Gallery Walks in UES & Chelsea! 🚶‍♀️

Issue #25: March 26 - April 1

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Art Pulse NYC
March 26, 2024

🫶 Highlights 🫶

🚨 Copy Machine Manifestos at the Brooklyn Museum, and exhibits at Paula Cooper and David Zwirner are closing.

🎉 Käthe Kollwitz at MoMA and Josef Koudelka at Pace Gallery (with a reception) opening this week.

💖 Read our Ongoing Favorites below.

📢 The gallery walks in Chelsea & UES we currently recommend!

🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines

📍 Brooklyn Museum

⏰ closing March 31

🗓️ zines

❓ the first exhibit to survey the five-decade history of zines in North America, featuring nearly a thousand zines and related artworks

In the Galleries

Steven Shearer: Profaned Travelers

📍 David Zwirner | 533 W 19th St

⏰ closing March 30

❓ new photography focusing on the motif of sleep with implications of mortality, vulnerability, ecstasy, and more

Steven Shearer, “Bonnet (to be confirmed)”, 2024 | Source

Bernd & Hilla Becher

📍 Paula Cooper Gallery | 534 W 21st St

⏰ closing March 30

❓ a five-decade collaboration photographing industrial structures across Germany, Europe, and the U.S., blurring the lines of fine-art and documentary photography

Bernd & Hilla Becher, “Gain Elevators”. | Source

🎉 Just In

In the Museums

Käthe Kollwitz

📍 Museum of Modern Art

⏰ opening March 31

🗓️ drawing & printmaking

📏 large (120 works)

❓ drawing and printmaking with themes of motherhood, grief, and resistance, elevating the female perspective as a force for societal change

Käthe Kollwitz. Woman with Dead Child (Frau mit totem Kind). 1903. Etching with chine collé. | © 2024 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, photo by Robert Gerhardt

In the Galleries

Josef Koudelka: Industry

📍 Pace Gallery | 540 W 25th

⏰ opening March 28

❓ six large-scale panoramas for his project “Industries” along iwth small-scale maquettes capturing Romani people and the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968

✚ opening reception March 28, 6-8pm

✚✚ check out Michal Rovner: Pragim, Loie Hollowell: Dilation Stage, and Thomas Nozkowski: Everything in the World — all fantastic exhibits at the same location!

Josef Koudelka, “Azerbaijan”, 1999 | © Josef Koudelka/Magnum Photos 

💖 Ongoing Favorites

Image Sources: self-captured

📢 Editor’s Updates

Here are my current recommendations for gallery walks in Chelsea and the UES, ordered for convenience:

Upper East Side

  1. Delcy Morelos and Ettore Spalletti: Esa eqsuina soy yo — Marian Goodman, 24 W 57th | open ‘til April 20 | paintings & sculpture

  2. Robert Mapplethrope: Unique constructions — Gladstone, 130 E 64th | open ‘til April 20 | photographic assemblages

Robert Mapplethorpe, “Kathleen Turner”, 1986 | Source

  1. Verena Loewensberg: Kind of Blue — Hauser & Wirth, 69th St | open ‘til April 27 | paintings

  2. Frank Gehry: Ruminations — Gagosian, 976 Madison Ave | open ‘til April 6 | works on paper & sculpture

  3. Rudolf Stingel — Gagosian, 980 Madison Ave | open ‘til April 27 | paintings

  4. Richard Hunt: Early Masterworks — White Cube, 1002 Madison Ave | open ‘til April 13 | sculpture

Richard Hunt, “Linear Sequence”, 1962 | Source

  1. Jess Valice: Mara — Almine Rech | open ‘til April 20 | paintings

This is a 37 minute walk in total, though removing the Marian Goodman stop (the first stop) brings it down to just 21 minutes!

Chelsea

There’s so much happening across Chelsea that just one list doesn’t suffice. However, if you want to cover the area as much as possible, we added asterisks next to the exhibits that are must-see. If you only stop by these, it should allow you to cover the whole area (18th — 26th Sts) in one go!

Option 1, 18th St - 22nd St (17 minute walk):

  1. ** Takesada Matsutani / Kate Van Houten: Paris Prints 1967 - 1978 Part 2 — Hauser & Wirth, 18th St | open ‘til April 20 | prints

Takesada Matsutani, “The Proper Place-R”, 1969 | Source

  1. Steven Shearer: Profaned Travelers — David Zwirner, 533 W 19th | open ‘til March 30 | photography

    1. Joe Bradley: Vom Abend — same location, opening April 11, paintings

  2. ** Raymond Saunders: Post No Bills — David Zwirner, 519 & 525 W 19th | open ‘til April 6 | assemblage paintings

Raymond Saunders, Zoom-In | Self-Captured

  1. ** Richard Prince: Early Photography, 1977 - 87 — Gagosian, 522 W 21st | open ‘til April 13 | photography

  2. Bernd & Hilla Becher — Paula Cooper Gallery, 534 W 21st | open ‘til March 30 | photography

    1. Dan Walsh — same location, opening April 4, paintings

  3. Pipilotti Rist: Prickling Goosebumps & A Humming Horizon — Hauser & Wirth, 22nd St | open ‘til April 6 | interactive sculpture

  4. ** No One Thing: David Smith, Late Sculptures — Hauser & Wirth, 22nd St | open ‘til April 13 | sculptures

David Smith | Source

  1. Delcy Morelos: El abrazo — Dia Chelsea, 537 W 22nd | open til July 20 | immersive installation

Option 2, 24th St - 26th St (12 minute walk):

  1. Jamian Juliano-Villanit: It — Gagosian, 541 W 24th | open ‘til April 20 | paintings

  2. ** Francesca Woodman — Gagosian, 555 W 24th | open ‘til April 27 | photography

Francesca Woodman, Untitled, c. 1977–78 | © Woodman Family Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Courtesy Gagosian and The Woodman Family Foundation

  1. ** Victor Man — Gladstone, 515 W 24th St | open ‘til April 27 | paintings

  2. Mary Lovelace O’Neal | HECHO EN MÉXICO—a mano — Marianne Boesky, 509 W 24th | open ‘til May 4 | paintings

  3. Soliloquies — Petzel, 520 W 25th | open ‘til April 20 | sculpture

  4. ** Michal Rovner: Pragim — Pace Gallery, 540 W 25th St | open ‘til April 18 | video installation

Michal Rovner | Self-Captured

  1. Loie Hollowell: Dilation Stage — Pace Gallery, 540 W 25th St | open ‘til April 20 | paintings

  2. Chuck Close: Red, Yellow, and Blue: The Last Paintings — Pace Gallery, 510 W 25th | open ‘til April 13 | paintings

  3. Ian Mwesiga: Beyond the Edge of the World — The Flag Art Foundation, 545 W 25th | open ‘til May 4 | paintings

Ian Mwesiga | Source

  1. Giangiacomo Rossetti: Cabbage Field — Greene Neftali, 508 W 26th | open ‘til April 27 | paintings

Enjoy your gallery walks, and let us know your favorite stops! 🙂 

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