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.

Homage: Queer Lineages on Video is worth a visit for anyone to broaden their horizons of what queerness might mean, and to discover histories often left untold. 

A Paris exhibition traces artists’ obsession with the Apocalypse, from rare Medieval illuminated manuscripts to Blake, Kandinsky, and Kiki Smith.

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.

From ceramic alligators to Nordic traditions, artists focusing on personal concerns and identity are making some fascinating work.

This year’s class comes up with novel ways to think about the bodies we inhabit, the stresses they carry, and their limits of perception.

The Louvre’s conservation of two Cimabue paintings led its curators to reassess the artist not as a predecessor to the Renaissance masters but on his own merits.

The exhibition ruptures space to unlock novel metaphors for the abject moral environment of 2025.

The artists in this year’s cohort are responding in their own way to our uncertain times, with some offering possibilities for blazing a trail ahead.

From historical shows about labor to investigations of color to John Singer Sargent’s renderings of hands, we’re enjoying a variety of art this week.

All That Remains spotlights mostly non-White artists who open up new vistas in how we might relate to color.

Artists like Hannah Bang, Andrew Samuel Harrison, Sumaiya Saiyed, and Yeabsera Tabb share ways to relate to major changes beyond our control.

A changing contemplative theology of flesh led by friars throughout Italy inspired Sienese artists to imbue their figures with more dimensionality and emotion.

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.

Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts reminds us that nothing will stop people from acting foolish except themselves. 

Braxton Garneau was inspired by Trinidad’s long tradition of carnival costumes that exude acerbic sartorial wit as social critique. 

This month: Pacita Abad’s trapunto paintings, Nona Faustine’s stirring body art, Ibrahim Said’s futuristic ceramics, and much more. 

The artists in this year’s MFA thesis exhibition have formulated some novel responses to meet the existential dread of this moment.

The beautiful and the bad — paintings and otherwise — make an impression in galleries this month.

Several works on display in this year’s iteration of the fair, both ancient and modern, stand out for their homoeroticism and queer aesthetics.

An exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York shows that lexicographers are just like us: petty, creative, and political.

The students put their own spins on landscape photography to coax out questions of race, power, sexuality, and sustainability.

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

Vibrant colors and fantastical creatures are in abundance in shows by Sanam Khatibi, Julia Bland, Claude Lawrence, Annette Wehrhahn, and others.

Chloe Scout Nix and Lena Smart challenge the distorted body images that prevail in mainstream media.

Politics and painting are at the center of shows by Beau Dick, Sam Jablon, Mira Schor, Rose B. Simpson, and Gary Stephan.

Erika Doss's new book Spiritual Moderns retells the story of modern art with a more honest look at how religion shaped it.

Each symbol in Tanavoli’s Poets, Locks, Cages at the Vancouver Art Gallery holds a special meaning in Sufism, which has inspired his work.

Brillon (Haida) breathes life into each piece of metal he crafts, conjuring sacred animals and preserving the legends of his people.

Manhattan’s Grace Exhibition Space marked the opening of its fall season with over-the-top performances curated by the adored anti-fascist comedian.

The challenge at the heart of Van Gogh’s Cypresses is that the trees carried associations in the late 19th century that are lost on us today.

The less-than-idealized body is a mainstay of modern art. But whether or not it sells is another question.

Part 2 of Pratt's MFA thesis exhibition is all about depicting the toxic capitalist, racist, misogynistic, transphobic status quo in the US.

Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month, including Hew Locke, Saif Azzuz, Miyoko Ito, Shona McAndrew, and more.

Oh Shit! retraces the historical arc of feces from ancient Rome to the sewage challenges and potential innovations of the 21st century.

A long history of checkered reviews of the film L’Homme blessé betrays a fundamental struggle with tragedy in a queer context.

Suzanna Ivanič's new book Catholica: The Visual Culture of Catholicism is an essential primer on how Catholicism intersects with art history.

What feels like the right way to write about Roman Catholicism, or Christian iconography, to most art critics is heavily influenced by museum discourse, which is far from neutral.

Paul Anagnostopoulos's painted terra cottas are rife with rich allegory to unpack — whether you’re LGBTQ+ or not.

Every artwork at Arts in Bushwick seemed to be in dialogue with the uncertainty and unpredictability of the moment.

The unorthodox bodies that Donatello sculpted seem intertwined with the unorthodox relationship he developed between his own body and the bodies of other queer men.

The sensation of touching isn’t the point. It’s the yearning — heightened during quarantines — that lives on in these sculptures.

With her clay relief sculptures, Brie Ruais probes the exit wound and its deep psychological implications.

Coralina Rodriguez Meyer invites women to reconnect with the indigenous and syncretic spiritualities of their ancestors to find new power.

Open studio events can be overwhelming, but our guide can help you navigate the upcoming event.

Is it possible to revere the long illustrious history of Shakespeare in the Park, which includes fine Black actors such as James Earl Jones, while also suggesting it may no longer serve a changing city?

Something inside Clinton’s and Close’s psyche compartmentalized too much, echoing the grid of the portrait. Both inflicted far more harm than each realized.

A concert at the Cloisters shed the Met’s stuffiness, broadening what performance can be.

Neel’s approach defied the conventions of both schlocky social realism and traditional portraiture.

Viewed in 2021, Kentridge’s preference for black and white strikes as an urging to see issues of morality more clearly.