🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design

📍 MoMA

⏰ closing August 25

❓ exploring the regenerative power of design with a focus on the natural world

🔗 see exhibit details. 

In the Galleries

Maja Ruznic: The World Doesn’t End

📍 Karma | 22 & 188 E 2nd

⏰ closing Aug 23

❓new improvisational paintings portraying alternate world in which figures merge with their mutating environments

🔗 see exhibit details.

Yoko Matsumoto: Darkness Against Nature

📍 White Cube | Madison Ave

⏰ closing Aug 23

❓abstract paintings with elaborately layered hues creating nebulous forms

🔗 see exhibit details.

In addition:

• Darcy & Darcy: In Monochrome is closing at Nunu Fine Art on Aug 24

• Yoab Vera: REminiscene — Contigo Aprendí and Vivian Vivas: may I die before I’m gone are closing at Alexander Berggruen on Aug 22

🎉 Just In

In the Museums

What It Becomes

📍 Whitney

⏰ opening August 24

❓ featuring new and rarely seen works by eleven artists who use drawing to explore imagery

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Mark Armijo McKnight: Decreation, a photography exhibit exploring the undoing of the self is alos opening on Aug 24

✚✚ Raque Ford: A Little Space for You Right Under My Shoe, a multimedia installation, will be on the bulding facade on Horatio Street across from the Whitney

In the Galleries

Richard Serra: A Film and Video Exhibition

📍 Dia Chelsea | W 22nd

⏰ opening August 21

❓ a survey exhibition of Serra’s films & videos, created between 1968 and 1979

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ there’ll be a lecture by Chrissie Iles on Sep 14 (spaces are limited)

🗓️ Events of the week

• Performance and Artist Talk at Alexander Berggruen (Aug 21, 5:30-7 pm, UES) — an experimental violinist and an opera singer will perform live with Viva’s film, after which the artist, Vivian Vivas, will discuss her exhibit with curator/editor Madeleine Seidel

• Late Shift: Words Matter at the Guggenheim (Aug 22, 5:30-8pm) — the Guggenheim will be open after hours with creative experiences; register here

📚 Further Reading

• Young Artists Rode a $712 Million Boom. Then Came the Bust. — The NYTimes

• At 77, Sculptor Alice Aycock Is Plotting Her 'Last Big Piece' — Cultured

• What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in August — The NYTimes

• The Armory Show to present sculpture programming at the 2024 U.S. Open. — Artsy

• A Neo-Rococo Movement Is On the Rise—But What Does It All Mean? — Artnet

• At Collector Kim Manocherian’s Home, Warhols Hang Alongside Flea Market Finds. That’s Just How She Likes It — Cultured

• Yoab Vera Interview — Alexander Berggruen

• For a ‘Citizen Artist,’ Creativity Is a Matter of Survival — The NYTimes

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