May ‘26 Edit
From Mumbai to Houston. Here are places to be, books to read, art to see.
01 — The Mood. The terraces are back. Everything else can wait.
02 — Where to Be.
New York. House. Solomun, second show added, it’s sold out. But there’s always a secondary market you can rely on. Fulton Fish Market, May 24. Open-air, 3 pm till dusk.
Chicago. Sculpture. Edgar Calel, Corn Mountain of Life, on the Art Institute’s Bluhm Family Terrace. Through September 13. A hut built from recycled materials, a K’ojay, the kind of hut families build near fields in their Maya-Kaqchikel community.
Los Angeles. Painting. Liu Xiaodong, Host, at Lisson Gallery. Through June 13. A Detroit-based tattoo artist and his loyal band of brothers, depicted in full armor mid-battle in a snowy forest, inking tattoos on bodies, and lounging in a backyard hot tub. First LA show.
Houston. Sound + light. Undercurrents by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer at the Buffalo Bayou Cistern. Through January 2027. Plenty of time. An immersive chamber of voices and light, inside a cavernous underground reservoir. A 17-second echo.
…if you’re traveling…
Europe. Venice. The 61st Biennale opens May 9, In Minor Keys — the late Koyo Kouoh’s vision realized posthumously by her team. Marina Abramović is at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in parallel.
South America. Santiago. La Chascona, Pablo Neruda’s hidden house in Bellavista. Built for his mistress, named for her unruly hair (!!!). Sea-themed rooms in a landlocked city.
Middle East & Africa. Cairo. The Grand Egyptian Museum’s first full year. The largest museum in the world dedicated to a single civilization, with the complete Tutankhamun collection on view together for the first time in a century. Editor’s note: The world is an old place.
Asia. Mumbai. Manoj Jain, It Didn’t Ask to Be Art, at Soho House Juhu. Preview May 31, opens June 1. Art Brut — raw, unschooled, made without asking permission.
Australia & New Zealand. Auckland. Auckland Festival of Photography, May 29–June 14. A city-wide festival across galleries, project spaces, and public sites. This year’s theme: Movement.
03 — Who's in the Room.
Margaret Crowley, a Chicago-based artist. She paints on silk, hi-vis vests, helmets, the therapist's mobile cart that overflows with tools, the small things that hold a workday together. We were honored to have her literally in the room with us last month. Song, her show with Zander Raymond, is up at Regards through May 16. After it closes, find her at Produce Model in Pilsen, the artist-run space she's co-directed since 2014, dedicated to Caribbean and Latinx artists.
04 — The Month’s Whereabouts. Chicago, #529 — flower, flower. May 29! See you…
05 — To read. Classics. Here is New York, E.B. White. Contemporary. Angel Down, Daniel Kraus.
06 — Playlist. Our April mix at Regards. Enjoy.
07 — Exploration. Schedule date nights religiously!