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Best of 2021: Our Top 10 New York City Art Shows
The city brought shows to life that will be talked about for years to come.
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Pete Schulte’s Magical Abstract Drawings
Schulte seems at once focused and restless, determined and open. | John Yau
The Poetry of Black Daily Life in the Art of Whitfield Lovell
Each portrait in Lovell’s current exhibition is a lens through which to consider the complex humanity of Black subjectivity in American history. | Alexandra M. Thomas
Lina Puerta’s Art Mimics Botanical and Female Anatomical Forms
Puerta’s artworks strike a gentle balance between whimsy and sincerity. | Louis Bury
The Unknown Work of Rakuko Naito
Naito’s Op-inspired abstractions might have been an oblique way of dealing with feelings of displacement after moving to the United States. | John Yau
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CLOSING SOON
Danielle De Jesus, "Loyalty like this doesn't exist anymore" (2021), oil on linen, 67 x 83 inches (all images courtesy Calderón, New York, photos by Dario Lasagni)
Danielle De Jesus and Shellyne Rodriguez: Siempre en la Calle
Calderón through December 17
A Ripe Blackberry Murmurs to the Wall
Fierman gallery through December 18
John Avelluto: FooGayZee
Stand4 Gallery through December 18
Forrest Bess: I Can Close My Eyes in a Dark Room
The Ranch through December 18
Wifredo Lam: The Imagination at Work
Pace gallery through December 18
Ron Gorchov: The Last Paintings 2017–2020
Cheim & Read through December 18
Hilma af Klimt: Tree of Knowledge
David Zwirner through December 18
Within Listening Distance of the Sea…
Fridman Gallery through December 19
Stephen Westfall: Persephone
Alexandre Gallery through December 22
Sonia Gechtoff: The 1960s in New York: A Series of Transitions
David Richard Gallery through December 23
