Feted as the “Queen of the Bohemians,” Abercrombie saw herself as a kind of jazz witch forging dream visions into a strange, eerie, and occult body of work.

Collaged scraps of cloth or crumpled paper in Andrews’s portraits were a subversive and insistent means of encompassing his own non-White, non-urban roots. 

Sylvia Sleigh, Kenneth Tam, Christine Sun Kim, Paul Gardère, and Rudy Burckhardt are ideal for anyone who desires a glimpse into an artist’s personal life and worldview.

Sylvia Sleigh challenged the traditions of portraiture by letting those she adored be their glorious selves.

Winston Tseng’s satirical ad falsely attributed to USAID at a bike dock in Washington, DC, elicited frenzied responses from Republican Senator Thom Tillis.

A group exhibition at the Aldrich Museum frames gardens as a sites of nurture and control, tradition and innovation.

The artist takes up the devastation of those whose lives have been shattered by the plummeting value of the taxicab medallion.

The artist makes the air hum with the previously unperceived dimensions of ordinary things, from the linework of movement to the music in everyday situations.

Through his mixed media artworks, Paul Gardère invites his audience into a meaningful and personable dialogue and offers a glimpse into his life.

The artist’s felines, sculpted in ghostly white enamel-glazed clay, infuse the space with a quiet vitality, bridging the mystical and the everyday.

Among an array of work by local artists at Post-Fair and the Other Art Fair, the only white cubes to be found were floating in craft cocktails.

Even inside the tent, works that had no connection to the recent devastating fires took on new levels of meaning.

The levity of this year’s edition feels purposeful: Not only will the show not be marred by tragedy, but it will also remind attendees of art's potential to express joy.

This week: a trip to “Yokofest,” outsmarting surveillance pricing, the Haida Nation reclaims its land, dachshund side-eye paintings, and did Microsoft invent a new type of matter?

“I'm finding that the plants have started taking over my life and creativity.”

Your guide to this season’s must-see museum exhibitions and art events in and around New York City. 

From the Anti-Frieze performance festival to a benefit exhibition for artists impacted by fires, the city’s creative communities return with resilience.

Working with, alongside, and against conventions of portraiture photography, the artist manipulates the gaps between image and object. 

The complexity of Burckhardt's work is easy to overlook, because he calls attention to neither his mastery nor his labor.

The point is: We remember traumas, and it’s crucial that we do, and not foist off our responsibility onto mute things that do not answer when we call. 

Electric Dreams at Tate Modern shows the sheer extent to which human imagination and inventiveness harnessed technological progressions in the infancy of computing.

Her work integrates contemporary labor strikes into the visual language of social realism, asserting that these efforts are not anomalies but regularities.

Depth and wonder abound in shows featuring artists Alexis Rockman, Stephanie H. Shih, Raoul De Keyser, Roxanne Jackson, and Tabboo!

Because the waywardness of his paintings is a product of its unspoken logic, his marks and variations are performing precisely the right roles.

Marina Perez Simão systematizes nature’s motifs and distills them into interlocking volumes and color bands in paintings as cerebral as they are sensuous.

Maybe Jackson's ceramic "monsters" are just creatures who look like they shouldn’t belong — and in her world-building Jackson has made a place where they do.

This week: snarky dance criticism, a Super Bowl performer’s protest, Barbara Kingsolver builds a rehab center, Chappell Roan starts a trend, and did Rupi Kaur’s poem age well?

As it turns out, men have been posing with fish for hundreds of years.

Why bother with the so-called Gulf of America when you can dip in the Bay of Bliss or Cape Content?

Taking on Thomas Cole’s epic The Course of Empire, the New York artist asks if we’ve all had a good run.

From a large Wigstock banner to more intimate self-portraits, Tabboo!’s art sparkles anew in two contemporaneous exhibitions.

“Water has become my actual medium.”

The Indian-American printmaker’s experimental, collaborative spirit yielded a new method for multicolored intaglio printing and inspired a generation of artists.

She rescues objects from the garbage bin of mass-produced memory and reimagines them as art.

The Louisiana-based artist, known for his hand-beaded portraits and Mardi Gras Indian suits, is the recipient of this year’s 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art.

Barbara Shermund’s single-panel cartoons, drawn with a seemingly off-the-cuff fluidity of line and expression, came to define the magazine’s sense of humor.

Invisibility: Powers & Perils raises exciting questions around racial, technological, and ecological invisibility, and leaves us asking for more.

By blurring the line between individual and collective memory, the works demonstrate the Panafrican ideal that our experiences are part of a shared narrative.

The late artist’s work has always bristled against the boundaries of categorization, and it does so particularly here, in an exhibition centered around Afrofuturism.

Its contemporary practice reinfuses values into ourselves and our culture, which was deemed unimportant by colonization.

From AbEx giant Cy Twombly to explorations of assimilation by Serena Chang to the politics of prettiness in the portraits of Marie Laurencin, these shows deserve close looking.

The pair tell a grand drama of depravity and degradation, sometimes enacted by official powers like Church and State, other times by rogue players.

In his first exhibition in nearly a decade, the artist-builder presents sculptures that are alternatively strange, optimistic, and critical.

Nolan Oswald sees the pre- and postcolonial worlds as contemporaneous and interlocking.

The artist has a point: Why is aesthetic pleasure often relegated to the sidelines of art? Why paint rotting fish when you can paint pretty femmes?

His works are distinctly earthly endeavors, showcasing the human hand in all its striving.

Artist Serena Chang helps us see that in the act of remembering we’re often uncovering more than our own past.

This week: Sanford Biggers’s musical sculpture, Bayard Rustin’s secret antiquities, lessons from Octavia Butler, elephant autonomy, Severance bros are back, and much more.

“I almost never allow myself to sink into the feeling of guilt or shame about not getting enough work done.”

“He brings in that random, specific, accidental character of the world, and then he makes it feel like there’s some kind of order to it,” says Friedrich expert Joseph Leo Koerner.