Ursula #17
230 x 305 mm, 128 pages
London, UK
Editor-in-chief: Randy Kennedy
Art direction: Common Name
The art magazine from international gallery Hauser & Wirth features essays, profiles, interviews, original portfolios and photography by innovative writers and artists.
This Summer 2026 issue leads with a cover story on the pioneering American photographer and multimedia artist Lorna Simpson, marking a major solo exhibition of her painting output—‘Lorna Simpson. Third Person’—currently on display at Venice’s Punta della Dogana. Inside, she sits down with composer and longtime collaborator Jason Moran to reflect on the kinship between their respective creative practices in anticipation of their next joint endeavour—an instrumental performance incorporating Lorna’s sculptural singing bowls.
Elsewhere, features explore ‘the idea of the culturally dangerous as a constructive political force’, including a conversation between Ekow Eshun and Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem Thelma Golden, touching on her cultural influences and the importance of spaces that facilitate conversations that ‘allow us to hold complexity with each other’; Ian Wirth’s warm tribute to his friend and late artist Björn Roth, whose artistic vision left an ‘indelible mark on the world’; and a profile of Sierra Leonean poet and filmmaker Julianknxx, examining his utilisation of poetry as a tool for preserving oral histories of colonialism.