New York
January 4, 2023
Happy 2023! We hope you’ve resolved to spend more time seeing art this year. As New York enters the post-holiday winter fog, the city’s galleries, nonprofits, and museums are gearing up for a season of clarity — from historical representations of gender fluidity to the overwhelming effects of colonialism on personal identity. Our highlights for January include portraits from the Black Liberation Movement, tapestries interweaving histories of border resistance, and the Indigenous origins of contemporary design.
— Billy Anania
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HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK
New York: 1962–1964
Jul. 22–Jan. 8, 2023
The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side (thejewishmuseum.org)
The brainchild of late art historian Germano Celant, New York: 1962–1964 parses a critical moment of cultural production in New York City. Touching upon paradigm-shifting exhibitions from the period, this show runs the gamut with work by artists like Diane Arbus, Merce Cunningham, Faith Ringgold, and Jack Smith.
Gilardi: Tappeto-Natura
May 7–Jan. 9, 2023
Magazzino Italian Art, 2700 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY (magazzino.art)
Turin-based artist Piero Gilardi, an integral figure in the Arte Povera movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, displays his Nature Carpets, which use synthetic and artificial materials like polyurethane foam and latex to portray idyllic natural vignettes: plump fruits scattering seed, for example, or seagulls gliding over waves.
INDECENCIA
Sept. 16–Jan. 15, 2023
Leslie-Lohman Museum, 26 Wooster Street, Soho (leslielohman.org)
It doesn’t seem controversial to say that American notions of “decency” have caused more harm than good, particularly the invasion of privacy in queer spaces. INDECENCIA goes tit for tat with this paradigm, looking to late theorist Marcella Althaus-Reid’s notion of “lifting the skirts of God” to show the real roots of “indecency.”
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