July ‘26 Edit
High summer is in. Let's not waste it.
01 — The Mood High summer days are here.
02 — Where to Be
New York. Queens Jazz Trail Concert Series,Thursday evenings in the park, regardless of the forecast. The season begins July 9 at Travers Park with flutist Itai Kriss.
Chicago. Jennifer Rochlin: The Horizon Keeps Moving at Mariane Ibrahim. Through July 17. Ceramic vessels and paintings where personal history and craft interweave.
Los Angeles. Being and Longing: Enough Is Never Enough, Gene’s Dispensary opens July 11. Beatrix Fowler, Kim Gordon, Mauricio Guillén, Chris Kraus, and Jonas Mekas, five artists whose life’s work reads as a refusal to conform, curated as a case for earnestness over irony.
Santa Fe. Santa Fe Art Week, July 1 - 12. Ten days of openings, studio visits, and the Canyon Road crawl, anchored by Art Santa Fe (July 9 - 11).
…if you insist on traveling…
North America. Mexico City. Un cuerpo es una casa, un organismo, un templo, un contenedor, un mundo, Galería RGR, through August 15. A group show built around the body as architecture, treating skin, shelter, and vessel as the same idea.
Europe. London. Ana Mendieta, Tate Modern, opens July 15. Silhouettes made of earth, fire, and flowers, many never shown in the UK. Wimbledon fortnight runs alongside it, if strawberries and grass courts are more your July.
Central & South America. São Paulo. Damián Ortega: matéria e energia, MASP, through September 13. Thirty years of the Mexican artist taking ordinary objects apart and hanging every piece mid-air, like an exploded diagram of a car or a bag of tools.
Middle East & Africa. Sharjah. Laila Majid and Inaam Zafar, Sharjah Art Foundation, through September 20. A London-based and a Lahore-based artist paired for a two-person show on materiality, silhouette, and the textures of daily life.
Asia. Tokyo. Ron Mueck, Mori Art Museum, through September 23. Hyperreal sculpture at a scale that makes you question your own proportions. Go in the evening, when Roppongi Hills empties out and the city looks like a diorama of itself.
03 — Who’s in the Room
Carlos Peñafiel. Chile-born, Paris-based sculptor of the tactile. Since the 70s, he has turned molded leather into organic, suggestive forms—from surrealist Pierre Cardin “toe” shoes to his iconic, serpentine bag sculptures for Lemaire. His work is a bawdy, magical celebration of the body, transforming the everyday into an object of erotic, haptic desire.
04 — The Month’s Whereabouts
Chicago #730 — details forthcoming, stay tuned
05 — To read. Classics. The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector. Contemporary. Beautiful World, Where are You by Sally Rooney
06 — Playlist. For evening city strolls
07 — Exploration. Might we suggest slow sipping and summer jazz?
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