Pat Steir's early installation "Mirage 1975" has been restaged at Hauser & Wirth's Soho location, marking the 50th anniversary of her first-ever installation originally at the State University of New York in Oneonta. The exhibition runs through August 15, 2025, and coincides with the publication of the monograph "Pat Steir Paintings 2018–2025." Separately, the exhibition "Spasial Program by Khajistan" is on view at SculptureCenter in Long Island City through July 28, 2025, presenting a vast archive of rare, illicit, and suppressed media artifacts from the Islamicate world, curated by Lahore-born filmmaker Saad Khan.
These two exhibitions matter because they highlight contrasting yet significant artistic practices. Steir's restaged installation offers insight into the conceptual roots of her later celebrated drip paintings, while Khajistan's archive challenges historical amnesia and censorship by preserving marginalized cultural ephemera from across the Muslim world. Together, they demonstrate how contemporary art institutions are engaging with both canonical art history and counter-cultural archival practices.