New York

Alissa Bennett recalls the glamour and ghosts of SoHo’s iconic Lucky Strike

At Marlborough, New York, the Puerto Rico-based artist builds a new pantheon from the wreckage of colonialism and Hurricane Maria 

At James Cohan, New York, sculptures made from materials collected at crime scenes indict a system of violence and exploitation 

We tend to think of museums as holding the rare, the valuable, the precious. But MOCA was formed to tell the stories no one else thought were worth telling

The artist’s nocturnal examination of glacial landscapes works towards ‘a new way of seeing’

At the Morgan Library and Museum, New York, the artist’s photographs of words and light receive their due

At David Lewis, the artist repurposes ephemeral Americana to remark on the disintegration of 1960s countercultural dreams and ideals

Majoli’s historical subjects couldn’t have known that the community for which they became sex symbols would soon be marked with a valedictory contingency – annihilation

The painter’s work, on view at Tina Kim Gallery in New York, focuses our sight while urging us beyond it

The artist’s work captures what it feels like to see your own body on the floor, in pieces, and how that might be the only way to survive having survived

The Asian-American designers embrace alienation as an integral aspect of identity

New work on view at Lévy Gorvy proves that the artist, nearing 90, is at the top of his game

The Drawing Center, in New York, presents a historically and formally diverse collection of works by incarcerated artists

At two solo museum shows, the artist’s animations extend beyond the screen to sculpture, an experimental dance album and merchandise

At New York’s Lincoln Center, the artist’s films speak to the enduring violence caused by forced exile

Can a trio of exhibitions in New York shed light on this enigmatic figure?

It’s tempting to read Haacke’s longstanding work of institutional critique as prescient. In fact, he’s been an astute observer for long enough to know that current scrutiny of museum ethics is well overdue

In Buffalo, the artist Marlene McCarty has planted a toxic garden that draws on the area’s intertwined histories of capitalism, expropriation and utopian dreaming

On view at the New Museum, New York, the artist’s avocado oil paintings further her engagement with the politics of migration, trade and diaspora

Informed by the legacies of funk and jazz, the artist’s many collaborations are given space to shine