🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350

📍 The Met

⏰ closing Jan 26

❓highlighting the influential role of Sienese artists in shaping early Western painting during the Italian Renaissance, through over 100 works

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The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition

📍 Brooklyn Museum

⏰ closing Jan 26

❓showcasing the exceptional talent of 200 artists who have lived or worked in Brooklyn over the past 5 years, as a part of the museum’s 200th anniversary

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In the Galleries

Jeff Wall

📍 Gagosian | 24th St

⏰ closing Jan 25

❓new pictures exploring memory, societal critique, and the boundaries between the real and constructed via distinctive blending of photography with elements of painting, cinema, and literature

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Svenja Deininger: Calvairate

📍 Marianne Boesky | 24th St

⏰ closing Jan 24

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

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Hunter Reynolds / Dean Sameshima: Promiscuous Rage

📍 PPOW Gallery | 392 Broadway

⏰ closing Jan 25

❓two-person, intergenerational exhibition concerned with the preservation and celebration of queer histories through photo-weavings, paintings, and installation

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🎉 Just In

Pirouette: Turning Points in Design

📍 MoMA

⏰ opening Jan 26, with member previews Jan 24-25

❓featuring objects that embodied experiments with new materials, technologies, and concepts, thereby having a deep impact on design and the world

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In the Galleries

Cy Twombly

📍 Gagosian | 980 Madison

⏰ opening Jan 23, with a reception at 6-8pm

❓paintings, a sculpture, and works on paper, including never-before-seen pieces, gestural abstractions, and poetic references

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✚ Thomas Schütte: Major Sculptures, exhibiting monumental sculptures from one of the most significant sculptors of our time, opens on Jan 22 with a reception at 6-8pm at 21st St

Etel Adnan: This Beautiful Light

📍 White Cube | 1002 Madison Ave

⏰ opening Jan 22 with a reception on the 21st, 3-7pm

❓ 20 years of tapestries, paintings, works on paper, and leporellos from a leading voice of Arab-American culture

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Stephanie H. Shih: Domestic Bliss

📍 Alexander Berggruen | 1018 Madison Ave

⏰ opening Jan 22 with a reception at 5-7pm

❓ hand-painted ceramic sculptures of ‘90s consumer goods, exploring the tensions of family life

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In addition:

• Examining race through an unpublished musical score alongside neon sculptures and paintings: Julius Eastman & Glenn Ligon opens on Jan 24 with a reception at 6-8pm at 52 Walker

• Exploring the life of Octavia E. Butler through a multidisciplinary lens: Shaper of God: American Artist opens at Pioneer Works on Jan 24

🗓️ Events of the week

• Lunar New Year Festival: The Year of the Snake (The Met, Jan 25,12-5pm) — performances, interactive activities, artist-led workshops

• An Evening in Siena with Writer Hisham Matar (The Met, Jan 23, 6-7pm) — reflecting on the significance of Siena and its great painters

• Works & Process: Miami City Ballet (Guggenheim, Jan 25, 3 pm & 7pm) — first look at two new ballets premiering at Miami City Ballet

📚 Further Reading

• Discover the Bold Life of the Librarian Who Built the Collection of New York's Morgan Library — Cultured

• The Way of Christie’s — Puck News

• Art Museum Directors Increasingly Fear Censorship, But Few Have a Plan to Deal With It: Report — Artnet

• David Lynch’s Art Is the Key to Understanding His Cryptic Films — ArtNews

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