🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (feat. Takashi Murakami)

📍 Brooklyn Museum

⏰ closing August 4

❓ collection of prints focusing on 19th-century Tokyo’s urban life and tracing the transformation into contemporary Tokyo

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ on Aug 1, there will be a tour ‘Scent Tours: Hiroshige’s Seasons’ at 6:30pm

The Real Thing: Unpackaging Product Photography

📍 Metropolitan Museum of Art

⏰ closing August 4

❓exploring advertising photography approaches

🔗 see exhibit details.

In the Galleries

Malcolm Morley: Painting as Model

📍 Petzel | 25th St

⏰ closing Aug 2

❓over 30 works from 1959 to 2014 with landmark paintings and sculptures, highlighting Morley’s innovative use of the grid and exploration of themes like advertising and consumerism

🔗 see exhibit details.

Amanda Wall: Sky Got Dark

📍 Almine Rech | UES

⏰ closing July 26

❓surreal, emotionally charged paintings blending reality with psychological absurdity

🔗 see exhibit details.

✚ Szabolcs Bozó: Tüke (expressive paintings) and Ryan Schneider: Nocturner (figurative & still life paintings and sculptures) are also closing Aug 2 (Tribeca location)

Michael Williams: Studiosis

📍 Gladstone | 24th St

⏰ closing Aug 2

❓new paintings and drawings capturing the interior of Williams’ studio, focusing on mundane studio objects and the physicality of the artist’s hand

🔗 see exhibit details.

✚ The Secret History at Gladstone 64 is also closing Aug 2

In addition:

• On Landscape, a group exhibition at Greene Neftali, closing Aug 2

• Patterns, a group exhibition at Luhring Augustine (across 2 locations), closing Aug 2

🎉 Just In

In the Museums

Studio Residency: Sarah Michelson

📍 MoMA

⏰ opening Aug 3

❓painting, video projection, sound and installation with a focus on examining the nature of dance 

🔗 see exhibit details. 

In the Galleries

No new major exhibits to report in the galleries.

🗓️ Events of the week

• JJJJerome Ellis’s Offerings at Whitney, as a part of the Biennial performance program (Aug 2, 7:30; Aug 3&4, 8 pm & 9:30pm ) — a musical tour highlighting specific artworks from the Biennial

• MoMA PS1 Warm Up (Aug 2, 9, 16 at 4 - 10pm) — signature summer music series with galleries open until 9pm; free for LIC residents

• First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum (Aug 3) — this months programming is celebrating cultures across the Caribbean

📚 Further Reading

• A Rust Belt Retrospective — Puck

• The Met Museum Is Rebounding, but Not With International Visitors — The NYTimes

• [youtube] Nancy Holy at Dia — Dia Art Foundation

• Native Modern Art: From a Cardboard Box to the Met — The NYTimes

• Art Criticism Is in Crisis. These Three Writers Aren’t Giving Up — Cultured

• Helen Marden, Grieving in Bright Colors and on Her Own Terms — The NYTimes

• ‘Getting Stuck Isn’t an Option’: Sculptor Chakaia Booker Is Still Building at 71 — Artnet

• [youtube] Roni Horn: Garden of Paradox — Hauser & Wirth

• We Asked 10 Art Industry Savants to Share the Top Artists Residencies Around the World. Here’s What They Told Us — The NYTimes

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