New York
March 8, 2023

Painting the Terrifying Beauty of Abortion-Inducing Flowers

In Plant Parenthood, Alina Bliumis portrays the plants that have been used to terminate pregnancies for hundreds and thousands of years. | Elaine Velie

FROM OUR CRITICS

Raging Against the Dying of the Light

Jake Berthot’s paintings are haunted by an awareness of mortality and, beyond that, a feeling that no light awaits in the darkness. | John Yau 

Jake Berthot: What Happened to Abstraction?
Feb. 2–Apr. 15, 2023
Betty Cuningham Gallery, 15 Rivington Street, Lower East Side (bettycuninghamgallery.com)

The Physical Labor of Writing

Many writers will tell you that writing is a physical activity. Renee Gladman’s drawings convey that idea in a more visceral, less cerebral way. | Louis Bury

Renee Gladman: Narratives of Magnitude
Jan. 13–Mar. 18, 2023
Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley, Soho (artistsspace.org)

NEW AND OPENING SOON

Rachel Whiteread
March 10–April 22
Luhring Augustine, 17 White Street, Tribeca (luhringaugustine.com)

Rachel Whiteread has made a career of materializing the traces of life. Her casts of architectural negative space in industrial materials like resin and concrete are uncanny imprints of the spaces we take for granted. Her latest exhibition at Luhring Augustine focuses on smaller floor and wall sculptures and works on paper, complements to her massive structures that suspend the ephemeral.

Images on which to build, 1970s–1990s
March 10–July 30
Leslie-Lohman Museum of American Art, 26 Wooster Street, Soho (leslielohman.org)

The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art is the only dedicated LGBTQIA+ art museum in the world. This exhibition features a display of photographs that tell the rich story of the community’s activism, education, and media production from the last quarter of the 20th century.

Of Mythic Worlds: Works from the Distant Past through the Present
March 8–May 14
The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, Soho (drawingcenter.org)

Of Mythic Worlds: Works from the Distant Past through the Present looks at how artists across cultures, generations, and disciplines use rituals, ideologies, beliefs, and traditions to pursue a deeper level of consciousness and understanding beyond a “worldly” experience. Highlights include rarely seen drawings by Roland Barthes and Georgia O’Keeffe, major works by Mel Chin, and new works from Duane Linklater (Omaskêko Ininiwak from Moose Cree First Nation), as well as Shaker artworks and prints from the Qing dynasty.

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