Seeing Hong Kong’s Past and Present Through Film

Metrograph’s film series To Hong Kong with Love pairs old and new films films made by Hong Kong residents, cultivating a first-person narrative of the city and its changes.

Dan Schindel | Metrograph, through February 29

Event Pick

A Week of Film and Performance Honors Toni Morrison and Black Womanhood

“Happy Birthday, Toni! A Celebration of Black Women” will launch on February 18 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in honor of the late author’s 89th birthday.

Hakim Bishara | BAM, February 18–25

News

19-Year-Old Dies After Jumping From Vessel at Hudson Yards

Police immediately closed the 150-foot-tall structure to visitors on Saturday evening.

45 Military Veteran Artists Urge MoMA to Divest From “Toxic Philanthropy” in Open Letter

“As veterans of the Gulf War and the ‘Global War on Terror,’ as well as working artists ourselves, this issue is very important to us,” the group wrote in its letter urging for a “realignment of values at MoMA.”

NYC High School and College Students Demand “Cops Out!” of Schools

Organized by Free CUNY and the People’s Cultural Plan, protesters called to eliminate police presence in schools, subways, and museums.

After Fire, Museum of Chinese in America Optimistic as Some Archives Are Recovered for Restoration

Some 200 boxes have already been recovered and are “very much salvageable,” says museum president Nancy Yao Maasbach.

Reviews

Do the Old Masters Still Speak to Us?

Now and then, I suspect that an honest art writer might feel as if he or she is losing it.

David Carrier | Hill Art Foundation, through February 15

Sculpture Does Not Need to Be Permanent to Be Great

Robert Grosvenor unmasks the anti-democratic, hierarchical forces that go into the making of an impeccable monumental sculpture.

John Yau | KARMA, through February 23

Activist Art With a Personal Touch

Songs in the Dark offers socially engaged vignettes on issues that are of clear personal importance to their makers, some of whom are activists outside of the art world as well.

Cassie Packard | Tonya Bonakdar, through February 20

At MoMA’s Doc Fortnight, Films Focused on Labor and Alienation Shine

Highlights from this year’s program include films which, both overtly and subtly, deal with how people act when in some way estranged from the society around them.