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Observer

Elisa Carollo

1 July

In Her Hauser & Wirth Debut, Firelei Báez Creates Portals to an Imaginative Future Beyond Collapse

‘There was a time when drawing was the only thing standing between me and nothing. If I have to get out of bed, if I have to be awake, then I'm going to draw.’
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Installation view: Firelei Báez’s “feet squelching on wet grass, nourished by uncertainty” at Hauser & Wirth New York. © 2026 Firelei Báez / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo: Thomas Barratt

The New York Times

Aruna D’Souza

24 June

An Artist Creates Moments for Play, and Solidarity

‘We are creative beings. We make our world. Let’s make our world the way we want it to be.’
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Sonia Boyce in her studio, 2025 Photo: Lily Bertrand-Webb

ABC Cultural

Francisco Carpio

22 June

In search of directions at Hauser & Wirth

‘I believe this educational dimension is fundamental, transforming an excellent project into a necessary exchange between the art world and the public. Truly, we need many more initiatives like this.'
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'Directionless' Education Lab at Hauser & Wirth Menorca.

Family Style

Rachel Summer Small

18 June

Unmoored: In Menorca, a sweeping exhibition organized by Rashid Johnson explores the sense of disorientation that defines this decade.

‘...this thing happens on islands where direction becomes less significant...we’re here, we’re unmoored.'
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Installation view of "Directionless." Photography by Nicolas Brasseur. Image courtesy of Hauser & Wirth.

Financial Times

Jacoba Urist

9 June

Max Beckmann’s granddaughter on living with his paintings — and the artist’s love of cartwheels

‘He was not in a movement. He has his completely own world...I have the impression that our living contemporary eyes are way more open to understanding the core of Beckmann than we would have been four or five years ago.’
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Installation view. Photo: Gina Folly

South China Morning Post

Fionnuala McHugh

8 June

At 92, British artist Frank Bowling is still trying to make the best painting ever

‘[Frank Bowling's] love of the world’s fluid beauty has been lifelong and, like water, he too has persisted against apparently immovable obstacles.’
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British artist Frank Bowling at his studio in Peacock Yard, London, in 2025. Photo: Frederik Bowling, courtesy of the Frank Bowling Archive

Monopol

Sebastian Frenzel

7 June

Henry Taylor on his teacher :'He had swag'

‘What advice would you give to young artists? I’d tell them what Jarvaise said to me: Paint every day. Just do it every day! Do it because you love it!’
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Installation view. Photo: Jon Etter

Art Review

Martin Herbert

5 June

Francis Picabia: Against Bad Breath and Cathedrals of Shit

'So here is Francis Picabia in 2026, still present-tense, still relevant and still standing on the sidelines, laughing at us.'
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Francis Picabia, Nu de dos devant la mer (Nude from Behind, in Front of the Sea), c. 1942–43, oil on cardboard mounted on canvas, 75 × 53 cm

The Brooklyn Rail

Amanda Gluibizzi

3 June

Allison Katz with Amanda Gluibizzi

‘Painting reflects something that is outside of experience. That wanting to prolong it, or wanting to stretch it out, that’s also a way of feeling alive.’
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Allison Katz, Burden, 2026. Oil and rice on linen, 86 ⅝ × 51 ⅛ × 1 ⅜ inches. © Allison Katz. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Eva Herzog.

The Guardian

Charlotte Jansen

2 June

Artist Roni Horn on horror, hope and landing in a lake in Iceland

‘Mirroring, doubling and repetition are constants in Horn’s work. These drawings are mired in midnight madness. She describes them to me as 'an endless silent scream feeling. I’ve lost a lot of friends and one of the things that comes up a lot when you’re very ill is that the last thing to go is hope.' This is the reason why, after she’d heard it in comedian Maria Bamford’s routine in 2020, she became so attached to the phrase 'I am paralysed with hope.’
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Installation view. Photo: Theo Niderost

Wallpaper*

Nargess Banks

1 June

At Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Angel Otero infuses paintings with a dreamy magical realism

‘I have come to understand place as a living presence within the work – not merely a backdrop but a condition that shapes perception. Every environment holds a quiet residue of light, architecture, weather and history. The studio becomes porous, and what lies beyond inevitably seeps into the painting.’
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Angel Otero during his artist residency at Hauser & Wirth Somerset, 2026 (Image credit: Photo: Clare Walsh. Courtesy Angel Otero and Hauser & Wirth)

The New York Times

J Wortham

28 May

In the Art of Firelei Báez, Our Histories Are Ready for a Review

'Báez’s work is prescient, grappling with the production of knowledge in the modern world and the havoc wreaked when one group of people decided to establish a hierarchy with themselves at the top, and bend the universe to their will.'
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A towering bronze sculpture with feathers titled 'Ayida,' a centerpiece in her exhibition at Hauser & Wirth. It represents a ciguepas, a female trickster of Dominican folklore (equal parts woman, plant and animal) that is a powerful shape-shifter, always evolving.Credit...Firelei Báez/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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