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Your Concise New York Art Guide for December 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month. | Cassie Packard
LATEST REVIEWS
Two Latinx Artists Take On Gentrification from the Perspective of Those Displaced
Shellyne Rodriguez and Danielle De Jesus powerfully respond to the continued attacks on their neighborhoods with works that validate and uplift elements of everyday urban Latinx life that are usually devalued. | Arlene Dávila
Representing Stories that Black Femmes Hold in Their Bodies
An exhibition of Ambrose Rhapsody Murray’s collages of textiles and sequins seek to capture the essence of her Black women figures as spirits. | Isis Davis-Marks
How Incan-Muisca Wisdom Helps Preserve the Lives of BIPOC Women
Coralina Rodriguez Meyer invites women to reconnect with the indigenous and syncretic spiritualities of their ancestors to find new power. | Daniel Larkin
Pamela Council’s Sensory Haven in Times Square
“A Fountain for Survivors” is a protective, pink cocoon in New York City’s busiest district. | Jasmine Weber
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Not Quite the Wifredo Lam Show That’s Needed Now
Wifredo Lam developed a style that dances between figuration and abstraction, but the selected compositions at Pace gallery tend to repeat. | Seph Rodney
Recently Discovered Forrest Bess Paintings
It is one thing to be a visionary and another to be one whose work holds your attention for a sustained period of time. | John Yau
The Many Faces of Gillian Wearing
Regardless of which way the camera is pointing, Wearing shows a lively — and altogether merciless — interest in how people choose to tell their own stories. | Nancy Princenthal
Jonathan Feldschuh’s Visions of a Subatomic World
Feldschuh understands that the actions and interactions of particles can be formulated mathematically but not illustrated visually. | Carter Ratcliff
Toppling Columbus with a Rainbow Cookie
Nothing is more boring than reducing Italian American identity into stereotypes, but artist John Avelluto avoids that with his wide-ranging aesthetic appetite. | Hrag Vartanian
Getting to Know an Overlooked Pioneer of Bay Area Abstraction
The art world has paid attention to other artists from the same era, but we have not done the same with Sonia Gechtoff, and it is time that we did. | John Yau
Love, Art, And Politics Intertwined
These four artists dig into the cultural and geologic history of the enclave of Staten Island to produce work that resonates with the core of bell hooks’s commendation to love. | Charlotte Kent
The Complete Works of Influential Experimental Filmmaker Michael Snow Come to New York
Anthology Film Archives’ complete retrospective of the influential Canadian experimental filmmaker includes many exceptionally rare titles. | Forrest Cardamenis
CLOSING SOON
Installation view of A Ripe Blackberry Murmurs to the Wall at Fierman gallery (all photos by Adam Reich, courtesy the artist and Fierman gallery)
A Ripe Blackberry Murmurs to the Wall
Fierman Gallery through December 18
Dread Scott: We’re Going to End Slavery. Join Us!
Cristin Tierney Gallery through December 18
Ron Gorchov: The Last Paintings 2017–2020
Cheim & Read through December 18
Hilma af Klimt: Tree of Knowledge
David Zwirner through December 18
Stephen Westfall: Persephone
Alexandre Gallery through December 22
