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When the Exhibition Becomes a Work of Art

Who would have thought that still lifes would create such a strong reaction?
A Private Memoir, Pried Open

Charlotte Salomon’s Life? Or Theater? is the story of a difficult and painful redemption through art.
When You Can’t Go Home Again: Immigrants and Artists Reflect

This exhibition at ICA/Boston presents works by 20 contemporary artists — many of them immigrants or members of the African diaspora — that highlight current migration events.
Nature Offers the Best Designs at the Cooper Hewitt Triennial

Objects on display designed to be green substitutes for those that are ecologically harmful or failing are among the most thought-provoking in this exhibition.
Mondrian Before Abstraction

Decades before becoming New York’s Pied Piper for nonobjective art, Piet Mondrian had established a reputation in Europe for navigating and remaking realism in his own image.
Keeping it Odd — and Real — at the 2020 Outsider Art Fair

With a broader, more international scope, this year’s gathering will offer fresh discoveries at every turn.
What the New York Art World Is Missing

What is striking about Jiha Moon’s work is that it does not quite fit into the New York art world’s current concerns with racial and ethnic identity because, as far as I can tell, this art world has never addressed issues of Asian cultural dislocation.
Governor Cuomo’s Bizarre Poster Illustrates His Vision of New York State in 2020

A new image, conceived by the New York State Governor, is a mess.
A Musician’s Fictional, Indistinct Futures Take the Shape of a Novel

Leaning into the imaginative possibility of text, Félicia Atkinson’s A Forest Petrifies: Diamond Feedback grafts a poetic, discursive dialogue that fills in the detailed sonic worlds of her recent album.
How Does a Black Man Fit Into an Edward Hopper Painting?

The Edward Hopper and the American Hotel exhibition invites some visitors to spend the night in a room inspired by one of Hopper's paintings, and our critic ponders who it's really designed for.
Artists Help Us to Gain a Deeper Understanding of Death and Healing

From Albrecht Dürer to LaToya Ruby Frazier, artists have for centuries depicted and reflected on health and illness.
Stamps Gallery Presents: Taking a Stand

Bringing together lively and energetic work, Taking a Stand (Jan 17-Feb 29) highlights the ways in which artists build solidarity and shape contemporary culture as active participants in our society.
How the Legal System Left Artist Purvis Young’s Beneficiaries Empty-Handed

Young left nearly 2,000 works of art to his close friend and her family. An article in the Washington Post Magazine explains how, after Young’s death, a group of lawyers kept the works instead.
A View from the Easel

Artist studios in California, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Volunteering With a Land Artist to Make Laborious, Ethereal “Snow Drawings”

The impermanence of Simon Beck's land art, which cuts beautiful and massive patterns into fresh snowfall, made the experience all the more gratifying.
Center for Art Law in New York Launches an Immigration Clinic for Visual Artists

The clinic will provide $10 consultation sessions to guide international artists through the laborious process of obtaining an artist visa to the United States.
El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 Presents The Storyteller: Olivia Beens Through the Decades

A retrospective charts the trajectory of an unsung feminist artist, whose radical performances and psychically-charged sculptures invoke the Divine.
Targeting Iran’s Cultural Heritage Means Targeting Human Beings

Targeting Iranian cultural heritage is first and foremost bad because of the devastating effects it would have on Iranians. We in the rest of the world may feel a real loss, but that is secondary at best.
Week in Review: Trump Threatens Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Workers at the Shed Petition to Unionize

Also, Amanda Schmitt’s lawsuit against Artforum moves forward, Paris Musées is now offering 100,000 digital reproductions of artworks online, and more.
A Poignant Travelogue From a Mother to Her Daughter

The most important thing Ursula Schulz-Dornburg carried with her as she wandered the streets of Yerevan, Armenia, in search of new wonders, is not this camera or that, but the thought of her daughter.