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Black-and-white mixed media portrait by Anna Park showing a fragmented female face with a single sharply defined eye, partially obscured by layered paper textures and visible creases

Theater of the Gaze: Anna Park at Lehmann Maupin London

The exhibition does not introduce its logic gently; it assumes you’ve already stepped inside the scene. Figures appear mid-gesture, mid-performance—caught not in moments of rest, but in states of presentation. They do not simply occupy space; they behave within it, as if aware of their own visibility. At Lehmann Maupin London, Anna Park stages her […]

Haim Steinbach installation featuring a bright yellow wall-mounted shelf displaying a Rubbermaid cleaning cart and two yellow toy dump trucks, arranged against a white gallery wall with a small black sculptural object at the far left

Haim Steinbach, tongkong rubbermaid II-2

Haim Steinbach, an Israeli-born American artist, is a seminal figure in the development of installation and conceptual art, particularly known for his innovative use of everyday objects in gallery settings. Born in 1944 in Rehovot, Israel, Steinbach immigrated to the United States in 1957 and later became a naturalized citizen. He studied at the Pratt […]

Bold black calligraphic character painted on a vivid red lantern paper surface with irregular burnt edges and distressed texture, from Frog King’s Kindness (1978)

Review: Frog King — Kindness (1978)

Frog King, born 1947, never arrives through narrative first. His work tends to begin with surface—paper, residue, trace—and only afterward elicits interpretation to form around it. Kindness (1978) follows this exact logic. The medium resists neutrality: ink on traditional Chinese lantern paper, edges burned, lacquer sealing the act. Each element carries its own tempo. Ink […]