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Shahzia Sikander Draws the Immeasurability of Women

The artist uses her technical and artistic gifts to render a clear vision of women who defy stereotypes. | Seph Rodney

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Don’t Miss These Experimental Works at the New York Film Festival

With films touching on protest in France, China’s one-child policy, and Indigenous life in Canada, the 2021 Currents program stays both culturally and politically forward-thinking. | Ela Bittencourt

The First Museum Exhibition of Brazilian Modernist Photography Outside Brazil

This retrospective of the work from a São Paulo photo club is a reminder that Modernism was not solely a European phenomenon. | Julia Curl

Tomashi Jackson Rediscovers Long Island’s Beleaguered Past

Jackson’s exhibition The Land Claim began an extensive dialogue with local Indigenous, Black, and Latinx families on Long Island’s East End. | David Carrier

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CLOSING SOON

Mary Lee Bendolph, “Grandpa Strips” (2010), corduroy, 98 x 83 inches
(courtesy the artist and Nicelle Beauchene Gallery)

Serge Poliakoff: Gouaches 1938–1969
Cheim & Read, through September 25

Martine Syms: Loot Sweets
Bridget Donahue, through September 25

Piece of Mind: Mary Lee Bendolph
Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, through September 25

Estamos Bien — La Trienal 20/21
El Museo del Barrio, through September 26

Off the Record
Guggenheim Museum, through September 27

ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS

Lynn Hershman Leeson: Twisted
New Museum, through October 3

Gregg Bordowitz: I Wanna Be Well
MoMA PS1 through October 11

Deana Lawson: Centropy
Guggenheim Museum, through October 11

“From Surface to Space”: Max Bill and Concrete Sculpture in Buenos Aires
Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, through October 30

Kusama: Cosmic Nature
New York Botanical Gardens, through October 31