🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

No major exhibit closures to report.

In the Galleries

Sanié Bokhari: Shaam-e-disco

📍 Swivel Gallery | Bushwick

⏰ closing Dec 8

❓ vivd paintings of figures in a transitional state, exploring themes of displacement, cultural identity, and femininity

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Ishi Glinsky: Duration of Being Known

📍 PPOW | Soho

⏰ closing Dec 7

❓ vibrant paintings depicting abstracted versions of Indigenous craftsmanship, inspired from the artist’s Tohono O’odham heritage

🔗 see exhibit details. 

In addition:

• Samantha Joy Groff: Prophecy of the End (eery paintings) closes at Nicodim (Soho) on Dec 7

• Freakydeak Montreal Chique (group show) closes at Underdonk (Bushwick) on Dec 8

🎉 Just In

In the Museums

Tel Dan Stele

📍 The Jewish Museum

⏰ opening Dec 5

❓ displaying the 9th century BCE stone fragment inscribed with the earliest Biblical mention of the House of David, along with other ancient artifacts, highlighting millennia of Jewish culture and history

🔗 see exhibit details. 

In the Galleries

No major exhibit openings to report in the galleries.

🗓️ Events of the week

• Second Sundays at The Whitney (Whitney, Dec 8, All day) — free admission & art making

• Artist Talk: He Said, She Said (Virtual, Dec 7, 4pm) — 17 artists participating in the Artsy-exclusive online exhibition from Amos Eno Gallery, discussing communication, gender dynamics, memory, and nuances of truth

• Creative Convening — Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now — (The Met, 10:30am - 5pm) — conversations, presentations, and performances related to the aforementioned exhibition

• The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism Roundtable (Arts and Letters, Dec 7, 4-5:30pm) — conversation reflecting on the positions of Black artists and criticism today; reservation required

• Online Course: Color Theory (Guggenheim, Dec 4-18, 6-7:30pm, $155) — explore techniques and approaches to looking at and working with color

📚 Further Reading

• Peter Doig Finds the Soul and Menace of a Modernist Gem — The NYTimes

• The Hort Legacy: How New York’s Boldest Art Collectors Are Preserving Their Vision — Artnet

• Celebrating the Art Movement That Wasn’t — The NYTimes

• Rare Paintings by John Kacere, Whose Work Inspired Sofia Coppola, Go on View in New York — Artnet

• 7 Top Miami Collectors Reveal the Artists They're Coveting — Cultured

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