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Summer is ending, gallery exhibits are BACK 😮💨
Issue #48: Sep 3 - 9
📌 Highlights
🚨 Final days to see Paula Modersohn-Becker at Neue Galerie, and Alex Katz and LaToya Ruby Frazier at MoMA.
🎉 The list of gallery exhibits opening is long: Oli Epp at Perrotin, Amie Dicke at Anat Ebgi, Pieter Schoolwerth at Petzel, and many more. Tons of opening receptions this week too!
💖 Read our Ongoing Favorites & Further Reading below. Our must-read of the week is: For a Great Museum Road Trip, Get In an Empire State of Mind (NYTimes).
📢 The Armory Show & Independent 20th Century Fair are this upcoming weekend! Plus, there’s a documentary screening and book launch party from Hauser & Wirth. More below.
🚨 Last Chance
In the Museums
Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich Bin Ich / I am Me
📍 Neue Galerie
⏰ closing Sep 9
❓ the first US retrospective of the prolific career of the German Expressionist, who created the first nude self-portraits by a woman and other groundbreaking works
Alex Katz: Four Seasons
📍 MoMA
⏰ closing Sep 8
❓ four monumental paintings chronicling the changing of seasons
✚ LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity, showcasing photography, text, video, and performance to revive forgotten stories of labor, gender, and race in the postindustrial era, is closing on Sep 7
✚✚Studio Residency: Sarah Michelson, featuring the choreographer, dancer, and artist, is also closing Sep 8
Alex Katz. Winter Tree 1, 2023. Oil on linen. 120 x 120 inches (304.8 x 304.8 cm). © Alex Katz / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery. Photography by David Regen
In the Galleries
No major gallery exhibit closures to report!
🎉 Just In
In the Museums
No major museum exhibit openings to report!
In the Galleries
With summer coming to a close, gallery exhibitions are back in business, returning to normal operating hours. Not sure about you all, but we were really missing our Saturday morning gallery hopping. Last week we covered Wednesday’s gallery openings (Sep 4); check them out here (Arshile Gorky, Dorothea Tanning, and Nengi Omuku).
📍 Perrotin | Orchard St
⏰ opening Sep 6
❓ surrealist paintings exploring the paradoxes of opulence and consumption, with vibrant, visually striking canvases
✚ opening reception on Sat, Sep 7, 7-10pm
✚✚ Zéh Palito: Cars, Pools & Melanin (paintings exploring racial segregation and right to leisure), Lee Bae: Between (paper-based installation) and MSCHF: Industry Plants (furniture design) are opening the same day, same location
Gabe Benzur: When Lightning Strikes
📍 The Invisible Dog Art Center | Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
⏰ opening Sep 7
❓ part of the 2024 Armory Show’s cultural program, this exhibit features oil paintings of supernatural landscapes inspired by Etruscan mythology, evoking a sense of wonder
✚ opening reception on Sat, Sep 7, 7-10pm
Gabe Benzur, “Calu”, 2024 | Courtesy of The Invisible Dog Gallery
Amie Dicke: Open Arms
📍 Anat Ebgi | 372 Broadway
⏰ opening Sep 6
❓ using techniques like sanding, caking with cosmetics, and sugar coating, Dicke destructs and conceals source materials, exploring intimacy, transformation, and more
✚ opening reception on Sep 6, 6-8pm and artist talk with Barry Shwabsky on Sep 7, 5pm
✚ ✚ Tina Girouard: I Want You to Have a Good Time (performance & drawings) opening same day, same location
Amie Dicke, “Side-liners”, 2024 | Source
Pieter Schoolwerth: Supporting Actor
📍 Petzel | 25th St
⏰ opening Sep 5
❓ painting, sculpture, film, and architectural installation, exploring figuration, technology, and the concept of reality in the digital age
✚ opening reception on Sep 5, 6-8pm; live performance by Aaron Dilloway at 7:45 pm
Still from Pieter Schoolwerth and Phil Vanderhyden, “Supporting Actor”, 2024, 4K video | Courtsey of Petzel Gallery
Gina Beaves: Divine Consumer
📍 Marianne Boesky | 24th St
⏰ opening Sep 5
❓ Comfortcore Paintings, which transfer digital advertisements of domestic goods into textured relief paintings, retreating from her previous focus on the chaos of online culture
✚ opening reception on Sep 5, 6-8pm
✚✚Jay Heikes: Devolve, exhibiting sculptures imagining a future devoid of human civilization, at the same location, opening the same day
GINA BEAVERS, “Blue gingham ottoman stack”, 2024 | Source
In addition:
Read last week’s issue for the Sep 4 gallery openings here (Arshile Gorky, Dorothea Tanning, and Nengi Omuku).
Objects: USA 2024 at R&Company is a group exhibition opening on Sep 6 (with an opening reception at 6-8:30pm) and will feature a few pieces from Ferne Jacobs, who we just recently interviewed!
Ibrahim Mahama: A Spell of Good Things is opening at White Cube on Sep 5, with an artist talk with Mahama on Sep 4 at 5-6pm, followed by an opening reception at 6-8pm; rsvp here
Joanne Leonard & Brittany Nelson, a photography exhibit and Reinhard Mucha: Before the Wall came down / Lennep are opening on Sep 7 at Luhring Augustine in Chelsea with a reception & talks; Steve Wolfe: The Brutality of Fact is opening at the Tribeca location with a reception
Alexandre Lenoir: Between dogs and wolves (abstract painting) is opening at Almine Rech in Tribeca on Sep 6, with a reception on Sep 6, 6-8pm
Jason Rhoades: Drive II, featuring readymade car sculptures, is opening on Sep 5 (with an opening reception at 6-8 pm) at Hauser & Wirth, 22nd St; Leon Golub: Et In Arcadia Ego is opening same day, same location
Alejandro García Contreras: ¿Quién no ha intentado convertir una piedra en un recuerdo? and Le'Andra LeSeur: Monument Eternal are opening at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn with the former featuring elaborate sculptures and the latter a titular video
Julia Jo: Torrent, with stunning, abstract paintings, is opening at Charles Moffett Gallery on Sep 6
In The Moment: Six Artists from Taiwan opening Sep 7 at Nunu Fine Art, with an opening reception on Sep 6, 6-8pm near Chinatown
🗓️ Events of the week
The Armory Show (Sep 6-8) — featuring the leading international contemporary and modern art galleries; tickets are $45-60
Independent 20th Century (Sep 5-8) — art fair championing artists and movements that took place between 1900-2000; tickets are ~$50
Screening Room: ‘Without Gorky’ (H&W, Sep 7, 3pm) — screening of the documentary, direct by the artist’s granddaughter; register here
Book Launch & Reading: ‘Nicole Eisenman: Maker’s Muck’ (H&W, at Parkside Lounge, Sep 8, 5pm) — celebrating gathering and reading with the artist and book contributors; reservations are required
Free Dance Classes with AILEY at the Whitney (Sep 8) — in celebration of the upcoming exhibit, Edges of Ailey, the Whitney is offering a free outdoor dance class with Amos Machanic at the museum
Downtown Artists: Neighborhood Tour (New Museum, Sep 5, 6pm & Sep 14, 11 am, etc.) — walking tour stopping by artist homes, studios, and hangout spots; tickets are $15
📚 Further Reading
For a Great Museum Road Trip, Get In an Empire State of Mind — The NYTimes
In Defense of the Summer Group Show — Artnet
For Sarah Arison, MoMA’s New Board President, Being an Arts Patron Is a 365-Day a Year Kind of Job — Cultured
A Panorama of Design — The NYTimes
The Four Mysterious Guardians of the Artist Lee Bul — The NYTimes
When the Frick Reopens, This Rare Masterpiece Will Welcome the Collection Home — Artnet
A Multi-Year Cultural Initiative Elevating Latinx Stories Is Set to Launch in New York — Artnet
💖 Ongoing Favorites
For an iconic installation of word & political art: Jenny Holzer: Light Line, closing in September
To witness the trailblazing portraits of an Expressionist: Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich Bin Ich/ I Am Me, closing in September
For an intimate view into mid-20th century America: Vivian Maier: Unseen Work, closing in September
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