🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

Overflow, Afterglow: New Work in Chromatic Figuration

📍 Jewish Museum

⏰ closing Sep 15

❓ seven emerging artists using supernatural color to challenge traditional figuration

🔗 see exhibit details. 

In addition:

• Don’t Forget to Call Your Mother, featuring nostalgic photographs, is closing at the Met on Sep 15

In the Galleries

Helen Marden: The Grief Paintings

📍 Gagosian | Park & 75th

⏰ closing Sep 14

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

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Diamond Stingily: Orgasms Happened Here

📍 52 Walker St

⏰ closing Sep 14

❓ site-specific architectural interventions exploring themes of privacy, transition, and suppressed memories

🔗 see exhibit details. 

🎉 Just In

In the Museums

Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies

📍 Brooklyn Museum

⏰ opening Sep 13

❓ featuring over 150 works, namely sculptures and prints, highlighting Catlett’s lifelong commitment to social justice and political activism

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Celebration: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies will be taking place on Sep 14, 12-7:30 pm; there will be a conversation and tribute perform

Ilit Azoulay: Mere Things

📍 Jewish Museum

⏰ opening Sep 13

❓large-scale digital photocollages of archival objects that explore how images shape memory and historical narratives

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Ilit Azoulay: Artist-Led Gallery Talk on Sep 12, 6:30 pm

In addition:

• Mexican Prints at the Vanguard is opening at the Met on Sep 12

• Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue is opening at MoMA on Sep 15

• The Genesis Facade Commission: Lee Bul, Long Tail Halo is opening at the Met on Sep 12

In the Galleries

Last week, we forgot to share a few noteworthy gallery exhibits:

• Srijon Chowdhury: Tapestry at PPOW is now open through Oct 19

• Robin F. Williams: Good Mourning at PPOW, now open through Oct 26

• Thomas Houseago: Night Sea Journey at Lévy Gorvy Dayan is now open through Oct 19

Back to regular programming…

Joel Shapiro: Out of the Blue

📍 Pace | 25th St

⏰ opening Sep 13

❓ three large-scale painted wood sculptures, a selection of bronzes, and studies, exploring human resilience and spatial transformation

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ opening reception on Sep 12, 6-8 pm

✚✚ Mary Corse: Presence in Light (paintings) is opening the same day

Nan Goldin: You never did anything wrong

📍 Gagosian | 21st St

⏰ opening Sep 12

❓ two new moving-image works and new photographs exploring traditional hierarchies within art

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ opening reception on Sep 12, 6-8pm

✚✚ Mark Grotjahn: Out of Country (abstract paintings) is opening on Sep 10 with a reception at 6-8pm at the 980 Madison location

✚✚✚ Spender Sweeney: The Painted Bride (paintings) is opening on Sep 13 with a reception at 6-8pm at the 24th St location

Stan Douglas: The Enemy of All Mankind

📍 David Zwirner | 19th St

⏰ opening Sep 12

❓ new photographic series, featuring nine images staging scenes from the 18th-century comic opera Polly

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ opening reception on Sat, Sep 12, 6-8pm

✚✚ Doug Wheeler: Day Night Day and Ad Reinhardt: Print—Painting—Maquette (with an opening reception) are also opening Sep 12, at the 20th St location

Suzanne Jackson: Light and Paper

📍 Ortuzar Projects | White St

⏰ opening Sep 12

❓ works from the 1980s to recent monumental sculptural abstraction highlighting Jackson’s four-decade engagement with paper

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ opening reception on Sep 12, 6-8pm

In addition:

• Lubaina Himid: Make Do and Mend (narrative paintings) is opening at The Flag Art Foundation on Sep 13, with an opening reception on Sep 12, 6-8pm

• Michael Krebber (paintings) and Brandon Ndife: Clearance (sculptures) at Greene Naftali is opening on Sep 13 with a reception, 6-8pm

• Carrie Mae Weems: The Shape of Things (video installation) is opening at Gladstone on Sep 14 with a reception

• Kristin Walsh: The working end (sculptures) is opening at Petzel (UES) on Sep 12

• Paul de Flers: Poisson - Scorpion (oil paintings) is opening at Almine Rech (UES) on Sep 12

• Petrit Halilaj: Abetare (Noisy Classroom) (sculptures) is opening at Kurimanzutto on Sep 12

• The Moss Room at the Russel Wright Design Center in Garrison (North of NYC) is opening Sep 13

🗓️ Events of the week

• An Evening with Artist Lee Bul (The Met, Sep 12, 6:45pm) — conversation at the Facade Commission; free but advanced registration required

• Chrissie Iles on Richard Serra’s Films and Videos (Dia Chelsea, Sep 14, 4 pm) — lecture on Serra’s moving-image works

• Artist-led Walkthrough at El Barrio’s Art Space in East Harlem on Sep 12 (12-1pm) and Sep 13 (10-11am)

• Dorothea Rockburne Book Launch (Dia Chelsea, Sep 11, 6:30 pm) — conversation betwen Dorothea Rockburne and Dia editor Svetlana Kitto

• Book Launch: ‘Christian Marclay, Telephones’ (Paula Cooper Gallery, Sep 14, 6pm) — screening, conversation, & book signing with Christian Marclay and Wayne Koestenbaum

• Open Studio: Portraits (Noguchi Museum, Sep 14, 11am - 1pm)

📚 Further Reading

• New York Forever: 5 Painting Shows That Prove the City and Its Artists Can Thrive No Matter What — Cultured

• $825,000 Robert Motherwell painting leads The Armory Show 2024 opening day sales. — Artsy

• At 30, The Armory Show Asks, Can Art Fairs Still be Relevant? — The NYTimes

• Introducing Our New Podcast: Art Market Minute  — Artnet

• Here Are 11 New York Museum Shows You Do Not Want to Miss This Fall — Cultured

• Collector Walls: On the trail of a de Kooning masterpiece. — Sotheby’s Magazine

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