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Cloaked in Power and the Tutored Gaze, the Medici Portraits at the Met

My sense is that people come to this museum and this show wanting to learn other histories by having their way of looking tutored and trained. | Seph Rodney

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The Democracy of Abstraction

Thomas Nozkowski believed that each person’s experience of the everyday was fundamentally unique and set out to honor that in his work. | John Yau

An Artist’s Embroideries Reflect the Complexity and Interconnectedness of Queer New York

What struck me most about LJ Robert’s Carry You With Me is the way in which it depicts some of the complexity of queer New York. | Alexis Clements

In the Hudson River Valley, Artists Navigate Ecology

The exhibition includes paintings by Thomas Cole and Frederic Church, along with contemporary works focusing on habitat protection and environmental sustainability. | Sarah Rose Sharp

Mourning a Tree That Has Lain Down

Jean Shin’s “Fallen” bids goodbye to the longevity we thought we had and mourns it, so that we might let it go. | Seph Rodney

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CLOSING SOON

Partial view of Leonardo Drew’s “Number 305” (2021)
(photo © Leonardo Drew, courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co.)

​Leonardo Drew
Galerie Lelong through October 23

Daisy Youngblood: Tender Mercy(s): Early and Late Works in Clay
Van Doren Waxter through October 23

Thomas Nozkowski: The Last Paintings
Pace Gallery through October 23

ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS

An Act of Seeing: Barry Jenkins’s The Gaze
Museum of the Moving Image through October 31

Kusama: Cosmic Nature
New York Botanical Gardens through October 31

Tomashi Jackson: The Land Claim
Parrish Art Museum through November 7

With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985
Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, through November 28