May Highlights

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Explore this month’s selection of articles and new books, highlighting the finest content published during May. Highlights: Planning to catch up with the Venice Biennale in the coming months? Get your copy of Mousse #95–Spring 2026 to read about artists whose works await you across the Venice Biennale’s main exhibition and national pavilions. Before it sells out, get your copy of Walter Pfeiffer. In Good Company, the photo book accompanying the eponymous exhibition at Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin. Visit Beijing though Beijing Oomph, our curated selection of the best contemporary art exhibitions in town during Beijing Dangdai art fair. SURVEY:  Women Artists in the Black Arts Movement Revisiting an Origin Story. Lubaina Himid, Paul Goodwin, and Christine Eyene in Conversation Looking back to the 1982 First National Black Art Convention and the exhibition Thin Black Line(s) at Tate Britain (2011–12), artist Lubaina Himid, curator Paul Goodwin, and Christine Eyene reflect on Himid’s impactful practice, whether creating, curating, preserving, writing, or teaching. Beyond the Boundary: The Work of Three Black Women Artists in Britain by Gilane Tawadros By revisiting her 1989 groundbreaking essay on Lubaina Himid, Sutapa Biswas, and Sonia Boyce published in Third Text, Gilane Tawadros affirms the necessity of constructing critical frameworks that disturb established canons, like Postmodernism, which largely ignored the perspectives of Black women artists. NEW TITLES Valeria Cherchi: 3,350 gr. Photographs and Letters on Obstetric Violence €27.00 View Book Salomé Lamas: Parafiction II (selected works) €25.00 View Book Global Conversations: Romania €18.00 View Book Evelyn Taocheng Wang: An Equivocal Contrast €35.00 View Book Walter Pfeiffer. In Good Company €40.00 View Book Jenna Sutela: Aeolian Suite. Pavilion of Finland at the 61st International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia €25.00 View Book Genti Korini: A Place in the Sun. Albanian Pavilion at the International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia €25.00 View Book Nilbar Güreş: A Kiss on the Eyes. Türkiye Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia €25.00 View Book Across Words. An Anthology Pavilion of Timor-Leste at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia €25.00 View Book COLUMNS back-and-forth: May 15, 2026 by Chus Martínez Read the last entry of back-and-forth, the new series by Chus Martínez dedicated to examining the last two decades of exhibitions and artworks to better interpret and invent our near futures. REVIEWS Social Unrest at MATTA, Milan by Rebecca Isabel Consolandi The group show Social Unrest at Matta, Milan, presents a significant historical and philosophical structure, which stems from an ongoing communication between the curator Niccolò Gravina, the researcher Zoé Samudzi, and the artists involved, started before the pandemic: Bernadette Corporation, Hannah Black, Tony Cokes, Ivan Cheng, Alessandro Di Pietro, Satoshi Fujiwara, Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings, Tiffany Sia, and Sung Tieu. Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, “Pedagogies of War” at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid by Javier Montes Javier Montes reviews Pedagogies of War, the four-video-installation exhibition by Ukrainian artistic duo Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei, presented in the galleries of the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza hosting TBA21 in Madrid. Annette Barcelo “Bestie, Bellezze e altre Compagne” at Haus für Kunst Uri by Gabrielle Schaad Annette Barcelo’s exhibition Bestie, Bellezze e altre Compagne (Beasts, Beauties, and Other Companions) at Haus für Kunst Uri in Altdorf, Switzerland, brings the creaturely into view as something produced between bodies, images, and acts of imagination. Set against the dramatic mountain landscape of Uri, the exhibition unfolds less like a retrospective than like a sequence of encounters: unsettling, humorous, melancholic, and strangely tender. MONOGRAPHS Yto Barrada: Like Saturn, Know Thyself by Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu Ahead of Comme Saturne, Yto Barrada’s French Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu turned the planet into a metaphor for patriarchal power to explore Barrada’s engagement with colonial histories, language, and resistance. For the Earth, It’s Not a Secret: Nolan Oswald Dennis in Conversation with Zoë Hopkins “Signification is a loop. I am listening to the Earth’s vibrations that travel both across the surface and through the crust, but also through the core, so they complicate the idea of the local,” says Nolan Oswald Dennis in conversation with Zoë Hopkins. OPINIONS On Solidarity Within and Beyond the Arts. Ingrid Masondo in Conversation with Christine Eyene In the wake of South African Pavilion’s cancellation (and the opening of Elegy by Gabrielle Goliath, in Venice), its curator, Ingrid Masondo, discusses with Christine Eyene censorship as a condition embedded within the political economies of the art world, and what it means to participate in it while resisting its exclusions. CONVERSATIONS When Things Fall Apart for Whom? Gala Porras-Kim in Conversation with Lauren Cornell Gala Porras-Kim opens up to Lauren Cornell about her presentation at the Applied Arts Pavilion (a joint project by La Biennale and the Victoria & Albert Museum), circling back to classification, law, and the power dynamics of art history. OOMPH Subscribe now to receive an entire year of Mousse in print and access to our fully browsable digital archive. Looking for an institutional subscription? 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