My top 10 art reads from last week: capturing the fleeting and solidifying memory into something that lasts
Feb 21, 2026
Hi artsies,
Some weeks just completely knock you out. When time feels completely out of your control, and yet you can almost physically feel the weight of the seconds passing.
These art reads sit in that tension: artists trying to trap ephemeral moments, and others building practices meant to span time (yes, that’s a Buffalo 66 reference), hardening memories into something that lasts.
I hope you find a moment to read something inspiring and break free of the burden of time this week. And if you’re headed to Frieze next week, check out this pre-fair guide from the Wallpaper team.
Ceija Stojka’s work at the Drawing Center moves beyond simple diary entries, using raw "sense memories" to reclaim the emotional truth of the Romani experience.
“Art in Gaza is not a luxury, but an existential necessity.”
The artist's solo show at Gary Nader Art Centre in Miami “illuminates her ongoing investigation into the boundaries of human sensorial awareness.”
A deep dive and visual compendium of Heizer’s career and recent installation at Gagosian, tracing his move from a half-century of desert exile to an 81-year-old’s "transnational" life in a Central Park apartment.
"art tells that which history is unable to"
In the context of the camera-as-weapon, curator Bryan Stevenson brings a deeply personal lens to Parks’ canon in this London show.
Whyte translates the "temporal slippage" of a Jamaican funeral into these sfumato-blurred paintings that act as a memorial to a life he didn't witness.
Using wood and geometry, Provost resists the "trap" of nostalgia in favor of a "critical intimacy" with her materials.
This show at Fruitmarket in Edinburgh follows Ilana Halperin’s “fast geology” from the craters of Iceland to the calcifying springs of France.
Rebecca Bengal captures the contrast between “perfectly banal” and hyper saturation in Eggleston’s NY exhibition.
Have a great one!
‘til next week,
tld-art
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