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Deana Lawson’s Sublime Visions of Black Communion
Portals to the otherworldly, Lawson’s grand-scale photographs reveal the divine in the secular. | Daniella Brito
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Lynn Hershman Leeson, in All Her Cyborg Glory, Gets a Retrospective
A foremother to young new media artists working today, Hershman Leeson has blazed a trail for more than five decades. | Cassie Packard
Jon Pylypchuk’s Chorus of Loss
Pylypchuk’s art has always been deeply engaged with the most painful parts of life, those that human beings tend to push aside or deny in order to get by. | Natalie Haddad
An Asian Artist’s Isolation in New York
Yuri Yuan’s sense of isolation is an inescapable feature of her daily life, which she simultaneously examines and holds at bay through the act of painting. | John Yau
In Henry Taylor’s Paintings, the Past Bleeds Into the Present
Taylor’s paintings emphasize that golf and horse racing, though once exclusively activities for privileged white men, depended on the support of men who were almost invariably Black. | David Carrier
Artist Mary Mattingly Wants to Know: Where Does Your Water Come From?
Mattingly’s public art project at Prospect Park aims to raise awareness about how to create more equitable and sustainable public water systems. | Rachel Remick
Seeing a Performance in NYC? You’ll Need Your Vaccine Card
The “Key to NYC Pass” will soon be required to access indoor cultural venues as well as dining and fitness facilities. | Valentina Di Liscia
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CLOSING SOON
Gareth Nyandoro, "Kubatana Fence Makers" (2021), ink on cut paper mounted on canvas
Gareth Nyandoro: MAWORKS at Van Doren Waxter through August 6
Julie Mehretu at the Whitney Museum through August 8
Tammy Nguyen: Freehold at Smack Mellon through August 8
Projects: Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill at the Museum of Modern Art through August 15
ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS
Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life at MoMA PS1 through September 6
Born in Flames: Feminist Futures at the Bronx Museum of the Arts through September 12
Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter at the Jewish Museum through September 12
Estamos Bien — La Trienal 20/21 at El Museo del Barrio through September 26
Off the Record at the Guggenheim Museum through September 27
