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Tonight: Artist Chat with Tabula Rasa 📞
Issue #38: June 25 - July 1
📌 Highlights
🎉 New exhibits with receptions at Almine Rech, Karma, White Cube, and more noted below. Plus, an artist conversation with Tabula Rasa today at Paula Cooper Gallery.
💖 Read our Ongoing Favorites & Further Reading below.
🚨 Last Chance
In the Museums
People: Celebrating 50 Years
📍 Fotografiska
⏰ closing June 30
❓ unique archive of original covers and photographs from People Magazine
✚ be wary of closures — e.g. the exhibit will be closed all day June 29, among others
In the Galleries
Maurizio Cattelan: Sunday
📍 Gagosian | W 21st
⏰ closing June 29
❓installation, powerfully critiquing economic inequality and gun accessibility in America

MAURIZIO CATTELAN, “Sunday”, 2024, installation view | © Maurizio Cattelan, Photo: Maris Hutchinson, Courtesy Gagosian
Giuseppe Penone: Hands - Earth - Light - Colors
📍 Marian Goodman | W 25th
⏰ closing June 29
❓unique sculptures, photographs and canvases centered on the theme of touch and inviting contemplation on our connection to nature
✚ this is the final exhibition at Marian Goodman before they’re closing their UES location after 40 years — in the fall, the gallery is opening a new (massive) location in Tribeca
Bernadette Despujols: Exquisite Cuerpo
📍 Rachel Uffner
⏰ closing June 29
❓paintings exploring themes of family, womanhood, and ecological awareness
In addition:
Anna Kunz: Paintings to the Full Flower Moon at Alexander Berggruen, closing June 26
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🎉 Just In
In the Museums
Survival Piece #5: Portable Orchard
📍 Whitney Museum of American Art
⏰ opening June 29
❓1970s installation that remains relevant today from Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison, reflecting on the survivalist approach to food production
In the Galleries
Heads Up: Artist Conversation with Tabula Rasa
📍 Paula Cooper Gallery | 534 W 21st
⏰ June 25, 5:30 pm (doors 5pm)
🔗 details here (it will also be livestreamed)
Amanda Wall: Sky got dark
📍 Almine Rech | UES
⏰ opening June 26
❓surreal, emotionally charged paintings blending reality with psychological absurdity
✚ opening reception on June 26, 6-8pm
✚✚ Szabolcs Bozó: Tüke (expressive paintings) and Ryan Schneider: Nocturner (figurative & still life paintings and sculptures) opening on June 27 at the Tribeca location, with an opening reception 6-8pm
Betty Tompkins: Just a Pretty Face
📍 PPOW | 392 Broadway
⏰ opening June 28
❓highlighting Tompkins’ decades-long exploration of female representation and sexual desire

Betty Tompkins, “Veiled Illusions”, 2000, acrylic on circular saw | courtesy PPOW
Maja Ruznic: The World Doesn’t End
📍 Karma | 22 & 108 E 2nd
⏰ opening June 26
❓improvisational paintings exploring themes of survival and transformation, using symbolically-loaded color palettes
✚ on June 26, 4 pm there’ll be a public discussion between Ruznic and Cecilia Alemani; plus, there’ll be an opening reception following at 6-8pm
✚ ✚ Ruznic’s works are also currently featured at the Whitney Biennial exhibition

Ruznic, “Deep Calls to Deep”, 2023 (Whitney Biennial) | Self-Captured
Yoko Matsumoto: Darkness Against Nature
📍 White Cube | 1002 Madison
⏰ opening June 28
❓abstract paintings with elaborately layered hues creating nebulous forms
✚ opening reception on June 27, 6-8pm
📚 Further Reading
Looking to Escape the New York Heat? Here Are 9 Must-See Shows Upstate Perfect for a Day Trip — Cultured
At Kasmin, Sculptor Alma Allen Brings the Ancient Realm Into Manhattan — Cultured
THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE WAS BIGGER THAN HARLEM: How Black artists made modernism their own — The Atlantic
Meet VIA Art Fund, the Nonprofit Willing To Take Just As Many Risks As Its Artists — Cultured
💖 Ongoing Favorites
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
To see the latest and greatest in American Art: The Whitney Biennial: Event Better Than The Real Thing, closing in August
For an iconic installation of word & political art: Jenny Holzer: Light Line at the Guggenheim, closing in September
Image Sources: self-captured
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