From local concerns in the Bronx to global issues in Queens, plus a trip to see Indigenous art in New Jersey, our favorite art is far-reaching right now.
Petala Ironcloud
Petala Ironcloud is a CA-born Lakota/Dakota and Jewish writer and textile artist based in NYC. Previously, he sat on the board of the American Indian Cultural Center of San Francisco, working with the Mayor's office to launch the American Indian Cultural District, the first of its kind in the U.S. Their writing has been published in The Business of Fashion, ARTnews, PAPER Magazine and others.
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Five New York City Art Shows We Love This Week
Among our favorite shows at the moment are ones that feature strong, talented women, like Patty Chang, Myrlande Constant, and Amy Sherald.
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A Vision of Design That Transcends Empire’s Grid
Reverberations decenters anthropocentrism, builds upon non-Western cosmologies, and harnesses alternative knowledge-keeping.
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Indigenous Art History Has Been Waiting for You to Catch Up
The late Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s final curatorial salvo — the largest show of Native American art to date — carries an elegiac weight, but also thrums with life.
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Artists Find Power, Care, and Resistance in the Garden
A group exhibition at the Aldrich Museum frames gardens as a sites of nurture and control, tradition and innovation.
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13 Artists Perform Selfhood in the Age of Alienation
From Alex Ito’s shifting mirrors to Laura Anderson Barbata’s oceanic drag, each piece in this show weaves together themes of identity, protection, and transformation.
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Four Artists Dismantle the Boundaries of “Immigrant”
Raul De Lara, Shanique Emelife, Sihan Guo, and Tahnee Lonsdale challenge conservatism through explorations of migration, spirituality, and interconnectedness.