🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

Thomas Schütte

📍 MoMA

⏰ closing Jan 18

❓ the most comprehensive U.S. exhibit of Schütte’s career, exploring the variety of his work, from vivid ceramics to intimate watercolors

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Members have a last look Jan 19-20

Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies

📍 Brooklyn Museum

⏰ closing Jan 19

❓ featuring over 150 works, namely sculptures and prints, highlighting Catlett’s lifelong commitment to social justice and political activism

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Artist’s Eye: Yashua Klos on Elizabeth Catlett — $25 tickets for the closing weekend tour

In the Galleries

We have no major closures in the galleries to report.

🎉 Just In

No new museum exhibitions to report.

In the Galleries

Louise Nevelson: Shadow Dance

📍 Pace | 25th St

⏰ opening Jan 17, with a reception on Jan 16, 6-8pm

❓placing Nevelson’s iconic monochromatic sculptures in dialogue with her collages, made in the 1970s and ‘80s

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ ✚ Richard Misrach: CARGO, exhibiting poignant, large-scale color photographs, opens the same day

Gwen O’Neil: A Glimmer in the Shade

📍 Almine Rech | Tribeca

⏰ opening Jan 17 with a reception at 6-8pm

❓ paintings of pointillistic technique, inspired by nature’s beauty and contradictions

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Nicola Tyson: I am a teapot

📍 Petzel | 25th St

⏰ opening Jan 16

❓ new evocative paintings blending humor, theatricality, and rigor to explore queer subjectivity

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Roger-Edgar Gillet: Dinner Party explores his shift to expressionist figuration in the ‘60s with haunting portraits and more, opening at the same location

Raoul De Keyser: Touch Game

📍 David Zwirner | 19th St

⏰ opening Jan 16 with a reception at 6-8pm

❓ showcasing an expansive selection of De Keyser’s abstract oeuvre

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Giorgio Morandi: Masterpieces from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation, featuring 50 works across the artist’s six-decade career, opens at the 20th St location on the same day with a reception

soundwalk collective & patti smith: correspondences

📍 kurimanzutto | 20th St

⏰ opening Jan 16

❓ a collaboration turning field recordings from significant landscapes into immersive soundscapes — there’ll be eight audiovisual works

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Listen to the playlist created by Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye for session #6 of Café la Habana. 

In addition:

• Plaster and concrete works exploring psychological spaces: Jill Downen: Weightless opens at Nunu Fine Art on Jan 17

• Ecofeminist art exploring lifecycles and biopolitics: Faith Wilding: Inside, Outside, Alive in the Shell opens on Jan 17 with a reception at 5-7pm

• Poetic sculptures with playful undertones: Lucia Nogueira: Ends Without End opens at Luhring Augustine on Jan 17 with a reception on Jan 16,6-8pm

• Emotive Paintings of domestic and natural scenes: Ulala Imai: CALM opens at Karma on Jan 16 with a reception at 6-8pm

• Sculptures x Japanese folklore featuring cats: Setsuko: Kingdom of Cats opens at Gagosian on Jan 15 with a reception

• Paintings and sculpture reflecting on contemporary existence: Michelangelo Pistoletto: To Step Beyond opens at Levy Gorvy Dayan on Jan 16

• Vibrant abstractions: Chris Martin: Speed of Light opens at Timothy Taylor on Jan 16 with a reception

🗓️ Events of the week

• Drop-In Drawing (MoMA, Jan 17, 5:30-7:30pm) — held in Gallery 214: War Remembers Me and featuring short, artist-led demos

• Drawing from a Distance (Noguchi Museum via Zoom, Jan 20, 7:30-9pm) — virtual program where we can practice drawing techniques and develop a sketch of scenes of the museum

• Art History Study Group — Byzantine and Contemporary Art in Dialogue (The Met via Zoom, Jan 1215 3-4:30pm) — join two Met curators to discuss Afterlives: Contemporary Art in the Byzantine Crypt

• Close Looking with the Curator: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930 (Guggenheim, Jan 14, 3 pm & 7pm) — tour of the ongoing Orphism exhibit

📚 Further Reading

• Jack Shainman Gallery opens new Tribeca location with monumental Nick Cave show. — Artsy

• From Wall Street to Wall Power: Collector Chad Leat Offers a Guide to Navigating the New York Art Scene — Cultured

• 10 Little-Known Andy Warhol Facts: His Biographer Busts Myths, Solves Mysteries — Artnet

• Will the Art World Go Post-Woke in 2025? — Artnet

• Here's Your Must-Read Field Guide to Dating in the Art World — Cultured

• Painted Printed Matter: Johanna Fateman on Marlon Mullen’s MoMA Debut — Cultured

• Private Parts — Puck News

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