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Along with a label homecoming for legendary drummer-composer Joe Chambers.

Salman Toor, a Painter at Home in Two Worlds A brilliant debut at the Whitney Museum by the artist — born in Pakistan and based in New York — refreshes figurative painting by using it as a means to explore identity. Salman Toor’s “Bar Boy” (2019) is one of three mostly green paintings in the artist’s Whitney Museum debut.Credit...Salman Toor and Luhring Augustine, via Whitney Museum of American Art Dec. 23, 2020 Salman Toor’s evocative, tenderly executed paintings begin to pluck at your heartstrings almost as soon as you see them. The 15 examples of new and recent work that form...

The Breakout Stars of 2020 Here are the 12 stars and trends that managed to thrive and shine in an impossible year. Clockwise from bottom left: Sarah Cooper, Maria Bakalova, the hand of the artist Salman Toor, Jonathan Majors and Radha Blank.Credit...Clockwise from bottom left: Lacey Terrell/Netflix; Elizabeth Weinberg for The New York Times; Peter Fisher for The New York Times; Adria Malcolm for The New York Times; Douglas Segars for The New York Times Published Dec. 23, 2020Updated Dec. 24, 2020 While plenty of us felt trapped this year, wandering through the same spaces and talking to the...

Auction: Christie’s New York, December 3 Estimate: $100,000 to $150,000 Sold For: $822,000 Salman Toor had a better 2020 than most of us. After a few-month delay, his first-ever museum show opened at the Whitney last month (on view through April). In June, it was announced that the 30-something artist, who was born in Pakistan and lives in New York, would join the roster of Luhring Augustine, the star-making gallery that this year celebrated its 35th anniversary. The year ended on a high note, too. Christie’s had plans to offer up the artist’s third painting to hit the auction block thi...

The Top Ten Shows in the US of 2020 From a survey of Zarina’s five-decade career to Ficre Ghebreyesus’s display of ethereal paintings, these are the best exhibitions of the year Like many of us, I’d prefer to forget 2020. It’s been an extremely difficult year, to say the least. Yet, folks persevered, and things got done. Despite the COVID-19 health crisis, Black Lives Matter protests ensued globally, monuments fell and the art world was forced to reckon with the systemic racism that permeates its culture. While all this was happening – with the occasional pivot �...