Happy Almost May! Happy NYC Art Week! 🌷

Issue #30: April 30 - May 6

If there’s a week to go out and explore art, it’s this week. So much is going on, in light of NYC’s Art Week. But bear with us — we’re sharing a lot of content today!

🫶 Highlights 🫶

🚨 Last chance to see Klimt Landscapes, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, and more.

🎉 Paul McCartney Photographs at the Brooklyn Museum, The Haas Brothers at Marianne Boesky, 3 exhibits at Pace, and many more exhibits and receptions are shared below. Plus, 3 art fairs are happening this week!

💖 Read our Ongoing Favorites & Further Reading below.

📢 Sharing our visit to Käthe Kollwitz.

🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

Klimt Landscapes

📍 Neue Galerie

closing May 6

🗓️ art nouveau

📏 medium-size

Klimt’s landscape paintings from his summer holidays in Austria

GUSTAV KLIMT, “Reproduction of Sunflower” (1907-08)
Printer: K. K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei | Neue Galerie New York

In the Galleries

Mary Lovelace O’Neal: HECHO EN MÉXICO — a mano

📍 Marianne Boesky | 507 W 24th

closing May 4

monumental canvases reflecting on Lovelace O’Neal’s six-decade exploration of innovative forms, materiality, and color

Mary Lovelace O'Neal, “WON–BY A NOSE”, 2021–2023. | Courtesy of Marianne Boesky

Ian Mwesiga: Beyond the Edge of the World

📍 The Flag Art Foundation | 545 W 25th

closing May 4

11 paintings exploring themes of mystery, fantasy, and the unknown in a world of unexplored symbols and untold stories

Graham Little and the Spotlight on María Berrío are closing the same day

Ian Mwesiga | Source

In addition:

🎉 Just In

In the Museums

Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm

📍 Brooklyn Museum

opening May 3

🗓️ photography

❓ 250 photographs from Paul McCartney’s documentation of Beatlemania during The Beatles’ tumultuous first U.S. tour

Paul McCartney. Self-portrait. London, 1963. Pigmented inkjet print. © 1963 Paul McCartney under exclusive license to MPL Archive LLP

In the Galleries

Heads Up: Events Galore!

Antony Gormley: Aerial

📍 White Cube | 1002 Madison Ave

opening April 30

site-specific installation of an orthogonal branching matrix, as well as life-size cast iron sculptures that explore physical closeness

✚ advanced booking is strongly advised, as a limited number of visitors can be accommodated at a time — book here

✚ ✚ Conversations: Antony Gormley and Tom Eccles on May 2 at 6 pm at The Morgan Library & Museum

Tara Donovan: Stratagems

📍 Pace Gallery | 540 W 25th

opening May 3

❓ collection of sculptures crafted from found and upcycled CD-ROM discs, that expand the boundaries of human perception, and is accompanied by a live performance from choreographer Kim Brandt

Adam Pendleton: An Abstraction and Huong Dodinh: TRANSCENDENCE opening at the same location, same day

✚✚ opening reception for all three openings on May 2, 6-8pm

Left to right: Portrait of Kim Brandt, Photography by Sarah Vasquez; Tara Donovan, Stratagem VI (detail), 2024 © Tara Donovan, courtesy Pace Gallery

Nikita Gale: NOSEBLEED

📍 Petzel | 520 W 25th St

opening May 2

❓ an immersive installation that explores the dynamics of live performances through ‘nosebleed’ seats

The Haas Brothers: Inner Visions

📍 Marianne Boesky | 509 W 24th

opening May 2

❓ new sculptures and paintings showcasing the Brothers’ evolution in material experimentation

✚ opening reception on May 2, 6-8pm

The Haas Brothers “Holden Ball-field”, 2024 | © The Haas Brothers

In addition:

📢 Editor’s Updates

Currently on view at the MoMA is an incredibly moving exhibit on Käthe Kollwitz. The Prussian artist was active during the early decades of the 20th century, developing intimate, mostly black-and-white, prints and drawings with themes of motherhood, grief, and social justice. The exhibit includes 120 drawings, prints, and sculptures, featuring studies, working proofs, and more.

During the tumultuous era spanning both World Wars, Kollwitz resided in Berlin, witnessing firsthand its turmoil and tragedies. In her prints, she confronted and shared the suffering experienced by women, the working class people, and young men in war. Her art, marked by a profound despair, employs detailed realism, stark contrasts, and innovative techniques.

While Kollwitz was a prominent figure, distinguished as the first woman elected to the Prussian Academy of Arts, she was later expelled by the Nazis for her supposed “degeneracy”. Widely respected in Germany and internationally today, this exhibit offers an opportunity to explore her art deeply.

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💖 Ongoing Favorites

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