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Reading Anne Ryan’s Poetic Collages
Ryan harnessed visual art as a means for creating poetry through the relatively new, nonverbal idioms of American abstract art. | Tim Keane
NEWS THIS WEEK
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council awards $1.3M to 255 artists and organizations and nams the 18 artists in residence at its new Arts Center.
Former MoMA member Gary Cabana stabbed two museum workers after his membership was revoked over “disorderly conduct.”
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The Rubin Museum Presents Healing Practices: Stories from Himalayan Americans
The New York City museum’s latest exhibition highlights how Tibetan Buddhist art and practices serve as roadmaps to well-being in times of crisis. Learn more.
LATEST REVIEWS
Alone in the Dying of the Light
One thing that comes across in the drawings of Rackstraw Downes is the austere, almost monastic life he has lived in order to make art. | John Yau
Was Jacques-Louis David Really That Radical?
Rather than accentuating his radicalism, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition makes Jacques-Louis David a compelling case study in opportunism and survival. | Billy Anania
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Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe Opens at the National Museum of the American Indian
This exhibition at the museum’s New York City location introduces new generations to one of the 20th century’s most innovative Native American painters. Learn more.
Fragmentation as a Queer Artistic Strategy
What becomes of the body in the work of artists who challenge cisheteronormative frameworks? | Cassie Packard
The Medieval Body Balances the Heavenly and Corporeal
Central to The Medieval Body at Luhring Augustine is the tension between the bloodied or bruised abject body and the beatified soul. | Jillian McManemin
An Artist Welcomes You With the Tools of Play Therapy
Mimi Park’s artwork is about the DIY creation and sustenance of an open-ended, experimental ecosystem, a non-hierarchical space of aimless exploratory interactions — in short, play. | Cassie Packard
Elizabeth Glaessner’s Wonderfully Weird Menagerie
The notion of stories, bodies, and selves that change incrementally and radically as they repeat pervades the mesmerizing world of Glaessner’s Phantom Tail. | Cassie Packard
The Pleasures of Slow Looking
Jule Korneffel is not after denial in her paintings but rather affirmation, even in these chaotic, seesawing times. | John Yau
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CLOSING SOON
Tom Burckhardt, “Monster Shame” (2021), oil on linen, 20 x 16 inches (© Tom Burckhardt, courtesy the artist and George Adams Gallery, New York. Photo by George Adams Gallery)
Elmer Bischoff/Tom Burckhardt: A Dialogue
George Adams Gallery through March 19
Elizabeth Glaessner: Phantom Tail
P·P·O·W through March 19
Rackstraw Downes: Drawings
Betty Cuningham Gallery through March 19
ON VIEW
The New Bend
Hauser & Wirth through April 2
Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks
Guggenheim Museum through April 4
Vik Muniz: Scraps
Sikkema Jenkins & Co. through April 9
Mimi Park: Dawning: dust, seeds, Coplees
Lubov through April 16
Jule Korneffel: Here comes the night
Spencer Brownstone Gallery through April 16
