🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

No major exhibit closures to report.

In the Galleries

Francis Picabia: Femmes

📍 Michael Werner | UWS

⏰ closing Nov 23

❓ the French modernist’s paintings of women, highlighting his subversive approach to the female form

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Alyina Zaidi: Lost in the belly of a whale

📍 Alexander Berggruen | UWS

⏰ closing Nov 20

❓ surreal paintings blending nature, textiles, and mythology

🔗 see exhibit details. 

In addition:

• Julie Hamisky: Transference (sculptural mirrors & more) closes at Kasmin Gallery on Nov 23

🎉 Just In

In the Museums

Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876— Now

📍 Metropolitan Museum of Art

⏰ opened Nov 17 (sorry for missing it!)

❓ exploring how Black artists have engaged with ancient Egypt across 150 years of art, through almost 200 works

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Flight into Egypt: Kaneza Schaal (Nov 22, 7 pm) — live performance as part of the exhibition

In the Galleries

Meghann Stephenson: Swan Dive

📍Half Gallery | E 4th St

⏰ opening Nov 20

❓ paintings exploring self-destruction as a form of agency, inviting viewers to consider power, choice, and possibility

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Opening Reception on Nov 20, 6-8pm

Svenja Deininger: Calvairate

📍 Marianne Boesky | W 24th

⏰ opening Nov 22

❓ new abstract works of rich colors, created through layering and revising forms

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Opening Reception on Nov 22, 6-8pm

In addition:

• Nanette Carter: Simply Semiotics opens at Berry Campbell on Nov 21 with a reception at 6-8pm

• Mark Leckey: 3 Songs from the Liver opens at Gladstone on Nov 21 with an opening reception at 6-8pm

🗓️ Events of the week

• An Evening with Artist Ton Yang-Tze (The Met, Nov 21, 6:30pm) — conversation about their Great Hall Commission

• Gabriel Chaile: Centro Cultural Ambulante (Guggenheim, Nov 21, 7 pm, $15) — Argentinian artist Chaile will reveal new sculptural works in the rotunda

• Book Launch: ‘Paul Cadmus: 49 Drawings’ (Hauser & Wirth, Nov 21, 5-7pm) — celebration of the lavish portfolio of Cadmus at the Ursula Bookshop

• Ibrahim Mahama Talk (Dia Chelsea, Nov 21, 6 pm, free but registration recommended) — Mahama will discuss his artistic and community-oriented practice

• Art History Study Group — A Travelogue from Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert (Met Cloisters, Nov 20, 4-5:30pm, $30) — join Met curator for a close look at the monastery Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert

• Trio in Raven Chacon’s Aviary (Arts and Letters, Nov 23, 4-5pm) — musicians performing in the North Gallery, where Aviary, a sonic environment of bird calls, is installed

• Record Launch & Talk: Outer Spaceways Incorporated - Kronos Quartet & Friends meet Sun Ra (Hauser & Wirth, Nov 22, 7-9pm) — commemorating the launch at the Ursula Bookshop

📚 Further Reading

• MoMA Corrects the Record in a New Show: It Was Women Who Created the Museum (and Other Major Art Institutions, Too) — Cultured Mag

• The Most Influential People in Art 2024 — The Observer

• Ruscha, Pollock, and Prince, Oh My! Our Picks From the New York Auctions — Artnet

• Tennis Star Venus Williams and Artist Titus Kaphar Rectify a Missed Connection In This Candid Conversation — Cultured Mag

• Orphism Is Back, Full of Optimistic Colors and Unanswered Questions — Artnet

• Keeping Up With the Neuendorfs — Puck

• At the Met, Black Artists Salute an Enduring Affinity With Egypt — The NYTimes

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