Arts

This week, soup and art museums, one owl’s escape from Central Park Zoo, the false promise of AI, when film critics hang out, and what is “faerie smut”?

Bradley Hart injects the packaging material with acrylics to recreate classic art historical paintings, portraits, and more.

As with the composition of our world, each element is built one strand at a time before being interwoven into a cohesive whole.

This week, artist studios in Miami, Vermont, Connecticut, and Los Angeles.

Tony Cokes’s urgent video works, Caitlin MacBride’s Shaker-inspired paintings, Barrow Parke’s mytho-mathematical survey, and other shows that’ll warm your winter.

His 1599 masterpiece “The Fight Between Carnival and Lent” is an argument in paint for moral and spiritual ambivalence. 

While Joshi’s artwork addresses India’s current political and social state, these works are about more than just current events.

In Zangewa’s colorful textile collages, on view at SITE Santa Fe, the tableaus of our lives are stitched together with intention and memory.

Though it’s teeming with big-name artists like Artemisia Gentileschi and Berthe Morisot, Frida Kahlo is the only woman of color in this Madrid exhibition.

In a video installation and photography, Young extends her interrogation of legal institutions and asks viewers to contemplate what lies beyond surface appearances.

Subdivision depicts a uniquely Angeleno experience of adolescence, while also conjuring a shared memory of American suburban childhood.

Judithe Hernández, Joey Terrill, as well as group shows dedicated to art from Iran, Tijuana, and by Asian-American artists. 

The artist’s works are like maps through which he conjures familiar habitats, while tracing the roots of modernism to the graphic expressiveness of Andean art.

From feature films to installations, the multidisciplinary artist explores the hybridity of identity and the unremitting impacts of colonization in North America.

At first glance, Senise’s paintings appear coolly cerebral but standing close to the canvas’s surface we can observe that they are teeming with detail.

Her work interrogates how the continued prominence of Hellenic aesthetics has shaped our present and what this may say about our future.

Longtime Brooklyn artists Julie Torres and Ellen Letcher, who decamped upstate in 2016 to co-direct LABspace, are reunited with New York City in their first joint exhibition.

This week, the artist who embroidered with her hair, India’s newest monument to Hindu nationalism, frozen bubbles in a Canadian lake, and much more. 

Artists and craftsmen have imagined and reimagined the ubiquitous time tracker, creating innovative designs to keep an eye on the passing days.

Our annual list highlights the people who exist outside of an art world that favors the wealthy and privileged — or are just shit out of luck.