Arts

Figgis’s musings on bourgeois decadence feel particularly canny in a time of widespread inequality.

From a sea lion in Monterey swimming by an N-95 mask to a polar bear in Norway, snuggling down on a small iceberg for the night.

This week, the only LGBTQ+ historic district in the US, three Asian-American Modernists, Ai Weiwei on reclaiming art from capitalism, Thanksgiving and genocide, and more.

For the artist, history doesn’t simply settle for repeating itself but jolts forward, stammers, pauses for breath, weaves around itself.

Fei Li knows that achieving rapprochement between the world views and customs of China and America is unlikely.

Sentimentality would creep into the artist’s late evocations of remembered childhood scenes, as would idealization.

The work in The Travel Section points to the isolation of a lockdown, but it’s not without moments of release.

Chemin Hsiao, winner of the museum’s Open Call for Artist Banners, and runners-up Woomin Kim and Mo Kong discuss their designs with Hyperallergic.

Houston artist HJ Bott conveys a restless, open, and experimental temperament that is in dialogue with his better-known contemporaries.

Merging past and present Scott magnifies what has been reduced in American history to a plaque on a highway.

From smart vibrators to mind-controlled sperm, these artists are using technology to explore sexuality and bodily autonomy.

Anicka Yi’s In Love with the World is an attempt to break down the distinctions we make between plants, animals, micro-organisms, and technology.

In her solo exhibition, the artist creates an installation that is many things but unified is not one of them.

In his Afro-Expressionist paintings and installations, Adjani Okpu-Egbe ruminates on native resistance in Cameroon and the colonial propaganda promoted in mainstream media.

The heirs of two Jewish collectors, one who sold the work to fund his escape from Germany, and another who had the artwork stolen by the Nazis, will receive financial restitution from the Christie’s sale.

Curated by Monika Fabijanska, Betsy Damon — Passages: Rites and Rituals pulls Damon’s performance practice out from oblivion.

Jennifer Ling Datchuk’s exhibition is filled with the haunting, rhythmic sounds of gently clattering porcelain.

Tree of Knowledge, a suite of eight paintings by the beloved artist and spiritualist, is up at David Zwirner Gallery.

The Museum of Modern Art’s retrospective exhibition Liquid Reality showcases how Kubota turned video art into sculpture.

Does the Academy Museum exhibition successfully plumb the depths of Miyazaki’s psyche?