Weekly Art Rx

This week, a lecture details the history of fan painting, a panel ponders colonialism’s influence on indigenous choreography, Barkley Hendricks’s solo show heads into its last days, and more.

This week, the Drawing Center hangs selections from Sol LeWitt’s art collection, a conference theorizes the web, dancers read from Martha Graham’s biography, and more.

This week, Cory Arcangel opens a new show starring a drum machine, psychoanalysts and writers dissect the horror classic Rosemary’s Baby, the city celebrates Rare Book Week, and more.

This week, Beijing artist Cao Fei gets her first US solo show, New York’s biggest independent comics festival sets up its tables, a lecture considers Sun Ra’s radical take on time, and more.

This week, watch a performance of words describing women, learn about the state of LGBTQ rights in Ukraine, rethink domesticity with Rodney McMillan, and more.

This week is all about openings: of an unexpected David Hammons retrospective, an exhibition of socially engaged artists, a show of male nudes by female artists, and, after much anticipation, the Met Breuer.

This week, learn about the life of a Pre-Raphaelite muse — who was also a poet and artist, listen to Mel Chin speak and sing about his art, commemorate 3/11 with a discussion about new Japanese art and architecture, and more.

This week, hear about photographing Louise Bourgeois, watch The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, and The Big Lebowski simultaneously, go art-hopping around Downtown Brooklyn, watch some witchy films, and more.

This week, look at Munch in the context of Expressionism, listen to Hal Foster lecture on sculpture, learn about a forgotten guide book for black travelers, enlist in a conference on GIFs, and more.

This week, two performance artists channel Sarah Palin and Donald Trump, art critics do their thing live, an artist demonstrates his homemade musical instruments, and much more.

This week, El Museo del Barrio revises the history of Kinetic and Op art to include Latin America, the National Academy Museum shows the work of pioneering feminist artist Miriam Schapiro, Galerie Lelong debuts nine unseen films by Ana Mendieta, and much more.