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September 14, 2022 • View in browser
Are the Days of Lavish Art Gallery Receptions Over?
The COVID-19 pandemic has not only limited the scale of exhibition opening receptions, but has also radically changed their nature and purpose. | Elaine Velie
When COVID-19 became a reality, galleries shuttered and their blow-out openings came to a screeching halt. And while restaurants, bars, and concert venues opened back up, crowded, wine-fueled gallery openings remained a thing of the past.
Now, some galleries are reexamining how they structure their events, reflecting on the former “party atmosphere” and bucking the traditional opening format.
SPONSORED
Explore Liz West’s Immersive Sculpture Work, Hymn to the Big Wheel!
Presented by Arts Brookfield and curated by MASSIVart, British artist Liz West’s colorful large-scale work, Hymn to the Big Wheel, encourages you to explore the art by considering the illusion and physicality of color and natural light in space. Move around the changing colorways and take a selfie with the sculpture at Brookfield Place in Lower Manhattan from 9/9–9/25!
OPENING THIS WEEK
Rosemary Mayer, “City Roof Tent on Wheels” (1980), watercolor and colored pencil on paper (courtesy the Estate of Rosemary Mayer and Gordon Robichaux, NY)
SIREN (some poetics)
Amant Foundation, opening September 15
Curated by writer Quinn Latimer, this exhibition at an East Williamsburg art complex considers the vocal Siren, surveying manifestations that range from mythological to ecological to technological.
Indecencia
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, opening September 16
Rooted in decolonial theology, the show’s focus on performance invites an exploration of queerness, religion, and Latinx identity in all its confines and possibilities.
Landscape and Hierarchies
ArtYard, opening September 17
This solo exhibition by Alexandre Arrechea, curated by Elsa Mora, features work by one of the founding members of Los Carpinteros, a Cuban collective that grappled with issues of history, memory, and political power.
SPONSORED
The African Desperate, an acclaimed new comedy. In theaters Friday
"Witty, sharp, and right on the mark" — Vogue
See The African Desperate, a coming-of-age comedy from artist Martine Syms that tracks an MFA grad's wild last day on campus. Opening Friday, September 16 at BAM & Quad Cinema. Get tickets: https://mubi.com/africandesperate
INSIDE ARMORY WEEK
True Stories From the Armory Show
At the Rolls-Royce of art fairs, I found chatty visitors, some good art, and works so bad they deserved their own section. | Hakim Bishara
At Independent 20th Century, Some Overlooked Masters
As I wandered this fair, I asked myself: Who is being served by the purportedly revisionist undertaking of singing the unsung? | Valentina Di Liscia
Three Lessons About Art on Paper
Paper is all about ease, comfort, and approachability, and it’s gratifying when artworks embody these values. | Jasmine Liu
Clio Art Fair, Where Artists Represent Themselves
The fair is a welcome reminder that a lot of people make art, and regular people should be able to buy it. | Elaine Velie
SPONSORED
The Morgan Library & Museum Celebrates One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s Ulysses
Curated by Irish author Colm Tóibín, this NYC exhibition explores Joyce as he created his groundbreaking novel through rare publications, portraits, correspondence, and more. Learn more.
MONUMENTAL WORKS
Bharti Kher's Monumental "Ancestor" Sculpture Watches Over Central Park
The artist says her sculpture of a mother figure, located at the southeast entrance of the park, represents “a guide to search and honor our past histories.” | Elaine Velie
Fred Wilson Summons Ghosts of the Past to Confront the Racism of the Present
Wilson's installation challenges not just outwardly violent historical figures but subtle colonial aesthetics still embedded in the city’s more liberal public monuments. | Billy Anania
ARTIST SPOTLIGHTS
An Artist’s Illness Inspires a Meditation on the Power of Pain
Guadalupe Maravilla’s first New York museum show resolutely harnesses the otherness of illness, while never surrendering to the notion of suffering as a totalizing narrative. | Ela Bittencourt
A Robot Dog Is Painting Self-Portraits at the 2022 Spring Break Art Fair
There’s an artist currently showing in Midtown Manhattan who is teaching a machine to paint. | Hrag Vartanian
Welcome to the Dustbin of History
Jake Scharbach’s paintings dump on some iconic portraits as a way to highlight the crisis we’re living through. | Hrag Vartanian
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CLOSING SOON
David Kulp, “Presentation Fraktur of a Double Eagle” (c. 1815) (Gift of Ralph Esmerian, Sotheby’s, courtesy American Folk Art Museum/Art Resource, NY and the Drawing Center)
The Clamor of Ornament: Exchange, Power, and Joy from the 15th Century to the Present
The Drawing Center through September 18
Zoë Buckman and Vanessa German: We Flew Over the Wild Winds of Wild Fires
MOTHER Beacon through September 18
Threading the Needle
The Church through September 18
ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS
Eros Rising: Visions of the Erotic in Latin American Art
Institute for Studies on Latin American Art through September 30
Unlisted: Underappreciated Women
Derfner Judaica Museum through October 1
PLEASE SEND TO REAL LIFE: Ray Johnson Photographs
The Morgan Library & Museum through October 2
The Stettheimer Dollhouse: Up Close
Museum of the City of New York through October 2
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott
New Museum through October 9
Archeology of a Studio
A.I.R. Gallery through October 9
F*CK ART: THE BODY & ITS ABSENCE
Museum of Sex through October 11
Doreen Lynette Garner: REVOLTED
New Museum through October 16
Black Melancholia
CCS Bard Galleries through October 16
Eva Hesse: Expanded Expansion
Guggenheim Museum through October 16
