Art

For the last six decades and counting, Paul McCarthy has danced a fine line between provocation and play. Three concurrent exhibitions offer entry points to his genre-less practice, which spans video, performance, sculpture, drawings, and more. 

With work displayed across seven galleries and museums worldwide, including a new, bicoastal solo show in New York and Los Angeles, 82-year-old Pippa Garner is still the moment.

Movement takes Kyle Abraham places, and his audience is along for the ride. Time collapses into nostalgia and unflinching reckonings as the choreographer leaves it all on the floor.

At OCDChinatown, Devan Diaz’s “Bad Girls” is a pink altar to transsexual potency.

Beeple flew under the radar of the art world until a multi-million dollar NFT sale put him on the map. His first institutional solo show at China’s Deji Art Museum envisions the infinite paths forward for the world as it confronts technological acceleration—be they fantastical, pragmatic, or outright dystopic.

Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña’s solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin in New York presents nature as a mirror.

At Xavier Hufkens in Brussels, David Altmejd taps into his subconscious with new sculptures and drawings that are many things at once.

The American meal torn apart into a jigsaw. A clock whose hands never quite leave you at peace. The distant and disparate in-between. These eight contemporary artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds warp reality to radical extremes, forcing us to reconsider ourselves and our daily experiences.

A new body of work by photographer Jesse Gouveia revisits childhood memories of fort-building while considering the poignant nature of time’s passage.

 In Los Angeles, William Eggleston presents an exhibition of dye-transfer prints––the last of their kind.

In her West Coast debut, Sabine Moritz enters new territory with works that include human forms, yet at the heart of it all is her love for nature.

Legendary artist Lee Bul's latest project in New York City transforms the iconic facade of The Metropolitan Museum of Art—marking the museum's new collaboration with Genesis.

Ada Friedman marches into mysterious territories, guided by the words of the late poet Helen Adam.

A quiet yet entrancing new suite of paintings from Francesco Clemente debuts at Lévy Gorvy Dayan, pulling from his extensive travels and inner reflections alike.

Isabelle Albuquerque is expanding, making room for flowers and other forms to grow from her self-referential practice. For her current two-person show with the late artist Robert Therrien’s estate, her sculptures become charged with a new energy.

At art fair’s 19th edition, Osman Can Yerebakan explores the highlights amidst the city’s art world fixtures and international collectors.

With its sprawling inaugural group show featuring every artist on its roster, Marian Goodman Gallery’s newly minted TriBeCa flagship gives a taste of what’s to come.

The world is spinning out of control, and Meriem Bennani is excavating the center, fingers on the pulse as she digs beneath its surface. But what happens when she extends her exacting, witty, and nuanced perspective beyond the collective present? Orian Barki finds out.

In Cincinnati, Ohio, Chip Thomas’ mural of William Rankins Jr. captures the heart and soul of a community being pushed out by development.

Magnum Photos and The Photo Society’s Square Print Sale explores the beauty of the planet and the role of humans in its prosperity.

For artist Paige K. B., the work of dissecting and rearranging pillars of global image culture has just begun.

The world is burning, and Arthur Jafa is taking the temperature.

This month, Gregory Crewdson brings his cinematic depictions of small-town America to Louis Vuitton’s exhibition space in Munich.

No stranger to the art and artifice of performance, Nora Turato stays wary of the authenticity trap. Her audience would be wise to do the same.