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Your Concise New York Art Guide for September 2022
Everyone knows September to be the month of art fairs, but the big Manhattan attractions are just a few of New York’s autumnal offerings. It isn’t quite winter yet, so you can still catch the tail end of an artist-made birdhouse show beside Prospect Park. All the same, a group exhibition of politically charged textiles along the Long Island Sound packs a punch in an area otherwise flooded with wealth. Our other highlights for this month include a sanctuary of African healing out on Governors Island, colorful deconstructions of gender and sexuality, and transmissions from a post-worker dystopia in Brooklyn. * * * Still from Gerardo Dexter Ciprian, Medicina De…
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Your Concise New York Art Guide for August 2022
Jamel Shabazz, “Flying High. Brownsville, Brooklyn” (1982) (courtesy the artist and Bronx Museum of the Arts) The dog days of summer are quickly approaching, and New York’s art spaces are providing some welcome respite. As we ride out a prolonged heat wave, some exhibitions are embracing the casual calm of the city in late summer, with others reminding us to stay focused on the political challenges ahead. Our highlights for August include excavations of feminist surrealism, retrospectives dedicated to underground legends, and contemporary perspectives on print media. Stay cool out there, y’all. *** Portia Munson, “Bound Angel” (2021) (photo by Lance Brewer, courtesy the artist and P·P·O·W) When: through August…
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Your Concise New York Art Guide for July 2022
Installation view of Lizania Cruz: Every Immigrant Is a Writer/Todo Inmigrante Es un Escritor (2022) (photo by Shark Senesac, courtesy the International Studio & Curatorial Program) Cancer season has arrived once again, and us water signs are embracing the creative impulse. Across the city, new art exhibitions pay tribute to overlooked masters of their craft, address the urgency of direct political action, and evoke a shared sense of nostalgia. Our top exhibitions for July include installations on the global climate crisis, pedagogical studies of Japanese photographers, and a throughline between ancient and contemporary printing traditions. *** Ajay Kurian, detail from “Hedgehog” (2022) (photo by Joerg Lohse, courtesy the artist and…
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Your Concise New York Art Guide for April 2022
This month, bodies are everywhere — even when they’re not. Exhibitions across New York City delicately dissect the omnipresence of the body in abstract and virtual space, address corporeality’s constructed or collaged nature, explore the political potential of bodies in dialogue, and revel in the sheer absurdity of moving through the world in one of these things. Take care out there and enjoy. *** Richard Hawkins, “Legend” (2022), collage, oil and pencil on paper, paper: 14 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches, frame: 19 7/8 x 18 inches (courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York; photo by Zeshan Ahmed) When: through April 23Where: Greene Naftali (508 West 26th Street, Ground…
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Your Concise New York Art Guide for March 2022
There’s a “what if…” energy electrifying some of the most exciting exhibitions in New York City this month, speculative propositions ranging from “What if we saw architecture as an unsettled pastiche?” to “What if a reclamation could occur through genre choice?”, from “What if bodies voided of subjecthood gained otherworldly abilities?” to “What if indices of representation changed?” Asking “what if” can be a galvanizing, powerful thing; as you take in these shows across the city, let yourself brim and fizz with the question’s possibilities. *** Installation view of The Black Index at Hunter College Art Galleries’ Leubsdorf Gallery, 2022. Alicia Henry, “Analogous III” (2020) (photo by Stan Narten, courtesy…
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Your Concise New York Art Guide for February 2022
Installation view of Sadie Barnette: The New Eagle Creek Saloon, The Kitchen, New York, January 18, 2022–March 5, 2022 (courtesy of The Kitchen; photo by Adam Reich) Contrary to the art world’s discursive habits, art isn’t a code you crack; it’s more like a place you go, ideally in good company. This February, go there. Lend an ear to a sonic fusion of orchestral music and noise from a concrete plant, watch furniture spring to life in protest or pleasure, and dance in a glittery reimagining of San Francisco’s first Black-owned gay bar. Installation view, Cosmic Geometries, EFA Project Space, 2022. From left to right: Marilyn Lerner, Queen Bee, Oil on…
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