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This week, artists and curators pick apart the myth of institutional neutrality, from Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill’s fragrant sculptures made of tobacco to Laura Raicovich’s new book, Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest.

Yume Murphy dives into the Bronx Museum’s latest exhibition, Born in Flames, a show which “[conjures] entire worlds that respond to wounds inflicted by both capitalism and patriarchy.”

Further downtown, don’t miss a special Juneteenth performance by Jason Moran, part of Creative Time’s expansive (and free!) series, Red Stage.

— Dessane Lopez Cassell, Editor, Reviews

Art Around Town

Radical, Feminist Futures Blaze at the Bronx Museum

Born in Flames conjures entire worlds that respond to wounds inflicted by both capitalism and patriarchy.

Yume Murphy

Working With Tobacco, Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill Offers Decolonial Possibilities

In her first US solo museum show, Hill invites reflection on tobacco’s mass consumption while underscoring its long Indigenous history.

Daniella Brito

Terry Winters’s Allegiance to Science and Abstraction

Winters’s art is about decisions, choices, quality of attention, the shaping of one’s existence in time.

John Yau

Juneteenth Performances, Art-making Workshops, and More at Creative Time’s Red Stage

“The Red Stage has been a beautiful site for holding our shared grief and finding joy together through it all,” explains co-organizer Diya Vij.

Dessane Lopez Cassell

ICYMI

Yazmany Arboleda, the NYC Civic Engagement Commission artist in residence, launched “The People’s Bus” this weekend to encourage New Yorkers to vote early for the upcoming primary election.
The Met will repatriate two Benin bronzes to Nigeria, with critics noting it has failed to address the hundreds of other works that remain in its collection.
Bernard Klevickas, artist and iron worker for the NYC Department of Sanitation, unveils memorial sculpture “Forever Strongest” to honor sanitation workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hundreds marched through Midtown, while activists unfurled a “Strike MoMA” banner inside the Museum of Modern Art’s sculpture garden during the final week of protests to hold the museum accountable for its board members.

More From Hyperallergic

Laura Raicovich on How to Make Museums “Better for More People”

Hyperallergic talks to the curator, writer, and former museum director about her new book “Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest.”

Dessane Lopez Cassell

Why We Can't Abandon Our Efforts to Revitalize NYC Culture

In my work for the CreateNYC Cultural Plan, a set of recommendations and action plans for the sector, one lesson rises to the top: Don’t abandon the process.

Kenneth Pietrobono

Art, Branding, and the Illusion of Authenticity

Emily Segal’s Mercury Retrograde provides a wickedly sharp depiction of the socioeconomic and cultural conditions of New York’s creative community.

Kate Silzer

Closing Soon

Installation view of "Kenneth Tam: Silent Spikes," Queens Museum

Alvin Armstrong: To Give and To Take at Anna Zorina Gallery through June 19
Liat Yossifor: Communicating Vessels at Miles McEnery Gallery through June 19
Christian Nyampeta: Sometimes It Was Beautiful at the Guggenheim Museum through June 21
Kenneth Tam: Silent Spikes at the Queens Museum through June 23
Do It Yourself: an introduction to the cardboard slave kits at Geary Gallery through June 26
Asia Society Triennial at various NYC locations through June 27
Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art through June 27
Shoshanna Weinberger: Fragments of Perception and Gyun Hur: So we can be near at Wave Hill through June 27

On View in Museums

Lorraine O'Grady: Both/And at the Brooklyn Museum through July 18
See It Big: The Return! at the Museum of the Moving Image through July 18
Alice Neel: People Come First at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through August 1
Julie Mehretu at the Whitney Museum through August 8
Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life at MoMA PS1 through September 6
Born in Flames: Feminist Futures at the Bronx Museum of the Arts through September 12
Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter at the Jewish Museum through September 12
Estamos Bien — La Trienal 20/21 at El Museo del Barrio through September 26
Off the Record at the Guggenheim Museum through September 27
Deana Lawson, Centropy at the Guggenheim Museum through October 11
Kusama: Cosmic Nature at the New York Botanical Gardens through October 31
Liza Lou’s “Kitchen” at the Whitney Museum through February 2022

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