New York
November 23, 2022

Nearly 100 Maya Masterpieces Are Now on View in New York City

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Lives of the Gods exhibition is the first major US show of Maya art in the last decade. | Rhea Nayyar

Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art
Nov. 21– Apr. 2, 2023
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side (metmuseum.org)

HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK

Tropical Is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime
Sept. 7–Dec. 17
Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue, Lenox Hill (as-coa.org)

An often thinly veiled extractive visitor economy is at the forefront of video, painting, installation, and photography probing the neocolonial undercurrents of tourism in the Caribbean. Featuring 19 contemporary artists, the exhibition will travel to San Juan’s Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico after its run in New York City.

Karen Lamassonne: Ruido / Noise
Sept.14–Jan. 8, 2023
Swiss Institute, 38 Saint Marks Place, East Village (swissinstitute.net)

Perhaps best known for her Baños (Bathrooms) series (1978–1981) of watercolor portraits that were censored in Colombia when they were first shown, the Swiss Institute looks back at six decades of work by the Colombian-American painter, video artist, and theatrical designer, much of which engages with feminine identity and sexual intimacy.

Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered
Sept. 23–Jan. 29, 2023
American Folk Art Museum, 2 Lincoln Square, Upper West Side (folkartmuseum.org)

Polish-born Brooklynite Morris Hirshfield, a former shoemaker, began to paint at the age of 65 and was soon lauded by Surrealists for laborious depictions of animals and women evincing a horror vacui. His first full-career retrospective features upwards of 40 paintings and 14 boudoir slippers fabricated in his patented designs.

See the full list of recommended shows in our Fall 2022 New York Art Guide.

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CLOSING SOON

Umber Majeed: Made in Trans-Pakistan
Sept. 9–Dec. 11
Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn (pioneerworks.org)

In the latest iteration of Umber Majeed’s Trans-Pakistan Zindabad (Long Live Trans-Pakistan) project, which explores nostalgia, gentrification, and urbanization in South Asia, the artist incorporates her own family history. This display zooms in on a peculiar real estate development in Lahore, Pakistan, that integrates replicas of European landmarks.

Collective Yearning: Black Women Artists from the Zimmerli Art Museum
Sept. 6–Dec. 14
Focus Gallery, Zimmerli Art Museum, 71 Hamilton Street
Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Galleries, Douglass Library, 8 Chapel Drive
New Brunswick, New Jersey (zimmerli.rutgers.edu)

Rutgers University’s museum took a look at its holdings of Black women artists and assembled this exhibition featuring Emma Amos, Kara Walker, Nona Faustine, Atisha Fordyce, and Daonne Huff. While you’re there, be sure to check out Stand Up! 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change, which features 10 revolutionary Black women who changed the world, including Ruby Bridges, Rosa Parks, Bree Newsome, and others.

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Project Art Distribution’s roving shows exuberantly defy the established art world order. | Louis Bury

In With the Old: (Nearly) Six Years of Project Art Distribution
Sept. 8 - Dec. 10
Dr. M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery, St. John’s University, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Jamaica, Queens (sjuartgallery.org)

Korean Musical Traditions Meet Greek Tragedy in Trojan Women

Speaking and singing in Korean with English subtitles, the cast leans on the traditional Korean folk storytelling tradition of pansori, and more modern musical accompaniment. | Farah Abdessamad

Noriaki Tsuchimoto Transformed Documentary Into an Art of Compassion

A retrospective of the director’s career at the Museum of the Moving Image is the first of its kind in the United States. | Dan Schindel