Arts

The sprawling Park Avenue Armory fair, thoughtfully and spaciously curated, is never too stuffy or zeitgeisty.

“América invertida” by Uruguayan-Spanish artist Joaquín Torres García was always meant to be a mission statement.

This month: Hélio Oiticica, Rick Castro, Rosemary Mayer, the Virgen de Guadalupe photographed across the city, and more.

Virginia L. Montgomery initiates connections between humans and their natural surroundings and envisions a hopeful future when Anthropocene hierarchies are overturned.

A new documentary follows a team of Ohio artists and environmentalists transforming acid mine drainage into viable art materials.

This month: Frank Stella, Jaqueline Cedar, Manet vs. Degas, nudes from the Arab world, and more.

“My drawings were always kind of grim and dark, and leaning toward the nasty part of art, whatever you want to call it,” Jones explains in an interview with Hyperallergic.

Poetic and subtle, her work invites viewers to contemplate each material as it changes, or stays the same, over time.

We imagined the curatorial texts for a selection of pandemic-era memes if they were exhibited in some other dimension 50 years from now.

The Clown Egg Register is a beloved yet bizarre archiving practice still used by clowning communities today.

In Kitaj’s work, the whole is an extravagant layering of several images into one.

Inspired by the Dutch tradition of Delft blue pottery that imitated Chinese porcelain, Patrick Bergsma incorporates handcrafted bonsai trees into his exploding works.

An exhibition at LA’s Skirball Cultural Center chronicles three women’s decades-long struggle to reclaim a family painting seized by the Nazis.

California Stars illuminates contributions to contemporary art that have been long ignored and excluded from the standard Euro-American canon.

A nod to Diego Rivera, Maya Lin’s new generative art, and Flemish engravings shine at the International Fine Print Dealers Association show.

He contributed to his own obscurity by portraying his sitters and characters with humor and smiles, rather than aloof nobility.

A new book and show at Cooper Hewitt introduces the artist’s vivid, textural world to a new generation.

Women artists’ contributions shine in The Culture, an exhibition about hip hop at the Saint Louis Art Museum.

This week, Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s enduring legacy, the “doyenne of Black horror,” the ultimate Jeff Koons Halloween costume, and why do cats meow?

Varo’s paintings beckon us to plunge into their vaporous worlds while challenging us to decode intricate scenarios.