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Final days to see the Whitney Biennial!
Issue #44: August 6 - 12
📌 Highlights
🚨 The Whitney Biennial is closing! Also, the Es Devlin exhibit at Cooper Hewitt, Betty Tompkins at PPOW, and more listed below.
🎉 No openings to report.
💖 Read our Ongoing Favorites & Further Reading below. Our must-read of the week is: The World Should Know 94-Year-Old Artist Susan Weil.
📢 It’s Free Second Sundays at Whitney and $10 Second Sundays at Fotografiska!
🚨 Last Chance
In the Museums
Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing
📍 Whitney
⏰ closing August 11
❓ the 81st edition the Biennial, featuring the longest-running survey of American Art, with 69 artists and 2 collectives focused on ideas of “the real”, exploring discussions on identity and the change
✚ People Who Stutter Create: Stuttering Can Create Time is closing Aug 11, at 95 Horatio St
Suzanne Jackson | Self-Captured
An Atlas of Es Devlin
📍 Cooper Hewitt
⏰ closing August 11
❓showcasing transformative works, from kinetic stage designs to public installations, from the 30-year archive of Es Devlin
In the Galleries
The Swimmer
📍 The Flag Art Foundation | 25th St
⏰ closing Aug 9
❓group exhibition inspired by John Cheever’s 1964 short story, featuring Cindy Sherman, Ed Ruscha, and more, with themes of class, idealism, and failure through depictions of bodies of water
✚ Spotlight: Nathaniel Oliver is closing the same day
Betty Tompkins: Just a Pretty Face
📍 PPOW | 392 Broadway (Soho)
⏰ closing Aug 9
❓highlighting Tompkins’ decades-long exploration of female representation and sexual desire
✚ Airhead is closing the same day
Julia Isídrez: Mundo de Julia
📍 Kasmin | 10th Ave
⏰ closing Aug 9
❓contemporary reinterpretation of traditional Paraguayan Guaraní ceramic techniques
✚ Crossings is closing at the 27th St location on the same day
Isídrez | Self-Captured
In addition:
Demetrius Wilson: BAM! and Tenki Kiramatsu: Slow Living at Half Gallery are closing on Aug 10
🎉 Just In
No new major exhibits to report in neither museums nor galleries.
🗓️ Events of the week
Free Second Sundays at Whitney (Aug 11) — an opportunity to go to the Whitney for free all day, along with your final chance to see the Biennial
$10 Second Sundays at Fotografiska (Aug 11) — reduced admission all day
Artists on Artworks—Shari Mendelson on Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co. at the Met (Aug 9, 6-6:45pm) — join Mendelson to explore the exhibition through her insights
Kelly Lee Owens and 8ULENTINA (DJ Sets) at MoMA (Aug 10, 4-8pm)
📚 Further Reading
The World Should Know 94-Year-Old Artist Susan Weil — Artnet
The Bad Dream of Surrealism — The New Yorker
Stitch by Stitch, Pacita Abad Crossed Continents and Cultures — The NYTimes
At 88, Mexican Surrealist Pedro Friedeberg Has Seen It All — Artnet
8 Questions Artists Should Ask Before Signing With a Gallery — Artnet
An Opera About John Singer Sargent and a Male Model — The New Yorker
A Creole in Napoleon’s Paris — Puck News
💖 Ongoing Favorites
To see the latest and greatest in American Art: The Whitney Biennial: Event Better Than The Real Thing, closing in August
For color-rich yet unnerving alternate worlds: Maja Ruznic: The World Doesn’t End, closing in August
For an iconic installation of word & political art: Jenny Holzer: Light Line, closing in September
To witness the trailblazing portraits of an Expressionist: Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich Bin Ich/ I Am Me, closing in September
Image Sources: self-captured
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