Museum Happenings of the Week

Issue #72: March 18 - 24

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Art Pulse NYC
March 18, 2025

This issue will only cover museum openings/closing — back to regular programming next week.

🚨 Last Chance

Final days to the short-lived Marianna Valencia: Jacklean (in rehearsal) series at The MoMA, closing March 23.

🎉 Just In

Jack Whitten: The Messenger

📍 MoMA

⏰ opening March 23, member previews Mar 20-22

❓>175 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, developed through pioneering techniques and unconventional tools, which confront racial prejudice and technological change

Jack Whitten. Atopolis: For Édouard Glissant. 2014. Acrylic on canvas, 8 panels, overall 124 1/2 × 248 1/2″ (316.2 × 631.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the generosity of Sid R. Bass, Lonti Ebers, Agnes Gund, Henry and Marie-Josée Kravis, Jerry Speyer and Katherine Farley, and Daniel and Brett Sundheim. © 2025 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Photo by Jonathan Muzikar.

Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie

📍 The Met

⏰ opening March 25

❓reimagining the story of European porcelain through a feminist lens, specifically exploring how this material shaped cultural stereotypes around Asian women, through 200 works from 16th-century Europe to contemporary installations by Asian and Asian American women artists

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