🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

Human/Nature: Encountering Ourselves in the Natural World

📍 Fotografiska

⏰ closing May 19

❓photographs, immersive video installations, and sculptures from 14 international artists reflecting on human influence on nature

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In the Galleries

Dan Walsh

📍 Paula Cooper Gallery | 534 W 21st

⏰ closing May 18

❓system-based abstraction, blending precise composition with dynamic, rounded geometries in vibrant colors

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✚ Disparity (521 W 21st) and Terry Adkins: Sermonesque (529 W 21st) close the same day

Tanya Merrill: Watching Women Give Birth On The Internet And Other Ways Of Looking

📍 303 Gallery | 555 W 21st

⏰ closing May 18

❓ exploring themes of fertility, environmental concerns, and the effects of contemporary technology on personal experiences

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🎉 Just In

In the Museums

Jenny Holzer: Light Line

📍 Guggenheim

⏰ opening May 17

❓the conceptual artist legend Holzer, especially known for text-based works, will be exhibiting a reimagination of her landmark 1989 installation at the Guggenehim

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✚ during May 16-20, Holzer’s light projection For the Guggenheim will be displayed on the facade at sundown

Joan Jonas: Out Takes

📍 MoMA

⏰ May 16 - 20

❓sound, video, and narration using unused footage from the archives and new scenes, exploring nature, ritual, and perception techniques

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✚ Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour is opening and Carolina Caycedo: Spiral for Shared Dreams is closing on May 19 at MoMA

In the Galleries

Maria Lassnig: Drawings

📍 Petzel | 35 E 67th

⏰ opening May 15

❓ 32 works on paper from experimental line and color compositions to introspective self-portraits, spanning from 1955-2009

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📢 Editor’s Updates

Since we saw The Haas Brothers: Inner Visions at Marianne Boesky, we’ve thought about the exhibition daily. We just love their whimsical aesthetic that brings you back to childhood. The twin brothers blend humor and intellect to deliver new bronze sculptures, as well as their first venture into paintings. While the artworks are fun to look at, they requires impressive precision and innovation in their creation. The exhibit will be on view until June 8.

A few blocks away, we stepped into the vibrant, narrative works of Lubaina Himid, in the exhibit Street Sellers at Greene Neftali. Himid paints street vendors in full-length portraits — a genre associated with aristocrats — with elegant apparel and in attention-grabbing colors. Next to each large-scale painting, a work on paper emulates a cardboard sign with phonetic letters. By reading these aloud, the audience voices the sales pitches of the sellers. Himid affectingly investigates the gaps of history and issues around labor and migration. The exhibit runs until June 15.

Nearby, until June 8, Stefanie Heinze is exhibiting at Petzel Gallery in her show, MORTAR (the cute ones shouldn’t go unnoticed). Somewhere between abstraction and figuration, Heinze renders ambiguous forms in vivid visual scapes. Her works have a perfectly dreamlike quality, with loosely connected, often animal-like figures that somehow manage to harmonize. The exhibit showcases the development of Heinze’s works, featuring both small-scale drawings and their translations into large-scale paintings.