Artists engage with femininity, performance, and spectacle to question how the creative act intersects with political and economic paradigms of expression.

Reframed viewing and modes of performance at LUmkA’s The Theatre.

Highlight fairs of New York Art Week.

Frieze 2025 had its spectacles, but the most urgent works were grounded, exacting, and unwilling to play nice.

Independent’s sixteenth iteration hits New York—here are five booths to watch.