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In the Museums

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📍 The Jewish Museum

⏰ closing Jan 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

Jadé Fadojutimi: DWELVE: A Goosebump in Memory

📍 Gagosian | 980 Madison

⏰ closing Dec 21

❓ new large-scale paintings and works on paper exploring identity, emotion, and experience through abstract compositions

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ The Street closes on Dec 19 in the UES

✚✚ Katharina Grosse: Pie Sell, Lee Slip, Eel Lips closes Dec 21 in the UES

Jammie Holmes: Morning Thoughts

📍 Marianne Boesky | 24th St

⏰ closing Dec 21

❓ exploration of love, loss, and resilience through large-scale floral paintings

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Robert Frank: Hope Makes Visions

📍 Pace | 25th St

⏰ closing Dec 21

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

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Pam Evelyn: Frame of Mind and Adolph Gottlieb: Vital Images close Dec 21 at the same location

Francesco Clemente: Summer Love in the Fall

📍 Lévy Gorvy Dayan | 64th St

⏰ closing Dec 21

❓ large-scale works grounded in introspection and personal connection with themes of love and eros

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Andy Warhol: Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century closes Dec 21 at the same location

Hiroki Tsukada: The Days of Humans

📍 Petzel | 25th St

⏰ closing Dec 21

❓ eight new bionic hand-drawn portraits inspired by science fiction, manga, and digital sculpture

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Jenny Morgan: No Endings For the Wild

📍 Anat Ebgi | Broadway

⏰ closing Dec 21

❓ exploring ascendance, observation, and impermanence rooted in dualities between the physical and spiritual, with recurring motifs like shadowy figures and textured elements

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Angela Lane: Phantom Light closes Dec 21 at the same location

In addition:

• Fancis Alÿs: The Gibraltar Projects and Noah Davis: Ancient Region closes at David Zwirner on Dec 18

• Ian Davenport: Tides and Elliott Puckette: Unfolding close at Kasmin Gallery on Dec 19

• Jim Hodges: Ceremony and Brook Hsu: The Oklahoma Nature Theater closes at Gladstone on Dec 20

• wangshui closes at kurimanzutto on Dec 20

• Clementine Keith-Roach: New statue closes at PPOW on Dec 21

• Carole Vanderlinden, Peter McGough: Alphabet, and Ouattara Watts: ‘90s Paintings close at Karma Gallery on Dec 21

• Sara Cwynar: Baby Blue Benzo closes at 52 Walker on Dec 21

• Kim MacConnel: Slice of Life closes at Luhring Augustine on Dec 21

• Jesper Just: Interfears, Alain Jacquet & James Rosenquist, and Light of Winter close at Perrotin on Dec 21

🎉 Just In

No new museum exhibitions to report.

In the Galleries

Alchemyverse: Networks of Kisses

📍 Nunu Fine Art | Broome St

⏰ opening Dec 18

❓ experimental artistic expressions from Asia and the Asian diaspara, created by the art collective Alchemyverse

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ reception on Dec 18, 6-8pm

🗓️ Events of the week

• The S.E.M. Ensemble (Paula Cooper Gallery, Dec 18, 8pm, $20-25) — celebrating the Year of Czech Music, highlighting connections between John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Czech composers

📚 Further Reading

• 2024’s Rising Stars: 5 Emerging Artists Who Made a Lasting Impression — Artnet

• Best Art of 2024 — The NYTimes

• Met Museum Unveils Design for New Modern Wing — The NYTimes

• The Year in Art Books: Our Critics Pick Their Favorite Titles — Cultured

• Conceptual artist Lorraine O’Grady dies at 90. — Artsy

• [Podcast] WangShui & Maryam Hoseini — Voices of kurimanzutto

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