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TRACEY EMIN: LOVERS GRAVE is at White Cube through January 13. The artist has always worked in the confessional mode. After surviving cancer, she sees no reason to hold anything [...]

JENNY HOLZER: LIGHT LINE THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM. THROUGH SEPTEMBER 29. Jenny Holzer's work talks a lot but says very little. An OG post-conceptualist, Holzer, 73, follows a generation of talkative [...]

* THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL isn't what it used to be. Once, it was mainly for the inhabitants of that strange royal court we call the art world--for insiders, in other [...]

'THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE AND TRANSATLANTIC MODERNISM' METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. THROUGH JULY 28. THE FIRST THING you're likely to read about the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new exhibition dedicated to [...]

A STYLE CALLED A DEAD FISH IIU SUSIRAJA. MOMA PS1. THROUGH SEPTEMBER 4. IIU SUSIRAJA COMES FROM a long tradition of photographers who stay at home, dress up, and take [...]

OVER THE COURSE of his 36-year career, the photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has created what I think of as a new sublime. His work conveys that the bigness of it all [...]

1 Deconstructing Power: W.E.B. Du Bois at the 1900 World's Fair Cooper Hewitt, opens 12/9 AT THE CENTER of this not-to-be-missed show are 20 charts, diagrams, statistical grids, and data [...]

'BODEGA RUN' TSCHABALALA SELF. SWISS INSTITUTE. (CLOSED.) In the 1980s, when I lived alone in a 275-square-foot rent-free, unheated studio apartment owned by a former Warhol superstar who was an [...]

ONE NIGHT IN 1986, while standing at the top ramp of a Guggenheim Museum opening as an art-world wannabe, peering down at this social universe that seemed so distant and [...]

MANET/DEGAS METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. THROUGH JANUARY 7. IT IS A CLICHE: the work of art that scandalizes audiences upon its debut, only to get its due once the shock [...]

Best Classic Camp Text: Gal Gadot's 'Imagine' Video The first truly camp piece of quarantine art washed up on our digital shores like a bloated whale carcass in March, when [...]

LAST FALL, the Drawing Center's director, Laura Hoptman, working with her modest staff, organized the electrifying 'The Pencil Is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists,' a show that demonstrated how [...]

TIMELAPSE SARAH SZE. SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM. THROUGH SEPTEMBER 10. It's always wondrous when an artist is allowed to play with the idiosyncrasies of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum, a [...]

Refik Anadol's unsupervised is in MoMA's lobby through April 15. IN THE LOBBY of the Museum of Modern Art stands a 24-foot-tall screen that emits a continuous flow of psychedelic [...]

Ten fall shows to train your eye. 1 Labyrinth of Forms: Women and Abstraction, 1930-1950 (Whitney Museum of American Art, opens October 9) In the early part of the 20th [...]

TRIBULATION, SHOCK, gravitas, confusion, silent states of being, psyches agape--it is perhaps the most dramatic moment in Western history. This is the cosmic hour of despair in which Jesus announces [...]

As soon as my wife and I started sheltering in place, I got concerned emails and queries on social media: 'Jerry, how are you eating and drinking coffee during this?' [...]

Donald Judd wanted his work totally empty. Which allowed the world to make anything out of it. You know Donald Judd's work even if you don't know you know it. [...]

Fame, at least lasting fame--the your-work goes-down-in-history kind, often accompanied by fat royalty payments--is a club that thinks of itself as an unbiased meritocracy, blind to everything but aesthetic innovation [...]

THE TEN BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR By DAVID EDELSTEIN 1. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood In this gorgeously meandering farrago, two aging, increasingly irrelevant white males from '50s [...]

* NEW YORK'S architecture critic, Justin Davidson, and art critic, Jerry Saltz, both spent a lot of time considering the expanded Museum of Modern Art. After multiple visits to the [...]

CAN A MUSEUM DEVOTED TO MODERNISM SURVIVE THE DEATH OF THE MOVEMENT? Can it bring that death about? [paragraph] Ever since the beginnings of the Renaissance in the 14th century, [...]

THE ONCE-MIGHTY Drawing Center reawakens this fall under new director Laura Hoptman, who has mounted a virtuoso exhibition of over 140 drawings, 'The Pencil Is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated [...]

1. 'Matisse: The Red Studio' Museum of Modern Art Matisse's The Red Studio is a one-painting rebellion against illusionistic perspectival space and a gigantic shove off the cliff of the [...]

Pepon Osorio: 'My Beating Heart/Mi corazon latiente' New Museum (June 29-September 17) * A retrospective of Osorio's large-scale multimedia installations, which are parade floats of stuff: tables, chairs, police tape, [...]

JANUARY 23-FEBRUARY 6 ART 1. See Lena Henke: Germanic Artifacts Visually gripping. Bortolami Gallery, 39 Walker Street, through February 16. Bortolami is one of the better galleries in the country: [...]

* AGAIN AND AGAIN during this pandemic, unable to actually see art in person, I have time-traveled within myself for sustenance--with the help of the internet, of course. Viewing art [...]

Sandro Botticelli's small, nearly unknown 15th-century masterpiece gives us a human being stripped of all hope. The painting is a metaphysical crucible filled with the woes of the external world, [...]

But the shows this fallseason tell us otherwise-- especially the ones by greatBlack artists who remind us of art's necessity. 1 Barkley L. Hendricks:Portraits at the Frick The Frick Collection,opens 9/21 The Frick will devote anentire gallery in its temporarylocation at the Breuer toHendricks, who during hislife imbibed this magnificentcollection's painterly magicand formal mysteries. [Extracted from the article]

ABOUT 20 PERCENT of this year's Whitney Biennial, 'Quiet As It's Kept,' is really alive. That's passably high for one of these cattle calls--in fact, it means that this Biennial, [...]

The Whitney Biennial looks a lot like today's New York City. That's mostly good. FIRST, MASSIVE congratulations to the Whitney. Even with long, flat patches of overly well-behaved work, a [...]

Amongthis summer's offerings is a young and intensestring quartet performing arrangements of Armenianfolk songs plus bits by Rhiannon Giddens,Beethoven, and Cécile Chaminade. j.d. The tenth studio album from singer-songwriterand alt-rock heroine PJ Harvey documents theexperience of rekindling her love of playing andwriting music in the lengthy stretch since her lastrelease in 2016. Once upon a time, the often transgressive films ofthe controversial Italian poet, novelist, and directorPier Paolo Pasolini were almost impossible totrack down on home video. Now, the CriterionCollection has released an amazing boxed set ofnine of his films. b.e. MUSIC 24. [Extracted from the article]

DECADES AFTER GIVING UP THE DREAM FOR GOOD, AN ART CRITIC RETURNS TO THE WORK HE'D DEVOTED HIS LIFE TO, THEN ABANDONED--BUT NEVER REALLY FORGOT. IT PAINS ME TO SAY [...]

PLUS: Our top picks in comic books, video games, stand-up specials, and podcasts, and a sprawling survey of culture-makers on their favorite movies, TV shows, albums, and performances, and the [...]

AS A SYSTEM, art fairs are like America: They're broken and no one knows how to fix them. Like America, they also benefit those at the very top more than [...]

ALICE NEEL: PEOPLE COME FIRST THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. ON VIEW THROUGH AUGUST 1. Alice Neel was the painter par excellence of New York's human comedy. She rendered friends, [...]

GRIEF AND GRIEVANCE: ART AND MOURNING IN AMERICA NEW MUSEUM, 235 BOWERY THROUGH JUNE 6. The New Museum's show 'Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America' finds terrible beauty [...]

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM'S 'Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer' is a stupendous metaphysical-visual exhalation. Somewhere amid the High Renaissance master's drawings, time and mediums piled up for me and art's house [...]

I WISH I DIDN'T feel as conflicted as I do about 'Trigger: Gender As a Tool and a Weapon,' the New Museum's scattershot, building-filling group show about 'gender beyond the [...]

1. Anything I Could See in Person Galleries are my way of knowing the world. Seeing art in the flesh sustains me. Before the pandemic, I'd been seeing 25 shows [...]

Gagosian Gallery, 541 West 24th Street, through December 23. Marden's majestic new paintings of looping lines forever flirt with edges of canvases, diving and spiraling, forming archipelagoes of shapes that [...]

HOLLYWOOD DOESN'T OFTEN GET ART RIGHT. From The Agony and the Ecstasy, about Michelangelo yelling at the pope, to Lust for Life and its martyrdom of Vincent van Gogh, to [...]

2017 WHITNEY BIENNIAL. WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. CLOSES JUNE 11. THE 2017 WHITNEY BIENNIAL got caught in an almost-extinction-level political crosswind. Research and the selection for the show began [...]

This show,curated by writer Alison M. Gingeras, re-createsher apartment and includes Berlin's letters, herown artwork, and much more. Fact: Billy Wilder wrote and directed some of thegreatest films of all time. Singer-songwriter and producer Archy Marshallmakes moonlit, amorphous indie rock and foreboding,atmospheric hip-hop beats, and his newalbum, Space Heavy, his fifth as King Krule, is atrove of keen observations you can watch himunpack in the flesh. Brigid Berlin came from an ultraprivileged home,as did much of Andy Warhol's entourage. [Extracted from the article]

THE PHOTOGRAPHER Robert Andy Coombs cannot hold his own camera. Mostly paralyzed from the shoulders down after a trampoline accident at age 21, he relies on assistance, and his art [...]

'BILL TRAYLOR' is at David Zwirner through February 15. * THE ART of Bill Traylor comes to us with the ghosts of slave ships, lynchings, chain gangs, Jim Crow, justice [...]

SOMETHING WONDERFUL is happening in the once and future art neighborhood of Tribeca. On the first Friday after Labor Day, these blocks were populated with crowds of artists and art [...]

The CULTURE PAGESTo DoART5. See Michael WilliamsStudio visit.Gladstone Gallery, 515 West 24th Street; through August 2.The great gallerist Barbara Gladstone passed away only days before this Michael Williams exhibition opened in her spacious Chelsea HQ. She would have a lot to say about these large, almost corporate paintings in light blues, greens, and lovely grays of chairs inviting us into the inner sanctum where paintings happen, the studio. We can't take our eyes off them.By JERRY SALTZ [Extracted from the article]

JIM CARREY has played a lot of transcendentally strange characters in his career, always bringing a dark side to the light and mapping a complex landscape of pathos, pleasure, risk, [...]

This article provides a list of the best art shows of the year. The shows mentioned include Henry Taylor's retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Tracey Emin's exhibition at White Cube, Dana Schutz's exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery, Hilary Harkness's paintings at P.P.O.W., Myrlande Constant's tapestries at Fort Gansevoort, Xiyadie's cutouts at The Drawing Center, Miyoko Ito's surreal images at Matthew Marks Gallery, Agata Slowak's small paintings at Fortnight Institute, Matthew Barney's multimedia installation at his studio, and Félix González-Torres's exhibition at David Zwirner. The author provides brief descriptions and praises the artists' work, highlighting their unique styles and themes. [Extracted from the article]