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Alice Neel’s Haunting Portrait of Domestic Abuse

Alice Neel: People Come First yielded a work I had never seen and that I will never unsee. | Debra Brehmer

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In Gem-like Hues, Arcmanoro Niles Renders the Mundane Electric

From depictions of his mother to his closest friends, Niles’s canvases illustrate a willful vulnerability to ruminate on the profound relationships in his life. | Folasade Ologundudu

The Trouble with Capitalist Utopias

Maybe a sense of belonging is a thing of the past, a sign of privilege. | John Yau

A Landmark Show of Black Women Artists Gets a Second Life

Fifty years ago, the historic Sapphire Show modeled a Black feminist ethics of uplifting one another when others fail to do so. | Alexandra M. Thomas

In Swirling Canvases, Gareth Nyandoro Expresses the Rhythms of Labor

Teeming with energy, Nyandoro’s works express a disquieting otherworldliness, suspended at the fragile cusp between reality and dreams. | Zoë Hopkins

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Basilica SoundScape: A Weekend of Music + Art

Far from a typical music festival, Basilica SoundScape features live concerts, art installations, conceptual sound performances, author readings and more, this year held at PS21— an open-air venue on 100 acres in Chatham, NY. The initial artist lineup features Circuit des Yeux, Moor Mother, Tomberlin and William Basinski. Get tickets.

CLOSING SOON

Franklin Evans, “iowapaintnotes” (detail, 2021), acrylic on canvas, 45 1/2 x 41 3/4 inches

Franklin Evans: fugitivemisreadings at Miles McEnery Gallery through July 31

Jason Stopa: Joy Labyrinth at Morgan Lehman Gallery through July 31

Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Tranquility of Communion at Hales New York through July 31

Alice Neel: People Come First at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through August 1

Open Call at the Shed through August 1

ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS

Julie Mehretu at the Whitney Museum through August 8

Projects: Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill at the Museum of Modern Art through August 15

Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life at MoMA PS1 through September 6

Born in Flames: Feminist Futures at the Bronx Museum of the Arts through September 12

Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter at the Jewish Museum through September 12

Estamos Bien — La Trienal 20/21 at El Museo del Barrio through September 26

Off the Record at the Guggenheim Museum through September 27

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