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Issue #7: Nov 16 - 22
Art Pulse NYC
November 16, 2023
Hey there,
New York legend Fran Lebowitz always has a comedic anecdote to share, the latest being about a Rembrandt in the Met Collection. Check it out for a laugh!
🚨 Last Chance
In the Museums
Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas
📍 Brooklyn Museum
⏰ closing on November 19th
❓works from a 2,800 year range illustrating the impact of climate change on Indigenous communities
📏 medium exhibit (>60 works)
In the Galleries
No major exhibits are closing in the coming days.
🎉 Just In
In the Museums
Look Again: European Paintings 1300-1800
📍 Metropolitan Museum of Art
⏰ opening November 20th
❓45 galleries are reopening, after a 5-year project, now including new acquisitions and a particular focus on women artists and Europe’s interactions with New Spain and Peru
📏 massive exhibit (>700 works)
➕ if you go, check out some of exhibits (e.g. Manet/Degas, Cecily Brown) we mentioned last week
Africa & Byzantium
📍 Metropolitan Museum of Art
⏰ opening November 19th
❓artistic contributions — including mosaic, sculpture, metalwork, and so on — of medieval African kingdoms and their meaningful interactions with the Byzantine Empire
Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines
📍 Brooklyn Museum
⏰ opening November 17th
❓the first exhibit to survey the five-decade history of zines in North America, featuring nearly a thousand zines and related artworks
Kathleen Hanna “Bikini Kill”, no. 2, 1991 | Source
Grace Wales Bonner — Spirit Movers
📍 MoMA
⏰ opening November 18th
❓artworks exploring sound, movement, and style in the African diaspora
📏 medium exhibit (>50 works)
➕ stop by the recently opened Estrela and Lê exhibits, as well as the major Ed Ruscha and Picasso exhibits
In the Galleries
Tim Eitel: something there is somewhere outside
📍 Pace | 540 W 25th
⏰ opening on Nov 16
❓ 8 new paintings that contemplate the interplay between art, space, and time, responding to elements of the gallery setting
➕ if you go, don’t forget to check out the new gallery exhibits I mentioned last week (read here).
David Diao: On Barnett Newman, 1991 - 2023
📍 Greene Naftali | 508 W 26th, 8th Fl.
⏰ opening on Nov 17
❓ showcasing the 6 decade journey of Diao, and specifically highlighting his interest in the Abstract Expressionist Barnett Newman
Additionally, we wanted to note a few key exhibits we missed, that opened last week:
Alex Katz
📍 Gladstone | 515 W 24th St
⏰ opened November 8th
❓works of legendary artist Katz, whose pieces are characterized by their flatness and emphasis on color and form
*note, this video is on a recent exhibition of Katz at the Guggenheim
Robert Ryman: 1961 - 1964
📍 David Zwirner | 537 W 20th St
⏰ opened November 9th
❓early paintings of Ryman marking his exploration of painting through experiments with materials, the relationship between the frame and the wall, and the use of the square format
Ryman Untitled c. 1962 | Source
Derek Fordjour: Score
📍 Petzel | 520 W 25th St
⏰ opened November 10th
❓an interdisciplinary exhibition exploring competition and personal memories across paintings, sculpture, and a choreographic performance titled “Arena” created with choreographer Sidra Bell
➕ Petzel also recently opened (Nov. 15) an exhibit - Time Travel: Italian Masters through a Contemporary Lens - at their 35 E 67th St location
💖 Ongoing Favorites
For a blend of figuration & abstraction: Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, closing in early December
To feel like you’re in a dream: Louise Bonnet: 30 Ghosts at Gagosian’s 541 W 24th st location, closing late December
To see the foundational paintings of a sculpture artist: Ruth Asawa Through Line at the Whitney, closing January 2024
To see the works of iconic feminist: Judy Chicago: Herstory at the New Museum, closing in January 2024
To explore the relationship of two Impressionist legends: Manet/Degas at the Met, closing in January 2024
For intimate African American portraiture: Henry Taylor: B Side at the Whitney, closing in January 2024
📢 Editor’s Updates
This past weekend we visited The Other Art Fair - the Fair showcased affordable, original artworks of 120 independent artists. The event’s goal is to deviate away from the elitism often associated with the art world.
We saw many incredible talents, featuring a range of styles and mediums. Since the event, we connected with several of our favorite artists, to hear about their work directly and to share their perspectives with you all.
Gabriel Zea | Seattle, WA
Zea’s work is in the style of representational figuration, and is painted in oil. You can find his work on his website or instagram!
My work is a meditation on masculinity and how it’s depicted, represented, and understood in western culture. I’m interested in finding ways to express its toxic nature, its polarizing seductiveness, and its inevitable intermingling with femininity.
Self-Captured
Unapiel | Guadalajara, MX
Unapiel is a surrealist-abstract painter, who, in addition to visual art, creates performance art, sculpture, and writing. Stay up to date with her works through instagram! (On a personal note, we were drawn to her pieces out of our personal love for grapefruits. Una’s description and depictions enriched our perspective on the already lovely fruit.)
“I am hooked on what a pulse might look like on the inside. Finding and feeling my pulse always brings some kind of awareness to my existence. I can visualize the movement from the inside extending towards the outside and I try to paint with this notion. Every time, I want to follow the waves it creates, I want to leave my body or expand it, its pulling me, and I can feel myself everywhere. Just, beyond my body. I look for my pulse to bring me back to where I’m physically at.
The grapefruit is such a big, attractive, sticky, stimulating, energized, acid, bittersweet sphere. I find life in it and specially through it. I like to think I have toronja (grapefruit) eyes.”
Self-Captured
Sarah Verardo | Providence, RI
Verardo’s pieces are still lifes, with tinges of abstraction; they’re painted in oil. Check out her instagram and website to see more of her pieces!
“I consider my work to be an expression of gratitude for where I am from and also a reflection of where I am today... Whether it’s a painting of surfers waiting patiently in the water, or an intricate study of one seemingly unexceptional shell, my work is meant as gesture of appreciation for the ordinary pieces of time and place.”
Arlina Cai | Brooklyn, NY
Cai paints abstract, borderline surrealist, pieces on raw canvas. Explore more of her works via her instagram or website!
“I paint to stop thinking and start feeling. My art is my inner work.”
Self-Captured
Stephanie Serpick | New York
“My work concerns the themes of isolation and grief, using the bed to represent a safe place and a place of healing. I hope my work can be understood and appreciated by all, since we all go through hard times in our own ways.”
Self-Captured
If you’re in the market for purchasing art - all of these artists are selling! Many of the artists at the fair had affordable prints (at around $100- $200) and canvas works (anywhere from $500 to $5000).
(A few more incredible artists you should check out include: Phoebe Quin Kong, Monica Lee Rich, Ella Hepner, Jessmyn Go, Erna Uçar. All of the artists from the event are listed here.)
Enjoy the exhibits!
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