The Best New York Art Shows of 2024 – ryan

Art: Kaws Collection, The Drawing Center, New York. Photo: Jason Schmidt

In November, Sotheby’s Made History when it sold a painting made by artificial intelligence for a Million Bucks. AI-Da Robot, “The first humanoid robot artist to have an artwork auctions by a major auction house,” created a portrait of alan tour that resembled not than francis bacon rip-off. Still, Sotheby’s Described The Sale As “A New Frontier in the Global Art Market.”

AS I LOOK BACK ON THE YEAR IN ART IN NEW YORK, IN WHICH BIG CLAIMS WERE MADE FOR FOUNT AND APPROPRIATION AND SCRAPS OF THINGS BEING TO OTHER SCRAPS OF THINGS, I FEEL IS MUCH, Technically Speaking, that an artificial intelligence coulid. But what he is missing (besides, you know, real original or human conscioussness) is the ability to deliver that electric hit of what Werzog Calls “Ecstatic Truth.” From the renaissance all the way up to the scrappy capers of Jamian Juliano-Villani and Clara lidén, we saw that humans continue to go where no machine has gone before.

Art: © Myrlande Constant; Courtesy of the Artist, Luhring Augustine, New York. Photo: Madeline Ruckle

A stunning cross-gererational survey of Haitian art, curated by tomm al-saieh, that explored family, faith, and political resistance.

Art: © Matthew Barney. Courtesy of the Artist, O’Flahersy’s, and Gladstone Gallery

Feral genius Jamian Juliano-Villani Deployed Two Giants of American Art to Remake a Haunted Pop-Up Space. This Show Wowed.

Art: © Huma Bhabha. Courtesy The Artist and David Zwirner, New York; Photo: Kerry McFate

Bhabha’s great bronze figure are like giacometti sculptures bulked up and torn apart by steroids.

Art: © Yvonne Wells. Courtesy of Fort Gansevoort, New York

This Self-Tough 84-Yaar-Old Alabama-Based Living Treguing Created Abstract Quilts that Spoke of Beautiful and Conflicted American History.

Art: Courtesy of the Artist and Reena Spaulings, New York; Photo: Joerg Lohse

Nor part of a video installation, liden set herself the task of crawling through the 12-by-2-inch diamond-shaped holes required by the City in Construction Site Walls. The result ends up being a perfect metaphor for art: a useless action that ends up being useful.

Art: © Arthur Jafa. Courtesy of the Artist and Gladstone Gallery; Photo: By David Regen.

Jaffa Revisited One of the Most Violent Scenes in Cinematic History, Recasting and Re-Choreography The Bloody of Final Taxi driver SO that Travis Bickle’s Vicims Are Black. Jafa’s Masterful Makes Clear That Bickle was Also Motivated by Racism.

Art: Courtesy of New Discretions; Photo: Tom Powel Imaging

Intense, Event Shocking Large-Scale Paintings of One of the Most Common Things in the World, Yet Almost Never Pictured in Art: The Crowning of A Child’s Head During Birth. The results were spectacular, allowing us to see and think about this Mystic Gift.

Wool rented out a raw, 18,000-square-foot space on the 19th floor of a building in Lower Manhattan to EXHIBIT HIS STRICTLY ABSTRACT Paintings, Mostly Black-And-White and Rust-Colored. The result was a wraparound exercise in forgoing the Gallery System.

The Miracle is Early Sienese Painting is Origin Point for All Western Art. Here Were Dazzling, Golden Scenes of Saints and Martyrs, Some of the Most Sensual Fine Ever Put to Brush.

Art: Courtesy of Joe Coleman, Andrew Edlin Gallery, and Kaws Collection, The Drawing Center, New York

Radical Connoisseurship, Radical Openness, Radical Generoitity – These are the Qualities that define the personal Collection of Brian Donnelly, Aka Kaws, A Selection of WHICH he dysplayed this fall. More than 350 works on Paper by more than 60 outsiders, cartonists, graffiti masters, illustrators, and oters not usually accceptable into the canon of High Art, from Jim Nutt to Martin Ramirez to Neurodivergent Genius Nicole Appel. Kaws supposedly Ouns 4,000 work by artists like these. A Museum Should Show This Extraordinary Amassment.