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.

The art historical meta-narrative canonized by the Louvre Museum converts all artworks into specimens of their cultural moment. No wall tag can fix this.

Making the Met, the anniversary exhibition chronicling the museum’s first 150 years, botched several opportunities to truly reckon with its role in defining who is and isn’t included in dominant narratives of art history.

Few artists unlock the optical potential of black better than Joan Witek, whose compositions hum with subtle illusions.

In his drawings embellished with blossoms, artist Ronald Vill invites us to perceive 2020 as an exercise in defiant jubilance.

As tyranny surges in 2020, imagery of these holy ladies — on view in Gothic Spirit: Medieval Art — might offer more than first expected.

In Karen Azoulay's mesmerizing video art, the artist and her collaborators don gem-encrusted masks and sample bits of nature.

The Young and the Evil at David Zwirner casts a light on lesser-known gay artists who rejected the prevailing trend toward abstraction.

Daniel Rozin challenges us to explore how we interact with and perceive the sun in a fascinating new show.

A reinterpretation of a Euripides play tells a seldom staged and lesser-known side of the famous hero.

Ron Amato’s exhibition Gay in Trumpland explores the dark fear many gay men are internalizing as President Trump and his inner circle remove rights and protections for LGBTQ individuals.

His lush paintings make you feel Romanticism in your guts.

In Strange Girls, the mixed-media artist pokes fun at twisted gender dynamics through visual puns.

Artists are struggling with what it means to be a New Yorker in 2018.

In What It Means to Write About Art, famous critics put into print parts of their story they’ve never revealed to the public before.

The dragon pops up as a recurring motif in Gaudí's famous works, and this is no coincidence.

We're not the first, or last, to live in dark times, but artists are continuously finding new ways to cope with these everyday realities through art.

Hirosuke Yabe's wooden sculptures jive with the jagged, accentuate accidents, and roll with the rough.

For the first documentary ever made about Beuys, director Andres Veiel dug into the archives, creating a film that is 95% footage of the artist.

David McDermott and Peter McGough have built a shrine to Wilde in the basement of a church in Greenwich Village.

A new stage adaptation of Bolaño's 1993 novel Distant Star juxtaposes the lofty aspirations and dire realities of poets living through Chile's 1973 coup.

At Flux Factory in Queens, Tongue Tide treats other languages as treasure chests of unique expressions.

An exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum showcases the vessels of the so-called Berlin Painter, highlighting the oft-overlooked comedy in Greek ceramics.

I’m Nobody! Who are you? The Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson at the Morgan Library reveals the poet to be far more socially engaged than we've believed her to be.

Activists are like hidden forces operating in the dark, their effects unfolding behind the scenes.

His songs still stand as some of the most evocative descriptions of queer desire to achieve broad commercial success.

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo satirizes the clichéd gender conventions of dance, and the world at large, in technically superb takes on classical ballet.