As readers might gather from my review, Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum is divisive, to say the least. However, the main issue I tackle is not the art, but rather the way it’s often discussed. So I suggest that you see the show for yourself and consider your takeaway from it. While you’re out, visit Sarah K. Khan’s exhibition at BRIC, which offers a thoughtful counterpoint in its exploration of colonialism, migration, and unruly women from the African, Arab, and Asian worlds.
Also recommended this week are photographer Destiny Mata’s love letter to the Lower East Side at Abrons Art Center and Gideon Bok’s paintings, which bring together studio art and activism. And check out Lovett/Codagnone: Greetings at Lower East Side art nonprofit Participant Inc. It ends this weekend. —Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor
Gideon Bok: Gaza and Other Paintings
Interchurch Center, 475 Riverside Drive, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Through November 14
Gideon Bok, “Gaza #4” (2025), oil and acrylic on canvas (photo by Dave Clough, image courtesy Steven Harvey)
“Painting cannot stop time; it can only acknowledge a constantly changing world.” —John Yau
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Sarah K. Khan: Speak, Sing, Shout: We, Too, Sing America
BRIC, 647 Fulton Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Through December 23
Installation view of porcelain weapons and prints featuring historical women in Sarah K. Khan: Speak, Sing, Shout: We, Too, Sing America at BRIC, Brooklyn (photo Sebastian Bach)
“This is a project that has grown out of years of archival research, and you can get the sense that the artist is an educator at heart.” —Aruna D’Souza
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Lower East Side Yearbook: A Living Archive
Abrons Art Center, 466 Grand Street, Manhattan
Through January 4, 2026
Destiny Mata, “Halloween: The Doors of NYCHA” (2020), archival pigment print (photo courtesy Abrons Art Center)
“The photographer Destiny Mata’s love for the Lower East Side is familial and tender; the neighborhood is both her home and her muse.” —Monica Uszerowicz
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Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings
Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, Murray Hill, Manhattan
Through January 4, 2026
Installation view of Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum (photo Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic)
“Visiting the show is a little like coming upon J. P. Morgan’s secret Playboy grotto.” —NH
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