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Is It an Artificial Paradise or an Artificial Hell or Both?
Elliott Green seems to be espousing that landscapes are living forms governed by rules we cannot fathom — they appear to be welcoming us, but we might be wrong. | John Yau
Landscape painting generally transports the viewer to the place the artist has created; we are brought to the world that the artist shows us. Instead, Green makes us conscious of ourselves looking at this different reality.
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The MoMA and the Whitney Museum in NYC will no longer require visitors and staff to wear masks or show proof of vaccination for COVID-19.
Former Japanese princess Mako Komuro is volunteering at the Met Museum and is working on a show of hanging-scroll paintings.
The New York Public Library will make four banned books available to anyone in the country with its new “Books for All” program.
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Pratt’s 2022 Fine Arts and Photography MFA Thesis Exhibition Is on View in Brooklyn
Through May 6, 32 graduating artists present work across disciplines including painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, and integrated practices. Learn more.
Kia LaBeija’s Photographs Tell a Story as Multifaceted as the Artist Herself
The photographer chronicles her life as a queer woman of color born with HIV. | Julia Curl
Antiquity With a Side of Mischief
In Plato’s Closet, artist Timothy Hull gestures to the opportunities for creative play and repurposing that looking backward can pose. | Cassie Packard
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Raphael Montañez Ortiz: A Contextual Retrospective Opens at El Museo del Barrio
This is the largest exhibition to date on the artist, activist, educator, and founder of New York City’s El Museo del Barrio. Learn more.
The Eastern European Artists Who Moved Forward by Starting From Scratch
For the five artists in From Scratch, starting from the elemental meant raising existential questions on the use of language and humor or irony in art. | Silvia Benedetti
Sustainability as a Form of Resistance in Art
At NYU’s Latinx Project, a group exhibition explores how Latin, African, and Asian diaspora artists promote sustainability beyond borders. | Billy Anania
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Columbia’s MFA Thesis Exhibition Opens This Weekend in NYC
For these 33 visual and sound artists, this show marks the threshold between their lives as students and the future that lies ahead. Learn more.
An Artist’s Monument to the Monotony of Images
Bayrle creates an art gallery version of computer reproductions of unreality. His art inhabits a world composed of repeated ready-made images. | David Carrier
Abstractions That Record the Scars of Trauma
Kwon Young-Woo presents the viewer with a deeper sense of the reality that nature goes on, no matter what humans are doing to each other. | John Yau
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CLOSING SOON
Dora García, If I Could Wish for Something, 2021 (Video still), video, color, 16:9, Spanish & Purépecha spoken, BE/FR/MX/NO, 68’. Produced by Auguste Orts.
Thomas Bayrle: Monotony in a Hurry
Gladstone Gallery through April 23.
Elliott Green
Miles McEnery Gallery through April 23
Timothy Hull: Plato’s Closet
ASHES/ASHES through April 24
Dora García: Revolution, fulfill your promise!
Amant through April 24
Kwon Young-Woo: Gestures in Hanji
Tina Kim Gallery through April 30
ON VIEW
Hugh Hayden: Brier Patch
Madison Square Park through May 1
Kia LaBeija: prepare my heart
Fotografiska New York through May 8
Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians—The Mohammed Afkhami Collection
Asia Society Museum through May 8
This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965-1975
Americas Society through May 14
Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman
Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 15
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
