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The School of Visual Arts MFA Show Is a Portrait of Our Zeitgeist
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.
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Five New York City Shows to See Right Now
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.
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Exhibition at Children’s Museum Decolonizes Color
All That Remains spotlights mostly non-White artists who open up new vistas in how we might relate to color.
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Parsons Fine Arts MFA Students Help Us Navigate 2025
Artists like Hannah Bang, Andrew Samuel Harrison, Sumaiya Saiyed, and Yeabsera Tabb share ways to relate to major changes beyond our control.
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How Friars Changed the Art of the Renaissance
A changing contemplative theology of flesh led by friars throughout Italy inspired Sienese artists to imbue their figures with more dimensionality and emotion.
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8 New York City Art Shows to Kick Off the New Year
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.
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The Many Guises of the Fool in Art
Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts reminds us that nothing will stop people from acting foolish except themselves.
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The Acerbic Wit of Trinidad’s Carnival Costumes
Braxton Garneau was inspired by Trinidad’s long tradition of carnival costumes that exude acerbic sartorial wit as social critique.
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New York Studio School MFAs Get Serious
The artists in this year’s MFA thesis exhibition have formulated some novel responses to meet the existential dread of this moment.
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A Queer Guide to TEFAF New York
Several works on display in this year’s iteration of the fair, both ancient and modern, stand out for their homoeroticism and queer aesthetics.
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Tracing the 500-Year History of the English Dictionary
An exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York shows that lexicographers are just like us: petty, creative, and political.
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Pratt MFA Photographers Turn Landscapes into Critiques of Power
The students put their own spins on landscape photography to coax out questions of race, power, sexuality, and sustainability.