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Back-to-Back at the Guggenheim: Orphism’s Farewell, Beatriz Milhazes' Debut

Issue #70: March 4 - 10

📌 Highlights

🚨 It’s your last chance to see the major Orphism exhibit at the Guggenheim and Allison Janae Hamilton at Marianne Boesky.

🎉 Lots opening… Beatriz Milhazes at the Guggenheim and The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt at the Jewish Museum. Exhibits showcasing Julio Galán, Richard Learoyd, Léon Spilliaert, and much much will open in the galleries this week.

💖 Our read of the week is: A New New Museum, for Humans and Robots and Everyone in Between (The NYTimes), noting the reopening of the New Museum with an exhibit tackling timely questions about technological change.

📢 Stop by the Conversation and Book Signing with Tavares Strachan in light of the new exhibit Travas Strachan: Starless Midnight at Marian Goodman.

🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910 - 1930

📍 Guggenheim

closing March 9

over 90 works examining the vibrant abstract art of Orphism, with artists like Robert & Sonia Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, and more investigating the transformative possibilities of color, form, and motion

In addition, Ink and Ivory: Indian Drawings and Photographs Selected with James closes today, March 4, at The Met on Feb 28.

In the Galleries

Owen Fu: Own Alone

📍 PPOW

closing March 8

surreal domestic scenes cast in a nocturnal glow where the distinction between reality and dreams disintegrates

Owen Fu, “The Bird, the Shadow, and the Thorns”, 2024

Allison Janae Hamilton: Celestine

📍 Marianne Boesky

closing March 8

exploring the interplay between land and sky, incorporating sculptures, paintings, photographs, and film

Serge Alain Nitegeka: Configurations in Black, showcasing new paintings and sculptures of geometric abstraction, also closes March 8 at the gallery

 

In addition:

🎉 Just In

In the Museums

Beatriz Milhazes: Rigor and Beauty

📍 Guggenheim

opening March 7

mural-like, abstract paintings developed through the innovative technique “monotransfer

The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt

📍 The Jewish Museum

opening March 7

paintings, prints, and drawings representing the biblical Book of Esther made by Rembrandt van Rijn and his contemporaries

 

In the Galleries

julio galán: a collaborative exhibition between luhring agustine chelsea & kurimanzutto

📍 kurimanzutto & lurhing augustine chelsea

opening Mar 6, with opening reception at 6-8pm

considered the preeminent Mexican painter of his generation, Galán’s multidisciplinary practice addresses issues of identity, gender, culture, and social constructs in works that layer self-representation with larger themes of cultural and sexual difference

 

Richard Learoyd: A Loathing of Clocks and Mirrors

📍 Pace Gallery

opening Mar 7

portrait, still life, and landscapes photographs produced with his custom-built camera obscura between 2018 and 2025

Richard Learoyd, Untitled Portrait, 2024 © Richard Learoyd, courtesy Pace Gallery

Zorawar Sidhu and Rob Swainston

📍 Petzel

opening March 7, with reception 6-8pm

prints featuring woodcuts, screenprints, and etchings by the artist duo; the works represent both social and natural landscapes in the context of climate disaster, political activism, and global events. 

Zorawar Sidhu and Rob Swainston “Raft”, 2023-2025 | Photo: Zorawar Sidhu. Courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York

Léon Spilliaert

📍 David Zwirner

opening Mar 5, reception 6-8pm

haunting self-portraits, brooding coastal landscapes, and Symbolist-infused dreamscapes, capturing solitude and mystery with an enigmatic dark palette

Léon Spilliaert, “Dame au pince-nez (Lady with Lorgnette)”, 1907. | Courtesy of Agnews, Brussels and David Zwirner

In addition:

🗓️ Events of the week

📚 Further Reading

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