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New YorkDecember 8, 2021 • View in browserYour Concise New York Art Guide for December 2021Your 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 DisplacedShellyne 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 BodiesAn 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 WomenCoralina 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 Support HyperallergicOur membership program makes it possible for us to dive deeper into important issues and topics. Want to be part of the future of independent arts journalism? Become a MemberNot Quite the Wifredo Lam Show That’s Needed NowWifredo 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 PaintingsIt 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 WearingRegardless 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 WorldFeldschuh understands that the actions and interactions of particles can be formulated mathematically but not illustrated visually. | Carter Ratcliff Toppling Columbus with a Rainbow CookieNothing 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 AbstractionThe 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 IntertwinedThese 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 YorkAnthology 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 Dread Scott: We’re Going to End Slavery. Join Us! Ron Gorchov: The Last Paintings 2017–2020 Hilma af Klimt: Tree of Knowledge Stephen Westfall: Persephone
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