On View

“Painting With Light: The Photography of Ming Smith”Online at Pippy Houldsworth GalleryThrough July 25 What the gallery says: “Containing works from the start of the 1970s to the present day, including a number of never-before-seen archival prints, the exhibition explores the painterly quality of Ming Smith’s photographic work. From photographs taken in the New York neighborhoods […] More

It is a shocking and unforgettable image: a Black man crosses the street with an angry mob in pursuit. A brick flies through the air toward the man’s head. The traffic light is green, as if the angry mob has the go-ahead. Activists are petitioning the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main to take down […] More

“Gordon Parks: Part One”through August 1, 2020Alison Jacques Gallery, London What the gallery says: “Born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, Gordon Parks was a humanitarian with a deep and life-long commitment to social justice. He rapidly developed a deeply personal style of photography with a focus on race relations, poverty, civil rights, and […] More

What is more powerful: beauty, or ugliness? Artist Fred Wilson, who is known for his interventionist artworks, in which he takes objects from museum collections and rearranges them, decoding and recontextualizing their meaning, was focused on just that question in an exclusive interview with Art21 filmed in 2014. In the interview, Wilson discusses beauty, ugliness, and meaning […] More

“Yale Painting and Printmaking MFA 2020”Online at Perrotin, through July 18 What Yale Ph.D candidate Alexandra M. Thomas says: “These artists take us elsewhere: to the bar with friends; the electricity of queer nightlife; a crowded swimming pool on a sunny day; the affective space of nostalgia for girlhood; the fashion catwalk. We witness earthly pleasures: […] More

When the Beijing-based artist Liu Xiaodong traveled to New York City earlier this year with his wife and daughter, he never anticipated just how long he would stay. As the city went into lockdown, they found themselves quarantined and unable to travel back home for the foreseeable future. So, for the past four months, the […] More

“Art on the Grid” presented by the Public Art FundVarious locations in New York through September 20, 2020 What the organization says: “The exhibition was conceived in the spring of 2020 in direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As it developed, the parallel epidemic of systemic racism came into sharp and painful focus. Both crises now […] More

“Derrick Adams: Buoyant”through August 23 at the Hudson River Museum 511 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers, New York   What the museum says: “Executed between 2016 and 2019, the ‘Floaters’ series is a collection of vividly painted portraits depicting Black people in various states of rest and play, buoyantly floating on calm waters. Relaxed bodies, some with a gentle […] More