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  1. Critic’s Pick

    Jenny Holzer Shines New Light in Dark Places

    Her signboards predated by a decade the news “crawl.” At the Guggenheim she is still bending the curve: Just read the art, is the message.

     By Nancy Princenthal

    Jenny Holzer’s “For The Guggenheim,” 2008/2024, a nighttime light projection on the facade of the Guggenheim Museum, features spare, heartbreaking poetry by Wislawa Szymborska and other poets Holzer admires.
    Jenny Holzer’s “For The Guggenheim,” 2008/2024, a nighttime light projection on the facade of the Guggenheim Museum, features spare, heartbreaking poetry by Wislawa Szymborska and other poets Holzer admires.
    CreditJenny Holzer/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York; Photo by Erik Sumption/ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

  2. Mary Cassatt’s Women Didn’t Sit Pretty

    The American painter depicted women caring for children, not posing for the male gaze. New exhibitions and books reappraise her legacy 100 years later.

     By Deborah Solomon

    Mary Cassatt’s “Maternal Caress” (1896) is a small but potent oil painting. Is motherhood as an emotional bond or unwaged labor or both?
    Mary Cassatt’s “Maternal Caress” (1896) is a small but potent oil painting. Is motherhood as an emotional bond or unwaged labor or both?
    Creditvia Philadelphia Museum of Art
    2. Critic’s Pick

      Yves Klein’s Leap Into the Blue (With Living Paintbrushes)

      A gallery shows works with roots in performance art, and a film that documents their creation.

       By Deborah Solomon

      For Yves Klein’s “Anthropometries,” nude women covered their bodies in his signature blue paint and lay down on paper, or were dragged across it. This one was created circa 1960.
      For Yves Klein’s “Anthropometries,” nude women covered their bodies in his signature blue paint and lay down on paper, or were dragged across it. This one was created circa 1960.
      CreditThe Estate of Yves Klein/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris; via Lévy Gorvy Dayan, New York

  1. After Making Altars to Her Icons, an Artist Builds Her Own Legacy

    A powerful and overdue exhibition at El Museo del Barrio links Amalia Mesa-Bains’s genre-defying installations for the first time.

     By Karen Rosenberg

    Amalia Mesa-Bains’s “Cihuateotl With Mirror From Private Landscapes and Public Territories,” 2018, at El Museo del Barrio. It was originally presented in 1997 as part of “Venus Envy Chapter III: Cihuatlampa, the Place of the Giant Women.”
    Creditvia Amalia Mesa-Bains and Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco; Photo by Matthew Sherman/El Museo del Barrio
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  2. Despite a Hack, the Show Goes On at Christie’s

    Although a cyberattack hobbled its website, the auction house held two major sales, totaling $115 million, on Tuesday night. One expert praised the evening’s “really respectable sales in a difficult environment.”

     By Zachary Small and Julia Halperin

    Georgina Hilton, the auctioneer at Christie’s, opened the sale for the Rosa de la Cruz art collection on Tuesday evening.
    Creditvia Christie's

  3. LaToya Ruby Frazier Is Paying It Forward

    She may be America’s foremost social documentary photographer, now with a survey at the Museum of Modern Art. “All I’m doing is showing up as a vessel.”

     By Siddhartha Mitter

    CreditGioncarlo Valentine for The New York Times

  4. Steve McQueen, on a Different Wavelength

    The artist-turned-film director finds new depths in “Bass,” an immersive environment of light and sound in Dia Beacon keyed to Black history and “where we can go from here.”

     By Siddhartha Mitter

    CreditBryan Derballa for The New York Times

  5. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in May

    Martha Schwendener covers Tamiko Nishimura’s arresting black-and-white photographs, Tanya Merrill’s playful portraits and Enrique Martínez Celaya’s link to a Spanish master.

     By Yinka Elujoba, John Vincler and Martha Schwendener

    Richard Ayodeji Ikhide’s “First Born,” 2024, watercolor and gouache on paper.
    Creditvia Richard Ayodeji Ikhide and Candice Madey, New York; Photo by Kunning Huang

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