Arts

An exhibition at the Warburg Institute proposes that tarot brings forth a smart mixture of play and ancient wisdom that might help us juggle our reality.

In her paintings, the 17th-century Dutch painter captured a pure, crystalline moment of time with unnerving verisimilitude.

CJ Hendry’s massive inflatable installation, Keff Joons, transforms a seemingly unassuming Brooklyn warehouse into an air-filled rainbow playground.

This week: Lee Bul’s headless sentinels, Tracy Chapman on reissuing “Fast Car,” Viet Thanh Nguyen on the imperialism of American literature, biomorphic seawall designs, and more.

In the artist’s works, a woman is at once a social subject pushing back against marginalization and a disruptive energy, a flow that transcends barriers.

Just as memes of the viral hippo range from sweet to spooky, art history is rich with terrifying, adorable, and bizarre depictions of the amphibious creatures.

“It’s about people with the courage and perseverance to insist that politicians and media tell the truth,” the artist told Hyperallergic.

Her sculptures for The Met’s facade commission look like they’ve always been there, Frankensteined in the bowels of the museum’s ethnographic collections.

Tanning’s practice shows that there is always another door to open, a new world to explore, and that art offers us another possible existence.

The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History features the work of Baldwin-obsessed artist Sabrina Nelson on the centennial of the famed author’s birth.

“You will return to me,” says the land in a short video work projected onto the Brooklyn Bridge, Chinatown’s Kimlau Square, and other locations across the city.

Concluding its nationwide tour at the Asia Society, Maḏayin gathers intricate eucalyptus bark works by artists from the Indigenous community of Yirrkala.

Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers boasts some curatorial firsts and delights in the artist’s explosion of experimental color and expressive, urgent feeling.

The giant video projection of artifacts in Past Deposits is in constant conversation with the pedestrians, roadways, and architecture that surround it.

The artists in this exhibition know that we cannot simply “get over” the history of racialization, as well as the destructive legacy of US imperialism.

How did our collective obsession with the moisturized and unbothered hippo spiral into cuteness aggression?

La Feria featured art, books, posters, stickers, and more by at least 30 artists, whose offerings were as richly varied as the fair’s playlist.

Rather than his military prowess or finely crafted weapons, it was Sikhism that sustained Ranjit Singh’s empire.

The core message of visual analysis and close looking in Hockney and Piero: A Longer Look is an apt mantra for the National Gallery’s history.

The Harrisons’ Survival Piece #5: Portable Orchard at The Whitney is a calm and orderly response to the dystopian possibilities of climate upheaval.