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At the New Museum, Pepón Osorio's exhilarating assemblages and installations hold a mirror up to Latino communities and reflect his experiences in Puerto Rico and New York. ''My mother used [...]

At the New Museum, Pepón Osorio’s exhilarating assemblages and installations hold a mirror up to Latino communities and reflect his experiences in Puerto Rico and New York. “My mother used [...]

Newly Reviewed ‘Luxe, Calme, Volupté’ Through Aug. 11. Candice Madey, 1 Rivington Street, Manhattan; 917-415-8655, http://candicemadey.com/ For many young artists in the cash-poor, art-rich East Village of the 1970s and [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter The International African American Museum, in a former slave port, is about more than slavery. It's about survival and resilience. In Charleston Harbor, where the initiating shots [...]

The International African American Museum, in a former slave port, is about more than slavery. It's about survival and resilience. In Charleston Harbor, where the initiating shots of the Civil [...]

Our critic says ''Chosen Memories'' at MoMA is one of the most stirring recent collection shows. The theme of change and instability is a binding thread. The land of the [...]

Exciting work from emerging artists exploring environmental change, and proof that much of the most innovative work of the past half century has been by women. At its debut in [...]

Exciting work from emerging artists exploring environmental change, and proof that much of the most innovative work of the past half century has been by women. At its debut in [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter As Annie Cohen-Solal shows in 'Picasso the Foreigner,' the Spanish master was always under suspicion in France, simply for being not-French. PICASSO THE FOREIGNER: An Artist in [...]

A storm, a pandemic, and Black Puerto Rican history pervade his work at MoMA PS 1, with materials sourced from daily life. I often remember big museum roundups of new [...]

A monument has touched down on the Metropolitan Museum's rooftop that a few decades ago I would never have dreamed of finding there: an architectural mothership packed with a cargo [...]

A monument has touched down on the Metropolitan Museum’s rooftop that a few decades ago I would never have dreamed of finding there: an architectural mothership packed with a cargo [...]

Veering from European-inspired abstraction, he embraced multimedia forms to reflect the realities of a country torn by ethnic and religious violence. Vivan Sundaram, an artist and activist widely credited with [...]

Want to see new art in the city? Check out Anna Uddenberg’s arresting sculptures, and a show that recaptures the downtown avant-garde New York art in the early ’70s. Newly [...]

Air, light, height, with a tingle of vertigo, are what the Guggenheim Museum's spiraling rotunda is about. Which makes it a near-ideal setting for the buoyant, lucent, constellational work of [...]

Air, light, height, with a tingle of vertigo, are what the Guggenheim Museum’s spiraling rotunda is about. Which makes it a near-ideal setting for the buoyant, lucent, constellational work of [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter 'Beyond the Light' at the Met is a luminous, move-close exhibition whose paintings and drawings render a volatile world with purity of heart and line. 'Purity of [...]

''Beyond the Light'' at the Met is a luminous, move-close exhibition whose paintings and drawings render a volatile world with purity of heart and line. ''Purity of heart is to [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter An ultra-polished survey of the artist's works at David Zwirner - some not seen before - demonstrate how preservation and change can coexist. My old friend Shepherd [...]

An ultra-polished survey of the artist's works at David Zwirner -- some not seen before -- demonstrate how preservation and change can coexist. My old friend Shepherd Raimi, who had [...]

Looking for new art in New York this weekend?‌ ‌ ‌Start in Chelsea for Nicole Eisenman’s retrospective and Ayanna Dozier’s solo show. And don’t miss Dave Schubert’s photographs. Newly Reviewed [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter A riveting show at the Metropolitan Museum surveys the complicated art of the ancient Maya, in which beauty and brutality are surreally entangled. Beautiful is complicated. Gorgeous [...]

A riveting show at the Metropolitan Museum surveys the complicated art of the ancient Maya, in which beauty and brutality are surreally entangled. Beautiful is complicated. Gorgeous sunset skies can [...]

El escultor cubano fusionó tradiciones latinoamericanas, indígenas y afrocaribeñas. Inspiró un movimiento inconformista y una de las mejores exposiciones del año. NUEVA YORK — A lo largo de las décadas [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter The Cuban sculptor fused Latin America, Indigenous and Afro-Caribbean traditions. He inspired a maverick movement - and one of the year's best shows. Over decades of seasons [...]

The Cuban sculptor fused Latin America, Indigenous and Afro-Caribbean traditions. He inspired a maverick movement -- and one of the year's best shows. Over decades of seasons spent trawling through [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter The political art in the group exhibition 'Paint the Protest' refers to events from the past that could be happening - and are - today. Most 'political' [...]

Holland Cotter, Jason Farago and Roberta Smith round up their favorite books, from museum catalogs of high-profile shows to photographs by Native artists to the treasures of Ukraine. Lots of [...]

Holland Cotter, Jason Farago and Roberta Smith round up their favorite books, from museum catalogs of high-profile shows to photographs by Native artists to the treasures of Ukraine. Lots of [...]

This was a year whose high points included an adult-feeling Whitney Biennial, a major survey of contemporary Puerto Rican art, and one of the great big-little exhibitions of all time. [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter On the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Maria, a show of extraordinary tenderness and political bite shines a light on a man-made and natural disaster. For many North [...]

On the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Maria, a show of extraordinary tenderness and political bite shines a light on a man-made and natural disaster. For many North Americans, the lasting [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter Yale University Art Gallery maps the surviving work of the Yoruban carver in his 50-year career bridging ritual and modern art. Attention is long overdue. NEW HAVEN, [...]

Yale University Art Gallery maps the surviving work of the Yoruban carver in his 50-year career bridging ritual and modern art. Attention is long overdue. NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- There's [...]

In the hardscrabble New York of the '70s, Just Above Midtown Gallery created a model for an art world to come. At MoMA, that experiment has plenty of life. When [...]

My introduction to the work of the Guyanese British artist Hew Locke, whose cranky, bling-gold, power-pricking sculptures are currently embedded in the Metropolitan Museum's facade, came in 2007 in a [...]

Holland Cotter, co-chief critic, on the bounty of Latin American and Latino art coming our way for the fall and winter season, as well as important shows on South Asian [...]

At the Mississippi Museum of Art, Mark Bradford, Theaster Gates Jr., Carrie Mae Weems and others explore the personal legacy of the era-shaping movement from the rural South. JACKSON, Miss. [...]

The International African American Museum brings the whole Afro-Atlantic world fully into the picture. A Journey of Grief and Grace In Charleston Harbor, where the initiating shots of the Civil [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter When I was a kid in the early 1960s, my Eisenhower-Republican physician-father always had the latest copies of his favored subscription publications on his home office desk: [...]

When I was a kid in the early 1960s, my Eisenhower-Republican physician-father always had the latest copies of his favored subscription publications on his home office desk: Time, Life, the [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter As climate change and government actions lead to water scarcity and desecration, Native American artists send an urgent message. In a transfixing two-minute video called 'River (The [...]

As climate change and government actions lead to water scarcity and desecration, Native American artists send an urgent message. In a transfixing two-minute video called ''River (The Water Serpent)'' in [...]

A group show at CCS Bard finds a positive value to looking inward, as it celebrates Black endurance. ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. -- A racist attack on Black Americans, with the spectacle [...]

Chilean-born, New York-based, she emerges at the Guggenheim after years under the art-market radar with just the right scrappy feel. After the spectacle of high-end hoarding that was this spring's [...]

Kazuko Miyamoto's painted grids have a case of the shakes. Her spatial constructions are as complex as weavings. Very good things are worth a very long wait. A prime example: [...]