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New York’s Upstate Art Weekend is Back, and Bigger Than Ever
The event celebrates its third edition with 100 exhibitions and more than 50 open studios from Beacon to the Catskills. | Billy Anania
This Friday, July 22, Upstate Art Weekend returns for its third and largest edition of programs across the Hudson Valley and the Catskill Mountains. More than 145 participants have signed on in eight counties, encompassing over 100 exhibitions and 50-plus artists’ studios opening to the public.
SPONSORED
Celebrate the Art and Science of Edible Plants at Around the Table: Stories of the Foods We Love
New York Botanical Garden’s latest exhibition focuses on how food choices impact our world and features special picnic tables designed by Bronx artists. Learn more.
IN THE CITY THIS WEEKEND
Francheska Alcántara, “Hispan@s y Candad@s” (2018) (image courtesy the artist and Recess)
Francheska Alcántara: Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps, and Throw the Bones
Recess, opening July 21
Through an examination of “loaded objects,” such as brown paper bags and Hispano Cuaba soap, Bronx-based Dominican artist Francheska Alcántara unpacks histories of racial coding and governance over queer bodies.
Zulu Padilla: Everything Is Migrating
The Compound Cowork through July 23
In Everything Is Migrating, Zulu Padilla merges the seasonal migration of warbler birds and queer cruising in Prospect Park, bringing to mind the varied meanings of flight in New York and how gentrification influences Brooklyn’s nature and culture.
LATEST IN ART
Discovering Rick Barton
I am not alone when I say that I had never heard of Barton before his exhibition opened at the Morgan Library & Museum. | John Yau
Charles Gaines Brings Trees Back to Times Square
Gaines’s sculpture “Roots,” encompassing seven sweetgum trees that were once native to the region, engages with the nation’s history of colonization and enslavement. | Elaine Velie
ON SCREEN
Talking Sex With Two Film Curators
Hyperallergic talks to programmers Róisín Tapponi and Jed Rapfogel about their Anthology Film Archives retrospective and formative erotic film experiences. | Dan Schindel
A Series Spotlights NY’s Underground Art and Cinema in the Early 1960s
Focused on the years 1962–1964, a program by Film at Lincoln Center pairs with a Jewish Museum exhibition and a survey at Film Forum. | Billy Anania
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CLOSING SOON
Woomin Kim, “Shijang: Shoe Store” (2021), fabric, 55 x 50 inches (courtesy Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC)
Woomin Kim: The Shijang Project
Susan Inglett Gallery through July 29
From Student to Master: Tokuko Ushioda and Her Teachers
Alison Bradley Projects through July 29
Lee Lozano: All Verbs & Cindy Sherman 1977–1982
Hauser & Wirth through July 29
Ani Liu: Ecologies of Care
Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space through July 30
Between Worlds
Kentler International Drawing Space through July 31
Tuçe Yasak: Light Is Generous
FiveMyles through July 31
