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Organizing is in the air. In Midtown, “Strike MoMA” protests are growing and further downtown, staffers at the Whitney Museum announced plans to unionize. Meanwhile, guerrilla projectionists bathed a building in glowing messages of solidarity with Palestinian communities.

Elsewhere in the city, contributor Ilana Novick basks in the resonant works of Nan Goldin, now on display in a massive solo show at Marian Goodman, while Alexandra Thomas examines Maren Hassinger’s stately vessels.

— Dessane Lopez Cassell, Editor, Reviews

The Thrill and Intimacy of Nan Goldin’s Gaze

Vast in size and scope, Memory Lost recalls a mid-career retrospective more than a single gallery show.

Ilana Novick

New York News

Fred Wilson’s installation “Guarded View” (1991), featuring four headless mannequins dressed as museum guards, housed in the Whitney’s collection (photo by Edward Blake via Flickr)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art installed a plaque on its Fifth Avenue facade, acknowledging that it sits on Lenape land.
Workers at the Whitney Museum of American Art are moving to unionize, citing job insecurity, pandemic-related layoffs, and wage inequities.
Last Friday’s “Strike MoMA” action was the largest yet. It focused on the human rights of Palestinians, and a protestor was tackled and arrested by police.
A guerrilla projection by the Illuminator collective, Decolonize This Place, and Within Our Lifetime illuminated a Brooklyn building with messages of solidarity with Palestinians.

Also: After a yearlong delay, Film at Lincoln Center is now hosting in-person screenings of the newly restored films featured in its Wong Kar-wai retrospective. If you’re game for going to the theater again, there’s no better choice.

Latest Reviews

The Poetic Grace of Maren Hassinger’s Vessels

Lithe yet sturdy, Hassinger’s sheer organic forms belie their industrial materials.

Alexandra M. Thomas

What Abstraction Can Face Up To

Ha Chong-Hyun has survived the many catastrophes that have befallen Korea during his lifetime, and his work is inextricable from his life.

John Yau

Artists Channel the Collaborative Ethos of New York's Lower East Side

A nod to the arts and culture anti-establishment nonprofit, A Gathering of the Tribes, Housing gallery’s latest exhibition emphasizes the interdisciplinary.

Annabel Keenan

An Artist Standing Outside an Either/Or World

L. Brandon Krall seems simultaneously to embrace systems and flights of imagination.

John Yau

Closing Soon

David Hammons, “The Wine Leading the Wine” (c. 1969) grease and pigment on paper, (Hudgins Family Collection, New York)

Scholastic Art & Writing Awards: New York City Regional Exhibition through May 21 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Derek Boshier: Alchemy Alchemy through May 22 at Garth Greenan Gallery
John Lees: New Work through May 22 at Betty Cuningham Gallery
1:54 New York through May 23 online, through May 26 at Christie’s
David Hammons: Body Prints, 1968–1979 through May 23 at the Drawing Center
the bomb: Smriti Keshari and Eric Schlosser through May 23 at Pioneer Works
Goodnight House through May 27 at Fort Makers
John Giorno through May 28 at Sperone Westwater
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America through June 6 at the New Museum

On View in NY Museums

Disturbing the View through June 12 outside the Whitney Museum (Fridays & Saturdays at 1pm)
Michael Rakowitz: Nimrud through June 18 at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College
Kenneth Tam: Silent Spikes through June 23 at the Queens Museum
Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell through June 27 at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
Lorraine O'Grady: Both/And through July 18 at the Brooklyn Museum
Alice Neel: People Come First through August 1 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Julie Mehretu through August 8 at the Whitney Museum
Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life through September 6 at MoMA PS1
Estamos Bien — La Trienal 20/21 through September 26 at El Museo del Barrio
Off the Record through September 27 at the Guggenheim Museum
Kusama: Cosmic Nature through October 31 at the New York Botanical Gardens
Melvin Edwards: Brighter Days through November 28 at City Hall Park

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