‘Youth Palace’: Who Gets to Shape the Young?Yuwen JiangReviewsArtReview AsiaAugust 21, 2026‘Youth Palace’ at Shanghai’s Rockbund Art Museum rethinks the legacy of socialist children’s palaces through works that explore discipline, play, resistance and the possibilities of self-invention.
Gwangju Biennale accused of censoring pavilion titleArtReviewNewsartreview.comAugust 20, 2026Taiwanese participants in this year’s Gwangju Biennale have accused the biennial organiser of censoring the title of their pavilion
Mariam Elnozahy to curate 2nd Ulaanbaatar BiennaleArtReviewNewsartreview.comAugust 20, 2026The 2nd edition of the Ulaanbaatar Biennale is slated to run 3–30 June, 2027
Franco Vaccari: Reverie Against RuinMartin HerbertReviewsArtReviewAugust 20, 2026The artist’s retrospective at Museion marks what would have been his ninetieth birthday and aims at something like payback
‘Our City, That Year’ by Geetanjali Shree, ReviewedMark RappoltBook ReviewsArtReview AsiaAugust 20, 2026The book is in part about how people cease to be human beings and become their religions
The Interview: Nicholas GoodlyJessica LanayFeaturesArtReviewAugust 19, 2026“Do not fear someone else’s power. In fact, step into your own. How do you write yourself into the universe? Make it big”
Hurvin Anderson’s Scattered DreamsMarcus VerhagenReviewsArtReviewAugust 19, 2026Hurvin Anderson’s lush though reserved paintings simultaneously communicate inclusion and exclusion, belonging and estrangement
Brett Littman to helm MCA San DiegoArtReviewNewsartreview.comAugust 19, 2026Littman will assume his role in October
‘The Devil’s Grin: Book One’ by Alex Graham, ReviewedNirmala DeviBook ReviewsArtReviewAugust 18, 2026Alex Graham’s storytelling, however weird its twists and turns, often feels so true to life it hurts
Mary Heilmann, whose paintings took a laidback approach to minimalism, 1940–2026ArtReviewNewsartreview.comAugust 17, 2026Her paintings were rooted in West Coast counterculture