It’s beautiful out, so take advantage of the glorious spring weather and make plans to see some art! Way out west (in Chelsea), Sam Jablon offers an inventive take on painting, while downtown, solo shows by feminist artist Mira Schor and Northwest Coast sculptor Beau Dick — both iconic in their fields — are visual treats that pack a conceptual wallop. We also can’t recommend Rose B. Simpson’s earthy Madison Square Park installation enough.
John Yau says new works by Barbara Takenaga represent a “major breakthrough” for the artist. Check out her show at DC Moore Gallery before it closes on April 27, and read
the review to get a taste of what to expect.
Lest you forget your local history, a new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society traces the city’s long-forgotten monuments. The idea for the show came
to Chief Curator Wendy Ikemoto when she saw two paintings by Richard Haas, each depicting views of Manhattan’s skyline, but from vantage points almost 150 years apart.
Speaking of monuments, have you heard the story of Black Gilded Age art model Hettie Anderson? She has one of the most iconic faces in New York City.
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Barbara Takenaga: Whatsis at DC Moore Gallery |
The Quiet Urgency of Barbara Takenaga’s Paintings by
John Yau
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“In the work of the past two years [Barbara Takenaga] has made a major breakthrough. It is not her first breakthrough, but I feel it is the most extensive, elevating her art to a new level of marvelous and engaging complexity.”
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Top image: Carved masks by Beau Dick (Kwakwaka’wakw), like “Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nation Human and Loon Mask” (1986), are on view at Andrew Kreps Gallery in Tribeca through May 11. (photo Daniel Larkin/Hyperallergic)
Bottom image: “Two for Bontecou” by Barbara Takenaga (2022) can be seen at Chelsea’s DC Moore Gallery through April 27. (image courtesy DC Moore Gallery) |
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Work by 31 emerging visual and sound artists on view April 20–May 19 in NYC.
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NEW YORK PUBLIC ART HISTORY
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Hettie Anderson Was Anything but a Passive Muse by Hall
W. Rockefeller
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“Her face has gazed over midtown Manhattan traffic, hordes of tourists, and guests coming and going from the famed Plaza Hotel for over a century. In Saint-Gaudens’s ‘William Tecumseh Sherman’ (1903) in Manhattan’s Grand Army Plaza, she is winged Victory, striding before the titular figure with one hand raised, the other holding a palm frond. But it wasn’t until 2023 that Hettie Anderson received official public recognition in words, rather than in likeness.”
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See Dozens of New York City Landmarks That No Longer Exist by Aaron Short |
“Lost New York, a new exhibition on the first floor of the New-York Historical Society, plays with New Yorkers’ memories by showcasing 90 paintings, artifacts, lithographs, and photographs of landmarks that once defined its landscape and no longer exist.”
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Alexander Phimister Proctor, “William Tecumseh Sherman” (1902), bronze and Stony Creek granite, with Hettie Anderson’s likeness as Victory (image via Wikimedia Commons) |
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Protest art decorated the lawn outside of Butler Library at Columbia University as students pitched tents for a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”
Last month, artists displayed a monumental quilt supporting Gaza on the steps of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Each square is being sold as a print, with proceeds going to aid a family trying to escape the the war.
As negotiations enter their six month, art handlers and facilities workers at the Guggenheim rallied for a second union contract.
The Met returned a 3rd-century BCE Sumerian sculpture to Iraq, a move prompted by internal provenance research following a string of high-profile seizures of ancient artworks by the Manhattan DA.
The documentary All We’ve Got (directed by Hyperallergic contributor Alexis Clements!) showcases lesbian community hubs, performance venues, and spaces for dancing and partying around the US, including a number of places in NYC.
More than 120 of Tom Darcy’s political cartoons will go on display alongside contemporary works by his son Brad in a cross-generational exhibition at Lower Manhattan’s Nunu Fine Art gallery this summer.
You can see the public performance series A Fun Play About How Scary Climate Change Is at the Queens Botanical Garden’s Climate Art Festival on April 27.
As NYC’s literacy mandate expands citywide, some school communities are pushing back [chalkbeat.org]
On May 2, writer and educator Erica Cardwell will discuss her new book Wrong Is Not My Name: Notes on (Black) Art with Mona Eltahawy, the author and founder of Feminist Giant, at the Strand Bookstore. [strandbooks.com]
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Image: Protest art at the Columbia sit-in (photo Mukta Joshi/Hyperallergic) |
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