Art Review Vol.77 No.4

ArtReview May 2025 + Philanthropy Supplement

In the May issue of ArtReview, Jenny Wu and Allison Young perform close readings on selected works by Amy Sherald, whose midcareer retrospective American Sublime opened at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art in April, while Martin Herbert explores work by Mario García Torres. Jessica Lanay traces Lingít and Unangax artist Nicholas Galanin’s engagement with Indigenous land rights. Gaby Cepeda speaks with Mexican artist Naomi Rincón-Gallardo, whose videoworks narrate alternative worldviews via characters of various cosmic lifeforms. Fi Churchman annotates George Eliot’s essay ‘On The Natural History of German Life’, which warns of the moral dangers of a romanticised view of the working class. Elsewhere in the magazine, Emily May interviews Irish choreographer Oona Doherty, touching on the current renaissance in Irish culture.

The print edition of the May issue is accompanied by a 68-page standalone publication on philanthropy in the arts, with essays exploring models in North and South America, Africa, Europe and Asia, profiles of four prominent philanthropists and a guide to philanthropic initiatives around the world.

What's inside the issue?
 
Art Observed
The Interview - Oona Doherty by Emily May
The Trap of Catchalls by Sarah Jilani
Booked Solid by Oliver Basciano
Very Bad Utopias by Kat Kitay
State of the Art by J. J. Charlesworth
Art Featured
Amy Sherald Ecclesia (The Meeting of Inheritance and Horizons) by Jenny Wu and Hangman by Allison Young
Mario García Torres by Martin Herbert
Naomi Rincón Gallardo by Gaby Cepeda
Nicholas Galanin by Jessica Lanay
The Natural History of German Life by George Eliot annotated by Fi Churchman

Art Reviewed

Exhibitions

Desert X 2025, by Jenny Wu
Dan Coopey, by Tom Morton
Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP, by Qingyuan Deng
Helmut Lang, by Claudia Ross
Emma Talbot, by Ana Vukadin
Carol Rama, by Lydia Eliza Trail
Paris Noir, by Wilson Tarbox
Diedrick Brackens, by Emily McDermott
Krishna Reddy, by Lauren Alexander
Nicole Wermers, by Rose Higham-Stainton
Matt Copson, by Martin Herbert
Philosopher of her own Ruin, by Gabriela Acha
Rammellzee, by Brian Dillon
Zoe Walker and Neil Bromwich,
by Gabriel Levine Brislin
Islamic Arts Biennale, by Mark Rappolt
Ed Atkins, by J.J. Charlesworth

Books

The Emperor of Gladness, by Ocean Vuong,reviewed by Thu-Huong Ha
Physique, by Vince Aletti, reviewed by Mark Rappolt
Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat, by Hito Steyerl, reviewed by Jenny Wu
Nova Scotia House, by Charlie Porter, reviewed by Mark Rappolt
Hebdomeros, by Giorgio de Chirico, reviewed by Jonathan Odden
Open, Heaven, by Sean Hewitt, reviewed by Oliver Basciano  

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