🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

Nothing new to report this week!

In the Galleries

Gina Beavers: Divine Consumer

📍 Marianne Boesky | 24th St

⏰ closing Oct 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

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚✚ Jay Heikes: Devolve, exhibiting sculptures imagining a future devoid of human civilization, closing the same day

In addition, Philip Swan: The Present is Never Our End and Seeing Is Believing: Artists of Amos Eno Gallery (Bushwick) are both closing Oct 6.

🎉 Just In

In the Museums

The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition

📍 The Brooklyn Museum

⏰ opening Oct 4

❓ showcasing the exceptional talent of 200 artists who have lived or worked in Brooklyn over the past 5 years, as a part of the museum’s 200th anniversary

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art

📍 The Brooklyn Museum

⏰ opening Oct 4

❓ a transformative reinstallation of the museum’s American Art galleries with over 400 works, both highlighting new acquisitions and celebrating joy and diverse voices

🔗 see exhibit details. 

In the Galleries

Sara Cwynar: Baby Blue Benzo

📍 52 Walker

⏰ opening Sep 26

❓ monumental film combing digital video and 16mm, alongside related photographs, related to themes of consumerism, technology, and desire

🔗 see exhibit details. 

🗓️ Events of the week

• Birthday Bash (Brooklyn Museum, Oct 5-6, 11 am onwards) — full weekend of programming from Curator Talks to Art Workshops

• In Response to Leon Golub (Hauser & Wirth, Oct 5, 4:30pm) — a talk & performance on occasion of the Leon Golub exhibition; free event

📚 Further Reading

• An Exclusive Peek at the Met’s Reimagined Rockefeller Wing — The NYTimes

• How Elizabeth Catlett Went From Exile to Artist for Our Times — Artnet

• The Roundup: Lowry Leaves MoMA, the Artists All Over Museums, a Long Lost Gentileschi Emerges — Artnet

• Introducing CULTURED's 2024 Young Photographers List — Cultured Mag

• Inside Swivel Gallery’s Unorthodox and Inexorable Rise, and More Juicy Art World Gossip — Artnet

• Jennie C. Jones by Lauren Haynes — BOMB

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