🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism

📍 Metropolitan Museum of Art

⏰ closing July 28

❓ 160 works capturing the profound impact of Black artists on modern art, with artists like Charles Alston, Aaron Douglas, and more

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ check out an exhibition tour here 

Toshiko Takezu: Worlds Within

📍 Noguchi Museum

⏰ closing July 28

❓ retrospective and monograph on the seven decade practice of Takaezu, including a vast collection of ceramic sculptures, acrylic paintings, and more

🔗 see exhibit details.

In addition:

• Frederick Kiesler: Vision Machines at the Jewish Museum is closing on July 28; the exhibit features 100 works related to Kiesler’s experimental design projects

In the Galleries

Rita Ackermann: Splits: Printing | Painting

📍 Hauser & Wirth | 18th St & 22nd St

⏰ closing July 26

❓new canvasses expanding upon themes and imagery she has explored, such as form and movement, as well as a new direction towards complex large-scale silkscreens

🔗 see exhibit details.

✚ Eva Hesse: Five Sculptures at 22nd St & Mary Heilmann: Daydream Nation are also closing on the 26th at the 22nd St location

Alex Gardner: Psychic Stamina

📍 Perrotin | 130 Orchard St

⏰ closing July 26

❓paintings intimately capturing mental fatigue in a vivid color palette

🔗 see exhibit details.

✚ Charles Hascoët: Kobayashi Maru (nostalgic self-portraits) and Johan Creten: Strangers (colorful sculptures) are also closing on the 26th

In addition:

• Alison Watt: Breathing In (still life) and Joel Mesler: Kitchens are Good Rooms to Cry In (multi-media) at Lévy Gorvy Dayan, closing July 26

• Tabula Rasa at Paula Coopery Gallery is closing July 26, showcasing a group exhibition exploring concepts around photography

• Material World and Sublime Spirit at Marianne Boesky Gallery are both closing July 26, featuring group exhibitions

• Matthew Barney: SECONDARY: object replay at Gladstone Gallery is closing July 26

🎉 Just In

In the Museums

Ink and Ivory: Indian Drawings and Photographs Selected with James Ivory

📍 Metropolitan Museum of Art

⏰ opening July 29

❓superlative drawings from the courts and centers from India and Pakistan from the late 16th to 20th centuries

🔗 see exhibit details. 

In the Galleries

Helen Marden: The Grief Paintings

📍 Gagosian | Park & 75th

⏰ opening July 24

❓abstract paintings made as Marden cared for her husband and in the time following his passing

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ opening reception on July 24, 6-8pm

Juan Eduardo Gomez: Dusky Rainy Sunny

📍 James Fuentes | 52 White St

⏰ opening July 25

❓large-scale works produced through stream of consciousness akin to muralism

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ opening reception on July 25, 6-8pm

🗓️ Events of the week

• Screening Room: ‘Mary Heilmann: Waves, Roads, & Hallucinations’ at Hauser & Wirth (July 23-25, 7-8:30 pm) — screenings of the recently released documentary on Mary Heilmann, an influential American abstract painter

• Open Studio at The Met Cloisters (July 28, 1-4pm)

• The Event Series ‘Faculty Meetings’ at PPOW is beginning, in conjunction with the ongoing exhibit AIRHEAD — a slew of events are happening between July 17 - August 8 from performance art to classes

📚 Further Reading

• Upstate Art Weekend Offers a Year’s Worth of Art in Four Days — The NYTimes

• An Artist Flowering in Her Nineties — The New Yorker

• A Legendary New York Institution Reawakens With a Fresh Slate of Programs — Artnet

• These Sculptures Changed What Art Could Be, Then Changed Themselves — The NYTimes

• [New Podcast] Voices of kurimanzutto

• In a New Show at Gladstone, Alissa Bennett Unpacks the Mystery Novel ‘The Secret History’ — Artnet

• ‘I Am Not Part of the Social World’: Jerry Saltz on the Strange Life of an Art Critic — Cultured

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