This month: Audrey Flack, Sonya Clark, Raven Chacon, Mike Olin, and more.

If there’s a lesson from the Godzilla anthology, it’s that Asian-American art is deeply complex, much like the many manifestations of Godzilla the monster.

With Storage of the Gods, the artist explores what a spiritual practice can look like in our secular, stressed-out world.

In her new book The Other Side, Jennifer Higgie pays tribute to celebrated and lesser-known women artists whose work intersected with the occult.

Red Canary Song's Flower Spa: Solidarity Outside In pays tribute to past victims of anti-Asian hate and fights against future racism.

Samia Halaby, the collaborative history of photography, ancient cave paintings, shapeshifting flocks of birds, and more for your art reading list.

This month: Aki Sasamoto, Shary Boyle, Apollinaria Broche, Godzilla, and more.

If straightness implies direction, queerness in (In)directions: Queerness in Chinese Contemporary Photography suggests anything but.

Nunavut artist Pitsiulaq Qimirpik juxtaposes different spiritual traditions with pop culture symbols in his drawings and soapstone sculptures.

The artist reminds us that maps advance the fiction that we could treat the earth as an object to be measured, cut up, and extracted from without consequences.

Sugimoto’s photographs remind us of the sacredness of images in a time of image over-saturation.

It’s easy to think of stone as static, immutable, but as Eternal Medium shows, stone is a slice of the earth itself, as alive as the artists who mold and shape it.

All of the works in Material as Message ask us how we come to remember, through materials that suit the memories they’re trying to preserve.

"It is our responsibility — whether we are Native or not — to educate ourselves about whose land we are on,” writes artist Cara Romero.

To enter Rego’s paintings of the 1980s is to step into a tumbling, chaotic world of animals living out modern human life.

Through textural, analog works that neither beep nor boop, artist Analia Saban has crafted a poetic commentary on our digital existence.

Much of Remain in Light jumps back and forth between Los Angeles and Armenia, underscoring the blurriness of living in diaspora.

Both the tarot and Carrington’s work are in the midst of a revival that has the world re-evaluating our relationship with nature, the earth, and our place in it.

Restaurants are restorative, perhaps, for those eating, but they can also be grueling places of labor that tax workers’ bodies.

All the little things we buy that look simple come from somewhere thanks to a series of interlocking, complex chains and sequences.

A new show of plein air painting in California offers a compelling take on our relationship to land and what it means to spend time trying to understand the outdoors.

Fiona Connor’s “Continuous Sidewalk” tells the story of a city where many people walk every day as part of their lives, livelihoods, and just for a casual stroll.

To sit with Haring’s expansive artworks is to travel back in time and understand that the world of the 1980s is not so far from today’s.

Knowledge and literacy in their many forms are at the heart of a small but rich show by the art collective.

Using retroreflective material, the artist’s latest works look at the way that rivers both carry and conceal as a means of examining history.

The glitch, perhaps, is that we thought technology, the earth, and the spirit were all separate things when really they all glide together.

While a trip to the grocery store is now a mundane act, in 17th-century Europe, accessing global foods was still a new concept.

Thomas J Price’s bronze statues of Black individuals look like people we might know or see out in public, rather than generals and political leaders.

The city’s complex history of capital and violence is what makes the intersection of art and magic so potent, opening doors for healing and reparations.

I imagine artist Linda Arreola wandering in her mind during lockdowns, just like me, asking how such a brutal world could continue.

Up until recently, there have been few ways to read tarot cards without using physical cards, even in this era of Zoom and remote work.

Anti-Muslim incidents are the jumping-off point for Los Angeles artist Tanzila Ahmed’s painting series Aunties with Deadly Stare. 

Much of Kjartansson’s work combines dry humor with a sobering examination of power and violence.

Kirken works because modern galleries have quasi-religious qualities, with white walls and empty spaces creating an atmosphere for contemplation.

Through multiple mediums, Kinship demonstrates the ways that a number of artists had to navigate COVID-19’s influence on their process.

Chinese Animal Idiom cards remind us that we can fly free, yes, and we should, but we eventually need somewhere to land.

Helen Cammock’s solo exhibition is an array of visual poems, ceramics, and even the sound of her trumpet, which she began practicing in the city.

Hostility comes across in various forms throughout "Hostile Terrain '94," a show about the perils involved in undocumented migration.

Amir H. Fallah's beautiful objects reflect a shadow side, a decay of borders, trust, and stability that comes with the trauma of immigration.

Cruel Youth Diary: Chinese Photography and Video greets us with the dizziness befitting a period of rapid economic growth and social change.

With "Dark Illumination" artist Kenturah Davis creates opportunities for us to see the sacred and meditative in the words we write.

The Rijksmuseum’s traveling show strives to remind us that we are all, in some way, a part of this chapter of human history, whose legacy continues today.

Hande Sever’s latest installation explores how leaders in the US and Turkey have used visual art and film to project, modify, and erase history.

Beautiful Repair: Mending in Art and Fashion at Copenhagen Contemporary explores the aesthetics of mending through the lens of art and fashion.

A new book uses graphic design as a way to tell the story of Roman conquests, economy, and culture.

A Copenhagen exhibition offers a rich view into the creative production and daily life in the Weimar Republic, with its glamour and its grotesquerie.

In Vermeer’s paintings, the world is much larger than we imagined and yet somehow deep, meaningful, and magical.

Sendak’s illustrations carry weight all on their own for children and adults alike, and this book beautifully captures his prolific career.

Simulation Sketchbook takes as its starting point the reality that digital artists, like all artists, sketch out their work as well.

A documentary trilogy follows the life of Thich Nhat Hanh, who expounded the principles of engaged Buddhism.