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Deana Lawson’s Sublime Visions of Black Communion

Portals to the otherworldly, Lawson’s grand-scale photographs reveal the divine in the secular. | Daniella Brito

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Lynn Hershman Leeson, in All Her Cyborg Glory, Gets a Retrospective

A foremother to young new media artists working today, Hershman Leeson has blazed a trail for more than five decades. | Cassie Packard

Jon Pylypchuk’s Chorus of Loss

Pylypchuk’s art has always been deeply engaged with the most painful parts of life, those that human beings tend to push aside or deny in order to get by. | Natalie Haddad

An Asian Artist’s Isolation in New York

Yuri Yuan’s sense of isolation is an inescapable feature of her daily life, which she simultaneously examines and holds at bay through the act of painting. | John Yau

In Henry Taylor’s Paintings, the Past Bleeds Into the Present

Taylor’s paintings emphasize that golf and horse racing, though once exclusively activities for privileged white men, depended on the support of men who were almost invariably Black. | David Carrier

Artist Mary Mattingly Wants to Know: Where Does Your Water Come From?

Mattingly’s public art project at Prospect Park aims to raise awareness about how to create more equitable and sustainable public water systems. | Rachel Remick

Seeing a Performance in NYC? You’ll Need Your Vaccine Card

The “Key to NYC Pass” will soon be required to access indoor cultural venues as well as dining and fitness facilities. | Valentina Di Liscia

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CLOSING SOON

Gareth Nyandoro, "Kubatana Fence Makers" (2021), ink on cut paper mounted on canvas

Gareth Nyandoro: MAWORKS at Van Doren Waxter through August 6

Julie Mehretu at the Whitney Museum through August 8

Tammy Nguyen: Freehold at Smack Mellon through August 8

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

ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS

​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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