As anxiety grows over AI’s potential to usurp and overwhelm human intelligence, Pierre Huyghe offers neither reassurance nor prophecy of catastrophe. Instead, he proposes to take human consciousness out of the equation altogether. artnews.com/art-in-america…

Esther Mahlangu’s paintings, beadwork, tapestries, and found objects fully metabolize both the traditional and the contemporary, resulting in a kind of modernism that is uniquely African. artnews.com/art-in-america…

A member of the Cherokee Nation who is also of European descent, Kay WalkingStick has been exploring relationships between people and the earth for five decades. artnews.com/art-in-america…

Museums throughout the US, such as the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and MoMA, have begun dramatically reshaping their permanent collection galleries, drawing out new conceptions of recent art history in the process. artnews.com/art-in-america…

Upstate New York art haven Dia:Beacon is providing filmmaker Steve McQueen with McQueen 30,000 square feet for a presentation described as 'an immersive installation.”

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“Alice Shaddle: Fuller Circles,” at Chicago’s Hyde Park Art Center, aims to reintroduce the artist, often overlooked throughout the Windy City’s history, to the metropolis where she played a vibrant if still unsung role. artnews.com/art-in-america…

Want to learn more about Surrealism? Ara H. Merjian provides a crash course on eight books on the movement, now celebrating its 100th anniversary, that makes its history, reach, and lasting impact abundantly clear. artnews.com/list/art-in-am…

In our latest “Reframed” newsletter, Alex Greenberger reviews the US solo debut of late Brazilian artist Ione Saldanha, a star of the 2024 Venice Biennale, at Salon 94. Her works flattened space, stretched it out, then flattened it all over again. artnews.com/art-in-america…

Elias Sime’s work using e-waste is about our addiction to technology: he wants to make you think about all the ways connectivity has changed, to question our addiction to constant upgrades. artnews.com/art-in-america…

At last, Romanian artist Ana Lupas, whose work has taken the forms of installations and happenings, is getting her first major retrospective at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum.

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María Izquierdo’s modest artworks might be the antithesis of male artists’ “heroic” historicizing murals and grand figural compositions for the way they depicted female agency and physical feats. artnews.com/art-in-america…

Iranian American artist Sheida Soleimani interrogates the narratives disseminated by the press and social media in a practice that fuses sculpture, performance, and photography. artnews.com/art-in-america…

Gone are the days when museum galleries remained static, with masterpieces rarely ever leaving the walls. Now, it is more common for those masterpieces to share space with lesser-known works by women and artists of color. artnews.com/art-in-america…

Shanti Escalante-De Mattei reviews Legacy Russell’s latest book “Black Meme,” writing that “Russell’s plea is powerful, but she more or less stops at the point where work could really begin.”

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Glenn Adamson profiles the eccentric sculptor Arlene Shechet, writing about how she makes her recalcitrant materials feel fresh and alive. artnews.com/art-in-america…

Long out of print in the US, Eileen Agar's autobiography “A Look at My Life” now makes its glorious return as the surrealist movement turns 100.

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In our latest “Reframed” newsletter, senior editor Emily Watlington reviews Maurizio Cattelan’s Gagosian debut. Turning to issues of gun violence and homelessness, Watlington asks if we are supposed to believe the banana-taper is now “tender and sincere.” artnews.com/art-in-america…

These five texts, chosen by Kelly Presutti, show that Impressionism, the movement now celebrating its 150th anniversary, was diverse in its reckoning with changing social dynamics. artnews.com/list/art-in-am…

A retrospective of Käthe Kollwitz’s work, on view through July 20 at the Museum of Modern Art, comes at a time when we are once again witnesses to war and violence amid an air of despair and helplessness. artnews.com/art-in-america…