New York
March 4, 2020
Letter from the editor:
This week, our staff writer Valentina Di Liscia spoke with an all-female group of Dominican artists about the protests they organized around New York City, in the wake of allegations of corruption and electoral sabotage on the island. Her story about their “Velada para la democracia” (“Vigil for democracy”) is worth reading if you’ve been similarly alarmed by threats to democracy around the world.
Hakim Bishara also recently broke the news of a protest at MoMA PS1, during which activists had planned to tear down the work of Berlin-based Iraqi artist Ali Yass (with his consent). The guerilla action was meant “to protest alleged ties of MoMA board members to defense contractors and the prison-industrial complex,” but instead a standoff with security ensued.
On a lighter note, if you’re looking for a fun trip down movie memory lane, Astoria’s Museum of the Moving Image recently opened Envisioning 2001: Stanley Kubrick’s Space Odyssey, an ode to the cult favorite. Our documentary editor Dan Schindel calls it “a thrill for anyone who has ever been affected by the movie.” Read more about it here.
Dessane Lopez Cassell
Your Concise Guide to Armory Week 2020
Your useful guide to the fairs and exhibitions of interest this week.
Valentina Di Liscia
Rethinking What Passes for Normal Amid the “Trump Revolution”
A yearlong series at the Bronx Documentary Center shows how nativist US immigration policies have affected people from many different walks of life.
Dan Schindel | Bronx Documentary Center, through March 29
We’ve partnered with several of this week’s Art Fairs in NYC to offer special discounts to Hyperallergic Subscribers!
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The Armory Show (use code HyperallergicMag for 20% off)
Art on Paper (50% off)
Volta ($10 off)
Independent (use code Hyperallergic25 for 25% off)
Scope (50% off)
- Clio (use code HyperClio for 50% off, or HyperVIP for the opening)
News
NYC May Get an African American Civil Rights History Museum
Following the passage of a new local law, NYC Council is establishing a task force to evaluate the creation of a museum on African American civil rights history in the city.
Protesters Occupy MoMA PS1, Calling Museum “Complicit in Global Violence”
For the closing of The Gulf Wars exhibition, one of the participating artists, Ali Yass, planned a guerrilla action to tear his drawings off the walls.
Dominican Artists Organize “Vigil for Democracy” in Times Square, Joining Protests Worldwide
After Dominican Republic’s municipal elections were abruptly halted, protesters gathered in New York City and around the world to demand electoral transparency and accountability.
Scorched Museum of Chinese in America Archives Building Will Be Rebuilt
The announcement quelled concerns by community members that the city had neglected its pledge to help recover the museum’s damaged archives.
Peeking Behind the Curtain of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Little of the information presented in Envisioning 2001 will be new to Kubrick diehards, but it gathers artifacts that offer a thrill for anyone who has ever been affected by the movie.
Dan Schindel | Museum of the Moving Image, through July 19
An Artist Finds Inspiration in a Novel Suppressed Under Stalin
Irena Haiduk materializes the fictional spaces in Mikhail Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita, imbuing them with her own imagination and creating the alternative realities Bulgakov’s Stalinist government so feared.
Ksenia M. Soboleva | Swiss Institute, through March 22
Sculpting With Light, Drawing With Shadow
It’s hard to identify precedents for Christopher Wilmarth’s sculpture, which uses its banal modern materials purely abstractly.
David Carrier | Craig F. Starr Gallery, through March 14
A New Film Series Teases Out the Complex History of Black Heroines On Screen
“Each film in the series, in its own way, provides a more authentic connection to Black women’s expression, stories and experiences,” said Dara Ojugbele, one of the curators of the two-week program at MoMA.
Beandrea July | MoMA, through March 5
Two Plays by Downtown Legend María Irene Fornés
These plays depict a reality that seems familiar and plausible yet feels dreamlike, monumental, and mythical.
Paul David Young | Mabou Mines, through March 7
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