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Exhibits from Judy Chicago, Theaster Gates, and more closing this weekend!
Issue #21: February 29 - March 6
Art Pulse NYC
February 29, 2024
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🫶 Highlights 🫶
🚨 Judy Chicago: Herstory at the New Museum, 2 Met exhibits, and >10 wonderful gallery exhibits are closing!!
🎉 Just 3 openings this week.
💖 Read our Ongoing Favorites below.
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🚨 Last Chance
In the Museums
Judy Chicago: Herstory
📍 New Museum
⏰ closing March 3
🗓️ contemporary (1960s onward)
📏 large exhibit (3 floors)
❓ comprehensive survey of paintings, sculpture, installations and more from feminist artist Chicago and her iconic six-decade career
➕ Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo): Nothing New is closing the same day at New Museum
Judy Chicago | Self-Captured
Africa & Byzantium
📍 Metropolitan Museum of Art
⏰ closing March 3
🗓️ Byzantine Era
📏 medium
❓ artistic contributions — including mosaic, sculpture, metalwork, and so on — of medieval African kingdoms and their meaningful interactions with the Byzantine Empire
➕ Women Dressing Women, featuring womenswear designers, closes the same day at The Met
“Shroud of a Woman Wearing a Fringed Tunic” | Source
In addition:
Frick Madison is fully closing on March 3, along with the Nicolas Party and Rosalba Carriera exhibit (Frick Madison is the temporary home of The Frick Collection, which will be reopening late 2024)
In the Galleries
Constanza Schaffner: Leones, Flores, Constanzas
📍 Luhring Augustine | Tribeca
⏰ closing March 2
❓ intricate paintings blending mythical and vivid representations of life, while delving into themes of beauty, gender, and power
Constanza Schaffner. “Al fin algo seguro”. 2023. | Self-Captured
Mary Weatherford: Sea and Space
📍 Gagosian | 980 Madison Ave (UES)
⏰ closing March 2
❓ paintings with interplay of light, color, and gesture, referencing arboreal and aquatic environments
➕ Jennifer Guidi: Rituals, delving into mountain landscapes, closing at Gagosian’s 24th St (Chelsea) location
➕➕ We stopped by the Mary Weatherford exhibit weeks ago and it was truly breathtaking — highly recommend popping by!
Mary Weathford. “Islands and Atolls”. 2023. | Self-Captured
Theaster Gates: Hold Me, Hold Me, Hold Me
📍 White Cube | 1002 Madison Ave (UES)
⏰ closing March 2
❓ painting, sculpture, and archival installations that engage with craftsmanship, music, and the history of built environments
Theaster Gates. “Sweet Sanctuary, Your Embrace”, 2023. | Self-Captured
Nathaniel Oliver: My Journey Was Long So Yours Could Be Shorter
📍 Karma | 188 E 2nd St (LES)
⏰ closing March 2
❓ paintings that blend reality with fantasy, drawing from art history and the artist’s personal life, with motifs of West African culture and Caribbean flora & fauna
In addition:
Hana Yilma Godine: A Brush in the Universe and Christopher Paz-Rivera: Due Time at Rachel Uffner (LES), closing March 2
Simin Hantaï: Unfolding at Timothy Taylor (Tribeca), closing March 2
John Knight: A work in situ at Greene Neftali (Chelsea), closing March 2
Thomas Hirschhorn: Fake it, Fake it — till you Fake it. at Gladstone (Chelsea), closing March 2
Tadanori Yokoo: All or Nothing at Albertz Benda (Chelsea), closing March 2
The First Taste (group exhibition) at Anat Egbi (Tribeca), closing March 2
Sasha Ferré: Averno and Daniel Gibson: Big Sky closing at Almine Rech (Tribeca), closing March 2
Robert Grosvenor at Karma Gallery (Tribeca), closing March 2
🎉 Just In
In the Museums
Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art
📍 Metropolitan Museum of Art
⏰ opening March 25
🗓️ textile art
📏 medium (50 works)
❓ juxtaposing works of ancient Andean artists with 20th-century modernists, highlighting the enduring influence of textiles
➕ Talk with fiber arts pioneer Sheila Hicks and architect Frida Escobedo on this exhibit March 8 (event details)
In the Galleries
Guadalupe Maravilla: Si no sanas hoy, sanarás mañana
📍 P.P.O.W. | 392 Broadway
⏰ opening March 1
❓ large-scale sculptures and retablos delving into themes of war, displacement, illness, and healing
➕ There will be sound bath ceremonies in the gallery from 6:30-8 pm on March 7-8 & 12
➕➕ On March 4, MoMA will screen Maravilla’s new film and host a conversation with the artist and Chavoya, MoMA’s Scholar in Residence
Guadalupe Maravilla. “San Ysidro Retablo.” 2023. | Source
Nishiki Sugawara-Beda: Adapt Adopt
📍 Amos Eno | Bushwick (56 Bogart St.)
⏰ opening Feb 29
❓ exploring the origins and boundaries of tradition through her series KuroKuroShiro, using Sumi ink to create immersive, monochromatic worlds
➕ opening reception on March 1, 6-8pm
💖 Ongoing Favorites
[Last Chance] For an imaginative and meticulous exploration of the self and myth: Costanza Schaffner: Leones, Flores, Costanzas at Luhring Augustine (Tribeca), closing in early March
[Last Chance] To see the works of an iconic feminist: Judy Chicago: Herstory at the New Museum, closing in early March
[Last Chance] To journey back in time and explore the historical confluence of two monumental cultures: Africa & Byzantium at The Met, closing in early March
[Last Chance] To be immersed in nature’s depths, while in the concrete jungle: Mary Weatherford: Sea and Space at Gagosian (67 St), closing in early March
To explore identity through digital artistry: Cindy Sherman at Hauser & Wirth (Wooster St), closing in mid March
For a profound exploration of identity, language, and resilience: Shilpa Gupta: I did not tell you what I saw, only what I dreamt at Amant, closing in April
To bask in a comprehensive collection of monumental Black artists: Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, closing in July
Image Sources: Africa & Byzantium; otherwise, self-captured
📢 Editor’s Updates
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📚 Further Reading
Jeffrey Gibson Will Bring Sculptures of Ancestral Spirits to Met Facade — The NYTimes
6 Powerful Highlights From the Met’s Blockbuster Harlem Renaissance Show — Artnet
Surrealism Is 100. The World’s Still Surreal. — The NYTimes
With Outposts in Mexico City and New York, the Influential Gallery Kurimanzutto Celebrates 25 Years — Artnet
From Canvas to Screen: Your Essential Guide to Artist Biopics — Artnet
Here's What Inspired Self-Taught Artist A’Driane Nieves In the Creation of Her First Solo Show — Cultured
How a Harvard Astrophysicist Sparked Artist Astrid Krogh’s Recent Breakthrough — Cultured
TEFAF Aims to Prove There’s Nothing Like a Real-Life Art Fair — The NYTimes
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