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“Do We Still Recognize Ourselves?”

In an age when everything is called into doubt, Squeak Carnwath’s concern with seeing carries a deep urgency. | John Yau

In her exhibition Pattern Language at Jane Lombard Gallery, Carnwath’s openness to the world, from immediate circumstance to national history and world events, is leavened by her dark sense of humor.

LATEST NEWS

• The Guggenheim Museum joins the growing list of institutions dropping the disgraced Sackler family name.

• Photographer Kisha Bari captures an impactful demonstration for abortion rights at Foley Square in Manhattan.

• A festival at Cindy Rucker Gallery uplifts untold abortion stories and artworks inspired by them.

• The New York City Council eliminates auction industry regulations, including restrictions on hype-generating “chandelier bidding.”

• NYC Mayor Eric Adams appoints club owner Scott Sartiano as his liaison to the Met Museum.

Picturing the Pandemic Through the Lens of Buddhism 

Mongolian artist Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu draws upon domestic objects and Buddhist symbolism to show a virtually hyperconnected but physically isolated existence during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Kealey Boyd

Dagvasambuu respects her subjects’ agency to exploit the possibilities of their online image and real-life labor to transcend the limitations imposed on them. She interprets their waiting and watching as divine and addresses the pandemic without taking gender for granted. 

Suzanne Lacy’s Object Lessons on How to Get Things Done

Lacy investigates, questions, confronts, and ultimately pushes her audience in the right direction. | Paul David Young

Dana Lok Beckons the Unknowable 

Lok’s paintings reveal seemingly straightforward objects and events to be strange, slippery, and utterly beguiling. | Cassie Packard

Multiple Realities of Abstract Art at the Southeast Queens Biennial

A poetic sense of materials united the artists of the 2022 Southeast Queens Biennial in New York. | Carmen Graciela Díaz 

FILM & PERFORMANCE

The Overlooked Women Filmmakers of the Anti-Colonial Movement

BAM’s retrospective In the Images, Behind the Camera features rare and restored works by female filmmakers of the Global South. | Dan Schindel

The Terrors of Whiteness in Wu Tsang’s Moby Dick 

The experimental film, accompanied by live music, pictures the ecocide that a violently extractive ideology of whiteness produces. | Cassie Packard

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CLOSING SOON

Thornton Willis, “Black Bear” (1998), acrylic on canvas, 114 x 108 inches (photo by Yao Zu Lu, courtesy the artist and David Richard Gallery)

Thornton Willis: A Painting Survey, Six Decades: 1967-2017
David Richard Gallery through May 13

This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965-1975
Americas Society through May 14

Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman
Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 15

ON VIEW

Lucy Mullican: Sensed As Well As Seen
Olympia through May 21

Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu: Moods in the Metaverse
Sapar Contemporary gallery through May 23

Nadia Haji Omar: Secret Garden
Kristen Lorello gallery through May 27

Squeak Carnwath: Pattern Language
Jane Lombard Gallery through June 4

Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet’s Work in Community
The Morgan Library through June 5

Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running
Jewish Museum through June 5