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December 15, 2021 • View in browser

Best of 2021: Our Top 10 New York City Art Shows

The city brought shows to life that will be talked about for years to come.

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Pete Schulte’s Magical Abstract Drawings

Schulte seems at once focused and restless, determined and open. | John Yau

The Poetry of Black Daily Life in the Art of Whitfield Lovell

Each portrait in Lovell’s current exhibition is a lens through which to consider the complex humanity of Black subjectivity in American history. | Alexandra M. Thomas

Lina Puerta’s Art Mimics Botanical and Female Anatomical Forms

Puerta’s artworks strike a gentle balance between whimsy and sincerity. | Louis Bury

The Unknown Work of Rakuko Naito

Naito’s Op-inspired abstractions might have been an oblique way of dealing with feelings of displacement after moving to the United States. | John Yau

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CLOSING SOON

Danielle De Jesus, "Loyalty like this doesn't exist anymore" (2021), oil on linen, 67 x 83 inches (all images courtesy Calderón, New York, photos by Dario Lasagni)

​Danielle De Jesus and Shellyne Rodriguez: Siempre en la Calle
Calderón through December 17

A Ripe Blackberry Murmurs to the Wall
Fierman gallery through December 18

John Avelluto: FooGayZee
Stand4 Gallery through December 18

Forrest Bess: I Can Close My Eyes in a Dark Room
The Ranch through December 18

Wifredo Lam: The Imagination at Work
Pace gallery through December 18

Ron Gorchov: The Last Paintings 2017–2020
Cheim & Read through December 18

Hilma af Klimt: Tree of Knowledge
David Zwirner through December 18​

Within Listening Distance of the Sea…
Fridman Gallery through December 19

Stephen Westfall: Persephone
Alexandre Gallery through December 22

Sonia Gechtoff: The 1960s in New York: A Series of Transitions
David Richard Gallery through December 23