Spring in Upstate New York might just be my favorite time and place in the world— I love that sense of hope, renewal, and relief as those ceaseless gray days finally surrender to color. Speaking of, there's some pretty great art on view in the region, as our favorite Upstate art writer, Taliesin Thomas, proves in her guide this month.

Today, a new survey finds that art museums and organizations led by people of color are disproportionately understaffed, relying heavily on volunteer work to serve their communities. Also in the news, artist Ali Cherri, who won the Silver Lion Award for best film feature at the 2022 Venice Biennale, files a war crimes complaint against Israel for a Beirut strike that killed his parents.

If you find yourself in need of a reprieve from earthly matters, Ed Simon and John Yau offer very different approaches to salvation in this issue: Salvador Dalí's "Nuclear Mysticism," on the one hand, and Leah Ke Yi Zheng's contemporary divination on the other.

—Lisa Yin Zhang, associate…