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New YorkMay 25, 2022 • View in browserMexican Artists and Designers Take Over Rockefeller CenterIntervención/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. SPONSORED 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 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 Emilie Louise Gossiaux: Significant Otherness Nari Ward: I’ll Take You There; A Proclamation SPONSORED ArtYard’s Ecstatic Decrepitude Features Works by Bread and Puppet Founder Peter SchumannCurated by Clare Dolan, this solo exhibition in Frenchtown, NJ contains new and unearthed paintings, sculptures, and prints selected from the organization’s 60-year history. Learn more. LATEST REVIEWS Willie Cole Recycles Musical Instruments Into Outstanding SculpturesTime 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 WorldLewis’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 YorkI 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 ExhibitionEvery 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 Become a member today to support our independent journalism. Become a Member |
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