Arts

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Kwon Young-Woo presents the viewer with a deeper sense of the reality that nature goes on, no matter what humans are doing to each other.

For the five artists in From Scratch, starting from the elemental meant raising existential questions on the use of language and humor or irony in art.

The photographer chronicles her life as a queer woman of color born with HIV.

This week, national participation in the Venice Biennale, teen depression in the US, the “pity me” personal essay, reimagining borders, and more.

Elliott Green seems to be espousing that landscapes are living forms governed by rules we cannot fathom — they appear to be welcoming us, but we might be wrong.

Bayrle creates an art gallery version of computer reproductions of unreality. His art inhabits a world composed of repeated ready-made images.

An active shooting range prompts artwork about the environment.

An ingenious arrangement can engender awareness of spatial relationships, provide a much-needed sense of order, or offer purely aesthetic mysteries.

Utako Shindo is interested in transitional passages and hinge experiences, or what she calls the “in-between spatiality.”

Set in a realm where humans are no longer sovereign, Candice Lin’s elaborate installation foregrounds the lives and deaths of felines, critters, microbes, and demons in a practice of making kin.

Harout Bastajian has built a career painting calligraphic and geometric designs for the domes of mosques around the world. The results are stunning.

Nearly a decade after his death in 2013, Phel Steinmetz’s attention to the effects of capitalism on the environment can be recognized as both political and prescient.

How is it I’m busy all the time but I don’t have time to do what is important?

Kaufman’s sculptures can go from orderly to helter-skelter, making them seem like willful renegades from an industrial assembly line.

The Port of Long Beach Recordings is a soundtrack to the globe’s hunger for commodities, the ever-expanding growth of imported products, and the enormous system of infrastructure still insufficient to process it all.

When prints are exhibited, the printer is generally not credited as co-creator of the work and often the print publisher or workshop is not named.

The iconic painting has been fodder for generations of artists who offered interpretations of the original in pursuit of depicting the “real” America.

An influencer who goes by the handle @halbaddie has been helping define what “Met Gala Behavior” is in 2022.

Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month, including Morgan Bassichis, Kazuko Miyamoto, Frida Orupabo, and more.