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New NY Public Library Installation Is Inspired by History of Writing

Hayal Pozanti created a set of 31 unique shapes years ago through a combination of intuition and research into ancient writing systems. | Lauren Moya Ford

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Is It Fair to Call Louise Bourgeois "Freud's Daughter"?

It's a good bet that being called his daughter would have made Bourgeois hopping mad. | Nancy Princenthal

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Hugh Hayden Confronts the Black American Dream

Hugh Hayden’s works combine elements of spaces in which Black Americans gather, heal, and memorialize. | Shameekia Shantel Johnson

Florida’s Kaleidoscopic Skies and Windblown Palms, Immortalized by a Cohort of Black Painters

The Highwaymen’s paintings are an environmental time capsule for a state highly threatened by the climate crisis. | Jessica Holmes

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You’ll Need to Be Vaccinated to Visit NYC Museums and Galleries

Arts and culture institutions are included in the new "Key to NYC" vaccination mandate, the mayor announced today. | Valentina Di Liscia

CLOSING SOON

New Red Order, "Cover the Earth (detail)" (2021)

New Red Order: Feel at Home Here at Artists Space through August 22

Arcmanoro Niles: Hey Tomorrow, Do You Have Some Room For Me: Failure Is A Part Of Being Alive at Lehmann Maupin through August 28

Yuri Yuan: River Flows in You at Alexander Berggruen through August 31

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

Off the Record at the Guggenheim Museum through September 27

​Lynn Hershman Leeson: Twisted at the New Museum through October 3

Deana Lawson: Centropy at the Guggenheim Museum through October 11

Kusama: Cosmic Nature at the New York Botanical Gardens through October 31