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From thrilling abstractions and video work, to tender and sometimes cheeky portraits, don’t miss solo shows from Ilana Savdie, Abbey Williams, Hugh Steers, and Chloe Wise — all of which are closing soon. Scroll below for our takes.
Contributor Monica Uszerowicz also talks to poet Hanif Abdurraqib about Black performance and his new book, A Little Devil in America. (Catch his talk at the Brooklyn Academy of Music tonight.)
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In the Galleries
In Thrilling Palettes, Ilana Savdie Maps Electrifying Geographies
In Thrilling Palettes, Ilana Savdie Maps Electrifying Geographies
In the artist’s first solo exhibition, fragments of vibrant color quake with anticipation as if waiting to be ignited.
Daniella Brito
Through Video and Collage, Abbey Williams Inverts the Paradigm of White Hegemony
Through Video and Collage, Abbey Williams Inverts the Paradigm of White Hegemony
In Vignette, Abbey Williams explores how Black affective space persists within and outside the constricted frame of the white gaze.
Justin Kamp
So Much Achieved by One Artist in So Little Time
So Much Achieved by One Artist in So Little Time
The Belgian artist Ilse D’Hollander rejected abstraction and figuration as an either/or premise in favor of a path that embraced both.
John Yau
With David Hammons, Meaning and Process Hold Hands
With David Hammons, Meaning and Process Hold Hands
In Hammons’s body prints, the veteran artist melds method, intention, and significance.
Seph Rodney
Around Town
For New York’s Movie Theaters, Reopening Won’t Be a Return to Business as Usual
For New York’s Movie Theaters, Reopening Won’t Be a Return to Business as Usual
Hyperallergic speaks to workers at Film Forum, the Quad, Anthology Film Archives, and more about the impact of the yearlong lockdown.
Steve Macfarlane
New Map Unearths New York’s Oldest and Rarest Trees
New Map Unearths New York’s Oldest and Rarest Trees
Part botanical history, part social history, Allison C. Meier’s map provides a welcome alternative route through New York’s urban jungle.
Lauren Moya Ford
From Georges Méliès to Contemporary Sci-Fi, Short Films About the Information Age
From Georges Méliès to Contemporary Sci-Fi, Short Films About the Information Age
Flaherty NYC’s spring streaming program brings together a series of shorts on how humans navigate digital environments.
Dan Schindel
A New Lunchtime Screening Series Delves Into Our Environmental Crisis
A New Lunchtime Screening Series Delves Into Our Environmental Crisis
Throughout April, Mishkin Gallery’s Critical Ecology on Film will gather artists, academics, and filmmakers for urgent screenings and conversations.
Dessane Lopez Cassell
Closing Soon
Installation view of Chloe Wise: Thank You For The Nice Fire, Almine Rech, 2021 (all images courtesy Almine Rech; photo by Dan Bradica)
Installation view of Chloe Wise: Thank You For The Nice Fire, Almine Rech, 2021 (all images courtesy Almine Rech; photo by Dan Bradica)
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