & public projects venerate Black cultural figures, talks with Isabel Hou about the ways he seeks to make his work both timeless & urgently relevant, & the aftermath of the recent vandalization of his statue memorializing the Tuskegee Airmen
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