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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]

SEE THEM BEFORE THEY RETURN TO THEIR HOME PLANET The phantasmagorist John Newman has transformed the New York Studio School's small space with twisting alienlike sculptures that come out of [...]

I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED to have sex in a museum. To me museum are ectasy machines, places to experience rapture, and the real thing is the real thing. So I [...]

I love art and the art world, but lately, I can see why the Gavin Brown gallery has a new Website called NewYorkIsDead.biz. The site's creators say that 'nothing's moribund; [...]

The article provides a list of cultural events and recommendations for the period of April 22 to May 5, 2024 in New York. The recommendations include listening to Dua Lipa's new album, watching the TV show "The Veil," attending a performance of Bach's B-minor Mass, listening to the podcast "Life of the Record," visiting an art exhibition featuring Roz Chast's work, watching the TV show "Hacks," listening to Charley Crockett's new album, attending a theater production called "Three Houses," watching the film "GIFT," reading Geoffrey Mak's memoir "Mean Boys," and attending a dance performance called "Kinetic Grace." [Extracted from the article]

The CULTURE PAGESTo DoART3. See Alexis Rockman Ecocide-attentive paintings.Magenta, 149 Canal Street; through February 24.For decades, Alexis Rockman's hallucinogenic amalgams of ecology and life-forms have taken shots at the forces killing the environment. Here, he pulls back in a series of smaller, very beautiful naturalistic watercolors of flowers, reefs, treetops, kelp forests, even ants. Perhaps all is not well in this world, but it is rendered with such loving attention that we are brought in and swept away.By JERRY SALTZ [Extracted from the article]

SANTIAGO RAMON Y CAJAL is one of a kind in more ways than one. He is the only Nobel Prize winner in history--in medicine, 1906--to also be a truly great [...]

INDEPENDENT ART FAIR runs from March 9 to 11 at Spring Studios. HANS-PETER FELDMANN, a pioneer of artistic appropriation, is one of the least-known great living artists in the world. [...]

ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S 209th birthday, four American firsts have brought destiny, dignity, respect, and art together to remind us that this country embodies love, hope, and things bigger than the [...]

ARTIST CHRISTOPH BUCHEL has created an online petition to declare Donald Trump's eight border-wall prototypes--now standing in California, just over the border from Tijuana--a permanent national monument. This is brilliant. [...]

movies1. See Captain FantasticA diverting head-scratcher. In theaters July 8. The story of a dad (Viggo Mortensen) who trains (gruelingly) his adorable redheaded brood to survive far from civilization (the [...]

James Baldwin once said that 'no true account really of black life can be held, can be contained, in the American vocabulary' Kara Walker's devastating new exhibition suggests that such [...]

Byline: jerry saltz Lynette Yiadom-Boakye painter, 38 Yiadom-Boakye is a great portraitist of the flesh whose every flickering thick mark and opulent stroke asserts the traditional language of figure painting [...]

Byline: jerry saltz once a year, to coincide with the Armory Show weekend in March, megacollectors Michael and Susan Hort open the art-covered 17,000-square-foot spread of their downtown home to [...]

Byline: lindsa zoladz, jerry saltz, david edelstein pop / lindsay zoladz It's a Process Kanye West's The Life of Pablo is a brilliant, maddening work-in-progress. 'what if mary was in [...]

Byline: jerry saltz The first thing you'll think while looking at the infinitely intricate art of Matthias Buchinger--possibly through extra-large magnifying glasses--will be Unbelievable. Consider the interlacing ornamentation, teeny-tiny penmanship, [...]

Byline: jerry saltz For all its promise, the new Whitney will be marked by an original sin. After boldly commissioning Charles Ray to design a sculpture to be permanently installed [...]

Byline: jerry saltz On October 22, John Mellencamp will open a new show. Not of songs at a concert but of paintings (an Arshile Gorky'influenced one of which is on [...]

Byline: jerry saltz Among the greatest means ever invented by our species for housing and fabricating faith on Earth are those incredible stone edifices meant to conspire with the higher [...]

Byline: david edelstein, matt zoller seitz, jerry saltz Borderline Terrific Denis Villeneuve's drug-cartel drama Sicario delivers. movies / david edelstein top-billed Emily Blunt in combat apparel stands in the foreground [...]

Byline: david edelstein, christian lorentzen, jerry saltz movies / David Edelstein Behind the Bandanna The End of the Tour is like spending two hours with David Foster Wallace. the tour [...]

Byline: justin davidson, david edelstein, jerry saltz The Highest High What you're really seeing from the 100th floor. architecture / justin davidson on the dark afternoon of December 20, 1932, [...]

Byline: jerry saltz Part I: The Museum as Fairy Tale I've spent much of my life in and in love with museums. When I was 10 years old, there was [...]

Byline: jerry saltz, david edelstein, matt zoller seitz Beyond, Below, Inside, and Out The New Museum's expansive new web-art triennial marks a generation coming of age. By Jerry Saltz some [...]

Byline: jerry saltz These nebulous, darkened black-and-white Polaroid pictures of movie stars and vixens were taken by an anonymous artist known only as Type 42--after the instant self-developing film he [...]

Byline: jerry saltz 'If this painting is censored, I'm canceling the show,' snapped English megacollector Charles Saatchi. He said this to me amid an exhibition installation at the Brooklyn Museum. [...]

Byline: Jerry Saltz Nothing readied me for the visual thunder, physical profundity, and oceanic joy of Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs at MoMA. In The Cut-Outs, Matisse found the artistic estuary [...]

Byline: Jerry Saltz The photographer Garry Winogrand had night vision. With it he saw not only the dark side of his own time in America, he saw the first flickering [...]

AT THE WHITNEY, 2008 is the year of the Art School Biennial. Not because the art in the new Biennial is immature or because the artists all went to art [...]

A GREAT WORK of art from 1875 that's never been seen in any museum, almost never seen at all, sat on the wall of a small gallery at the recent [...]

ANETA BARTOS 's pictures were shown as part of the Spring/Break Art Show at 4 Times Square at the beginning of March. MY PRIVATE THEORY of sexuality is, if you [...]

CREATED IN THE aftermath of the election, Glenn Ligon's conceptualist text piece is officially titled Another Country (After James Baldwin), but it reads simply another country. Right now, that phrase [...]

AT 12:36 P.M. ON WEDNESDAY, January 11, the same day President-elect Trump laid down an almost Stalinist fist at his first press conference since the election, an artist on Twitter [...]

The CULTURE PAGESTo DOART4. See Akea Brionne Surfaces that bloom.Lyles & King, 19 Henry Street; through February 10.Akea Brionne lost many of her family memories to the devil known as Katrina. In her first solo show in New York, the 28-year-old artist recreates and invents beautiful new ones, based on AI-generated images of Black families that she lovingly deploys through weaving and sensual, bumpy surfaces.By JERRY SALTZ [Extracted from the article]

The CULTURE PAGESTo DoART7. See Medieval Money, Merchants, and MoralityGlowing pages.The Morgan Library & Museum, through March 10. The Morgan is a New York destination for high-quality, small-scale exhibitions. Here's an amazing gathering of manuscripts, some illuminated. Culled from the Morgan collection, each work depicts a world of visionary brilliance focused on money in the Middle Ages.By JERRY SALTZ [Extracted from the article]

The CULTURE PAGETo DoART3. See Judy ChicagoBeyond The Dinner Party.New Museum, through March 3.In 1974, Judy Chicago shocked the world with her gigantic installation of a three-sided dinner table set with 39 gorgeous enfolded opening labial plates, each representing a different woman of history. Now, the rest of her storied and controversial career is finally on delicious view at the New Museum.By JERRY SALTZ [Extracted from the article]