🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility

📍 Guggenheim

⏰ closing April 7

🗓️ contemporary (1980s onward)

📏 large (>100 works)

❓ presenting art works that feature partially obscured or hidden figures, across a group of 28 artists (majority Black and/or women)

🔗 see exhibit details.

In addition:

• Grace Wales Bonner—Spirit Movers, with works delving into sound, movement, performance, and style within the African diaspora, at the MoMA, closing on April 7

In the Galleries

Frank Gehry: Ruminations

📍 Gagosian | 976 Madison Ave

⏰ closing April 6

❓ sculptures and works on paper showcasing Gehry’s Fish Lamps series, as well as other works inspired by nature

🔗 see exhibit details.

Raymond Saunders: Post No Bills

📍 David Zwirner (Chelsea) & Andrew Kreps (Tribeca)

⏰ closing April 6

❓ assemblage-style paintings with themes of community, visibility, and the dynamics of public space, spanning across two locations in a collaborative exhibit between David Zwirner and Andrew Kreps

🔗 see exhibit details.

Guadalupe Maravilla: Si no sanas hoy, sanarás mañana

📍 PPOW | 392 Broadway

⏰ closing April 6

❓ large-scale sculptures and retablos delving into themes of war, displacement, illness, and healing

🔗 see exhibit details.

In addition:

• Pipilotti Rist: Prickling Goosebumps & A Humming Horizon, an interactive sculptural exhibit, and The Flesh of the Earth: Curated by Enuma Okoro, a group exhibit exploring an intimate relationship with the earth, at Hauser & Wirth (22nd St), closing April 6

• Jacob Kassay, with abstract works, at 303 Gallery, closing April 5

🎉 Just In

In the Museums

Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (feat. Takashi Murakami)

📍 Brooklyn Museum

⏰ opening April 5

🗓️ prints

❓ collection of prints focusing on 19th-century Tokyo’s urban life and tracing the transformation into contemporary Tokyo

🔗 see exhibit details.

✚ events on the exhibit include: Art History Happy Hour on April 11 (7-9pm) and Brooklyn Talks: Takashi Murakami on April 29 (7-9pm)

In addition:

• Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance, with 60 multisided and covered portraits from the Renaissance, is opening at the Met on April 2

In the Galleries

Dan Walsh

📍 Paula Cooper Gallery | 534 W 21st

⏰ opening April 4

❓ system-based abstraction with compositions that blend unit-based forms with vibrant colors and subtle chromatic compositions

🔗 see exhibit details.

In addition:

• Roni Horn, an exhibition of works on paper and cast-glass sculptures exploring identity, at Hauser & Wirth (Wooster St), opening April 4

• Arthur Jafa: BLACK POWER TOOL AND DIE TRYNIG, a visually immerse and political site-specific installation, at 52 Walker, opening April 5

📢 Editor’s Updates

On March 26, legendary American sculptor Richard Serra passed away from pneumonia at 85.

Who is Richard Serra?

Part of the minimalist movement, Richard Serra is renowned for his monolithic, site-specific steel sculptures that seem to defy physics. With a deep focus on material, weight, and space, Serra encourages viewers to interact with his industrial sculptures and the surrounding space they are embedded within. Viewers can typically walk fully within, as well as around, his curvilinear constructions, and thus uniquely experience the works in depth. Observers are left pondering how exactly Serra and the museum staff managed to install his pieces. His legacy will undoubtedly endure through the compelling and transformative force of his works, which reshaped our understanding of sculpture and contemporary art as a whole.

Read more about Serra from the NYTimes.

Where can I see his art in NY?

1. The MoMA has an ongoing installation with Richard Serra’s Equal.

2. Dia Beacon (about 1.5 hours outside of the city in Beacon, NY) has many of Serra’s sculptures on long-term view, including a few pieces from his Torqued Ellipses series, among others.

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