What’s the state of the still life in a contemporary art world dominated by mixed media and large scale? Susan Jane Walp shows us that a genre that’s existed for millennia is still going strong.

Jennifer Packer shows a remarkable ability in understanding the relationship between her subjects’ forms and the edges of their frames, giving them a centeredness that asserts itself on the canvas, giving power to people who have been left out of the canon.

Agnes Martin spent much of her life in Taos, New Mexico, an artist colony with a rich connection the the New Mexican landscape. 19th c. weavers of the Navajo tribe, immersed in the same environment, wove blankets of beauty and power. This show at Pace unites these two bodies of work.

Anna Atkins was one of the first photographers. Ever. The influence of her pioneering work with the newly invented cyanotype endures today in two exhibitions on view at the New York Public Library.

Svenja Deininger is skilled in filling her canvases with a variety of textures from leather to woven fabric— but does this pull her work a little too close to the category of furniture? less than half discusses whether or not Deininger has succeeded in making great art.

In her retrospective “Other Situations” at el Museo del Barrio, Liliana Porter says a whole lot with very modest tools: mostly plastic figurines, tchotkes, collectible porcelain, and a whole lot of wit.

For the inaugural Lower East Side art week 23 galleries present the work of female artists, all the while asking us to reassess the venues in which we view art.

Liz Collins, known for her immersive textile-based environments, has a solo show at LMAK Gallery

Anne Truitt wore many hats: that of artist, that of mother, and that of writer. Read a book review of her diary Daybook.

Charline von Heyl celebrates the endless potential of her canvases in her latest show at Petzel

Latin American women artists are given their due in this highly successful, ambitious, chilling, and, above all, emotionally powerful survey at the Brooklyn Museum.

Less than half finds out what it was like to be a bad ass girl in the 90s thanks to Justine Kurland’s Girl Pictures: 1997-2002.