Plus reviews of LaToya Ruby Frazier, Joanne Greenbaum, and Xingzi Gu.
Reviews, reviews, reviews! Our writers have been busy seeing art around the city, from large institutional shows of major contemporary artists to smaller gems at galleries you won’t want to miss.
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s survey at MoMA impressed Hyperallergic contributor Zoë Hopkins, while Senior Editor Hakim Bishara found that despite it all, he was “genuinely moved” by parts of Jenny Holzer’s polarizing Light Line at the Guggenheim.
In his latest reviews, John Yau champions the work of postwar Japanese artist Tamiko Nishimura and New York-based painter-sculptor Joanne Greenbaum, who currently have shows in Chelsea galleries (though Greenbaum’s leaves Mitchell-Innes & Nash on Saturday, so this week is your last chance to see it!). Meanwhile, in the Lower East Side, Clare Gemima walks us through Xingzi Gu’s “unearthly, memory-mined configurations of lovers and strangers.”
Have you been following Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Series? Throughout June, we’re interviewing art world queer and trans elders about their lives and work. To no surprise, many of these folks have roots in New York City in one way or another, which you can learn more about in our interviews with Katherine Bradford, Nishan Kazazian, Harmony Hammond, and Carol Ockman. | |
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| Zoë Hopkins | LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity at the Museum of Modern Art | “Frazier’s photographs reveal an eye that is at once tender and probing: they stare unflinchingly at the collusion between post-industrial capitalism, environmental racism, and class disenfranchisement, while illuminating with solicitous regard the strategies of refusal and resistance that working-class communities (most of them Black and Brown) have developed in response.” |
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Clare Gemima | Xingzi Gu: Pure Heart Hall at Lubov gallery | “Xingzi Gu’s paintings do not consider earthly gravity, nor do they depict scenes that have ever existed on this planet. All eight compositions in Pure Heart Hall broadcast memory-mined configurations of lovers and strangers, as well as people forgotten, faintly remembered, or entirely re-imagined.” |
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John Yau | Joanne Greenbaum: Scaffold at Mitchell-Innes & Nash | “By refusing to pursue the pictorial, geometric, or gestural, or pick up where the Pattern and Decoration movement left off, while committing to drawing in paint, Greenbaum distinguishes her work from that of many of her peers.... It reminds me of riding a crowded subway car at Halloween. Nothing is quite as exhilarating as the activity in these paintings.” |
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WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING? | | | Last Saturday’s Brooklyn Pride parade was fabulous. Get to know your queer NYC art history in Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month Series interviews with Katherine Bradford, Nishan Kazazian, Harmony Hammond, and Carol Ockman. Have you played the latest Hyperallergic Art Crossword yet? Rebecca Mead’s story about 19th-century British illustrator Louis Wain, “The Man Who Reinvented the Cat,” is purr-fect. [newyorker.com] This Thursday, June 13, artist Michael Rakowitz will join writer and curator (and former Hyperallergic fellow) Laura Raicovich for a conversation at CIMA (Center for Italian Modern Art). Tickets are free. [eventbrite.com] Celebrate the Juneteenth holiday at Rockefeller Park Lawn in Battery Park City this Saturday, June 15, where you can meet the Federation of Black Cowboys and explore Black art and literature. [bpca.ny.gov] On June 21, for closing night of The Americas Film Festival, the National Museum of the American Indian is showing Frybread Face and Me (2023) with a post-screening Q&A with director Billy Luther. [americanindian.si.edu] |
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