New York
December 21, 2022
You Can’t Coat the Holocaust With Gold
Anselm Kiefer’s philosophy has its roots in German Romanticism, particularly the belief that the artist can mediate between the creative and the divine, between earth and heaven. | John Yau
Anselm Kiefer: Exodus
Nov. 12–Dec. 23
Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, Chelsea (gagosian.com)
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LATEST REVIEWS
Pat Steir Accepts Time’s Passage With Grace
Steir’s work of the ’90s was the result of physically demanding processes. What happens when you cannot do what you once did? | John Yau
Pat Steir: Blue River and Rainbow Waterfalls
Nov. 10–Dec. 23
Hauser & Wirth, 542 West 22nd Street, Chelsea (hauserwirth.com)
The Stirring Political Etchings of Nicolás De Jesús
The Mexican artist’s works reveal the radical possibilities of an indigenous sensibility charged with a keen awareness of politics and art history. | Faye Hirsch
Nicolás De Jesús: A Mexican Artist for Global Justice
Sept. 7–Dec. 23
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY (neuberger.org)
Xylor Jane’s Cosmic Grids
The rules that structure Jane’s paintings take her to some place strange and fascinating, beautiful and perplexing, mind-boggling and riveting. | John Yau
Xylor Jane: Second Saturn Return
Nov. 4–Dec. 22
Canada, 60 Lispenard Street, Tribeca (canadanewyork.com)
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The National Museum of the American Indian Presents The COVID-19 Outbreak in the Navajo Nation
Photojournalist Donovan Quintero’s photo essay is the third installment in the online exhibition series Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field. Learn more.
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Mirror Image: A Transformation of Chinese Identity
Jun. 15–Dec. 30
Asia Society Museum, 725 Park Avenue, Upper East Side (asiasociety.org)
Asia Society’s latest group exhibition explores an up-and-coming generation of artists who came of age during the liberalization of China’s economy. Unlike their predecessors, these seven young conceptualists move beyond traditional Chinese motifs to critique the fast-paced changes experienced in their lifetime so far.
Saya Woolfalk: Field Notes From the Empathic Universe
Oct. 21–Dec. 31
Newark Museum of Art, 49 Washington Street, Newark, NJ (newarkmuseumart.org)
Brooklyn-based artist Saya Woolfalk’s socially realistic fiction is a posthuman world where the Empathics, a special race of women, fuse diverse cultures to produce hybrid artifacts and relics. Also on display is Woolfalk’s first self-portrait, which critiques nationalism and belonging, placed next to the museum’s renowned collection of Hudson River School paintings.
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