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May 25, 2022 • View in browser

Mexican Artists and Designers Take Over Rockefeller Center

Intervención/Intersección, the latest venture from MASA Galería, is a humming subversion of what public art can look like. | Julie Baumgardner

The first encounter of Intervención/Intersección is Pia Camil’s unglossed installation. But down in the depths of the former post office of Rockefeller Center, there’s a group show curated by another Mexico-transplant and design whisperer, Su Wu, that brings together a specific selection of Mexican artists who bridge the contemporary and historical —  reflecting on the expression of private intimacies, awkward realities, failed dreams, and frailties of the human condition. 

WHAT TO SEE THIS WEEKEND

Cecilia Vicuña, “La Vicuña (The Vicuña)” (1977), oil on cotton canvas, 54 3/4 × 47 inches, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ives Family Fund, 2018 (photo: 2022 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston © Cecilia Vicuña)

Cecilia Vicuña: Spin Spin Triangulene
Guggenheim Museum, opening May 27

For her first New York museum solo show, Chilean-born artist, poet, and activist Cecilia Vicuña will present six decades of work ranging from surreal figurative paintings to film featuring her politically pointed Palabrarmas (“word weapons”), or visual anagrams. The exhibition’s centerpiece will be a site-specific, three-part knotted Quipu installation, part of a poetic series of works that mourn ecocide and reference ancient record-keeping practices in the Andes. This installation will be the site of a one-time participatory performance aimed to foster collective healing.

Nanette Carter: Shape Shifting
Berry Campbell through May 27

Emilie Louise Gossiaux: Significant Otherness
MOTHER through June 4

Nari Ward: I’ll Take You There; A Proclamation
Lehmann Maupin through June 4

LATEST REVIEWS

Willie Cole Recycles Musical Instruments Into Outstanding Sculptures

Time is itself a recycling process for Cole, whose freewheeling spirit transcends linearity in his excavations of art and music history. | Billy Anania

Stanley Lewis in a Wayward World

Lewis’s tattered canvases and pasted-over drawings mirror a world in need of constant upkeep and repair. | John Yau

NOTES AND HIGHLIGHTS

Notes and Pictures From Frieze New York

I won’t bother you with talk about how obscenely decadent and out of touch the Frieze art fair is. And yet… | Hakim Bishara

Highlights From Columbia University’s MFA Thesis Exhibition

Every corner and crevice of Columbia University’s MFA Thesis show feels lived in, reflecting not just artists’ experience quarantining with their work, but also that of re-entering society. | Billy Anania

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CLOSING SOON

Nadia Haji Omar, “Study for Dear So and So Painting” (2018), ink and colored pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches (all images courtesy Kristen Lorello gallery, photos by Charles Benton)

Nadia Haji Omar: Secret Garden
Kristen Lorello Gallery through May 27

Willie Cole: No Strings
Alexander and Bonin through May 27

Michelle Segre: Night Chorus
Derek Eller Gallery through May 28

Squeak Carnwath: Pattern Language
Jane Lombard Gallery through June 4

Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet’s Work in Community
Morgan Library through June 5

Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running
Jewish Museum through June 5

ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS

Staging Injustice: Italian Art 1880-1917
Center for Italian Modern Art through June 18

Not Me, Not That, Not Nothing Either
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art through June 25

Suzanne Lacy: The Medium Is Not the Only Message
Queens Museum through August 14

Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle
Guggenheim Museum through September 5