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Installation Art

A visitor sits in front of Hito Steyerl’s Green Screen, a glowing LED wall of red, pink and green lights.

Zero 10 in Basel Contextualized Digital Art Within a Broader Historical Framework

The sector framed new media and computer art not as a market novelty but as part of a long history of artists engaging with new tools, systems and machines.
By Elisa Carollo
Visitors gather in a courtyard beneath a large wall text reading “Shouldn’t you be working?” on a brick facade.

At Basel Social Club, the Office Becomes a Playground of Anti-Productivity

In an increasingly commodified art world, this is one fair at which creativity doesn't feel dependent on returns and maximization. 
By Elisa Carollo
A black-and-white performance still shows a seated woman in a slip while another person uses scissors to cut fabric from her clothing.

Yoko Ono Has Outlasted the Scorn, the Caricatures and the Blame

"Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind" at The Broad in L.A. brings together decades of work that predated and anticipated many of the ideas now central to contemporary art.
By Jordan Riefe
A man sits cross-legged in front of a large quilt-like textile with red, blue and white geometric patterns.

At Marianne Boesky, Sanford Biggers Rewrites the Rules of Material Storytelling

By Elisa Carollo
A sculptural assemblage in black leaning against a cream-colored wall

One Fine Show: “Louise Nevelson, Mrs. N’s Palace” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz

By Dan Duray
The artist stands inside his installation beside monumental vessel sculptures made of reflective metal, titanium forms and intricate ornamental details.

Wallace Chan’s Dual-Site Exhibition Bridges Not Only Geography But Also Matter, Energy, Past and Future

By Elisa Carollo
A person with short gray-streaked hair and glasses sits on the floor in front of a staged storefront installation featuring signs for “psychic readings” and a neon hand-and-eye symbol behind a barred window.

Nick Doyle’s “Mirror, Mirror” Turns the American Dream Inside Out

By Elisa Carollo
Crowds gather at the entrance of Art Central 2026 in Hong Kong, with the fair's bold geometric branding and UOB lead partner signage visible against the Central skyline.

Art Central Is Still Hong Kong’s Most Vital Discovery Fair

By Elisa Carollo
On a blue-lit stage, a small doll-like girl sits on a swing frame made of utility poles and wires, beside a dark, creature-like figure, all standing on a mound of debris, cables, and broken objects.

Lauren Tsai On Keeping Ideas Alive in a Dying World

By Mya Ward
Grand staircase inside an elegant historical building with tall columns and a black floor installation featuring scattered coin-like elements.

Don’t Miss: Tatiana Trouvé’s Maps of Memory and Collapse at Palazzo Grassi

By Elisa Carollo
A large circular suspended sculpture with concentric metal rings, dangling tubes, electronic components, and a potted plant at its center fills a gallery lit with purple light.

Don’t Miss: Bagus Pandega’s Living Laboratory of Extraction

By Elisa Carollo
A cluttered workspace with a table and many shelves crammed with objects of all kinds

Wes Anderson Recreates Joseph Cornell’s Utopia Parkway Studio in Paris

By Jordan Riefe
A black and white photo of an asian woman sitting in a museum installation

One Fine Show: “Yoko Ono, Music of the Mind” at MCA Chicago

By Dan Duray
A large triangular mirrored structure filled with colorful book spines stands on the sand at the edge of the ocean at sunset, surrounded by a circular platform glowing with soft light.

Es Devlin’s ‘Library of Us’ Was the Rare Miami Art Week Spectacle That Invited Quiet Contemplation

By Elisa Carollo
An installation view of a gallery filled with empty birdcages of different sizes and colors hanging from thick ropes, with two blurred figures walking among them on a wooden floor.

Kader Attia’s Poetics of Repair in “Shattering and Gathering our Traces”

By Elisa Carollo
Installation view of a room clad in drywall panels with fire extinguishers arranged beside a recessed white pit.

MoMA PS1’s ‘The Gatherers’ Rejects Climate Catastrophism in Favor of Resilient Resourcefulness

By Elisa Carollo
Large-scale abstract work with vivid crimson and white forms blending and colliding across a pale background.

Sky High Farm’s Biennial Blends Art, Agriculture and Ecological Urgency

By Elisa Carollo
A misty desert view shows a monumental balloon-like sculpture silhouetted against the sky, its massive rounded forms partially obscured by dust and light.

Come Back Alive’s Vitaliy Deynega Reckons With the Destruction of Ukraine’s ‘Black Cloud’ at Burning Man

By Elisa Carollo
An overhead view of several white ceramic bowls floating on a bright blue surface, with their reflections visible below, and the intricate, glass-domed ceiling of a large architectural space in the background.

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s Meditative ‘Clinamen’ Is a 21st-Century Urban Giverny

By Sarah Moroz
Close-up of alternating blue crystals and red volcanic rocks arranged in a linear path on a white granular surface, emphasizing the material contrast and tactile quality of the installation.

Luana Vitra Elevates Minerals to Spiritual and Political Agents at SculptureCenter

By Elisa Carollo
Wangechi Mutu’s Underground Hornship sculpture, set on a reflective surface within the grand gallery space of Galleria Borghese, juxtaposed against antique statues and historical architecture.

First Look: Wangechi Mutu’s “Black Soil Poems” at Galleria Borghese

By Elisa Carollo
Artist Rashid Johnson stands in front of his large red abstract painting featuring oval loops, surrounded by greenery and ceramic vessels on metal shelving.

Building a Living Archive at the Guggenheim: An Interview with Rashid Johnson

By Elisa Carollo
A large indoor installation titled Electrical System by Nancy Holt features waves of exposed metal electrical conduit arranged in looping arcs across a gallery floor, each joint topped with glowing incandescent bulbs, creating a grid-like field of light and industrial form.

One Fine Show: ‘Nancy Holt, Power Systems’ at the Wexner Center for the Arts

By Dan Duray
A close-up view of an art installation featuring scattered small, square cardboard pieces on a dark surface, appearing as an abstract or conceptual piece.

Mattress Factory’s Danny Bracken On Eugene Macki’s ‘Reification’

By Christa Terry
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