Installation and video artist Hito Steyerl has a grasp on the complicated forces that make up the 21st century. Drill, her newest project for the Park Avenue Armory, proves she still has it.

Leonora Carrington was both a surrealist painter and writer. Wendi Norris Gallery has brought her work alive by staging a live dramatic reading in front of these sinister works.

Claudette Schreuders brings a sense of reverence to her sincerely carve wooden figurines in this show at Jack Shainman.

Carla Prina was an Italian abstractionist with her own perspective. Little known outside her native Italy and adoptive Switzerland, Shin Gallery revisits a woman deserving of much more recognition.

For the first time the Whitney Biennial’s curators have included a majority of female artists in their survey. 84-year-old Chicago artist Diane Simpson is one of them, with a room of her own.

Lorna Simpson’s monumental show at Hauser & Wirth is cast in shadows of vibrant blue––a color with a rich and complicated history when it comes to the representation of race.

Though her flower paintings appear to be of the 21st century, Shara Hughes takes a cue from the Golden Age of Dutch painting, more specifically, the tradition of vanitas.

There is a special place in my heart for the coast of Maine, something Nancy Cohen and Susan English understand, as both their solo shows take inspiration from the great state and its rocky coastline.

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.

Jessica Sara Wilson has assembled block like constructions of nightlights, which she has placed next to animations of emergency vehicles. By abstracting the colors of these spinning and flashing light signals, she might have something to say about how we process trauma.

Leonor Fini’s first U.S. retrospective is being staged at an unexpected venue: the Museum of Sex. This is no coincidence, as sometimes it is an outsider’s voice that makes us pay attention to what matters most.

Hilma af Klint channeled her artistic impulse from a higher realm. Contemporary critics seem to look down on her spiritualism. less than half thinks this is a mistake.