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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
✚ Austrian Masterworks From the Neue Galerie closing the same day

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:
Rudolf Stingel at Gagosian (UES), closing April 30
Sarah Crowner: Hot Light, Hard Light at Luhring Augustine (Tribeca), closing May 4
🎉 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!
Frieze Art Fair — May 1-5
Future Art Fair — May 1-4
NADA Art Fair — May 2-5
Julia Phillips on Louise Bourgeois at Dia Chelsea — May 1, 6:30 pm
Marta Minujín and Darsie Alexander – FUTURE DIALOGUES at kurimanzutto — May 2, 5 pm
Conversations: Antony Gormley and Tom Eccles at The Morgan Library — May 2, 6pm
Activations: Gordon Hall at Chelsea Recreation Center via Dia — May 4, 8 pm
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:
Amy Sillman: To Be Other-Wise at Gladstone Gallery (Chelsea), opening May 2 with a reception May 2, 6-8pm
Paul Klee: Psychic Improvisation and Lucas Arruda: Assum Preto at David Zwirner (Chlesea), opening May 2
Giuseppe Penone: Hands - Earth - Light - Colors at Marian Goodman (UES), opening May 3, with a reception May 3, 6-8pm
Jay Lynn Gomez: Under Construction at PPOW (Soho), opening May 3
Sahara Longe: Sugar at Timothy Taylor (Tribeca), opening May 2 with a reception on May 2, 6-8pm
Jessica Dickinson: And at James Fuentes (Tribeca), opening May 3 with a reception on May 3, 6-8pm
Alan Saret: Rest of Me at Karma (LES), opening May 3 with a reception on May 3, 6-8pm
Allen Ruppersberg: 25 Ways to Start Over and Lubaina Himid: Street Sellers at Greene Neftali (Chelsea), opening May 2
📢 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.
📚 Further Reading
In May, All Eyes (and Wallets) in the Art World Turn to New York — The NYTimes
The CULT100 — Cultured
Going to Frieze New York? Here’s What You Need to Know. — The NYTimes
Watch Out for These 5 Rising Artists Making Their Frieze New York Debuts — Cultured
On the Met Roof, Skywriting His Way to Freedom — The NYTimes
A Celebrated Artist Finds Joy in a Return to New York — The NYTimes
Arlene Shechet’s ‘Girl Group’ Nudges Heavy Metal Men at Storm King — The NYTimes
We’d love to continue to hear your survey responses 😅:
💖 Ongoing Favorites
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
For breathtaking, meticulous memento mori paintings: Sanam Khatibi: We Wait Until Dark at PPOW, closing in May
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
To celebrate innovative Black artistic expression of the 1920s-40s: The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, closing in July
For devastating prints from an overlooked artist: Käthe Kollwitz, closing in July
To see the latest and greatest in American Art: The Whitney Biennial: Event Better Than The Real Thing, closing in August
Image Sources: self-captured
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