Arts

The artist’s exhibition at the New-York Historical Society is clever, but it takes on a vast and messy past with a touch that is sometimes too light.

Hyperallergic fellow Álvaro Ibarra explored the motifs, circulation, and complex questions around ownership of the art tradition created by incarcerated Chicanos.

Mining the rich legacy of art as a way to honor the dead, Hyperallergic Fellow Brianna L. Hernández traced the history of funerary arts to contemporary practitioners.

DON’T YOU MISS US? honors the trailblazing women who paved the way, underscoring the ongoing dialogue between past and present artistic expressions.

Work by photographers from Guatemala to Brazil can be found in historically Latine neighborhoods across New York City.

This week: Street art memorializes Sonya Massey, the history of women’s athletic clothing, an Olympic cheese sponsorship, women rule BookTok, plucky astronauts, and more.

The exhibition This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance documents the writer and activist’s life through archival media, photographs, and artwork.

Make sure not to miss shows featuring Jenny Holzer, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Huong Dodinh, and others, plus a lot of dogs.

Airhead at PPOW Gallery explores alternative modes of learning within and beyond the classroom.

“My studio is between the fruit seller and the kiosk. When I leave the doors open on hot days, people walking by drop in to share their thoughts on my paintings.”

In his “Self Portrait #5,” headed to auction in August, the artist forcibly inserts himself and his culture into areas that didn’t intend to include him.

En masse, Eisenman’s paintings feel weighty and overwrought, as if too many ideas had become tangled and sucked up all the air, like a one-way conversation.

In Not Cool but Compelling, the artist’s works churn with the turmoil of life, like emotions sketched in real time.

Pauline Decarmo’s triumphant canvases, Mary Lucier’s sun-seeking video installation, Edward Merritt’s recycled botanics, Dani Klebe’s country cabin installation, and more.

Some of the Louvre’s most famous works inspired a series of half-submerged installations for the Olympic games.

Styling Identities pushes the boundaries of museum display to incorporate local communities and global art through the theme of hair.

The Haas Brothers’ witty functional sculptures alluding to ecology proffer an environment that is knowingly — and laughably — unrealistic.

Lila de Magalhaes’s fornicating insects, Kyungmi Shin’s excavation of the so-called “Orient,” the late Steve Roden’s genre-bending work, and so much more.

The late artist’s work subverts the genre’s conventions in its centering of the gay community members he knew or admired and the LGBTQ+ spaces he frequented.

Two shows cast a critical eye on our fantasy of nature as it crashes up against the realities of the world we humans have created.