On View

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

“This Sacred Vessel (pt.2)”through August 23at Arsenal Contemporary Art, New York What the gallery says: “Arsenal Contemporary Art New York is pleased to present ‘This Sacred Vessel (pt. 2).’ After exploring how the relevance of landscape painting is informed by ecological anxiety in ‘This Sacred Vessel (pt. 1),’ this new iteration turns to the long-established heritage […] More

Over the past week, cultural institutions around the world, including the Guggenheim, the Jewish Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, have been confronted with a series of open letters from current and former staff members calling for an end to institutional racism. These issues are nothing new, and Black artists have long been […] More

“Collect Wisely: The Exhibition”Online at Sean Kelly, New York What the gallery says: “In this interregnum, we have paused to reflect and think more intently about not just what we value, but our own core values. With galleries, museums, cultural, performing, and visual arts institutions shuttered, we believe strongly that art will continue to inspire and […] More