🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

Mood of the moment: Gaby Aghion and the house of Chloé

📍 The Jewish Museum

⏰ closing Feb 18

❓exploring the label’s 70 year history through 150 garments, sketches, and archival documents

🔗 see exhibit details. 

In the Galleries

Thomas Schütte: Major Sculptures

📍 Gagosian | 21st St

⏰ closing Feb 22

❓monumental sculptures from one of the most significant sculptors of our time, using the human figure as a means into aesthetics and culture

🔗 see exhibit details. 

soundwalk collective & patti smith: correspondences

📍 kurimanzutto | 20th St

⏰ closing Feb 22

❓ 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. 

Irving Penn: Kinship

📍 Pace Gallery | 25th St

⏰ closing Feb 22

❓ showcasing iconic photographs from Penn’s 70 year career, highlighting renowned portraits, fashion photography, and a travel series

🔗 see exhibit details. 

In addition:

• Expressionist figurative paintings: Roger-Edgar Gillet: Dinner Party at Petzel closes on Feb 22

• Intimate, surrealist paintings: Ulala Imai: CALM closes at Karma on Feb 22

• Elegant watercolors: Maurie Laurencin: Works from 1905 to 1952 closes at Almine Rech on Feb 22

• Masterful still lifes: Giorgio Morandi: Masterpieces from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation closes at David Zwirner on Feb 22

• Sculpture and installation using found objects: Lucia Nogueira: Ends Without End closes at Luhring Augustine on Feb 22

• Exploring the fluidity between forms, memory, and abstraction: Mathilde Denize: Sound of Figures closes at Perrotin, along with Pieter Vermeersch and Dora Jeridi on Feb 19

🎉 Just In

In the Museums

Neue Sachlichkeit / New Objectivity

📍 Neue Galerie

⏰ opening Feb 20

❓exploring the socially critical Verists and the harmonious Classicists of the New Objectivity movement, reflecting on the cultural and political complexities of the Weimar Republic through paintings, sculpture, photography, and more

🔗 see exhibit details. 

➕ Join the waitlist for the Curator’s Opening Night Lecture (6:30pm)

In the Galleries

No openings to report this week.

🗓️ Events of the week

• Day of Remembrance at Noguchi (Noguchi, Feb 19, 10am-5pm) — reserve free tickets in commemoration of Day of Remembrance

• Architectural Imagination: A Conversation on  Materialized Space  (The Met, Feb 20, 6-7pm) — examine how civic planning and ideas of utopia meet the works of architectural imagination

📚 Further Reading

• An Artist Expands the Landscape of Sound — The NYTimes

• [Video] James Welling in conversation with Simon Baker — Marian Goodman

• Mother Love and Puppy Love, With All Their Twists and Turns — The NYTimes

• For Jack Shainman, Growth Is About Keeping Up With Artist Ambition — Observer

• The Myth of the Mega Advisory — Puck News

• Mexican Modernism Brings Bold Color to the New York Botanical Garden’s Beloved ‘Orchid Show’ — Artnet

• Headed to Los Angeles for Frieze? Here Are 20 Exceptional Shows To See While You’re There — Cultured Mag

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