New YorkOctober 13, 2021 • View in browserCloaked in Power and the Tutored Gaze, the Medici Portraits at the MetMy sense is that people come to this museum and this show wanting to learn other histories by having their way of looking tutored and trained. | Seph Rodney SPONSORED Gowanus Open Studios Is Back With Over 400 Artists, Businesses, and VenuesThis free public event returns to Brooklyn for its 25th anniversary on Saturday, October 16 and Sunday, October 17 from 12 to 6pm. Learn more. The Democracy of AbstractionThomas Nozkowski believed that each person’s experience of the everyday was fundamentally unique and set out to honor that in his work. | John Yau An Artist’s Embroideries Reflect the Complexity and Interconnectedness of Queer New YorkWhat struck me most about LJ Robert’s Carry You With Me is the way in which it depicts some of the complexity of queer New York. | Alexis Clements In the Hudson River Valley, Artists Navigate EcologyThe exhibition includes paintings by Thomas Cole and Frederic Church, along with contemporary works focusing on habitat protection and environmental sustainability. | Sarah Rose Sharp Mourning a Tree That Has Lain DownJean Shin’s “Fallen” bids goodbye to the longevity we thought we had and mourns it, so that we might let it go. | Seph Rodney Support HyperallergicYour contributions support Hyperallergic's independent journalism and our extensive network of writers around the world. CLOSING SOON Partial view of Leonardo Drew’s “Number 305” (2021) Leonardo Drew Daisy Youngblood: Tender Mercy(s): Early and Late Works in Clay Thomas Nozkowski: The Last Paintings ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS An Act of Seeing: Barry Jenkins’s The Gaze Kusama: Cosmic Nature Tomashi Jackson: The Land Claim With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985 |