Daniel Giordano’s eccentric installations, Lynne Tobin’s indomitable linework, Brandon Thomas Brown’s masterful humanity, and more.

Histories are at the heart of some of our favorite shows, from queer video art to the cultural and familial traditions invoked by Candida Alvarez and Thomas Holton.

New takes on bird-watching, erotic energy, “no places,” student strikes, California’s Black history, and more.

From Saya Woolfalk’s hyperrealism to Ben Shahn’s Social Realism, our favorite shows at the moment are all about building and improving worlds.

It’s that time of the year again, so get out of sweltering New York City and head north for a bounty of exhibitions, open studios, workshops, performances, and more.

From Huguette Caland’s bodily abstractions to the city’s history of queer art and activism, these shows leave us refreshed, with a renewed belief in the possibility of change.

From Julia Margaret Cameron to Chloe Dzubilo, to 150 years of the Art Students League of New York, “visionary” is a theme in the shows below.

Whether it’s Hilma af Klint finding the soul in nature or a new perspective on chinoiserie at The Met, the shows below are about seeing things differently.

Gerard Wagner’s metaphysical landscapes, Michelle Silver’s thundering abstract frenzy, a group exhibition of Chinese women artists, and more.

A new translation of a beloved Argentine comic, artists over 50 tell their stories, diasporic Puerto Rican art history, and more to enjoy by the seaside (or your A/C).

Mungo Thomson examines the mundane, Esiri Erheriene-Essi reflects on Black life, Llyn Foulkes satirizes Americana, and more.

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

From Glenn Ligon’s critique of society’s ills to Diane Arbus’s complicity in them, the solo shows below provide plenty of food for thought.

Workshops inspired by contemporary artists, performances, comedy, food, screenings, and so much more.

Our list of long-running museum and noncommercial exhibitions includes John Singer Sargent, Jane Austen, Lorna Simpson, and so many more. 

Our favorite shows right now address systemic abuses in the US with style and intelligence, but we’re also enjoying some intimate and abstract works.

Jeffrey Gibson’s ebullient beadwork, Luchita Hurtado’s restitched canvases, Black cowboy history, Barbara T. Smith’s photocopy experimentation, and more to see this season.

Welcome the sweetest season with Emily Pettigrew’s moody paintings, Native artists on time and memory, Renée Green’s shuffled words, Black history in the Hudson Valley, and more.

Lotus L. Kang, Rashid Johnson, and group exhibitions on home-making and Black style offer insight into how we forge ourselves from history.

Dig into new and upcoming tomes on the long lineage of LGBTQ+ art, from Beauford Delaney’s bond with James Baldwin to iconic lesbian photographer JEB and Alice Austen.

Repurposed objects by Kiah Celeste and Yuji Agematsu and re-imagined architecture by feminist architect Phyllis Birkby are among our favorite artworks this week.

Amalia Mesa-Bains’s altars to memory, Akinsanya Kambon’s Pan-Africanist sculptures, colonial wine production, restaging Diane Arbus’s 1972 retrospective, and more.

Rich photographs by Wolfgang Tillmans, Steve Mallon’s odes to locomotives, Joanna Grabiarz’s joyful etchings, and so much more.

A quick and easy lowdown on what to expect at the more than a dozen fairs opening soon, plus programs and other happenings coinciding with the frenzy.

Madam X’s spiritual diagrams, Umar Rashid curates Robert Colescott, Carole Caroompas’s anti-hero journey, 50 years of L.A. Louver, and more.

Alongside the International Fine Print Dealers Association's annual fair, a slew of shows and events pay homage to the medium, from Black artists in Mexico to printmaking’s dynamic duos.

An overdue retrospective of Ruth Asawa, Wayne Thiebaud’s art historical influences, Susan Weil’s otherworldly experiments, and more.

Kour Pour’s geometric genealogies, Isabel Yellin’s sculptures of grief, Bruce Nauman’s LA years, Gustave Caillebotte’s figuration, and more.

Michel Goldberg’s black and white dance of birth and death, ransome’s stoic and elegant portraits, Kipton Hinsdale’s near-berserk mark-making, and more.

From Cauleen Smith’s trilogy on volcanos to Philippe Parreno’s intimate exploration of Goya, here’s what to watch.

Your guide to this season’s must-see museum exhibitions and art events in and around New York City. 

From the Anti-Frieze performance festival to a benefit exhibition for artists impacted by fires, the city’s creative communities return with resilience.

Work by artists impacted by last month’s fires, Joseph Beuys’s reforestation project, Alice Coltrane’s rippling influence, and much more.

The exhibition-as-memoir of Linda Griggs, a group show as history lesson, Odili Donald Odita’s vibrant abstractions, and more. 

Several nonfiction works playing at the festival are timely, whether in their current subject matter or relevant reflections on the past.

Pippa Garner’s last show, a Photorealism family tree, Iván Argote’s overgrown monuments, Elizabeth Tremante lampoons patriarchal art history, and more.

Ash Eliza Williams’s fantastical paintings, Jonathan Becker’s glamorous photographs, and group shows on reproductive health, light, and new worlds.

Here are the fairs, exhibitions, and events that should be on your radar, and a few words of traffic advice to keep you sane. 

Erica Hauser’s exploration of blue, Stephen Towns’s paradisal quilts, the carnivalesque antics of SHABOOM, and much more. 

Shiva Ahmadi’s aqueous visions, Dave Smith’s oxymoronic LA, Miller Robinson’s cosmology of survival, the Guerrilla Girls’ first West Coast show, and more.

Alvin Ailey, Jesse Krimes, Tina Girouard, Aboriginal bark painting, and more.

Female subjectivity in the work of Leonor Fini and Leonora Carrington, Christopher Suarez’s odes to the parking lot, Yolanda López’s heroic portraits, and more.

Matthew Lusk’s suspended sculptural odyssey, the fetish-meets-fun of a doll exhibition, the macabre oddities of ORT Project, and so much more.

As our Freaknik celebrations of the 1980s and ’90s showed, if there’s one thing this city knows how to do well, it’s how to throw a party.

Kristen Wells’s absurdist cardboard worlds, Susan Wides’s ecological abstractions, Alannah Farrell’s loaded tableaux, and more.

Jane Dickson’s hazy roadtrip hymns, Joe Brainard’s whimsical collages, David Lloyd’s curious collaborations with AI, crosscurrents of Asian diasporic art, and more.

Usher in autumn with Leasho Johnson’s aqueous abstraction, iconic Windy City protest art, John Akomfrah’s elegy for the environment, stunning works on paper by Haegue Yang, and more.

The city’s teeming with creative offerings, from the new Atlanta Art Fair and a Jeffrey Gibson show to Ming Smith’s first major museum survey and José Ibarra Rizo’s tender photography.

The third edition of the free citywide event features artists including Cecilia Vicuña and Pamila Matharu.

The latest edition of PST Art tackles aesthetics and technology with a wide focus, from the historical to the contemporary and the astronomical to the fantastical.