Art

A dialogue between Reginald Sylvester II and the late artist Denzil Hurley unfolds throughout Canada, in which abstraction captures the nuances of the human condition.

Billy Childish works in the immediate. The artist’s latest show at Lehmann Maupin London situates viewers in nebulous winter landscapes that shimmer as dreams do.

Science fiction is often lauded for predicting what is to come. But what of its ability to confront history? Sedrick Chisom is prophetic in his rendering of worlds both tethered to the past and spinning outward into the future.

The artist Allison Janae Hamilton looks skyward in “Celestine” at Marianne Boesky Gallery.

For the last 10 years and counting, Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective have made experimental films that address climate change, art, science, and history. Now in New York, their layered films are on view in totality in their first gallery exhibition.

The world is material for Wilhelm Sasnal. The artist’s new exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery in New York reinforces his penchant for nonhierarchical images.

A new body of work by Huidi Xiang looks to Disney’s classic Cinderella to resurface and honor the unexamined labor of the princess’ eager-to-please critter friends—simultaneously acknowledging their historical real-world equivalents. 

Six empty dresses appear to float on their own at a Dimes Square gallery in New York. Indeed, Brandon Morris’ spectral vision is the natural outcome of his practical skills in fashion and his otherworldly aspirations as a fine artist.

Faith Wilding’s retrospective at Anat Ebgi New York honors the pioneering artist’s 50 years of dedication to life, women, and nature.

 Bruce Weber’s exhibition in Prague feels ever-present, in part because the images abide by the prevailing cultural gaze that he helped create. 

At New York Life Gallery, James Bantone captures fleeting moments in foolproof materials.

Bulgari celebrates its new 2025 snake-like designs with the unveiling of the Serpentine’s first exhibition in Shanghai. 

Rick Lowe’s practice is religious: rooted in the world around him, enriching and restorative. When it comes to his paintings and community-oriented projects, art is a resource and a way forward.

The world is big, unfathomably so. This much Alicja Kwade knows. The rest, her work seems to posit, is ineffable—a stellar and atomic blip in time.

Creative Time addresses our most pertinent political and social concerns, amplifying them like a megaphone through monumental interventions that overtake vacant buildings, city streets, beaches, buses, and everywhere in between. At its core are its people who have changed the world for the past 50 years and counting.

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.

Emma Stern’s uncanny universe is a reflection of the world as we know it: technicolor and computer-generated, desire-drenched and fantasy-filled.

Martina Cox’s art is built around exploring what is beneath the folds of garments and outmoded craft practices. For her exhibition at the New York Estonian House with Alyssa Davis Gallery, she turns this inside out.

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.