🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100-1900 closes at The Met on Feb 28. Otherwise, no closures to report this week.

In the Galleries

Jaider Esbell

📍 Gladstone 64

⏰ closing March 1

❓Macuxi artist whose work merges Indigenous cosmology with contemporary artist resistance, advocating for Indigenous rights and environmental protection

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Karen Kilimnik, featuring compositions of beaches and coastal landscapes, closes March 1 at Gladstone’s 24th St location

Louise Nevelson: Shadow Dance

📍 Pace Gallery | 25th St

⏰ closing March 1

❓ 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, closes the same day

Raoul De Keyser: Touch Game

📍 David Zwirner | 19th St

⏰ closing March 1

❓ works from the 1980s to the 2000s with delicate, yet dynamic abstractions

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Echoes from the Borderlands: Study Two

📍 Dia Chelsea | 22nd St

⏰ closing March 1

❓ series of captivating sound studies exploring the history of the U.S. — Mexico border

🔗 see exhibit details. 

In addition:

• Challenging gender norms with an electric palette: Nicola Tyson: I am a teapot closes at Petzel Gallery on March 1

• Bold geometric forms: Etel Adnan: Thie Beautiful Light closes at White Cube on March 1

• Atmospheric, pointillistic paintings: Gwen O’Neil: A Glimmer in the Shade closes at Almine Rech on March 1

• Bronze/ceramic cat sculptures: Setsuko: Kingdom of Cats closes at Gagosian on March 1

• Ceramic sculptures reflecting on domestic life: Stephanie H. Shih: Domestic Bliss closes at Alexander Berggruen on Feb 26

🎉 Just In

In the Museums

Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200

📍 Brooklyn Museum

⏰ opening Feb 28

❓three-part exhibition featuring historic and contemporary works in celebration of the institution’s legacy, as part of the Brooklyn Museum’s 200th anniversary

🔗 see exhibit details. 

➕ Create sketches of the exhibit at Weekend Art: Saturday Sketch Club on March 15

Bequest of Mary Childs Draper, 77.11. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum) 

In the Galleries

Tyler Mitchell: Ghost Images

📍 Gagosian | 24th St

⏰ opening Feb 27, with opening reception at 6-8pm

❓new photographs engaging with Southern gothic themes

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Pablo Dávila: Why Did You Take My Watch?

📍 Kasmin Gallery | 10th Ave

⏰ opening Feb 27, with opening reception at 6-8pm

❓employing a visual language to encapsulate complex systems, theories, and ideas

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Robert Indiana: The Source, 1959-1969 with iconic American art opens the same day

Joan Jonas: Empty Rooms

📍 Gladstone | 21st St

⏰ opening March 1, with reception 3-6pm

❓sculptures, works on paper, and video, inviting viewers to contemplate the throughlines that connect familiarity with loss

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Zach Harris: Studio Visit

📍 Perrotin | Orchard St

⏰ opening Feb 28

❓ornate carved panel paintings and large-scale sculptural forms drawn from philosophy, architecture, and cosmology

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Shim Moon-Seup: A Certain Scenery with beautiful seascapes opens the same day

In addition:

• Experimental printmaking: Dieter Roth: Islandscapes opens at Hauser & Wirth on Feb 25, with an opening reception at 6-8pm

• Abstract expressionism: Paul Jenkins opens at Timothy Taylor on Feb 27 with a reception at 6-8pm

• Group exhibit on the meaning of the rose: A Rose Is opens at The Flag Art Foundation on Feb 27

🗓️ Events of the week

• “Dancing an Orphist ‘Egypt’: The Delaunays and Artistic Imperialism” (Guggenheim, Feb 26, 6:30-8:30 pm) — lecture on the Orphism exhibit, along with after-hours exhibition viewing

• Piet Mondrian: Artist, Man, Myth (Guggenheim, Mar 4, 6:30-8:30 pm) — lively discussion on the life and work of artist Piet Mondrian, followed by a viewing of Piet Mondrian: Ever further

📚 Further Reading

• Art Adviser. Friend. Thief. — The NYTimes

• Who’s In and Who’s Out at Frieze New York—and More Art Industry News — Artnet

• [Podcast] The Glorious, Tortured Imagination of Caspar David Friedrich — Artnet

• The Architect Making His Mark on New York’s Art Spaces from Bushwick to Broadway — Artnet

• Screen Time, Supernovas, and Ghost Pianos: Our Critics on What to See Now in New York — Cultured Mag

• A Modest Midseason Auction Report — Puck News

• Larry Gagosian Talked the Future with 60 Minutes: ‘I’m Not Ready to Pass the Reins’ — ARTNews

• Michelangelo Pistoletto receives nomination for 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. — Artsy

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