Spirituality, magic, and transformation are recurring themes in some of our favorite exhibitions on view, from Mestre Didi to Renée Stout.

The artist’s magnificent, rhinestone-encrusted cast sculptures tell multiple stories that look at contemporary queer and trans existence.

An exhibition at the Warburg Institute proposes that tarot brings forth a smart mixture of play and ancient wisdom that might help us juggle our reality.

We start with an inquiry: What do artists need to know in this time of deep tumult?

The Escalante Massacre in the Philippines serves as a touchstone for a show by Filipino artist Enzo Camacho and American artist Ami Lien at MoMA PS1.

In an already trying year, the art in From Chinatown, With Love is a reminder that community will help us get through the tremendous challenges.

Poems from centuries ago can stand in dialogue with painters speaking to their contemporaries, and calligraphy serves as a bit of a bridge between them.

One of the most beautiful aspects of Buddhist art is how intertwined an image is with its philosophical meaning, giving us a deeper understanding of the world around us.

From the visual pleasures of Mary Sully to the cultural critique of Gary Simmons, to a lesson in Haitian art history, there’s plenty of great art to see right now.

Winter is a time to slow down and store energy — you’ll need it for more energetic days to come.

Vibrant sculptures by Anne Samat, Bill Viola’s humanistic videos, and emotive pieces by the Studio Museum’s artists in residence are some of our favorite artworks right now.

Malaysian artist Anne Samat’s grand installations resemble traditional woven, brightly colored altars but a closer look reveals toy soldiers, rake heads, and plastic keychains.

Marion Gibson’s research rigorously traces the legal and human aspects of the trials through today.

Each work in Wynter’s show is a reflection of someone in the artist’s chosen family, the sort of person with whom he could share a soulful meal.

Start off the month with thoughtful shows by a range of artists, from established names like Nan Goldin to newcomers like Rachel Martin and trailblazers like Elizabeth Catlett.

The Secret World of Elephants is filled with interactive activities about our gargantuan cousins that are as much fun for grown-ups as they are for kids.

Big and transformative energies are in the collective air as we enter into the coming months — be prepared.

What makes The Tarot of A. E. Waite and P. Colman Smith stand out is how much the book emphasizes the creative process and treats the cards like art.

A show of Japanese art at The Met suggests that things might not work out for us in our own end times, but it’s worth trying.

Combining queerness, the natural world, and paganism, Baldock’s expressive, quirky works expand on the very nature of earth-based spirituality.

For each solstice and equinox, Hyperallergic will present a tarotscope with a special focus on the arts and creative practice, to mark the turning of the seasons.

From Niki de Saint Phalle to the subway, time is running out to see some of our favorite art in the city.

Let’s investigate some of the hundreds of artworks on display as part of the central exhibition at this year’s Biennale.

The four artists featured in Peeling the Onion confront the long-lasting trauma that people and families carry through the generations.

In a strong showing of national pavilions at this year’s edition, countries foregrounded diverse voices and showcased national talent.

The artists in Devoted: Religion in Asian American Art offer complex perspectives on religion grounded in their lived experiences.

What role can art play in helping us understand a time of great chaos and what role can national pavilions play in a time when nation states are ever present?

From an occult Renaissance manuscript and the history of eyeliner to Salman Rushdie’s new book, our staff and contributors have got you covered.

Power concedes nothing without a demand, and the tireless efforts of the Disability Arts Movement deserve both recognition and celebration.

The new documentary All We’ve Got shows audiences the range of spaces designed as lesbian community hubs, performance venues, and places for dancing and partying.

Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects serves less as a catalog and more as a continuation of a years-long effort to tell a millennia-long history.

This month: Audrey Flack, Sonya Clark, Raven Chacon, Mike Olin, and more.

If there’s a lesson from the Godzilla anthology, it’s that Asian-American art is deeply complex, much like the many manifestations of Godzilla the monster.

With Storage of the Gods, the artist explores what a spiritual practice can look like in our secular, stressed-out world.

In her new book The Other Side, Jennifer Higgie pays tribute to celebrated and lesser-known women artists whose work intersected with the occult.

Red Canary Song's Flower Spa: Solidarity Outside In pays tribute to past victims of anti-Asian hate and fights against future racism.

Samia Halaby, the collaborative history of photography, ancient cave paintings, shapeshifting flocks of birds, and more for your art reading list.

This month: Aki Sasamoto, Shary Boyle, Apollinaria Broche, Godzilla, and more.

If straightness implies direction, queerness in (In)directions: Queerness in Chinese Contemporary Photography suggests anything but.

Nunavut artist Pitsiulaq Qimirpik juxtaposes different spiritual traditions with pop culture symbols in his drawings and soapstone sculptures.

The artist reminds us that maps advance the fiction that we could treat the earth as an object to be measured, cut up, and extracted from without consequences.

Sugimoto’s photographs remind us of the sacredness of images in a time of image over-saturation.

It’s easy to think of stone as static, immutable, but as Eternal Medium shows, stone is a slice of the earth itself, as alive as the artists who mold and shape it.

All of the works in Material as Message ask us how we come to remember, through materials that suit the memories they’re trying to preserve.

"It is our responsibility — whether we are Native or not — to educate ourselves about whose land we are on,” writes artist Cara Romero.

To enter Rego’s paintings of the 1980s is to step into a tumbling, chaotic world of animals living out modern human life.

Through textural, analog works that neither beep nor boop, artist Analia Saban has crafted a poetic commentary on our digital existence.

Much of Remain in Light jumps back and forth between Los Angeles and Armenia, underscoring the blurriness of living in diaspora.

Both the tarot and Carrington’s work are in the midst of a revival that has the world re-evaluating our relationship with nature, the earth, and our place in it.

Restaurants are restorative, perhaps, for those eating, but they can also be grueling places of labor that tax workers’ bodies.