Heading to Mexico City for ZONAMACO? ✈️

Issue #66: Feb 4 - 10

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Art Pulse NYC
February 04, 2025

📌 Highlights

🚨 Final days to see Edges of Ailey at The Whitney.

🎉  A major exhibit on Caspar David Friedrich (artist of the renowned ‘Wanderer above the Sea of Fog’) opens at The Met. Also, the major Christine Sun Kim exhibit opens at Whitney. Super excited for these!

💖 Our read of the week is: At Long Last, the Frick Gets a Reopening Date (Artnet).

📢 Free Days at Noguchi and Whitney are coming up!

🌎 It’s time for Mexico City’s ZONAMACO, happening Feb 5-9. Here are the Must-See Shows from Artsy, The Art Newspaper, and Observer.

🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

Edges of Ailey

📍 The Whitney

⏰ closing Feb 9

❓first large-scale exhibition to celebrate the life, dances, influences, and legacy of artist and choreographer Alvin Ailey

➕ As part of the performance series in conjunction with the exhibition, Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born: let slip, hold sway 

Installation View of Edges of Ailey (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 25, 2024 - February 9, 2025). Photograph by Jason Lowrie/BFA.com © BFA 2024

In addition, Celebrating the Year of the Snake closes at the Met on Feb 10, featuring works illustrating the role of the snake in Chinese culture.

In the Galleries

Lubaina Himid: Make Do and Mend

📍 The Flag Art Foundation

⏰ closing Feb 8

❓featuring two new bodies of work, Strategy Paintings and Aunties, exploring power, material history, and social engagement

➕ Review from the Brooklyn Rail

➕➕ Spotlight: Louis Fratino is also closing on Feb 8

Feliciano Centurión: Sol Naciente

📍 Ortuzar Projects

⏰ closing Feb 8

❓mingling regional folk arts with queer aesthetics and humor through readymade blankets

In addition:

🎉 Just In

In the Museums

Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature

📍 The Met

⏰ opening Feb 8

❓the first comprehensive exhibit dedicated to Friedrich in the U.S. in honor of the 250th anniversary of his birth, featuring German Romantic landscape paintings exploring the relationship between nature and the inner self

➕ Met Expert Talks on the exhibit — Feb 13 at 3 pm

Caspar David Friedrich “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog” | Public Domain

Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night

📍 Whitney

⏰ opening Feb 8, member previews Feb 5-7

❓drawings, site-specific murals, paintings, video installations, and sculptures incorporating sound, language, and complexities of communication — for the artist’s first major museum survey

Christine Sun Kim, All. Day., 2012. Marker, pastel, and charcoal on paper, 38 1/2 × 50 in. (97.8 × 127 cm). Private Collection. © Christine Sun Kim. Courtesy François Ghebaly Gallery and WHITE SPACE

Christine Sun Kim, The Star-Spangled Banner, 2020. Charcoal on paper, 49 × 49 in. (124.46 × 124.46 cm). Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapoli; Miriam and Erwin Kelen Acquisition Fund for Drawings, 2021. © Christine Sun Kim

In the Galleries

Joshua Petker: Artaud’s Shoe

📍 Rachel Uffner

⏰ opening Feb 7, with a reception 6-8pm

❓12 new works blurring figuration and abstraction, creating fantastical dreamworlds

✚ Lines and planes, exploring the potential of form, line, and color, opens the same day

In addition:

🗓️ Events of the week

📚 Further Reading

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