Arts

Lacey Black and Aubrey Levinthal share a talent in their paintings for bringing inward and outward states together until they are one.

Arke’s art calls forth memories of Greenlandic Inuit life and reinscribes them with the reality of the body against its representation by White colonizers.

Paolo Cirio sues the fossil fuel industry on behalf of the environment in his latest book and body of work.

Thomas’s shimmering collages are, among other things, meditations on and appreciations of Black female beauty and sexuality.

Moore’s drawings made in underground shelters during WWII show us strangers whose lives had been shredded by grief, despair, and fear.

Like the narratives she portrays, St. Hilaire’s artistic technique is layered and complex, and reflects vernacular cultural aesthetics and practices.

Unsung lesbian photographer Tee A. Corinne, Rachael Bos’s Olympic oil paintings, Samantha Yun Wall redeems mythical antagonists, Tom Van Sant’s portrait of the earth, and more.

The first exhibition to consider late artist David Medalla’s work in context of his gay identity explores his playful, poignant, erotic, and collaborative oeuvre.

A show hones in on the tension between colonial European ideas and local styles of architecture as India and Ghana gained independence.

Contemporary artists with large followings beyond the traditional scope of the art world had little trouble unloading their latest works.

A miniature book fair, printmaking workshops, and generous price tags more than make up for the more gimmicky aspects of this Manhattan show.

At Clio and Salon Zürcher, I found a drag show, celestial paintings, and welcome spaces for artists to debut new directions.

Is this year’s fair a reflection of a tired, oversaturated, and complacent art market, or am I looking for excitement and discovery where they can no longer be found?

This week: Audre Lorde beyond the famous quotes, women activists in Haiti, the Black Polar explorer you’ve never heard of, a walrus takes a sabbatical, and much more.

“Best Booth”? No, thank you. This year, we honor the real standouts at the fair, from the shiniest artworks to the most Duchampian.

For its 13th edition, the fair brings its imaginative spirit to an environment that could certainly use it: a floor of a Tribeca office building.

Highlights include Lenore Tawney’s fiber work, Selby Warren’s mixed-media paintings, and Julia Isídrez’s ceramics.

Seven galleries show work by artists from Ukraine and its diaspora in a special exhibition at the fair.

What makes Stephen Morrison’s paintings of flower arrangements particularly special is that his beloved dog, Tilly, is integrated into the flowers themselves.

“My space is not too big and not too small. It allows me to work smart.”