’Tis the season. Spring is upon us and our jam-packed art guide for March is here, featuring highly a
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’Tis the season. Spring is upon us and our jam-packed art guide for March is here, featuring highly anticipated shows from Lorraine O'Grady, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Kenneth Tam, among others. But let’s not get all willy-nilly like it’s 2019. Grab those masks and keep it moving (at a distance).
Also worth checking out: contributor Rachell Morillo reflects onthe New Museum’s searing exhibition, Grief and Grievance, which she calls “a succinct document of our time: the age of Black Lives Matter and Donald Trump, Obama and Charleston, shifts towards equity and constant retaliation.”
Aaaand, Asia Week New York starts tomorrow (March 11). Scroll below for Lisa Zhang’s picks from the robust virtual slate.
– Dessane Lopez Cassell, Editor, Reviews
Here's What to See in NY This Month
Your Concise New York Art Guide for March 2021
Your Concise New York Art Guide for March 2021
Spring is *nearly* in the air and there’s some incredible art to see. Enjoy, we urge you, but safety first: don’t forget your mask(s), social distancing, and of course, snag those timed tickets where required.
Dessane Lopez Cassell and Cassie Packard
Events to Catch
Traverse Miles and Millennia From Home at Asia Week New York
Traverse Miles and Millennia From Home at Asia Week New York
As Princeton University Art Museum curator Zoe S. Kwok explains, the week ranks as “the most important annual event in Asian art outside of Asia.”
Lisa Yin Zhang
The Latest French Films, From Trans Stories to a Travelogue With a Donkey
The Latest French Films, From Trans Stories to a Travelogue With a Donkey
The virtual 26th edition of Film at Lincoln Center’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema presents both the latest popular and arthouse movies from France.
Dan Schindel
Black Visionaries Challenge the Exclusionary History of Architecture In This Online MoMA Class
Black Visionaries Challenge the Exclusionary History of Architecture In This Online MoMA Class
In conjunction with the new exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, the free course creates further space to hear directly from Black designers, scholars, and artists.
Dessane Lopez Cassell
Latest Reviews
Grief and Grievance Honors the Weight and Wake of Racial Violence
Grief and Grievance Honors the Weight and Wake of Racial Violence
A prophetic document of our time, the New Museum exhibition calls attention to the weight of Black death not because it is new or salacious but because it remains urgent.
Rachell Morillo
Mildred Thompson’s Confounding, Cosmological Abstractions
Mildred Thompson’s Confounding, Cosmological Abstractions
There’s a certain irony to the fact that Thompson, an artist who was so in-tune with the patterns of nature and the universe, posed such a fundamental challenge to mainstream art histories.
Alexandra M. Thomas
Vicky Colombet’s Vision of Endless Change
Vicky Colombet’s Vision of Endless Change
By titling her exhibition From the Floating World, Colombet connects with the Japanese belief that one must live in the moment, yet remain detached from material needs and desires.
John Yau
Mario Schifano’s Greatness
Mario Schifano’s Greatness
To say the exhibition Facing America: Mario Schifano 1960–65 is an eye opener hardly does it justice.
John Yau
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