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Ukrainian Women Artists Upend the Male-Centered War Narrative
Women at War exposes the struggles that women of Eastern Europe have been undergoing for the last 60 years, in addition to the annihilation of Ukrainian heritage. | Nina Mdivani
In addition to fighting a Russia that seeks to re-establish its political and ideological borders Ukrainian women artists are challenging Eastern Europe’s traditional patriarchal system. While their country has become a site of mourning, as every family accounts for its losses, Women at War focuses on individual visions of strength and defiance by the artists, who push for greater agency, and for an accurate historical record.
NEWS THIS WEEK
Museums across New York are now required to very visibly label Nazi-looted art under a new law.
A $4.5 million restoration and renovation effort will soon help open the doors to mid-century sculptor Isamu Noguchi’s studio.
Two Manhattan-based artists claim law enforcement officers forced them out of Christopher Street Pier for exhibiting their work.
SPONSORED
Catch the Final Weeks of NYBG's Around the Table: Stories of the Foods We Love
Ending on September 11, this exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden focuses on how food choices impact our world and features special picnic tables designed by Bronx artists. Learn more.
WHAT TO SEE THIS WEEKEND
Jamel Shabazz, “Rush Hour. Brooklyn, NY” (1980) (courtesy the artist and Bronx Museum of the Arts)
Like the Waters We Rise
City Lore through September 1
City Lore’s latest exhibition collects recent print media made by Indigenous water protectors with images of activists at rallies over the last few years, intertwining creative labor with the direct action it inspires.
Ignacio Gatica, Mariana Parisca, and Gabriella Torres-Ferrer: Money Has No Smell
CUE Art Foundation through September 2
Rather than portraying an exchange for goods, Gatica, Parisca, and Torres-Ferrer depict money as inherently ideological and extractive, revealing how exploitation is always present even when not detectable.
Jamel Shabazz: Eyes on the Street
Bronx Museum of the Arts through September 4
Jamel Shabazz is among the most iconic street photographers New York City has ever known. His latest retrospective at the Bronx Museum is one of the largest collections of his photographs to be displayed.
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Explore Liz West’s Immersive Sculpture Work, Hymn to the Big Wheel!
Presented by Arts Brookfield and curated by MASSIVart, British artist Liz West’s colorful large-scale work, Hymn to the Big Wheel, encourages you to explore the art by considering the illusion and physicality of color and natural light in space. Move around the changing colorways and take a selfie with the sculpture at Manhattan West in Midtown from 8/11-9/5, and at Brookfield Place in Lower Manhattan from 9/9-9/25!
ADDRESSING URBAN INEQUITIES
Who Gets to Enjoy Green Spaces in NYC?
Artist Mona Chalabi’s site-specific installation at the entrance to the Brooklyn Museum foregrounds the importance of urban vegetation and its inequities. | Jasmine Liu
“The correlation between income and trees means that neighborhoods with more rich people, which are also the neighborhoods with more White people, have cleaner air,” she writes. “Doesn’t everyone deserve a little green shade, regardless of their race or income?”
LATEST REVIEWS
The Hidden Truths of Lou Reed’s Musical Poetry
Reed’s terse song-stories rely on humorous and torqued and poignant metaphors, and serve up pop cliches in order to turn them inside out and reveal hidden truths. | Tim Keane
The exhibition’s most interesting subplots are Reed’s practices as a poet and literary figure. His showbiz persona as a protopunk Elvis to the underworld — mad, bad, and dangerous to interview — has long obscured the introspective versifier he was.
Celebrating William Klein’s Long, Multi-Hyphenated Career
William Klein: YES, a career retrospective at the International Center of Photography, is good for aficionados and neophytes alike. | Dan Schindel
Uncovering the Queer Histories of Workers’ Movements
As bodily autonomy and workers’ rights remain under constant and often intertwined threat, The Work of Love, the Queer of Labor reminds us of what is still at stake. | Billy Anania
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CLOSING SOON
Naotaka Hiro, “Sandman” (2022), bronze, stainless-steel rod, steel, black patina, 72 x 34 1/2 x 32 inches, edition of 3 + 1 AP (courtesy the artist and Bortolami Gallery, photography by Guang Xu)
Naotaka Hiro: Sand-man
Bortolami through August 26
Women at War
Fridman Gallery through August 26
Sonia Gechtoff
55 Walker through August 26
Lizania Cruz: Every Immigrant Is a Writer/Todo Inmigrante Es un Escritor
International Studio & Curatorial Program through August 26
Anas Albraehe: The Dreamer
Anita Rogers Gallery through August 27
Water Scarcity: Perpetual Thirst
Wave Hill Public Garden & Sculptural Center through August 28
ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS
Title IX: Activism On and Off the Field
New-York Historical Society through September 4
Cecilia Vicuña, Spin Spin Triangulene
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum through Sept 5
Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum through Sept 5
Theresa Has Kyung Cha
Part of the 2022 Whitney Biennial through September 5
Writing a Chrysanthemum: The Drawings of Rick Barton
Morgan Library & Museum through September 11
Around the Table: Stories of the Foods We Love
New York Botanical Garden through September 11
Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe
National Museum of the American Indian through September 11
Raphael Montañez Ortiz: A Contextual Retrospective
El Museo del Barrio through September 11
William Klein: YES
International Center of Photography through September 12
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott
New Museum through October 9
