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The Ever-Changing Dialogue Between Paint and Body

Through the medium of paint, Nowinski seeks to connect the inner and outer states of her subjects. | John Yau

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Pamela Council Looks to Black Vernacular Culture to Expose Social Inequality

Council often uses humor as a political tool to expose systems of power and inequality in a society in which even death carries a high price tag. | Ksenia M. Soboleva

The Sounds That Get Lost in the Shuffle

We are waiting for spectacle and when the quotidian, yet incongruous actions occur I wonder whether there is any real payoff coming. | Seph Rodney

The Profound Soul of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

While hardly about the pandemic, or any of the other crises so afflicting us, all are invoked in this exhibition, which is also often tender and profoundly soulful. | Gregory Volk

The Inexorable Pull of Lisa Yuskavage’s Paintings

This is Yuskavage’s great gift, turning upside down our settled ways of thinking and seeing and, with ease, transforming the vulgar and ridiculous into the sublime. | Robert Becker

Internal and External Worlds Collide in Norma Tanega’s Psychologically Charged Art

Tanega’s approach to mark-making comes across as stream of consciousness, as if she’s engaged in a conversation with herself. | Chris Cobb

The Fascinating Contradictions of Paul Thek

Thek rebelled against his early virtuosity, and chafed against the aspects of religion that rejected his gayness, while remaining a devout Catholic. | Ilana Novick

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CLOSING SOON

Thomas Nozkowski, “Untitled (9-63)” (2019), oil on linen on panel 22 × 28 inches

Thomas Nozkowski: The Last Paintings
Pace Gallery through October 23

Leonardo Drew
Galerie Lelong through October 23

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

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