New York
March 1, 2023
These Miniature Artworks Prove That It's the Little Things In Life
The exhibition Small is Beautiful, featuring over 100 tiny art pieces, is now on view in New York. | Rhea Nayyar
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Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment
Nao Bustamante presents a series of theatrical set pieces organized around the history of optics and tools used in gynecology. On view at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, NY, March 8–12. Learn more.
ON OUR RADAR
My Travels in the Land of Winkfield
Trevor Winkfield’s modestly scaled acrylic paintings abound in puzzling, private symbols. | John Yau
Trevor Winkfield: The Solitary Radish
Jan. 28–Mar. 4, 2023
Tibor de Nagy, 11 Rivington Street, Lower East Side (tibordenagy.com)
Using Hair, Rice, and Indigo, an Artist Reclaims Her Family History
Adebunmi Gbadebo creates art from organic materials, like soil taken from her enslaved ancestors’ grave sites on the True Blue plantation. | Rhea Nayyar
Adebunmi Gbadebo: Remains
Jan. 13—Mar. 11, 2023
Claire Oliver Gallery, 2288 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd., Harlem (claireoliver.com)
Brenda Goodman, Scars and All
The paradoxical combination of freedom and entrapment animates Goodman’s composition in her latest body of work. | John Yau
Brenda Goodman: Hop Skip Jump—New Work 2022
Feb. 3—Mar. 11, 2023
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., 530 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan (sikkemajenkinsco.com)
NEW AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
Feb. 24–Jun. 11, 2023
New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, Upper West Side, Manhattan (nyhistory.org)
By now we all know that a silhouette is not just a silhouette in Kara Walker’s hands. Here, she makes visible, palpable even, the omission of African Americans from dominant historical narratives, specifically Harper’s 1866 two-volume Civil War anthology. By inserting her figures into select oversized illustrations, Walker yet again asks viewers to confront a painful past — and its effects on contemporary culture — by way of racialized and gendered stereotypes.
Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined
Mar. 2–Jun. 4, 2023
New Museum, 235 Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan (newmuseum.org)
Ever prolific and visionary, Wangechi Mutu has been transforming visual media for more than 25 years. The New Museum brings together more than 100 works by the artist in a major solo exhibition that connects her current art to the fantastical depictions of contemporary realities and future possibilities she’s been creating for decades.
A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration
Mar. 3–Jun. 25, 2023
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Prospect Park, Brooklyn (brooklynmuseum.org)
This multimedia exhibition centers 12 contemporary artists’ reflections on the Great Migration, when around six million Black individuals relocated from the rural South to northern and midwestern cities as a result of organized racial violence and poor social conditions. The show’s artists employ mediums ranging from textiles to film to examine the six-decade-long movement’s effects on their personal lives and on United States society and culture at large.
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