New York
December 18, 2019
The Many Blues of Matthew Wong
A rising art-world star, Wong planned his exhibition Blue before his suicide in October. The show reveals a marked tension between beauty and melancholy, making it difficult at times to keep his biography and work separate.
Julia Friedman | Karma, through January 5
Event Pick
Discussing the Growing Tide of Labor Organizing in the Art World
A panel at Verso Books discusses recent union efforts by art handlers at Uovo Fine Art and the ongoing struggles of arts workers to organize their workplaces and industry.
Hakim Bishara | Verso Books, December 18, 7-9 pm
Reviews
Hans Haacke’s Sharp Metaphors and Maps of Power
Exposing systems of injustice and how they operate is Haacke’s great skill. At the New Museum, the artist draws the connections, and we follow along, wondering what our role is in this circuit.
Laura Raicovich | New Museum, through January 26
#BlackGirlMagic Takes Form In Vanessa German’s Sculptures
German’s commitment to dynamic and sometimes riotous formal strategies expresses an amalgamation of Black femme iconography, including shrines to Serena and Venus Williams with butterflies.
Alexandra M. Thomas | Fort Gansevoort, through Dec 21
Painting on a Knife’s Edge
With ATOMIC, her new body of work, Patricia Satterlee pitches us into abstract apparitions of heaven and hell before pulling us back to earth.
Thomas Micchelli | frosch&portmann, through January 12
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Philip Taaffe, Symbolist and Naturalist
Taaffe is able to bring the exterior, visible world as well as the interior imagined world into his paintings. To me, this is what distinguishes him from his contemporaries.
John Yau | Luhring Augustine, through December 21
Meleko Mokgosi’s Discursive Art
Mokgosi is as interested in the discourse around the figures in his paintings as in their representation — not that the two could ever exist separately.
Alan Gilbert | Jack Shainman Gallery, through December 21
The Illusive, Intimate Nature of Mary Corse’s Paintings
One must spend time with Corse’s paintings, which evolve depending on whether the paint applied to the canvas is thick or thin, whether the work is in natural or artificial light, and whether you are close or far away from the painting itself.
Brock Lownes | Pace Gallery, through January 11
Celebrating the History of Parisian Couture
Paris, Capital of Fashion at the Museum at FIT is a comprehensive visual compendium that can help audiences understand how fashion became foundational to the identity of the city.
Angelica Frey | Museum at FIT, through January 4
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