🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

No major exhibit closures to report.

In the Galleries

Oscar Yi Hou: The beat of life

📍 James Fuentes | 52 White St

⏰ closing Nov 16

❓ a style blending naturalism, cultural critique, and homoerotic symbolism, as yi Hou addresses the intersections of East Asian identity, queerness, and U.S. imperialism through portraiture

🔗 see exhibit details. 

In addition:

• Hannah van Bart: Inner Homeland (paintings) closes at Marianne Boesky on Nov 16

🎉 Just In

In the Museums

Solid Gold

📍 Brooklyn Museum

⏰ opening Nov 15

❓ over 500 pieces, including ancient artworks, contemporary haute coutre, jewelry, and more, exploring both gold’s beauty and the human and environmental costs of gold extraction

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ on Nov 14, have a first look at the exhibit at Dance Party: Solid Gold

In the Galleries

Robert Frank: Hope Makes Visions

📍Pace | 25th St

⏰ opening Nov 8

❓ Frank’s works from the 1970s onward, featuring experimental multimedia pieces and unseen photographs

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Opening Reception on Nov 14, 6-8pm

✚✚ Adolph Gottlieb: Vital Images (abstract paintings) and Irving Penn: Kinship (photographic portraits) opens the same day, same location

Noah Davis: Ancient Reign

📍 David Zwirner | 69th St

⏰ opening Nov 13

❓ works on paper which provide insight into the wide-ranging interests, influences, and ideas that inform Davis’ paintings

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Katharina Grosse: Pie Sell, Lee Slip, Eel Lips

📍 Gagosian | Park & 75th

⏰ opening Nov 12

❓ new dynamic, large-scale paintings which reimagine color and space, created from using spray guns

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Opening Reception on Nov 12, 6-8 pm

In addition:

• Jim Hodges: Ceremony (installation) opens at Gladstone on Nov 14 with an opening reception at 6-8pm

• Ingrid Donat: Ancestral opens at Carpenters Workshop Gallery on Nov 13 (preview Nov 14, 6-8pm), with functional art

• Sanié Bokhari: Shaam-e-disco opens at Swivel Gallery (Bushwick) on Nov 14

• Freakydeak Montreal Chique opens at Underdonk Gallery (Bushwick) on Nov 14 with a reception 6-8pm

• Henni Alftan: Stop Making Sense opens at Karma (26th St) on Nov 14 with a reception

🗓️ Events of the week

• Michael Krebber on Andy Warhol (Dia Chelsea, Nov 13, 6:30 pm, free) — part of the Artists on Artists Lecture Series; need to RSVP

• The Atelier with Alina Cho: Thom Browne (The Met, Nov 15, 6-7pm, $35) — join journalist Alina Cho for a conversation with fashion designer Tho Browne

📚 Further Reading

• Artists vanessa german and Tschabalala Self Unpack ‘The Language of Material and Soul’ That Informs Both of Their Practices — Cultured Mag

• [Podcast] Perception vs. Truth: Charles Gaines with Grace Wales Bonner — Edge of Reason Podcast (The Atlantic x Hauser & Wirth)

• This Taiwanese Calligrapher Brings a Message of Freedom to the Met — The NYTimes

• Could A.I. Solve Some of the Major Issues Facing Museums?— Artnet

• What Trenton Doyle Hancock Learned From Philip Guston — The NYTimes

• At Salon Art + Design, Nature and Beauty Come Center Stage — The NYTimes

• The Exhibit That Will Change How You See Impressionism — The Atlantic

• 2024: A Space Odyssey — Airmail

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