

What Happened in Art This Week | Jan 19, 2026
This week’s signals across performance, visual culture, and the humanities: new exhibitions, festival lineups, major announcements, and debates shaping the field. Eight briefs, minimal noise, maximum context.

GLO
Jan 19


Spectatorship as Heritage: The Politics of Absence, and the Work’s Second Life
Spectatorship refers to relation.
It includes who is watching, how they are watching, in what context the work is being seen, who interprets it, who translates it, who misunderstands it, and who carries it somewhere else so it can continue to live.

Valkyrie Yao
Dec 28, 2025


A letter.
Long ago, people already urged me to write my autobiography, but back then I thought: “Me? Why me? Who am I?” I seem to have asked myself that across different times and spaces. But now I write for myself.

Valkyrie Yao
Dec 21, 2025














































