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On Nov. 6, the day after the presidential election, the artist Hank Willis Thomas was at his studio in Brooklyn. His production assistants were poring over tables strewed with blobby [...]

''Vital Signs: Artists and the Body'' draws from MoMA's 20th-century collection to show that identity is broader than physical form. But in skipping social media the show can't go far [...]

“Vital Signs: Artists and the Body” draws from MoMA’s 20th-century collection to show that identity is broader than physical form. But in skipping social media the show can’t go far [...]

As a young street artist, Brian Donnelly (now known as KAWS) would visit PPOW in downtown Manhattan to see work by the painter Martin Wong. A tall Chinese American who [...]

As a young street artist, Brian Donnelly (now known as KAWS) would visit https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/16/t-magazine/ppow-art-gallery.html in downtown Manhattan to see work by the painter https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/18/arts/martin-wong-is-dead-at-53-a-painter-of-poetic-realism.html. A tall Chinese American who loved [...]

Samuel Hindolo Through Nov. 9. Galerie Buchholz, 17 East 82nd Street, Manhattan; 212-328-7885, galeriebuchholz.com. 15 Orient, 72 Walker Street, 3rd Floor, Manhattan; 303-803-4347, 15orient.com. Samuel Hindolo's two-gallery show, ''Eurostar,'' evokes [...]

Byline: Travis Diehl A retrospective pairing Teresita Fernández and Robert Smithson shows they share sympathetic, deep engagement with geology and civilization. The artist and writer Robert Smithson, famous for his [...]

A retrospective pairing Teresita FernÈíndez and Robert Smithson shows they share sympathetic, deep engagement with geology and civilization. The artist and writer Robert Smithson, famous for his austere and monumental [...]

As youthful wheat shimmied in the Montana breeze, it looked a lot like grass. Logically, I knew wheat is a grass, cultivated to yield the plump, glutinous makings of pasta [...]

This week in Newly Reviewed, Walker Mimms covers the overlooked artist Ker-Xavier Roussel, Fritz Scholder's paintings and a group show in a modest office-like space. Ker-Xavier Roussel Through Aug. 23. […]

Harun Farocki, a German artist and documentarian, spent his career unpacking how consumer and military technology intermingle in even the most mundane images. For Harun Farocki, even as visual media […]

https://www.nabilkanso.org/ https://www.joshuaserafin.com/ https://www.delphinefawundu.com/ Nabil Kanso Through Aug. 24. Institute of Arab and Islamic Art, 22 Christopher Street, Manhattan; https://www.instituteaia.org/. How do artists protest war in their work? https://www.nabilkanso.org/ (1940-2019) was [...]

A show at the American Folk Art Museum spotlights a Catalan doctor's revolutionary contributions to 20th-century psychiatry and their connections with modern art and Art Brut. A black-and-white snapshot from [...]

A show at the American Folk Art Museum spotlights a Catalan doctor’s revolutionary contributions to 20th-century psychiatry and their connections with modern art and Art Brut. A black-and-white snapshot from [...]

Inheritors of a world shaped by big tech and precarious careers, these New York artists are searching for answers in good faith. In February 2022, new to New York and […]

Inheritors of a world shaped by big tech and precarious careers, these New York artists are searching for answers in good faith. In February 2022, new to New York and [...]

‘Tabula Rasa’ Through July 26. Paula Cooper Gallery, 534 West 21st St., Manhattan; 212–255–1105, https://www.paulacoopergallery.com/. This arch and playful show gathers 23 contemporary artists for whom photography isn’t a medium [...]

Byline: Travis Diehl The first survey of Auriea Harvey, an influential Net artist turned game developer, traces the evolution of digital art from the 1990s to today. Installed on vintage [...]

The first survey of the influential Net artist turned game developer traces the evolution of digital art from the 1990s to today. Installed on vintage hardware at the Museum of [...]

With a rising number of artists vying for a limited number of galleries and grants, arts professionals are pivoting to careers as coaches. But can they help people profit from [...]

It’s hard to look away from Carlos Martiel’s feats of endurance and self-harm. Does his sacrifice help us understand a legacy of racist violence? Confronting you head-on are a hanging [...]

Marian Zazeela Through May 11. Artists Space, 11 Cortland Alley, Manhattan; 212-226-3970, https://artistsspace.org/exhibitions/dream-lines-b-rawings-by-marian-zazeela. Marian Zazeela died on March 28 at age 83. A central figure of the New York avant-garde [...]

IN THE 1960S and '70s, clearing out and refinishing a downtown loft was a rite of passage for New York artists, who were drawn by cheap rent and ample studio [...]

The Whitney Biennial, New York's most prominent showcase of new American (or American-ish) art, thrives on argument: in print, in comment threads, in barrooms and sometimes in the galleries themselves. [...]

The Whitney Biennial, New York’s most prominent showcase of new American (or American-ish) art, thrives on argument: in print, in comment threads, in barrooms and sometimes in the galleries themselves. [...]

IN THE 1960S and ’70s, clearing out and refinishing a downtown loft was a rite of passage for New York artists, who were drawn by cheap rent and ample studio [...]

Are role-playing games enriching culture, or destroying it? In two shows, the artist Simon Denny spoofs the grandiose fantasy worlds of tech entrepreneurs designing virtual reality. The capricious churn of [...]

Are role-playing games enriching culture, or destroying it? In two shows, the artist Simon Denny spoofs the grandiose fantasy worlds of tech entrepreneurs designing virtual reality. The capricious churn of [...]

Byline: Travis Diehl The Swiss artist turns cardboard and tape to the problems of social media, artificial intelligence and digital warfare. Gladstone Gallery looks like a war zone, the aftermath [...]

The British painter Harold Cohen spent over four decades refining his collaborator: an image-generating robot. Yes, it's yet another show of A.I.-generated art -- but wait! The software known as [...]

The British painter Harold Cohen spent over four decades refining his collaborator: an image-generating robot. Yes, it’s yet another show of A.I.-generated art — but wait! The software known as [...]

Paul Pfeiffer's transcendent manipulations of broadcast footage are intimate confrontations with spectacles meant for millions. What would a basketball game be like without the ebb and flow of two teams, [...]

Paul Pfeiffer’s transcendent manipulations of broadcast footage are intimate confrontations with spectacles meant for millions. What would a basketball game be like without the ebb and flow of two teams, [...]

The Swiss artist turns cardboard and tape to the problems of social media, artificial intelligence and digital warfare. Gladstone Gallery looks like a war zone, the aftermath of a Call [...]

Newly Reviewed John Knight Through March 2. Greene Naftali, 508 West 26th Street, Ground Floor, Manhattan; 212-463-7770, https://greenenaftaligallery.com/. The conceptual artist John Knight delights in a revelatory style of institutional [...]

''Looking Back,'' the nonprofit gallery's group show, brings together self-taught and highly trained artists. It isn't obvious who's who. It's pleasantly disorienting to enter the White Columns Annual in New [...]

“Looking Back,” the nonprofit gallery’s group show, brings together self-taught and highly trained artists. It isn’t obvious who’s who. It’s pleasantly disorienting to enter the White Columns Annual in New [...]

She used installations, assemblage and three-dimensional murals in her commentary on Hollywood, fame and more. ''I've made stuff out of everything,'' she said. Alexis Smith, an artist who expressed a [...]

Graphic artists have been helping call attention to climate change for decades, and a new exhibition charts the evolution of their pleas. Last year was the warmest in recorded history. [...]

Graphic artists have been helping call attention to climate change for decades, and a new exhibition charts the evolution of their pleas. Last year was the https://www.reuters.com/graphics/CLIMATE-UN/WEATHER-EXTREMES/zdvxrmeakvx/ in recorded history. [...]

The artist's midcareer survey at MoMA PS1 demonstrates the impotence of contemporary art to heal social ills. ''Having been labeled as the cook of the art world,'' Rirkrit Tiravanija said, [...]

The artist’s midcareer survey at MoMA PS1 demonstrates the impotence of contemporary art to heal social ills. “Having been labeled as the cook of the art world,” Rirkrit Tiravanija said, [...]

Newly Reviewed Erik N. Mack Through Dec. 22. Paula Cooper, 521 West 21st Street, Manhattan, 212-255-1105, http://paulacoopergallery.com/. In a manner of speaking, it is time for Eric N. Mack’s close-up: [...]

A heavy irony hangs over Michael Richards's work: The artist known for images of pilots, airplanes, wings and targets died, age 38, in the Sept. 11 attacks. He had spent [...]

Newly Reviewed ‘Edward Hopper as Puritan’ Through Feb. 17. Craig Starr Gallery, 5 East 73rd Street, Manhattan, 212-570-1739, http://www.craigstarr.com/ “http://www.craigstarr.com/exhibitions/edward-hopper-as-puritan#tab:slideshow” is a compact exhibition devoted to a world-famous American painter [...]

A heavy irony hangs over Michael Richards’s work: The artist known for images of pilots, airplanes, wings and targets died, age 38, in the Sept. 11 attacks. He had spent [...]

As a boy in Ketchikan, Alaska, Jackson Polys would help his father, the prominent Tlingit artist Nathan Jackson, carve totem poles behind rope stanchions while boatloads of tourists watched. They [...]

As a boy in Ketchikan, Alaska, https://www.moma.org/artists/135315 would help his father, the prominent Tlingit artist https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/nathan-jackson, carve totem poles behind rope stanchions while boatloads of tourists watched. They would travel [...]

A rich perfume wafts through the sixth floor of the Museum of Modern Art, where the installation of Ed Ruscha's full-dress survey ''Now Then'' is underway. You sense it before [...]

I'm standing in a fallow field on the edge of the San Luis Valley, in south-central Colorado. To the east, beyond a windbreak of tough old trees, the Great Sand [...]