New York
March 22, 2023

Designing a Black Panther Revolution

A new exhibition at New York’s Poster House explores the civil rights militant group’s ingenious branding strategies. | Taylor Michael 

Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party
Mar. 2–Sept. 10, 2023
Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan (posterhouse.org)

FROM OUR CRITICS

Rose B. Simpson Embeds Ancestral Histories in Clay

She has taken clay and used it to recall its ancestral roots in Pueblo culture and address the present history of postcolonial recovery and ongoing trauma. | John Yau 

Rose B. Simpson: Road Less Traveled
Feb. 23–Apr. 8, 2023
Jack Shainman Gallery, 513 West 20th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan (jackshainman.com) 

Kahori Kamiya Transmutes Grief Into Play

Through artworks that encourage viewers to explore varied vantages, Kamiya conveys her accrued wisdom and experiences without the weight of their pain. | Vittoria Benzine

Kahori Kamiya: Long Eclipse
Mar. 2–26, 2023
Amos Eno Gallery, 56 Bogart Street, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn (amoseno.org)

Mark Thomas Gibson’s Cartoons See the US Going Nowhere

If Thomas Nast, who is considered the “Father of the American Cartoon,” has an heir, it is Gibson, who goes one step further and elevates caricature and commentary into art. | John Yau 

Mark Thomas Gibson: WHIRLYGIG!
Feb. 3–Mar. 11, 2023
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., 530 W 22nd St, Chelsea, Manhattan (sikkemajenkinsco.com)

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Sebastián Hidalgo: Encounters with Neptune
Mar. 23–Apr. 22, 2023
Fortnight Institute, 21 East 3rd Street, Bowery (fortnight.institute)

Artist Sebastián Hidalgo’s work is difficult to classify. He has made elegant paintings on linen and soft, dreamlike portraits on craggy fragments of marble; immaculate figurations and mouthwatering abstractions. But all his visual worlds share an ineffable magnetism that makes us want to keep looking. The works in Encounters with Neptune are inspired by the two seemingly contradictory concepts of chaos and the structure of mandalas and the tension between them.

Austin Lee: Double Rendering
Mar. 25–Apr. 9, 2023
Wallach Art Gallery, 615 West 129th Street, Upper West Side (wallach.columbia.edu)

Austin Lee continues his exploration of digital graphic aesthetics by means of manual techniques through gawky MS Paint-esque characters and simplistic imagery with exaggerated textures and surfaces reminiscent of early computer animation. Lee’s new exhibition highlights the multiple stages of his full-circle process: creating and manipulating models through virtual reality, translating them into physical airbrushed paintings, realizing them dimensionally with a 3D printer, and simultaneously breathing life into them while sending them back to the digital realm through animated videos using motion capture technology.

Sarah Sze: Timelapse
Mar. 31–Sept. 10, 2023
Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side (guggenheim.org)

Medium-bending assemblage artist Sarah Sze brings a distinctly contemplative spirit to an exhibition designed specifically for the museum’s structure. Considering how visitors might move through space, Sze pieces together a sensory installation, livestream projection of the moon, images on the building’s exterior, and interventions into the rotunda itself to encourage reflection on our relationship to time and memory.

Be sure to check out our full list of ongoing and upcoming exhibitions in our Spring 2023 New York Art Guide!

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