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Holy Kaaba kiswah panels. A large black cloth featuring intricate gold calligraphy hangs in a spacious room with people walking, standing, and observing the display.
ON SITE
Soft Power
On the 2025 Islamic Arts Biennale
Rendering of “Enhanced Geothermalia” from OMA’s Roadmap 2050: A Practical Guide to a Prosperous, Low-Carbon Europe, 2010. In the rendering, people swim in a large geothermal pool surrounded by rocky terrain, steam vents, industrial structures, and a snowy mountain in the background.
ARCHITECTURE
Delirious New World
On OMA and architecture after globalization 
Dread Scott, All African People’s Community Passport. A hand holding an open passport on a blue cutting mat, showing personal details, QR code, and patterned green design on the opposite page.
Features
Global Transmissions
On “Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica” 
A modern gallery with a gray bench, vintage speakers on stands, a reel-to-reel tape recorder, framed artwork, and ceramics displayed on wooden flooring.
Features
Sonic Registers
On the aural scenography of “Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica”
Gustave Caillebotte, Rue de Paris, Temps de pluie (Paris Street, Rainy Day), 1877, oil on canvas. People walk along a wet cobblestone street holding umbrellas, with horse-drawn carts and buildings in the background under an overcast sky.
Features
Bachelor Machine
On Gustave Caillebotte at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris
A white hand is raised with the index finger pointing upward against a black background. From a still of Jean-Luc Godard's film Le livre d’image (The Image Book) depicting a detail of Leonardo da Vinci's Saint John the Baptist.
Features
Quotation Marks
On Gustave Caillebotte and Jean-Luc Godard
A spacious museum gallery with marble columns, golden balloon sculptures, classical statues, colorful artworks, and visitors exploring the space. It is a view of the 58th Carnegie International exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Mezzanine, from left: Mohammed Sami, The Fountain I, 2021; Thu Van Tran, Colors of Grey, 2022. Floor: Banu Cennetoğlu, right?, 2022. Photo: Sean Eaton.
Features
Present Tense
On art museums and the rhetoric of relevance
Mel Bochner, All or Nothing (detail), 2012, oil and acrylic on canvas, two parts, 100 × 85".
Mel Bochner, All or Nothing (detail), 2012, oil and acrylic on canvas, two parts, 100 × 85".
May 2025
VOL. 63, NO. 9
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