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Diane Simpson’s Sculpture Finds Beauty of a Different Kind

In a world delighted and entertained by displays of material excess, Diane Simpson shows that there is another possibility. | John Yau

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The Voices Dawoud Bey Hears

Unless you were already familiar with Bey’s documentary work, the horror he refers to might not be recognizable to you. | Seph Rodney

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Columbia University Is Accepting Applications for Visual Arts and Sound Art MFA Programs

On November 14, join Columbia University School of the Arts for virtual information sessions with the program chair, faculty, and staff. Learn more.

Día de los Muertos Comes to NYC With a Dazzling Display of Mexican Folk Art

Sculptures of Oaxacan alebrijes, envisioned as guardians of the nation’s immigrant community, and catrinas, Day of the Dead skeletons, are now at Rockefeller Center. | Valentina Di Liscia

Tamara Kostianovsky Envisions a Whimsical Slaughterhouse

The animal carcass sculptures are gruesome yet their materials — the artist’s own discarded clothing — lend them some gentleness. | Louis Bury

Exhibiting the Afterlives of Looted Art

The exhibition at the Jewish Museum delves into “degenerate” art and art made under duress as part of a thought-provoking yet diffuse exhibition. | Chelsea Haines

A New Manhattan Gallery Elevates the Careers of Latinx Artists

For Calderón Ruiz’s first exhibition, artists Esteban Ramón Pérez and Jaime Muñoz plumb the depths of Chicanx identity. | Valentina Di Liscia

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Philip Guston, "The Studio" (1969) (© The Estate of Philip Guston, courtesy the Estate and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Genevieve Hanson)

Philip Guston: 1969–1979
Hauser & Wirth through October 30

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

Cross Pollination
Thomas Cole Site in Catskill and Frederic Church’s Olana through October 31

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