In her SoHo loft, Joan Jonas hosted a dinner celebrating the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ turn to public programming.

Brenda Draney’s exuberant artworks are only selectively revealing.

The artist Ambera Wellmann’s work explores sex and climate change, while incorporating mermaids, tarot cards and memes.

With a new collection of images, the photographer looks at the Rio Grande — the fraught border river between the U.S. and Mexico — through…