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If, like us, you frequently indulge in a bagel with lox, you might be interested in visiting Lucy Sparrow’s pop-up, made entirely of felt material. Inspired by New York’s Jewish food culture, Sparrow created 30,000 works for the gallery. If you’re ready to spend some $$$, at the pop-up you can buy a sewn bagel sandwich for $250. The “delicatessen” is open until October 31st at 209 E 3rd St.

🎉 Just In

In the Museums

Judy Chicago: Herstory

📍 New Museum

⏰ opening October 12th

🗓️ contemporary (1960s onward)

❓ comprehensive survey of paintings, sculpture, installations and more from Chicago’s iconic six-decade career

 📏 large exhibit (3 floors)

➕ includes an innovative section that places Chicago’s work in dialogue with other women artists, writers, and thinkers

🔗 see exhibit details, and listen to Chicago on the exhibit.

➕ check out Puppies Puppies [Jade Guanaro Kuruki-Olivo]: Nothing New in the museum lobby, which also opens October 12

Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism

📍 Metropolitan Museum of Art

⏰ opening October 13th

🗓️ fauvism

❓ examines the paintings, drawings, and watercolors of Matisse and Derain, who spent a summer on the French Mediterranean creating together and developing Fauvism

📏 medium exhibit (65 works)

🔗 see exhibit details.

➕ check out Manet/Degas, Art for the Millions, and/or Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid

In the Galleries

📢 Editor’s Updates

Over the weekend, we viewed the expansive Ed Ruscha exhibit at MoMA, consisting of over 200 works spanning Ruscha’s career. Famous for his work during the pop art movement, his paintings had recurring motifs inspired by architecture and language between Oklahoma City, his hometown, and LA. MoMA’s impressive retrospective highlights his career in full; in going through the exhibit, we were presented with Ruscha’s unique ability of bringing life to words. In both his earlier onomatopoeic works as well as his later works, the words and phrases Ruscha chooses are seemingly random. In some cases, the words had a whimsical feel (“OOF”, “Spam”), but in other cases, they veered on nonsensical (“Find Contact Lens at Bottom of Swimming Pool”.) Though it was fascinating to see the transformation of his love for words throughout his career, there were moments it felt difficult to regard Ruscha’s work with the seriousness that he himself seemed to lack (see: his work titled: “I don’t want no retrospective”.)

While we wouldn’t say we’re the biggest fans of Ruscha’s pop art, we appreciated the experimentation throughout his career. At one point during the exhibit, we stepped into a room that smelled of chocolate - his famous work, “Chocolate Room,” recreated in full at the MoMA. The entire room, from floor to ceiling, was wallpapered with screen prints using cocoa powder - a swift departure from his other paintings.

If you visit the exhibit, be sure to check out Picasso in Fontainebleau and Unsupervised by Refik Anadol.

Enjoy the exhibits 😅

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