My top 10 art reads from last week: remembrance of images past, lives lived, and what lingers after.
Mar 14, 2026
Hi artsies,
Keeping it straightforward this week. Many of the artists in this issue work in the zone between appearance and disappearance, exploring memory as archive, atmosphere, presence, and life itself.
We are also remembering the great Thaddeus Mosley who passed this week. His NYC show last year was one of my all-time favorites, and his wood sculptures really do seem to have lives of their own. In his words: “Your work should move, it should levitate, it should dance.” RIP
This profile of the late Beatriz González explores her kaleidoscopic paintings and furniture-based works ahead of a major career retrospective at the Barbican Centre in London.
In this review, Chinese Canadian artist Yifan Jiang explores human mortality through cinematic oil paintings and 3D-modeled animations in her solo exhibition I wish dying could be more like this.
In celebration of Rothko’s major retrospective in Florence, this piece traces how the city shaped his color fields and claustrophobic architectural vision.
This profile features Djabril Boukhenaïssi, an emerging painter whose illusory mixed-media works are on view at two upcoming group shows in southern France.
This review explores the equestrian work of George Stubbs whose ghostly and scientifically precise paintings and drawings are currently on display at the National Gallery, London.
This conversation with Catherine Opie explores her diaristic photography and portraiture ahead of her major exhibition, Catherine Opie: To Be Seen, running at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
This exhibition review highlights the playful and alchemical artworks of Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, and others currently on display in the group show SPELLBOUND in Stockholm.
This review examines the smudgy, symbolic figurative paintings of Michael Alexander Campbell’s current Madrid exhibition.
In this interview with photographer Sally Gall, she discusses her sensual depictions of natural phenomena following her 2025 solo exhibition Vertical World at Winston Wachter Gallery.
This exhibition review features the fragile photographic works of Andrew Cross, Anna Mossman, Philip Sinden, Mariano Vivanco, and Denise Webber in the group show Forget Me Not at CLOSE Gallery.
I hope you go into this week moving, levitating, and dancing.
