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Editors’ Picks: 14 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Joan Jonas in Times Square to Art Inspired by Courtroom Dramas

Joan Jonas, <eM>Wolf Light</em> in Times Square. Photo courtesy of Times Square Arts.

Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the New York area. See our picks from around the world below. (Times are all ET unless otherwise noted.)

 

Tuesday, April 19

A stilt walker pours champagne for Liev Schreiber at the Tribeca Ball. Photo courtesy of the New York Academy of Art.

A stilt walker pours champagne for Liev Schreiber at the Tribeca Ball. Photo courtesy of the New York Academy of Art.

1. “Tribeca Ball” at the New York Academy of Art

Every year, the New York Academy of Art throws one of the most unique parties in the art world, opening up its studios and letting students sell their art directly to collectors amid flowing champagne and hors d’oeuvres. The dinner will honor Kenny Scharf, who painted a new mural for the occasion (and who has a solo show opening this at Totah Gallery). If you’re stuck in New York instead of jetting off to Venice this week, this is one party guaranteed to help alleviate FOMO.

Location: New York Academy of Art, 111 Franklin Street, New York

Price: Dinner tickets from $1,500; studio party $300

Time: VIP studio preview and dinner, 6 p.m.–10 p.m.; studio party, 8 p.m.–10 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Wednesday, April 20 and Thursday, April 21

Left: Mette Edvardsen, Black, 2011. Photo: Elly Clarke. Right: Amant, Géza performance space exterior and courtyard at 306 Maujer Street, Brooklyn. Photo: Rafael Gamo. Courtesy SO–IL.

Left: Mette Edvardsen, Black, 2011. Photo: Elly Clarke. Right: Amant, Géza performance space exterior and courtyard at 306 Maujer Street, Brooklyn. Photo: Rafael Gamo. Courtesy SO–IL.

2. “Performative Exhibition: Mette Edvardsen” at Amant, Brooklyn

On Wednesday, the dancer, choreographer, writer, and artist Mette Evardsen will perform her works Black (2011) and No Title (2014) as the first artist invited to Amant’s Compendio Performance Studio. Both pieces were recently featured at the 34th São Paulo Biennale. On Thursday, she’ll present Suppose a Room, a live one-day-only event that collects and revisits materials, spaces, and physical gestures of past performances.

Location: Amant, 315 Maujer Street, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Price: Free with registration

Time: Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.; Thursday, viewing 12 p.m.–4 p.m. and activation 5 p.m.–8 p.m.

—Eileen Kinsella

 

Thursday April 21

SoundSpace performers, clockwise from top left: claire rousay, Henna Chou (photo: Leon Alesi), José Villalobos, Akirash (photo: Michelle Akindiya), Alexa Capareda (photo: Sarah Annie Navarrete), Michael Anthony García, Graham Reynolds, and Michael J. Love. Courtesy Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin.

SoundSpace performers, clockwise from top left: claire rousay, Henna Chou (photo: Leon Alesi), José Villalobos, Akirash (photo: Michelle Akindiya), Alexa Capareda (photo: Sarah Annie Navarrete), Michael Anthony García, Graham Reynolds, and Michael J. Love. Courtesy Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin.

3. “SoundSpace,” at the Blanton Museum of Art, the University of Texas at Austin

For this year’s edition of the popular program “SoundSpace: Conversation Pieces,” curator Steve Parker invited eight artists to create new sonic works in dialogue with individual works from the Blanton’s collection. They include José Villalobos, Alexa Capereda, AKIRASH, Michael Anthony Garcia, Graham Reynolds, Henna Chou, claire rousay, and Michael J. Love.

Location: Virtual

Price: Free with registration

Time: 7:30 p.m ET 

—Eileen Kinsella

 

Thursday, April 21–Sunday, April 24

Attendees at the 2013 New York Antiquarian Book Fair. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Attendees at the 2013 New York Antiquarian Book Fair. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images.

4. “New York International Antiquarian Book Fair” at the Park Avenue Armory, New York 

Rare books are just the beginning of what’s for sale at the Antiquarian Book Fair, which is back after canceling its September outing. It will also offer a range of illuminated manuscripts, historical documents, maps, illustrations, and other printed matter from nearly 200 dealers.

Location: Park Avenue Armory at 643 Park Avenue in New York

Price: $30 general admission, $60 preview pass, $45 run-of-show

Time: Thursday, 5 p.m.–9 p.m.; Friday, 12 p.m.–8 p.m.; Saturday, 12 p.m.–7 p.m.; Sunday, 12 p.m.–5 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Saturday, April 23

Dorothea Lange, Human Erosion in California (Migrant Mother) (March 1936). Image courtesy The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

Dorothea Lange, Human Erosion in California (Migrant Mother) (March 1936). Photo courtesy the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

5. Written from Images: Literature Inspired by Dorothea Lange” at the Getty, Los Angeles

Poet Tess Taylor and author Jasmin Darznik will discuss and read from recent works inspired by the iconic photographer Dorothea Lange. Sally Stein, professor emerita, in the department of art history, at UC Irvine, will serve as moderator.

Location: Virtual

Price: Free with registration

Time:  5 p.m. ET

—Eileen Kinsella

 

Sunday, April 24

The ruins of Persepolis, view from the southeast. Image courtesy of Ali Mousavi

The ruins of Persepolis, view from the southeast. Photo courtesy of Ali Mousavi.

6. Art of the Empire: Monumental Cities of Ancient Persia” at the Getty, Los Angeles

The founders of the Achaemenid Persian Empire conceived dynamic monumental architecture and sculpture to convey their mastery of the ancient world. This form of Persian art achieved its highest expression in powerful cities such as Pasargadae, Persepolis, and Susa. Archaeologist Ali Mousavi of UCLA will take a closer look at these ancient cities that served as hubs of multicultural and artistic interaction.

Location: Virtual

Price: Free with registration

Time:  5 p.m. ET

—Eileen Kinsella 

 

Through Saturday, April 23

Leidy Churchman, <em>Eternal Life, New You</em> (2021). Photo courtesy of Matthew Marks, New York.

Leidy Churchman, Eternal Life, New You (2021). Photo courtesy of Matthew Marks, New York.

7. “Leidy Churchman: New You” at Matthew Marks, New York

Leidy Churchman, whose large, Monet-like canvas is a highlight of the Whitney Biennial, presents a wide range of paintings at Matthew Marks, from landscapes to abstractions, to depictions of everyday objects like the calculator. The artist’s practice, rooted in Buddhist philosophy, considers these seemingly disparate subject matter to nonetheless be part of an interconnected body of work.

Location: Matthew Marks Gallery, 523 West 24th Street, New York

Price: Free

Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Austin Lee, <em>Bezos</em> (2021). Courtesy of Jeffrey Deitch, New York.

Austin Lee, Bezos (2021). Courtesy of Jeffrey Deitch, New York.

8. “Austin Lee: Like It Is” at Jeffrey Deitch, New York

Austin Lee uses digital software in concert with traditional techniques to create colorful paintings, sculptures, and animations. His second solo show with Jeffrey Deitch features works designed in virtual reality and then physically fabricated—plus an augmented reality sculpture on the gallery roof, visible via an Instagram filter. “With each new tech expansion comes both positive and negative side effects,” Lee said in a statement. “Isolation mixed with mediated interaction, subversive advertising, facing overwhelming tragedy alone and through a screen—these are just some of the confusing, disorienting experiences that are hard to adapt to and highlight our need for authentic connection.”

Location: Jeffrey Deitch, 76 Grand Street, New York

Price: Free

Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m.

—Tanner West

 

Alix Lambert, <em>Judge 2</em> (2018). Courtesy of Theodore Gallery.

Alix Lambert, Judge 2 (2018). Courtesy of Theodore Gallery.

9. “Alix Lambert: Pleadings and Proceedings” at Theodore, New York

Taking advantage of the fact that U.S. courtrooms are open to the public, artist Alix Lambert has spent several years sitting in on trials. Following in the footsteps of courtroom sketch artists, she has illustrated the proceedings, creating snapshots of lawyers, judges, witnesses, family members, jurors, stenographers, court officers, and defendants. The resulting works, captioned with snippets from legal exchanges she has witnessed, are a portrait of the criminal justice system, and how it treats those ensnared in it.

Location: Theodore, 373 Broadway, F10, New York

Price: Free

Time: Thursday–Saturday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Jordan Nassar, <em>The River Behind</em> (2022). Photo courtesy of James Cohan, New York.

Jordan Nassar, The River Behind (2022). Photo courtesy of James Cohan, New York.

10. “Jordan Nassar: To Light the Sky” at James Cohan, New York

Whether weaving colored glass beads on a wire armature, or embroidering thread on monumental panels, Jordan Nassar’s wall-hanging works turn abstract fields of color into extraordinary landscapes.

Location: James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, New York

Price: Free

Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Nan Stewert

 

Joan Jonas, <eM>Wolf Light</em> in Times Square. Photo courtesy of Times Square Arts.

Joan Jonas, Wolf Light in Times Square. Photo courtesy of Times Square Arts.

11. “Joan Jonas: Wolf Light” at Times Square, New York

Times Square Arts kicked off a year-long celebration of the 10th anniversary of its Midnight Moment video series, which screens three minutes of video art across 90 electronic Times Square billboards, starting at 11:57 p.m., with Joan Jonas’s Wolf Light. The video depicts a female figure in a papier-mâché wolf mask in Las Vegas. It’s the first of 12 works by women artists that will run over the next year, honoring artists who have helped bring video art to New York City since the Public Art Fund’s “Messages to the Public” series, from 1982 to 1990.

Location: Times Square, New York
Price: Free
Time: Daily, 11:57 p.m.–12 a.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Duane Michals, Cavafy, 2022 Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery

12. “Duane Michals: Kaleidoscope” at DC Moore Gallery, New York

DC Moore Gallery presents a solo exhibition by 90-year-old artist Duane Michals. The show comprises wooden sculptures, paintings on paper, film, and photographs that highlight the artist’s diverse talent across a wide range of media.

Location: DC Moore Gallery, 535 West 22nd Street, New York

Price: Free

Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

—Neha Jambhekar

 

Through Saturday, May 7

Roy Nachum, <i>Rosie Lopez</i> (2015). Image courtesy the artist and A Hug From The Art World.

Roy Nachum, Rosie Lopez (2015). Image courtesy the artist and A Hug From the Art World.

13. “Roy Nachum: Portraits” at A Hug From the Art World, New York

The process for creating this show is done in two parts. Roy Nachum takes over a year in some cases to create these large, hyperreal portraits, using tiny brushes to capture every microscopic detail of the subjects’ faces, all of whom are visually impaired. Then he invites each subject to “finish” the work by marking the surface of their respective portrait with their own interpretive brushstrokes, in the color of their choosing. “It is only after part two, the individuals’ participation, that Nachum feels the portraits gather their soul and unearth their raw presence,” according to the gallery.

Location: A Hug From the Art World, 515 West 19th Street, New York

Price: Free

Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Eileen Kinsella

 

Through Sunday, June 5

“With Her Voice, Penetrate Earth’s Floor” installation view. Photo courtesy of Eli Klein Gallery

14. “With Her Voice, Penetrate Earth’s Floor: A Group Exhibition in Memory of Christina Yuna Lee” at Eli Klein Gallery, New York

Christina Yuna Lee, who was tragically killed on February 13 in New York, was a beloved employee of Eli Klein Gallery for more than four years. To honor her memory, celebrate her life, and create a space to grieve her untimely death, the gallery will present a group exhibition of nine contemporary femme artists, all belonging to the AAPI community, including work by Lee herself. Curated by stephanie mei huang, the show is made up of paintings, sculpture, and photography and addresses broader themes of Asian hate in U.S. culture. Part of the proceeds will go to organizations that Lee held in high regard.

Location: Eli Klein Gallery, 398 West Street, New York
Price: Free
Time: Monday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Neha Jambhekar

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Editors’ Picks: 17 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Louise Bourgeois’s Painting at the Met to the Public Art Fund’s Party | Artnet News

Editors’ Picks: 17 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Louise Bourgeois's Painting at the Met to the Public Art Fund's Party | Artnet News

Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the New York area. See our picks from around the world below. (Times are all ET unless otherwise noted.)

 

Monday, April 11–Saturday, June 11

An installation view of “Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood.” Courtesy: Nahmad Contemporary. Photo: Katya Kazakina.

1. “Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood” at Nahmad Contemporary, New York

There’s a lot to discover in this timely exhibition, curated by Basquiat scholar Dieter Buchhart. The show explores the role of found objects and unconventional materials in the artist’s short yet prolific oeuvre. A punching bag, a refrigerator, a filing cabinet, a child’s easel, wooden doors, and window framesBasquiat found all kinds of discarded and dormant items on the streets of New York and in his studio. Their transformation into works of art (some extremely expensive works of art) is exhilarating to behold, a testament to a creative process like no other. Sculpture, painting, and street art all come together in this dynamic, generous survey of 46 works. Some have appeared at auction, others come from private collections, the Basquiat estate, and Fondation Louis Vuitton. A football helmet with lumps of Basquiat’s own hair attached to it is dedicated to Andy Warhol (under the nickname “Skinny”). A punching bag, with old blood spots, is inscribed “Mary Boone,” the artist’s early dealer.

Location: Nahmad Contemporary, 980 Madison Avenue, New York
Price: Free
Time: Opening, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.; Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Katya Kazakina

 

Tuesday, April 12

Rocking Chair, (1950-1953,) Charles Eames and Ray Eames. Made for the Herman Miller Furniture Company. Image courtesy the Philadelphia Show

Charles Eames and Ray Eames, Rocking Chair (1950-1953). Made for the Herman Miller Furniture Company. Image courtesy the Philadelphia Show

2. “What Is Design” at the Philadelphia Show

In this virtual conversation, Philadelphia Museum of Art assistant curators Alisa Chiles and Colin Fanning discuss how the institution deals with the complexities of a seemingly simple question: “what is design?” Highlighting examples from the museum’s collection and past exhibitions, they explore what it means to collect and display Modern and contemporary design in an art-museum context.

Price: Free with registration
Time:  5:30 p.m.

—Eileen Kinsella

 

Tuesday, April 12–Sunday, August 7

Louise Bourgeois in the studio of her apartment at 142 East 18th Street (ca. 1946). Photo ©the Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Louise Bourgeois in the studio of her apartment at 142 East 18th Street (ca. 1946). Photo ©the Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

3. “Louise Bourgeois: Paintings” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Met celebrates the great French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois’s under-appreciated paintings in this show of works made after her arrival in New York in 1938 and her embrace of sculpture in the late 1940s. In her first major painting show in 40 years, the museum aims to illustrate how this little-known chapter of the artist’s career contains themes and imagery that stayed with her for decades to come, informing and shaping Bourgeois’s mature work.

Location: The Met Fifth Avenue, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York
Price: $25 general admission
Time: Sunday–Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.–9 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Wednesday, April 13

 

Oscar Muñoz, El Editor Solitario (2011), still. Courtesy of the Blanton Museum of Art, the University of Texas at Austin.

Oscar Muñoz, El Editor Solitario (2011), still. Courtesy of the Blanton Museum of Art, the University of Texas at Austin.

4. “Artist-Led Tour of ‘Oscar Muñoz: Invisibilia‘” at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas in Austin

Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz gives a virtual tour of his first U.S. retrospective, “Invisibilia,” on view at the Blanton through June 5. He’ll speak with curator Vanessa Davidson about how his non-traditional photography-based work is inspired by themes of identity, political freedom, and historical subjectivity.

Price: Free with registration
Time: 1 p.m.–2 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Thursday, April 14

 

Mary Sibande, Ascension of the Purple Figure (2016). Photo courtesy of Kavi Gupta, Chicago,

Mary Sibande, Ascension of the Purple Figure (2016). Photo courtesy of Kavi Gupta, Chicago,

5. “Intersectional Forms: Curating Across Shifting Cultural Landscapes” at the Armory Show, New York

New York’s Armory Show is still a long ways off, but the September fair is already drumming up the hype with a virtual talk previewing its curated “Focus” and “Platform” sections. For the former, Carla Acevedo-Yates, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, is presenting artist projects about how environmental issues relate to race and gender. In the latter, Tobias Ostrander, adjunct curator of Latin American Art at Tate, London, is showing large-scale installations and site-specific works with a theme of “Monumental Change.”

Price: Free with registration
Time: 1 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Guests playing B. Wurtz's Pistachio Toss game at the Public Art Fund 40th anniversary celebration. Courtesy of Max Lakner/BFA.

Guests playing B. Wurtz’s Pistachio Toss game at the Public Art Fund 40th anniversary celebration. Courtesy of Max Lakner/BFA.

6. “2022 PAF Party” at the Metropolitan Pavilion, New York

The Public Art Fund gala is reliably one of the most enjoyable art benefit events each year, in large part because guests can participate in interactive games and photo ops designed by artists like Farah Al Qasimi, Wyatt Kahn, and Claudia Wieser—and, if you’re lucky, you could even win an original work of art. (There will also a silent auction of donated works on offer to benefit the nonprofit.) Bold-faced names promised to be in attendance include Bachelor lead Matt James, and one of his former suitors, Kit Keenan, and her mother, fashion designed Cynthia Rowley, plus a bevy of A-list gallerists and artists such as Hank Willis Thomas.

Location: Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, New York
Price: Dinner tickets from $1,500 ($300 for young patron); $100 after party tickets
Time: Cocktails, 6:30 p.m.; dinner 8 p.m.; after party, 9:30 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Thursday, April 14–Monday, May 2

 

Renee Cox, The Self Similarity of the Selfie (2016). Courtesy of Hannah Traore Gallery, New York.

Renee Cox, The Self Similarity of the Selfie (2016). Courtesy of Hannah Traore Gallery, New York.

7. “Renee Cox: Soul Culture” at Hannah Traore Gallery, New York

Drawing on fashion photography and graphic design, as well as her own experience modeling, Renee Cox has created her own unique body of work celebrating Black women. In her first New York solo show since 2006, Cox presents fractal-like canvases that deconstruct the human body, reclaiming control of the representation of her subjects.

Location: Hannah Traore Gallery, New York
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Saturay, April 16–Friday, May 20

"Jacques Jarrige: Christ Sculpture" at Saint John the Divine Cathedral Church, New York. Photo courtesy of Saint John the Divine Cathedral Church, New York.

“Jacques Jarrige: Christ Sculpture” at Saint John the Divine Cathedral Church, New York. Photo courtesy of Saint John the Divine Cathedral Church, New York.

8. “Jacques Jarrige: Christ Sculpture” at Saint John the Divine Cathedral Church, New York

Just in time for Easter, Saint John’s is unveiling a 10-foot tall hammered aluminum sculpture in its nave, hanging 90 feet above the ground. An abstract figure of of Christ by Jacques Jarrige, the piece has been shrouded throughout Lent, but will be unveiled ahead of Saturday night’s Easter Vigil mass. The artist also has a simultaneous solo show, “Upstrokes and Downstrokes,” on view April 16 to June 24, at Valerie Goodman Gallery.

Location: Saint John the Divine Cathedral Church, New York
Price: Free
Time: Monday–Friday, 9:30 a.m.–3 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 9:30 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Friday, April 15–Saturday, May 28

Xiao Wang, Monkey Mind, 2022 Courtesy of Deanna Evans Projects

9. “Xiao Wang: Liminal Blue” at Deanna Evans Projects, New York

Make sure to see Chinese artist Xiao Wang’s solo exhibition at Deanna Evans Projects this week. Based in Brooklyn, Wang gives his canvases a dream-like quality where vegetation in jewel-toned hues of blues and purples obscures figures, usually himself or his friends. “Depicting scenes with maximalist settings, often inspired by real-life protagonists, in obscure, minimal backgrounds, the paintings lead viewers to feel a sense of uncertainty or disorientation,” says the gallery.

Location: Deanna Evans Projects, 373 Broadway, E15, New York
Price: Free
Time: Opening Reception, Friday, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.; Wednesday–Saturday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m.

—Neha Jambhekar

 

Friday, April 15–Sunday, July 10

 Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye Breyer. Photo by Laure Leber.

Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye Breyer. Photo by Laure Leber.

10. “Breyer P-Orridge: We Are But One” at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn

Life partners Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950–2020) and Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge (1969–2007) get their first major posthumous presentation in the U.S. In their joint Pandrogyne project, the two spent 20 years undergoing plastic surgery with the goal of becoming a single “pandrogynous” being named Breyer P-Orridge. Blending pronouns—Genesis went by s/he and he/r—and embracing body modification, the duo defied the roles of biological sex long before the concept of gender fluidity hit the mainstream cultural discourse. The show also includes a large-scale shrine installation designed by Genesis’s daughter Genesse P-Orridge in collaboration with exhibition curator Benjamin Tischer, inspired by Breyer P-Orridge’s travels in the Himalayas and the influence that Buddhism and Eastern spirituality had on their practice.

Location: Pioneer Works, 133 Imlay Street, Brooklyn (temporary satellite location)
Price: Free
Time: Wednesday–Sunrday, 1 p.m.–8 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Saturday, April 16

 

Jordan Belson, Untitled (ca. 1970). Photo courtesy of Matthew Marks, New York.

Jordan Belson, Untitled (ca. 1970). Photo courtesy of Matthew Marks, New York.

11. “Jordan Belson: An Evening of Film, Audio, and Visual Rarities” at Anthology Film Archives, New York

Anthology Film Archives presents six rarely-screened short films by Jordan Belson (1926–2011), an important figure in 20th-century avant-garde cinema. The evening is timed to the artist’s current solo show of never-before-seen 1970s torn-paper collages at New York’s Matthew Marks Gallery (through April 23). Some of these abstract landscapes were inspired by the view out of his window of San Francisco Bay and the surrounding hills. Other, more otherworldly examples actually served as backdrops in INFINITY (1979) and APOLLO (1982), two of the films included in the program.

Location: Anthology Film Archives, Maya Deren Theater, 32 2nd Avenue, New York
Price: $12 general admission
Time: 7:30 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Through Saturday, April 16

 

Kay WalkingStick, Eastern Slope (2017). Courtesy of Hales New York.

Kay WalkingStick, Eastern Slope (2017). Courtesy of Hales New York.

12. “Kay WalkingStick: Mountains/Canyons/Clouds” at Hales Galley, New York

In her first show with Hales Gallery, Kay WalkingStick presents paintings of the North American landscape made over the last decade, inspired by her own sense of connection to the earth as well as researching the Native American histories of each scenic vista. Each view is overlaid with Indigenous designs, some taken from the archives of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

Location: Hales New York, 547 West 20th Street, New York
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Installation view of “De Kooning/Shiraga” at Mnuchin Gallery, New York, in collaboration with Fergus McCaffrey. ©2022 the Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Estate of Kazuo Shiraga. Photo by Nico Gilmore.

Installation view of “De Kooning/Shiraga” at Mnuchin Gallery, New York, in collaboration with Fergus McCaffrey. ©2022 the Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Estate of Kazuo Shiraga. Photo by Nico Gilmore.

13. “De Kooning/Shiraga” at Mnuchin Gallery, New York

It’s hard to believe that Mnuchin’s collaboration with Fergus McCaffrey gallery represents the first exhibition solely dedicated to the works of New York’s Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) and Japan’s Gutai master Kazuo Shiraga (1924–2008). The formal affinity between these two artists’ gestural bravado is so striking and visceral, you can’t help but wonder: What took so long? For the lovers of abstract painting, there’s probably no better exhibition in town at the moment. Run, don’t walk to catch it before it closes.

Location: Mnuchin Gallery, 45 East 78th Street, New York
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Katya Kazakina

 

PhoebeNewYork, New York, New York (2022). Photo by Eileen Kinsella

PhoebeNewYork, New York, New York (2022). Photo by Eileen Kinsella.

14. “New York on Paper” at West Chelsea Contemporary Gallery, New York

PhoebeNewYork, an alter ego character for artist Libby Schoettle, is a highlight of the “New York on Paper” show that ends this Saturday. The character first appeared in collages created with found objects, such as vintage photographs, magazine pages, clothing, old books, record covers, and the occasional Pop art element.

Schoettle is drawn to materials that have been owned and handled by others, and that will remain intact over time (or not). From the streets of New York to Philadelphia, Los Angeles, London, and Berlin, Schoettle reveals her own vulnerability, raw emotions, and witty observations through PhoebeNewYork‘s dark and funny explorations. The striking images are accompanied by thought-provoking bursts of text.

Location: West Chelsea Contemporary, 231 Tenth Ave, New York
Price: Free
Time: Monday-Wednesday 10 a.m.–6 p.m.; Thursday 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday 12-6 p.m.

—Eileen Kinsella

 

Through Sunday, April 17

 

Marcy Hermansader, Shall My Heart Become a Tree (2019). Photo courtesy of Mother Gallery, New York.

Marcy Hermansader, Shall My Heart Become a Tree (2019). Photo courtesy of Mother Gallery, New York.

15. “Marcy Hermansader: Shall My Heart Become a Tree” at Mother Gallery, New York

Marcy Hermansader’s first solo show at Mother Gallery includes both recent works and pieces from the late 1980s. Across the years, the seven paintings share a dark fairy tale vibe. “Fragments from postcards act as windows into other realities—specific moments of time and place that can serve as source and center,” Hermansader says in her artist statement. “Leaves may appear jewel-like in colored pencil, painted thick or thin with gouache or acrylic, embossed with a hard pencil in tiny patterns, or dotted with fingertips dipped in paint.”

Location: Mother Gallery, 368 Broadway #415, New York
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 12 p.m.–6 p.m.; Wednesday–Saturday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m.

—Nan Stewert

 

Through Monday, April 18

One of the cases from Yuji Agematsu, zip:01.01.20 . . .12:31.20 (2020). Photo by Ben Davis.

One of the cases from Yuji Agematsu, zip:01.01.20 . . .12:31.20 (2020). Photo by Ben Davis.

16. “Greater New York” at MoMA PS1, Queens

This weekend is your last chance to see the fifth edition of “Greater New York,” highlighting the work of New York City artists, including Yuji Agematsu’s tiny sculptures made of trash collected on the city streets in 2020. Each piece—one for each day of the year—is a delicate arrangement placed inside the cellophane wrapper of a cigarette carton, highlighting the unexpected beauty to be found even in our unwanted refuse.

Location: MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Queens
Price: $10 suggested admission, free for New Yorkers
Time: Opening reception, 12 p.m.–6 p.m.; Wednesday–Saturday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Through Tuesday, April 19

 

Fernando Botero, Sphinx at 14th Street Square, New York. Photo courtesy of David Benrimon Fine Art.

Fernando Botero, Sphinx at 14th Street Square, New York. Photo courtesy of David Benrimon Fine Art.

17. “Fernando Botero: Sphinx” at 14th Street Square, New York

David Benrimon Fine Art is celebrating Fernando Botero’s 90th birthday with a show at its East 57th Street gallery, plus a public art installation in the Meatpacking District of a bronze sphinx in his signature larger-than-life style.

Location: 14th Street Square, New York
Price: Free
Time: On view daily at all times

—Tanner West

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Editors’ Picks: 11 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Marcus Brutus’s Star Turn at Harper’s to the Return of Gala Season

Marcus Brutus, Can’t Stop the Reign (2021). Courtesy Harper’s, New York.

Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the New York area. See our picks from around the world below. (Times are all EST unless otherwise noted.)

 

Tuesday, April 5

Pandiscio Green designed the invitation to the 2022 Art Production Fund Gala. Courtesy of Art Production Fund.

Pandiscio Green designed the invitation to the 2022 Art Production Fund Gala. Courtesy of Art Production Fund.

1. Art Production Fund Gala at the Grill, New York

The last big art party I attended before lockdown was Art Production Fund’s over-the-top 2020 soirée honoring husband-and-wife Tom Sachs and Sarah Hoover at the Grill in the Seagram Building. Hoover was responsible for the evening’s decadent menu, combining comfort food like hamburgers and ice cream sundaes with luxurious touches like caviar and champagne. This year’s event honors Sanford Biggers, who will perform with his concept band Moon Medicin, and Hoover is back to select the dinner, which has, appropriately, a “class reunion” theme.

Location: The Grill, 99 East 52nd Street, New York
Price: Contact [email protected] for information
Time: Cocktails, 6 p.m.; dinner 7:30 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Wednesday, April 6

"Eric Aho: Headwater" at BCA Center, Burlington, Vermont. Photo courtesy of the BCA Center, Burlington, Vermont.

“Eric Aho: Headwater” at BCA Center, Burlington, Vermont. Photo courtesy of the BCA Center, Burlington, Vermont.

2. “Virtual Artist Talk: Eric Aho” at the BCA Center, Burlington, Vermont

On the occasion of his solo show, “Headwater” (through June 5), Eric Aho talks about how he blends abstraction and realism, and drawing inspiration from essayists and poets, and the bucolic landscape surrounding his home in Vermont.

Price: Free with registration
Time: 6 p.m.

—Artnet News

 

Wednesday, April 6–Friday, May 27

Bea Scaccia, <em>Do you hear that lady talk</em> (2021). Courtesy of JDJ Tribeca, New York.

Bea Scaccia, Do you hear that lady talk (2021). Courtesy of JDJ Tribeca, New York.

3. “Bea Scaccia: With Their Striking Features” at JDJ Tribeca, New York

In her first solo show, Italian artist Bea Scaccia presents a body of paintings from the past two years. Her figures are typically faceless, genderless, and arrayed in finery—lace, ribbons, and jewelry—in a commentary on stereotypical notions of femininity and the labor required to meet societal beauty ideals.

Location: JDJ Tribeca, 373 Broadway B11, New York
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 4 .m.–7 p.m.; Tuesday–Saturday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m.

—Artnet News

 

Thursday, April 7

Kay WalkingStick, <em>Havasu Revisited</em> (2020). Courtesy of NYFA.

Kay WalkingStick, Havasu Revisited (2020). Courtesy of NYFA.

4. NYFA’s 2022 Hall of Fame Benefit at Capitale, New York

At its annual gala, the New York Foundation for the Arts is inducting Kay WalkingStick and Chin Chih Yang into its Hall of Fame. (The two were originally set to be honored at the cancelled 2020 event.) The festivities include musical performance by Pyeng Threadgill, and each attendee will be given a WalkingStick print. Those unable to attend in person are invited to bid in the online benefit auction, featuring works by artists including Carolee Schneeman, Deborah Kass, and Sanford Biggers.

Location: Capitale, 130 Bowery, New York
Price: Tickets start at $650; tables start at $6,500
Time: Cocktails, 6:30 p.m.; dinner 7:30 p.m.; dessert 9 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Through Friday, April 8

Installation view of "Chellis Baird: Touch of Red" at the National Arts Club. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Installation view of “Chellis Baird: Touch of Red” at the National Arts Club. Photo courtesy of the artist.

5. “Chellis Baird: Touch of Red” at the National Arts Club, New York

In her current solo show, Chellis Baird indulges in her favorite color in a series of works exploring different shades of red and all its flirtatious, fiery, romantic, and angry connotations. Many of the wall-mounted works blur the boundary between painting and relief sculpture, with woven forms made from strips of canvas.

Location: The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York
Price: Free
Time: 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Friday, April 8

Organizer, curator, and artist Carol Cole Levin. Photo courtesy of Art Table.

Organizer, curator, and artist Carol Cole Levin. Photo courtesy of Art Table.

6. ArtTable’s Annual Benefit at Capitale, New York

The art-world gala circuit is springing back into action. Women’s professional organization Art Table always hosts an inspiring luncheon celebrating women’s leadership in the arts, and this year’s event, with remarks from Legacy Russell and honorees Carol Cole Levin and Nicole R. Fleetwood, promises to be no exception.

Location: Capitale, 130 Bowery, New York
Price: $485 and up
Time: 12 p.m.–3 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Friday, April 8–Wednesday, May 4

Raúl Cordero, <em>THE POEM</em> in Times Square (rendering). Image courtesy of the artist.

Raúl Cordero, THE POEM in Times Square (rendering). Image courtesy of the artist.

7. “Raúl Cordero: The Poem” at Times Square, New York

Cuban-born artist Raúl Cordero has created an unexpected oasis in the heart of Times Square, surrounding an illuminated poem by poet and art critic Barry Schwabsky with a 20-foot tower draped with mountain laurels. The piece is inspired by Reinaldo Arenas, a poet and Cuban exile who spent the last two years of his life in New York, dying by suicide in 1990 rather than his AIDS treatment. Cordero covered his installation with foliage in homage to the trees that Arenas climbed as child, where he wrote poems perched in the branches.

Location: Times Square, Duffy Square, Broadway at West 46th Street, New York
Price: Free
Time: On view daily at all times

—Sarah Cascone

 

Through Sunday, April 10

The centerpiece of the Macy's Flower Show. Photo courtesy of Macy's Herald Square.

The centerpiece of the Macy’s Flower Show. Photo courtesy of Macy’s Herald Square.

8. “The Macy’s Flower Show” at Macy’s Herald Square, New York

One of the the city’s most charming spring traditions is the Macy’s Flower Show, which brings some 15,000 live plants into the famed Macy’s department store, in addition to covering the facade with fake blooms. This year’s display includes designs from students at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, as well as a number of local florists.

Location: Macy’s Herald Square, 151 West 34th Street, New York
Price: Free
Time: Sunday, 11 a.m.–9 p.m.; Monday–Thursday, 11 a.m.–9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.–10 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Sunday, April 10

LeAndra LeSeur, <em>There is no movement without rhythm</em>. Photo courtesy of Marlborough Gallery, New York.

LeAndra LeSeur, There is no movement without rhythm. Photo courtesy of Marlborough Gallery, New York.

9. All Arts Artist in Residence Film Debuts at All Arts and the Shed, New York 

For its 2022 Artist in Residence program in partnership with the Shed, All Arts, a free nationwide arts and culture streaming platform from the WNET Group, is debuting four new artist films. The last two, streaming as of this Sunday night, are outgrowths of projects staged last year at the Shed by LeAndra LeSeur (presenting There is no movement without rhythm) and DonChristian Jones (showing Volvo Truck and the Girls From Up the Hill.)

Price: Free
Time: 8 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Futures, Narratives, and Networks: Work from the More Art Fellowship. Courtesy of the Queens Museum.

Futures, Narratives, and Networks: Work from the More Art Fellowship. Courtesy of the Queens Museum.

10. “Futures, Narratives, and Networks: Work from the More Art Fellowship” at the Queens Museum

The Queens Museum hosts a day of workshops, performances, and conversations with More Art’s 2020 and 2021 fellows. Selected for their socially engaged work, the artists will discuss public art, technology and nature, and how personal work can serve for community-building. The participating fellows are Bryanna Bradley, Chantal Feitosa-Desouza, Andrew Freiband, Cody Ann Herrmann, Hyperlink Press, Mafe Izaguirre, Amy Khoshbin, Althea Rao, Amy Ritter, and Hanae Utamura.

Location: Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Building, Queens
Price: Free with registration
Time: 11 a.m.–5 p.m.

—Tanner West

 

Through Saturday, May 14, 2022

Marcus Brutus, <I>Struck by Color</I>, 2021. Courtesy Harper’s, New York.

Marcus Brutus, Struck by Color, 2021. Courtesy Harper’s, New York.

11. “Maiden Voyage” at Harper’s Chelsea 512, New York

Marcus Brutus’s newest works, which take inspiration from photographers William Eggleston and Birney Imes, are 22 canvases celebrating Black life in America at its most mundane: cooking, standing in the rain, steal a moment for a cigarette. This is the self-taught artist’s fourth outing with the gallery, and his energetic, striking style of portraiture brings Harper’s flagship location to life. The gallery’s run continues at 534 West 22nd Street, with “Return to the Source”, a selection of books that are integral to Brutus’s practice.

Location: Harper’s Chelsea 512, 512 West 22nd Street and 534 West 22nd Street
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Annie Armstrong

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CRITIC’S PICKS | Classical Events You Absolutely Need To See This Week: April 4 – 10

Classical music and opera events for the week of April 4 to 10 2022.
Classical music and opera events for the week of April 4 to 10 2022.
Classical music and opera events for the week of April 4 to 10 2022.

This is a list of amazing concerts we are attending, wishing we could attend, or thinking about attending between April 4 – 10, 2022. For more details on what’s happening around Toronto, visit our calendar here.

Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Ehnes Plays Beethoven

📅 Wednesday — April 6, 2022, 8 p.m. ET (repeats April 7)
📍 LINK
💸 $29+

Violinist James Ehnes will be lending his magic to Beethoven’s first concerto and Vaughan Williams’ evocative Serenade to Music. TSO Conductor Laureate Sir Andrew Davis will also be on hand for the World Premiere of Emilie-LeBel’s Silk Road Concerto, and Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks). | Details

Tafelmusik |  Classical Revolution – Bologne & Mozart (online)

📅 Thursday— April 7, 2022, 8 p.m. ET
📍 LINK
💸 $19+

It’s a slow Thursday this week in Toronto, so recommend raising a glass with Tafelmusik’s latest online premiere at home. We’re especially looking forward to Mozart’s Symphony no. 39 in E-flat Major — a fun, cheeky work that works surprisingly well with period instruments. They will also be playing Bologne, Andreas Romberg, and another Mozart gem: Andante for flute & orchestra in C Major. K.315. | Details

Royal Conservatory | Eve Egoyan

📅 Friday — April 8, 2022, 8 p.m. ET
📍 LINK
💸 $20+
Contemporary piano music lovers, this one is for you. Pioneering pianist and composer Eve Egoyan returns to Koerner Hall with a truly innovative program. She will be premiering a series of works for augmented stereo piano (iPiano), designed by the celebrated French pianist Jean-Yves Fourtressier. | Details

Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Celebrate 100: Maestros’ Special Homecoming

📅 Saturday — April 9, 2022, 8 p.m. ET (repeats April 7)
📍 LINK
💸 $29+

If you’re a fan of the TSO, then you have likely been waiting for this all year. In a once in a lifetime experience, five esteemed TSO conductors are joining the orchestra to celebrate the TSO centennial season. This is one night only concert is history in the making. Be sure to return to LV to read our full review. | Details

Pax Christi Chorale | Considering Matthew Shepard

📅 Saturday — April 9, 2022, 7:30 p.m. ET
📍 LINK
💸 $25+

The Pax Christi Chorale will be performing Considering Matthew Shepard by Craig Hella Johnson. The work is based on Matthew Shepard — a name that has become a rallying cry for anti-gay discrimination. | Details

VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert | Vanessa

📅 Sunday — April 10, 2022, 8 p.m. ET
📍 LINK
💸 $38+

We recommend Voicebox’s production of Samuel Barber’s Vanessa for opera lovers out there. The plot is focused on three generations of women who confront society’s intrusions into their secluded world. The work explores a Gothic darkness that’s heavy on romanticism. | Details

Orchestra Toronto | Brahms And The Raums

📅 Sunday — April 10, 2022, 3 p.m. ET
📍 LINK
💸 $45+

Violinist Erika Raum joins Orchestra Toronto to perform a new concerto by Elizabeth Raum. It will be followed by Brahms’ Symphony No. 1. This is an excellent opportunity to see Erika Raum perform with a full orchestra. | Details

Amici Chamber Ensemble | Schubert Octet

📅 Sunday — April 10, 2022, 8 p.m. ET
📍 LINK
💸 $30+

Amici Chamber Ensemble is back this week with a range of works by Franz Schubert, including one of his greatest masterworks, the Octet in E flat Major. You can always depend on Amici for a stunning night of chamber music. | Details

New Music Concerts | Imagined Sounds Curated by Keiko Devaux

📅 Sunday — April 10, 2022, 8 p.m. ET
📍 LINK
💸 $30+

Azrieli Prize laureate composer Keiko Devaux is in town this weekend to curate a concert of exciting new works that examine our relationship with musical memory. This concert features the direction of Juliane Gallant in collaboration with Tapestry Opera’s Women in Musical Leadership Project. Details

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Editors’ Picks: 13 Events for Your Art Calendar, From a Salute to Some ‘Very Funny Ladies’ to a Splashy Show of Constructivist Posters | Artnet News

Editors' Picks: 13 Events for Your Art Calendar, From a Salute to Some 'Very Funny Ladies' to a Splashy Show of Constructivist Posters | Artnet News

Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the New York area. See our picks from around the world below. (Times are all ET unless otherwise noted.)

 

Monday, March 21–May 2022

Alia Penner, <em>Marion</em>, commissioned by Piaget. Courtesy of Piaget.

Alia Penner, Marion, commissioned by Piaget. Courtesy of Piaget.

1. “Alia Penner” at Piaget Boutique Beverly Hills, Los Angeles

Swiss jeweler Piaget has a history of collaborating with artists such as Salvador Dalí, who in 1967 created a special watch and jewelry collection inspired by his Dalí d’Or coins. Now, the Maison is honoring this heritage with a series of art commissions that will be on display at its glittering new boutique on Rodeo Drive. For the store’s opening, Piaget tapped the multidisciplinary artist and film curator Alia Penner, known for her Pop aesthetic and rainbow Instagram feed. Incorporating Piaget’s signature blue and gold, and inspired by the Golden Age of Hollywood, Penner created colorful collage paintings that celebrate the glamour of her native Los Angeles, featuring silent film stars such as Marion Davies.

Location: Piaget Boutique Beverly Hills, 465 North Rodeo Drive, Los Angeles
Price: Free
Time: Monday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.; Sunday 12 p.m.–6 p.m.

—Artnet News in Partnership With Piaget

 

Thursday, March 24

Matthew Evan Taylor, <em>Life Returns</em>. Art by Juniper Creative LLC, courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Matthew Evan Taylor, Life Returns. Art by Juniper Creative LLC, courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

2. “Matthew Evan Taylor: Life Returns, Metropolis Ensemble with RAJAS” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

MetLiveArts and the Metropolis Ensemble commissioned Life Returns, an evening-length composition from composer and saxophonist Matthew Evan Taylor that melds African American, South Indian, and European musical traditions. Metropolis will perform the piece with RAJAS Ensemble, a group led by Rajna Swaminathan that plays an ancient percussion instrument known as the mridangam. The musicians will add their own improvisations to the milieu, in a celebratory touch meant to represent resilience despite despair.

Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York
Price: $25
Time: 7 p.m.

—Tanner West

 

<em>Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists, 1925–2021</em> by Liza Donnelly. Courtesy of Prometheus.

Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists, 1925–2021 by Liza Donnelly. Courtesy of Prometheus.

3. “Liza Donnelly and Roxie Monro on Very Funny Ladies” at the Art Students League, New York

Cartoonist Liza Donnelly, an Art Students League alum, chats with author and illustrator Roxie Munro about the former’s latest book, Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists, 1925–2021. The anthology is at once an autobiography recounting the author’s career drawing cartoons for the magazine and an exploration of the legacies of her female predecessors and colleagues.

Location: The Art Students League, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, 215 West 57th Street, New York
Price:
 Free with registration
Time: 6 p.m.–7 p.m.

—Nan Stewert

 

Thursday, March 24–Saturday, April 23

Madjeen Isaac, 2nd Plate, 2021 Courtesy of the artist and Sean Horton (Presents)

Madjeen Isaac, 2nd Plate (2021). Courtesy of the artist and Sean Horton (Presents)

4. Madjeen Isaac: Beyond the Mountains” at Sean Horton (Presents), New York

Madjeen Isaac is a Brooklyn-born Haitian-American artist whose work shows a mix of her two “homes,” Haiti and New York. In her first solo show at Sean Horton (Presents), the artist shows her new series of paintings that combine the hustle and bustle of her Caribbean-American neighborhood in Brooklyn and tropical scenes from Haiti. She builds up these scenes on a smaller scale with photo and paper collages, before transferring the image into a larger painting. Isaac imagines a world where the subway trains and the pre-war buildings of New York burst with green vegetation and the streets are lined with Black and Brown figures partaking in fun and celebratory activities.

Location: Sean Horton (Presents), 515 West 20th Street, Suite 3N, New York
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception Saturday, 5 p.m.–7 p.m.; Wednesday–Saturday, 12 p.m.–5 p.m.

—Neha Jambhekar

 

Friday, March 25

Attic red-figure kylix (detail), 490-470 B.C., Greek. Terracotta. Image courtesy Getty Museum

Greek attic red-figure kylix (490–470 B.C.E.) detail. Terracotta. Photo courtesy of the Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

5. “Art Break: Getting to Know the Makers of an Ancient Greek Drinking Cup” at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles

In this virtual talk, Getty antiquities curator David Saunders and Sanchita Balachandran, archaeological conservator at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum, will discuss the significance of a 2,500-year old drinking cup in the Getty’s collection. What do the signatures of the potter and painter—Kleophrades and Douris—tell us about the production of the cup? The experts promise a conversation ranging over traditional art historical approaches, advanced imaging techniques, and technical analyses that support their research.

Price: Free with registration
Time: 3 p.m. ET (12 p.m. PT)

—Eileen Kinsella

 

Friday, March 25–Sunday, May 15

Stan Squirewell (l to r) <i>Pokeweed and Dandelions</i> (2022); <i>That’s Oscala’s oldest daughter</i> (2022). Image courtesy the artist and Claire Oliver Gallery.

Stan Squirewell (l to r) Pokeweed and Dandelions (2022); That’s Oscala’s oldest daughter (2022). Image courtesy the artist and Claire Oliver Gallery.

6. “Stan Squirewell: Who That Is?” at Claire Oliver Gallery, New York

For his inaugural show for the artist at Claire Oliver, Squirewell’s work looks at who curates and controls the narratives that become accepted as history, whose stories are told—and whose are ignored. “As a child of the hip hop era, born in the ’70s, growing up in the ’80s and ’90s, I look at my work as almost remixing, crate-digging, but my crates are museums, private collections, and historical narratives,” the artist explains in a statement. 

Location: Claire Oliver Gallery 2288 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, New York
Price: Free
Time:  Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Eileen Kinsella

 

Saturday, March 26

"Works & Process Bubble Performance: Rose: You Are Who You Eat by John Jarboe," June 20, 2021, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Directed by Mary Tuomanen. Costume design by Rebecca Kanach. Featuring Pax Ressler, Daniel de Jesús, Emily Bate, and John Jarboe. Photo by Erick Munari, courtesy of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

“Works & Process Bubble Performance: Rose: You Are Who You Eat by John Jarboe,” June 20, 2021, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Directed by Mary Tuomanen. Costume design by Rebecca Kanach. Featuring Pax Ressler, Daniel de Jesús, Emily Bate, and John Jarboe. Photo by Erick Munari, courtesy of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

7. “Works and Process presents Rose: You Are Who You Eat by John Jarboe” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

This queer-inspired musical performance, featuring a wide range of musical styles, is based on artist John Jarboe’s personal origin story. In 2018, his aunt informed him that he was originally supposed to be twins, and that his sister was supposed to be named Rose, but “you ate her. That’s why you are the way you are.” The songs, from queer composers and musicians Emily Bate, Daniel de Jesús, Pax Ressler, and Be Steadwell, are accompanied by “a garden of images” made with filmmaker Christopher Ash, with performers outfitted in intense floral couture designed by Rebecca Kanach.

Location: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Peter B. Lewis Theater, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York
Price: $35 general admission, partial-view seats for $1–15
Time: 7:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Installation view of "Victoria-Idongesit Udondian, How Can I Be Nobody" at Smack Mellon. Photo courtesy of Smack Mellon, Brooklyn.

Installation view of “Victoria-Idongesit Udondian, How Can I Be Nobody” at Smack Mellon. Photo courtesy of Smack Mellon, Brooklyn.

8. “Artist-Led Tours” at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn

Smack Mellon curator Rachel Vera Steinberg will moderate two artist-led tours of the institution’s current exhibitions, “Victoria-Idongesit Udondian, How Can I Be Nobody” and “Moko Fukuyama, Streaming Surface” (both through April 10). Udondian is a Nigerian-American artists who works with textiles and clothing to make art about identity. Her site-specific installation of weavings at Smack Mellon is a collaboration with immigrant women, whose cast hands she has placed inside the frame of a ship, referencing the African slave trade as well as contemporary migrants traveling by sea. In her solo show, Fukuyama, a sculptor and filmmaker, includes a single-channel video animation, an installation mocking up a filmset, and 28 hand painted faux wood panels she made as commentary on the demanding skill tests would-be scenic artists must pass to enter the labor union.

Location: Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn
Price: Free
Time: 3 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Through Sunday, March 27

Installation view of the gallery "Guadalupe Maravilla: Luz y fuerza" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo by David Almeida, ©️2021 the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Installation view of the gallery “Guadalupe Maravilla: Luz y fuerza” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo by David Almeida, ©️2021 the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

9. “Guadalupe Maravilla: Luz y fuerza Healing Sound Baths” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York 

Since November, Guadalupe Maravilla, whose work is on view in gallery 212 at MoMA, has been staging regular healing sound baths at the museum. The artist was inspired to become a trained sound healer after benefiting from the practice, which is based on the vibrations of gongs, while being treated for cancer. This therapy, he says, “cleanse[s] the water in our bodies, which can carry stress, impurities, and, in some cases, diseases.” Maravilla has designed sculptures and gongs tuned to specific frequencies meant to resonate with the moon and planets to create a soundscape in the gallery. Each session lasts one hour, and late entry is not permitted. The museum will provide yoga mats and seating cushions, and select audience members will get to sit on sculptural beds made by the artist that enhance sound vibrations, with preference going to the deaf or hard-of-hearing. Additional dates are to-be-announced, and the gallery will be on view through October 30.

Location: Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, New York
Price: $25 general admission, additional reservation required, with a first-come, first-served standby line
Time: Friday sound baths for cancer survivors, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., Sunday, 11 a.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Through Saturday, April 16

Osvaldo Mariscotti with his artwork at Upsilon. Image courtesy Upsilon.

Osvaldo Mariscotti with his artwork at Upsilon. Image courtesy Upsilon.

10. “Osvaldo Mariscott: Kaleidoscope” at Upsilon Gallery, New York

For the debut of its new Upper East Side space, Upsilon Gallery is giving Italian-American multi-mediaartist Osvaldo Mariscotti his first New York solo show. Mariscotti’s practice is focused on the study of human perception and the interaction of form and color and reflects the influence non-objective and minimalist painters. His ongoing experimentation with techniques within painting, sculpture, and printmaking allows him to develop a new language and the work often playfully straddles abstraction and figuration, always with a lively palette.

Location: Upsilon Gallery, 23 East 67th Street, New York
Price: Free
Time: Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.; Saturday by appointment

—Eileen Kinsella

 

Through Saturday, April 23

Maya Varadaraj, <em>6 Little Descendants</em> (2022). Courtesy of Aicon Contemporary.

Maya Varadaraj, 6 Little Descendants (2022). Courtesy of Aicon Contemporary.

11. “Maya Varadaraj: Accident of Birth” at Aicon Contemporary, New York

Don’t miss Indian artist Maya Varadaraj’s first solo exhibition at Aicon Contemporary. This series of paintings offer an intimate study of Varadaraj’s inner life, tinged with love and loss. She finds inspiration in the pain of various experiences of womanhood, as well as a deep, personal loss that she recently went through. Family photos of her parents’ childhood, her grandfather, and female family members are given new life in the works on view.

Location: Aicon Contemporary, 35 Great Jones Street, New York
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Neha Jambhekar

 

Through Saturday, April 30

Rebecca Ward, <em>beast</em> (2022). Courtesy of Peter Blum Gallery.

Rebecca Ward, beast (2022). Courtesy of Peter Blum Gallery.

12. “Rebecca Ward: Infinite Plane” at Peter Blum Gallery, New York

Peter Blum Gallery presents the first solo exhibition of Brooklyn-based artist Rebecca Ward. Ward’s work explores the relationship between painting and craft through the sewing together of cut pieces of canvas. In this show, she layers together painted, dyed, and sometimes plain canvases in order to form large-scale works consisting of geometric shapes, which, according to the gallery, “emphasizes the multidimensional structure of painting beyond its surface and highlights the structural elements that make it possible.”

Location: Peter Blum Gallery, 176 Grand Street, New York
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Friday,10 a.m.–6 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Neha Jambhekar

 

Through Sunday, August 21

Alexander Rodchenko, Battleship Pokemin (1925).

Alexander Rodchenko, Battleship Pokemin (1926).

13. “The Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s” at Poster House, New York

Following the fall of tsarist rule, the Communist regime in 1920s U.S.S.R. ushered in a fleeting but glorious period of artistic experimentation and innovation, leading to the rise of movements including Constructivism, Suprematism, and Productivism—until such creativity was stifled by Joseph Stalin and 50 years of strict state censorship. Rare film posters by the likes of Alexander Rodchenko and brothers Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg—sometimes so artistic that they have almost no information about the movies they advertised—offer a fascinating snapshot of this brief moment of time. The exhibition is also beautifully designed by Isometric Studio, with bold colors and graphic shapes that perfectly echo the nearly-century-old art on view.

Location: Poster House, 119 West 23rd Street, New York
Price: general admission $12; free on Friday
Time: Thursday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

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Editors’ Picks: 12 Events for Your Art Calendar, From the Return of Asia Week IRL to an Anti-Patriarchy Billboard Blitz | Artnet News

Editors’ Picks: 12 Events for Your Art Calendar, From the Return of Asia Week IRL to an Anti-Patriarchy Billboard Blitz | Artnet News

Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the New York area. See our picks from around the world below. (Times are all ET unless otherwise noted.)

 

Tuesday, March 15

Barbara Chase-Riboud, Malcolm X #3, (1969), 125th Anniversary acquisition. Purchased with funds contributed by Regina and Ragan A. Henry, and with funds raised in honor of the 125th Anniversary of the museum in celebration of African American art, 2001-92-1) © Barbara Chase-Riboud.

Barbara Chase-Riboud, Malcolm X #3, (1969), 125th Anniversary acquisition. Purchased with funds contributed by Regina and Ragan A. Henry, and with funds raised in honor of the 125th Anniversary of the museum in celebration of African American art, 2001-92-1) © Barbara Chase-Riboud.

1. “(Re)membering through Repetition: Seriality and Memorial Art” at the Philadelphia Show

Jessica Todd Smith, curator of American art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss the museum’s new show, “Elegy: Lament in the 20th Century.” The exhibition explores how artists living and/or working in the U.S. during the 20th century have responded to tragedy, grappled with mortality, and honored those who have passed. The virtual presentation will focus on series and repetition in the Malcolm X sculptures by Barbara Chase-Riboud and the “Elegy to the Spanish Republic” paintings by Robert Motherwell.

Price: Free with registration
Time: 5:30-6:30 p.m.

—Eileen Kinsella

 

Wednesday, March 16

Terry Allen, <em>MemWars</em> (2016), still, three channel video. Photo ©Terry Allen, courtesy of L.A. Louver, Venice, California.

Terry Allen, MemWars (2016), still, three channel video. Photo ©Terry Allen, courtesy of L.A. Louver, Venice, California.

2. “Artist Talk: Terry Allen” at the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin

On the occasion of his current exhibition “MemWars” (through July 10), Texas musician, songwriter, and visual artist Terry Allen talks with Blanton deputy director Carter E. Foster about his creative process and how he integrates music, performance, theater, and drawing into his work. It’s part of the museum’s ongoing virtual “Curated Conversations” series.

Price: Free or pay-what-you-wish with registration
Time: 1 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Wednesday, March 16–Friday, March 25

Pichhvai of Dana Lili (The demanding of toll), Deccan, possibly Hyderabad (mid-19th century). Photo courtesy of Francesca Galloway, London.

3. “Asia Week New York

Timed to 14 in-person auctions and six online sales at Bonhams, Christie’s, Doyle, Heritage Auctions, iGavel, and Sotheby’s, Asia Week New York returns to its in-person format this year with 22 international dealers setting up shop at host galleries, mostly on the Upper East Side. With work from across the Asian continent ranging from 2,000 BCE to the present day, expect museum-quality art in a wide range of mediums, including textiles, ceramics, and basketry, as well as prints and paintings. San Francisco’s Art Passages is bringing a major painting by Gobind Singh, a court artist to the Mughal Emperor Shah ‘Alam, from the year 1760. DAG, a New York gallery specializing in India’s modern masters, is showcasing 10 of the nation’s trailblazing women artists from the 20th century, including Ambika Dhurandhar, the first Indian women to receive a formal art degree, and Mrinalini Mukherjee, who had a stunning solo show at the Met Breuer in 2019 and is among the artists featured in the upcoming Venice Biennale. Fu Qiumeng Fine Art, a New York gallery that is participating for the first time, is offering collaborative works that meld the techniques of classical ink painting with photography by Chinese American artist Arnold Chang, who lives in New Jersey, and American photographer Michael Cherney, who lives in Beijing.

Location: Various
Price: Free
Time: Times vary

—Sarah Cascone

 

Through Thursday, March 17

Installation view of “Consequences: A Parlor Game,” at the National Arts Club, New York. Photo by Arturo Sánchez, courtesy of the National Academy of Design.

Installation view of “Consequences: A Parlor Game,” at the National Arts Club, New York. Photo by Arturo Sánchez, courtesy of the National Academy of Design.

4. “Consequences: A Parlor Game” at the National Arts Club, New York

Peter Halley, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Rashid Johnson, and Julie Mehretu are among the artists featured in this group show organized by the National Academy of Design. Curated by Sara Reisman and Natalia Viera Salgado, the exhibition is a celebration of abstraction in all forms—hard edge, gestural, conceptual—recognizing both its importance in art history and the way it frees artists from the limits of representation, particularly in times of political crisis. Because each artist selected their contributions on their own, the show takes its title from a Surrealist game in the style of mad libs or exquisite corpse, in which participants collectively write a story or complete a drawing without knowing what the others have added.

Location: National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park S, New York
Price: Free; reservation required to visit the upstairs parlors
Time: Monday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

—Tanner West

 

Friday, March 18

Buddha attended by two bodhisattvas, Gandhara, Peshawar region, Pakistan, inscribed and dated 'Year 5,' possibly equivalent to AD 235 in the reign of Kanishka II. Schist. On loan from a private collection. sold for $6,630,000 at Christies in October 2020. Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Buddha attended by two bodhisattvas, Gandhara, Peshawar region, Pakistan, inscribed and dated ‘Year 5,’ possibly equivalent to AD 235 in the reign of Kanishka II. Schist. On loan from a private collection. The work sold for $6,630,000 at Christie’s New York in October 2020. Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

5. “Annual Distinguished Lecture on the Arts of South and Southeast Asia—Buddhist Art of Gandhara and the ‘Year 5’ Buddha: Exploring Its Place in Time, Space, and Practice” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

For this annual lecture at the Met, Juhyung Rhi, a professor of archaeology and art history at Seoul National University, will talk about the significance of a rare schist relief sculpture of the Buddha that sold for $6.6 million at Christie’s New York in October 2020. Known as ‘Year 5’ Buddha, it is one of only five known extant dated Gandharan sculptures.

Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York
Price: Free with registration
Time: 4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

—Nan Stewert

 

Friday, March 18–Monday, January 16, 2023

Hua Khar, <em>Course of the Lifespan Principle</em> (1995–1996). Collection of the Rubin Museum of Art, gift of Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection.

Hua Khar, Course of the Lifespan Principle (1995–1996). Collection of the Rubin Museum of Art, gift of Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection.

6. “Healing Practices: Stories from Himalayan Americans” at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York

Timed to Asia Week, the Rubin Museum’s new show is an exploration of Tibetan Buddhist artworks related to healing and mental, physical, and spiritual practices for well-being. Tickets for Friday’s opening night party (6 p.m.–10 p.m.) with a performance by Yesh and Nathan Harrington are sold out, with limited walk-in tickets available.

Location: Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street, New York
Price: $19 general admission; free entry March 18–20
Time: Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.; Friday , 11 a.m.–10 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Friday, March 18–Wednesday, June 1

Tomashi Jackson, preparatory works for <em>Moonfolk: Passages Toward Greater Understanding</em>. Courtesy of Children's Museum of the Arts, New York.

Tomashi Jackson, preparatory works for Moonfolk: Passages Toward Greater Understanding. Courtesy of Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York.

7. “Moonfolk: Passages Toward Greater Understanding” from the Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York

The Children’s Museum of the Arts has partnered with ArtBridge, which organizes public art shows on construction fencing and scaffolding, on a new mural by Tomashi Jackson on the theme of world peace. An accompanying exhibition features artworks made in response to Jackson’s work by New York City children ages four to 12. The show is part of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs’s “City Canvas” program, which installs art on temporary protective barriers at construction sites. In celebration of the opening, the museum is holding a tour of the exhibition followed by a sparkling cider toast and mural-making party.

Location: Google campus, St. John’s Terminal, 550 Washington Street, reception at Restorative Ground, 345 Hudson Street
Price: Opening reception free with registration
Time: Opening reception, 4 p.m.; otherwise on view daily at all times

—Sarah Cascone

 

Through Sunday, March 20

Shikō Munakata, <em>Mukō-machi: Crossing Point of Highways</em>, "Tōkaidō Series" (1964), detail. Photo by Nicholas Knight and Eline Mul. Collection of Japan Society. ©Shikō Munakata.

Shikō Munakata, Mukō-machi: Crossing Point of Highways, “Tōkaidō Series” (1964), detail. Photo by Nicholas Knight and Eline Mul. Collection of Japan Society. ©Shikō Munakata.

8. “Shikō Munakata: A Way of Seeing” at the Japan Society, New York

It’s your last chance to see this exhibition of nearly 100 works by Shikō Munakata, a Japanese artist who lived from 1903 to 1975 and was known for his woodblock prints. The Japan Society has the nation’s largest collection of his work, including some pieces made there during Munakata’s first visit to the U.S. in 1959, as a fellow of the institution’s Print Artists Program. Highlights include his “Tōkaidō” Series (1964), depicting scenes along the route between Tokyo and Kyoto, shown in its entirety for the first time since 1965, as well as examples of his calligraphy, sumi ink paintings, watercolors, lithography, and ceramics.

Location: Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, New York
Price: $12 general admission
Time: Monday, Wednesday–Sunday,12 p.m.–6 p.m. (extended hours for the closing days of the show)

—Sarah Cascone

 

Through Sunday, April 3

Holly Silius, <em>Phantom Feels</em>. Photo courtesy of SaveArtSpace.

Holly Silius, Phantom Feels. Photo courtesy of SaveArtSpace.

9. “Patriarchy RIP” at SaveArtSpace, in nine cities across the U.S.

Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova curated this nationwide public art show from SaveArtSpace, taking over billboard ad space in cities including Atlanta, Birmingham, and New Orleans. The exhibition, up for Women’s History Month, is meant to call attention to the gender pay gap in the art world, where women still account for just 2 percent of sales at auction. Artists Michele Pred and Autumn Breon have three billboards featuring works from their initiative the Art of Equal Pay. Pred launched the project in 2020 on March 15, which is known as Equal Pay Day—because that’s how long the average woman would have to work into the new year to match the salary earned by her male counterparts. The New York billboard features a piece from Holly Silius’s new series, “Phantom Feel,” showing stone sculptures of torsos inspired by writer and actor Lio Mehiel’s top surgery removing their breasts.

Location: Various locations in nine states, including Forsyth Street and East Broadway, New York
Price: Free
Time: On view daily at all times

—Sarah Cascone

 

Through Sunday, May 8

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10. “Kia LaBeija: Prepare My Heart” at Fotografiska, New York

In her first solo show, photographer Kia LaBeija presents a deeply personal, autobiographical body of work about growing up HIV positive, the loss of her mother—an AIDS activist who died from complications of the disease—and finding herself in New York’s Ballroom dance scene. (The former “mother” of the House of LaBeiija drag family, La Beija also served as a principle dancer in the pilot for the television series Pose.) Born in 1990, La Beiija shares both childhood ephemera from her personal archives and poetry, video art, and photographs, including self-portraiture.

Location: Fotografiska, New York
Price: general admission $26
Time: 9 a.m.–9 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Through Saturday, June 4

Peter Uka, <i>Basement Barbers</i> (2018). Image courtesy the artist and Mariane Ibrahim, Chicago and Paris Private collection

Peter Uka, Basement Barbers (2018). Image courtesy the artist and Mariane Ibrahim, Chicago and Paris Private collection

11. “Peter Uka: Remembrance” at FLAG Art Foundation, New York

This just-opened show (March 12) marks the first New York solo exhibition for Nigerian-born artist Peter Uka, who lives in Cologne, Germany. His large-scale portraits and group scenes are inspired by his childhood memories, and feature 1970s-era fashion, hairstyles, and interiors. They celebrate the richness of life with attention to detail, including boys fresh from the barbershop and ready for mass in their Sunday best, characters playing cards on a shaded porch, or a group in disco-style clothing dancing exuberantly. Uka, who is represented by Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, studied at the Yaba College of Technology in Nigeria, and later at Germany’s Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he was taught by Tal R and Eberhard Havekost.

Location: FLAG Art Foundation, 545 West 25th Street, Ninth Floor, New York
Price: Free
Time: Wednesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.

—Eileen Kinsella

 

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CRITIC’S PICKS | Classical Events You Absolutely Need To See This Week: Feb. 28 – Mar. 6

Classical music and opera events for the week of February 28 to March 6
Classical music and opera events for the week of February 28 to March 6
Classical music and opera events for the week of February 28 to March 6

This is a list of amazing concerts we are attending, wishing we could attend, or thinking about attending between February 28 – March 6, 2022. For more details on what’s happening around Toronto, visit our calendar here.

Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Final Fantasy VII Remake Orchestra World Tour

📅 Tuesday — March 1, 2022, 7:30 p.m. ET (Repeats March 2-3)
📍 LINK
💸 $51+

From the creators of Space Invaders comes an all-new, live orchestra experience that reimagines and reinvents one of the most cherished video game titles of all time. Whom will the hero of the game be? The TSO, of course. If video game music isn’t your thing, wait till Friday for The Princess Bride. | Details

The National Ballet Of Canada | A Streetcar Named Desire

📅 Wednesday — March 2, 2022, 7:30 p.m. ET (Runs through Mar. 6)
📍 LINK
💸 $42+

“Stella-a-a-a-a-!” If you haven’t seen the ballet production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, it’s a must. This revival production was created in 1983 by John Neumeier, Director and Chief Choreographer of The Hamburg Ballet. Time-tested, we’d argue this is the definitive version. | Details

Music In The Afternoon | Andrew Haji

📅 Thursday — March 3, 2022, 1:30 p.m. ET
📍 LINK
💸 $42+

Opera lovers will know Canadian tenor Andrew Haji as a go-to voice from operatic and concert stages around the globe. With many opera venues yet to re-open, this is an excellent opportunity to see this talent in a more intimate setting. He’ll be singing songs by Franz Liszt, Britten, and Francesco Santoliquido. Pianist Stéphane Mayer accompanies. Note that the Music in the Afternoon series has moved to Grace Church on-the-Hill this season. | Details

Toronto Symphony Orchestra | The Princess Bride

📅 Friday — March 4, 2022, 7:30 p.m. ET (Repeats March 5 matinée + evening)
📍 LINK
💸 $71+

Missing seeing The Princess Bride on the big screen with a live orchestra at Roy Thomson Hall is inconceivable. If you’ve never seen it, or if you were just too darn young to remember it properly, this is the chance to see it exactly as it was meant to be seen — on a big screen, in glorious Technicolor, and with the incredible sounds of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. | Details

Sinfonia Toronto | Chopin & Dvorak

📅 Saturday — March 5, 2022, 8 p.m. ET
📍 LINK
💸 $15+

Pack your bags for a trip through time, as Sinfonia Toronto travels to three very different countries. From Chopin’s Poland to Vania Angelova’s Bulgaria and Dvorak’s American West, hear how composers from far away places found homes in other lands. | Details

Royal Conservatory | Jeremy Denk with Les Violons du Roy

📅 Sunday — March 6, 2022, 3 p.m. ET
📍 LINK
💸 $50+

Anything with pianist Jeremy Denk, let alone Les Violons du Roy, is a Sunday afternoon well spent. You’ll hear Bach and Biber with the Montreal legends, Les Violins de Roy with acclaimed pianist, award-winning virtuoso Jeremy Denk. If the tickets sell out, or you prefer to stay home, catch the livestream for just $20. | Details

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CRITIC’S PICKS | Classical Events You Absolutely Need To See This Week: Feb. 21 – 27

CRITIC'S PICKS | Classical Events You Absolutely Need To See This Week: Feb. 21 – 27
Classical music and opera events in Toronto for the week of February 21 to 27.

This is a list of amazing concerts we are attending, wishing we could attend, or thinking about attending between February 21 –  27, 2022. For more details on what’s happening around Toronto, visit our calendar here.

Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Find Your Dream: The Songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein

📅  Tuesday — February 22, 2022, 8 pm ET (Repeats Feb. 23)
📍 LINK
💸 $41+

If you’re a sucker for a good show tune, the TSO’s Pops series should be on your radar this week. Why? Conductor Steven Reineke will lead the Orchestra alongside two Broadway veterans Emily Padgett and Josh Young. You’ll hear classics from The Sound of Music, Carousel, Oklahoma!, and South Pacific. | Details

Royal Conservatory | Víkingur Ólafsson

📅  Thursday — February 24, 2022, 8 pm ET
📍 LINK
💸 $55+

Piano lovers should be lining up for this. Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson will be performing works from his latest Mozart-heavy CD at Koerner Hall. Ólafsson just might be the most exciting thing to come out of Iceland since Björk, and to hear him at the acoustically pristine Koerner Hall is a treasure. | Details

Royal Conservatory | Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà: Elle – 25th Anniversary Concert

📅  Friday — February 25, 2022, 8 pm ET
📍 LINK
💸 $21+

It’s hard to believe Angèle Dubeau’s La Pietà ensemble is 25 this year. This Friday, they will be in town to celebrate with a collection of classical music by mostly living composers such as Ludovico Einaudi, Olafur Arnalds, Max Richter, and more. Who should go? Besides fans of Dubeau, this is an excellent concert to bring a teenager too — especially one who’s never been to a concert like this. | Details

Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Beethoven’s 4th

📅  Saturday — February 26, 2022, 8 pm ET (Repeats Feb. 27)
📍 LINK
💸 $29+

For those looking for a more varied, slightly unusual program, this is your jam. You’ll hear celebrated Chinese-American conductor, Xian Zhang lead Principal Flute Kelly Zimba Luki in Carl Nielsen’s rarely heard Flute Concerto. The concert also features Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s haunting Primal Message for string orchestra. The show closes with Beethoven’s fourth. | Details

Elixir Baroque Ensemble | 2022 Elixir Mixer

📅  Sunday — February 27, 2022, 5 pm ET
📍 LINK
💸 $25

For those looking for a vibrato-free vibe and a cold elixir in hand, we recommend checking out the Elixir Baroque Ensemble this Sunday. This unique group was started over a decade ago by harpsichordist Sara-Anne Churchill. It grew into a duet, a trio, and a full chamber ensemble. Tickets will be sold at the door beginning at 4 pm. Capacities may be limited, so please arrive early. | Details

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2022 NBA All-Star Weekend event schedule: Live stream, start times, participants, picks, format, watch online

2022 NBA All-Star Weekend event schedule: Live stream, start times, participants, picks, format, watch online

NBA All-Star Weekend is almost here, and it promises to provide ample entertainment, as it does every year. This year the weekend will take place in Cleveland and will feature all of the events that fans have come to enjoy. However, several of the main events have been tweaked by the league, which could confuse those unaware of the changes. Fear not, we’re here to help. Below you’ll find the dates, list of participants and a brief explanation for the weekend’s five biggest events. 

NBA All-Star Celebrity Game 

Date: Friday, Feb. 18 | Time: 7 p.m. ET
Location: Wolstein Center — Cleveland, Ohio
TV: ESPN | Live stream: fuboTV (Try for free)  

Team Nique: Anuel AA (rapper), Mayor Justin Bibb (Mayor of Cleveland), Kane Brown (singer, songwriter), Myles Garrett (Cleveland Browns defensive end), Booby Gibson (Cleveland Cavaliers legend), Tiffany Haddish (comedian, actress and author), Jack Harlow (rapper, recording artist), Crissa Jackson (Harlem Globetrotters player), Anjali Ranadivé (singer, songwriter), Gianmarco Tamberi (Olympic high jump champion).

Team Walton: Jimmie Allen (singer, songwriter), Brittney Elena (host, actress, athlete and model), Machine Gun Kelly (singer, songwriter), Dearica Hamby (Las Vegas Aces forward), Noah Carlock (Fanatics All-In Challenge Winner), Nyjah Huston (Olympian, professional skateboarder), Matt James (“The Bachelor”), Quavo (rapper, recording artist), Ranveer Singh (actor), Alex Toussaint (Peloton instructor).

Rising Stars

Date: Friday, Feb. 18 | Time: 9 p.m. ET
Location: Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse — Cleveland, Ohio
TV and live stream: TNT   

Team Barry: Cade Cunningham, Detroit Pistons (rookie), Dyson Daniels, G League Ignite, Evan Mobley, Cleveland Cavaliers (rookie), Isaac Okoro, Cleveland Cavaliers (sophomore), Alperen Sengun, Houston Rockets (rookie), Jae’Sean Tate, Houston Rockets (sophomore), Franz Wagner, Orlando Magic (rookie)

Team Isiah: Precious Achiuwa, Toronto Raptors (sophomore), Desmond Bane, Memphis Grizzlies (sophomore), Saddiq Bey, Detroit Pistons (sophomore), Anthony Edwards, Minnesota Timberwolves (sophomore), Tyrese Haliburton, Sacramento Kings (sophomore), Jaden Hardy, G League Ignite, Isaiah Stewart, Detroit Pistons (sophomore)

Team Payton: LaMelo Ball, Charlotte Hornets (sophomore), Scottie Barnes, Toronto Raptors (rookie), Ayo Dosunmu, Chicago Bulls (rookie), Scoot Henderson, G League Ignite, Jaden McDaniels, Minnesota Timberwolves (sophomore), Davion Mitchell, Sacramento Kings (rookie), Jonathan Kuminga, Golden State Warriors (rookie)

Team Worthy: Cole Anthony, Orlando Magic (sophomore), MarJon Beauchamp, G League Ignite, Josh Giddey, Oklahoma City Thunder (rookie), Jalen Green, Houston Rockets (rookie), Herbert Jones, New Orleans Pelicans (rookie), Tyrese Maxey, Philadelphia 76ers (sophomore), Jalen Suggs, Orlando Magic (rookie)

How it works: In a new format, 28 players – comprising 12 rookies, 12 sophomores and four members of the NBA G League Ignite developmental squad; see roster above – were drafted onto four teams to compete in three games. Per the NBA, each game will be played to a Final Target Score, ending with a made basket or free throw instead of with the clock running out. It will be a “Race to 75” to celebrate the league’s 75th anniversary season — Games 1 and 2 will be played until a team reaches 50 points; Game 3 will be played until a team reaches 25 points.

Skills Challenge 

Date: Saturday, Feb. 19 | Time: 8 p.m. ET (first event)
Location: Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse — Cleveland, Ohio
TV and live stream: TNT
Odds: Team Rooks -125 | Team Cavs +220 | Team Antetokounmpo +350 (via Caesars Sportsbook)

Team Rooks: Scottie Barnes, Toronto Raptors, Cade Cunningham, Detroit Pistons, Josh Giddey, Oklahoma City Thunder

Team Cavs: Jarrett Allen, Cleveland Cavaliers, Darius Garland, Cleveland Cavaliers, Evan Mobley, Cleveland Cavaliers

Team Antetokounmpo: Giannis Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee Bucks, Alex Antetokounmpo, Raptors 905, Thanasis Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee Bucks

How it works: Three teams — the Antetokounmpo brothers, the Cavaliers and rookies — will compete in a new format that features a four-round competition that tests shooting, passing and dribbling ability. Per the NBA, each of the three teams will compete in the first three rounds of the Taco Bell Skills Challenge. The two teams with the most “Challenge Points” after the first three rounds will advance to the Final Round.  Challenge Points are earned by winning each of the first three rounds. 

Round one is team shooting, round two is team passing, round three is team relay and the final round is half-court shots. 

3-Point Contest

Date: Saturday, Feb. 19 | Time: Second event after 8 p.m. ET start
Location: Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse — Cleveland, Ohio
TV and live stream: TNT

Participants and odds (via Caesars Sportsbook): 

How it works: The 3-point contest will feature the same format as it has in the past. Per the NBA, each competitor will have 70 seconds (1:10) to shoot as many of the 27 balls as he can, with a maximum possible score of 40 points in a single round.  The three competitors with the highest scores in the first round will advance to the championship round.  The player with the highest score in the championship round will win the MTN DEW 3-Point Contest.

Slam Dunk Contest

Date: Saturday, Feb. 19 | Time: Third event after 8 p.m. ET start
Location: Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse — Cleveland, Ohio
TV and live stream: TNT      

Participants: 

How it works: The dunk contest will follow the same format as it has in the past. Per the NBA, all four competitors will get two dunks in the first round. The two players with the highest combined score for their two dunks will advance to the final round. The two finalists will then get two dunks in the final round. The dunker with the highest combined score for his two dunks in the final round will win. 

71st NBA All-Star Game 

Date: Sunday, Feb. 20 | Time: 8 p.m. ET 
Location: Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse — Cleveland, Ohio
TV and live stream: TNT
Odds: Team Durant +180 | Team LeBron -220 | O/U 321.5 | Spread: LeBron -5.5/Durant +5.5 (via Caesars Sportsbook)

Team LeBron: LeBron James, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Stephen CurryDeMar DeRozanNikola JokicLuka Doncic, Darius Garland, Chris PaulJimmy ButlerDonovan Mitchell, Fred VanVleet, James Harden

Team Durant: Joel EmbiidJa MorantJayson Tatum, Trae Young, Andrew WigginsDevin Booker, Karl-Anthony Towns, Zach LaVine, DeJounte MurrayKhris Middleton, LaMelo Ball, Rudy Gobert   

How it works: Team LeBron and Team Durant will go head-to-head to determine the winner of the 2022 NBA All-Star game. For the third straight season, the NBA will utilize the ‘Elam Ending’ for the annual exhibition, which means that the game will end when a team hits a target score, as opposed to when the clock ticks down to zero. The target score is typically determined by adding a fixed number to the leading team’s total after three quarters of action. Whichever team hits that score first wins the game, regardless of how long it takes. 

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Editors’ Picks: 9 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Talk on Eric Adams’s Arts Priorities to a Show by an Artist-Turned-Dragon

Nollywood Portraits: A Radical Beauty by Iké Udé. Published by Skira.

Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the New York area. See our picks from around the world below. (Times are all EST unless otherwise noted.)

 

Tuesday, February 8

Vikky Alexander. Photo by Peter Bellamy, courtesy of the Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Canada.

Vikky Alexander. Photo by Peter Bellamy, courtesy of the Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Canada.

1. “Tuesday Night Talks: Vikky Alexander” at the Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Canada

The Audain Art Museum kicks off season three of its virtual Tuesday Night Talks programming with Canada’s Vikky Alexander, whose piece Orange Ceiling (2010) was recently acquired by the institution. The photographer, sculptor, and installation artist will speak with director and chief curator Curtis Collins about her career—including her ties to the Vancouver School of photo-conceptualism as well as New York’s Pictures Generation—as well as how she finds inspiration in landscape, architecture, and design.

Price: Free with registration
Time: 11 p.m.

—Tanner West

 

 

Thursday, February 10

New York City Mayor Eric Adams in front of the Brooklyn Museum on Juneteenth Holiday, June 19, 2021, during his campang. Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams in front of the Brooklyn Museum on Juneteenth Holiday, June 19, 2021. Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images.

2. “More or Less: Notes to Our Next Mayor, Culminating Panel” at More Art, New  York

Ahead of last year’s mayoral election, social justice-minded public art nonprofit More Art hosted a three-part conversation series about what New York City residents need most—namely, food, shelter, and healthcare. Those discussions have been condensed into an open letter of demands from artists, activists, and community members to new Mayor Eric Adams’s administration. The moderators of the three discussions, artists Candace Thompson, Betty Yu, and Jeff Kasper, will return to talk about the intersection of art and activism, the contents of the letter, how it hopes to ensure all New Yorkers have guaranteed access to food, healthcare, and housing.

Price: Free with registration
Time: 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Thursday, February 10–Saturday, March 12

Suchitra Mattai, Fitting In, 2022 Courtesy of Hollis Taggart

3. “Suchitra Mattai: Herself as Another” at Hollis Taggart

Suchitra Mattai is a Guyanese artist who uses imagery from her Indian heritage to comment on colonialism and patriarchy. In her solo show at Hollis Taggart, Mattai presents mixed-media paintings, sculptures, and installations to explore the theme of “othering.” The artist used The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous as the main source for her research into folklore monsters, tales that reflect the taboos and stereotypes often applied to those denied power. Through the works in this show, Mattai creates “a space to confront these misunderstandings… and to reflect on the experience and perspective of the ‘other’ as a means of fostering empathy and connection,” the gallery states.

Location: Hollis Taggart, 521 West 26th Street, 1st Floor, New York
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, Thursday, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.; Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.

—Neha Jambhekar

 

Thursday, February 10–Saturday, March 19

Asif Hoque, Music of the sun Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery

4. “Asif Hoque: Before Sunrise” at Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

“Before Sunrise” is the first solo exhibition of New York-based Bangladeshi artist Asif Hoque. Born in Rome, Hoque moved to Florida at a young age with his family. The title of the exhibition alludes to early morning beach visits he took with his brother during his trips home, where the changing light greatly inspired the works shown here. Hoque’s new work builds on previous imagery of deified brown male and female figures, lions, and vases with the addition of a dynamic new form, the Bengal tiger, and a softening of the surface inspired by Rubens’ sfumato technique.

Location: Yossi Milo Gallery, 245 Tenth Avenue, New York
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, Thursday, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.; Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Neha Jambhekar

 

Friday, February 11

Iké Udé, Nollywood in Focus, still image.

Iké Udé, Nollywood in Focus, still image.

5. “African Is Beautiful” at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.

Following a virtual screening of portrait photographer and artist Iké Udé’s new film, Nollywood in Focus, about the Nigerian film scene, Touria El Glaoui, founding director of 1:54 Contemporary Art Fair, will moderate a discussion with Udé and industry insiders Eku Edewor, Alexx Ekubo, Enyinna Nwigwe, and Joke Silva. They’ll consider such topics as beauty, self-love, and the power of art.

Price: Free with registration
Time: 12 p.m.–6 p.m.

—Nan Stewert

Friday, February 11–Sunday, April 10

Carlos Motta and Tiamat Legion Medusa, <em>When I Leave This World</em> (2022), still. Courtesy of the artist, P.P.O.W. Gallery, and OCDChinatown.

Carlos Motta and Tiamat Legion Medusa, When I Leave This World (2022), still. Courtesy of the artist, P.P.O.W. Gallery, and OCDChinatown.

6. “Carlos Motta and Tiamat Legion Medusa: When I Leave This World” at OCD Chinatown, New York

Performance and body-modification artist Tiamat Legion Medusa has collaborated with artist Carlos Motta on a new two-channel video installation documenting Medusa’s transition from male to female to reptile. (The end goal of the artist, who goes by it pronouns, is to become a dragon.) Medusa, who explains in one of the videos how childhood abandonment and assault inspired it to reject its own humanity, bills itself as “interspecies and the most body-modified transexual in the world.”

Location: OCD Chinatown, 75 East Broadway NYC
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception,  6 p.m.–8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m. or by appointment

Sarah Cascone

 

 

Saturday, February 12–Sunday, January 8, 2023

Chris Schanck, <em>Banglatown</em> (2018). Photo by Michelle and Chris Gerard, courtesy the artist and Friedman Benda, New York.

Chris Schanck, Banglatown (2018). Photo by Michelle and Chris Gerard, courtesy the artist and Friedman Benda, New York.

7. “Chris Schanck: Off-World” at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York

Chris Schanck’s work exists at the boundary between sculpture and furniture, straddling the line between art and design with chairs, lighting, and other functional objects produced in his Detroit studio with the assistance of local Bangladeshi craftspeople. Schanck’s forms recall objects from nature, like coral reefs, but also suggest an otherworldly, extraterrestrial origin, at times futuristic, other times reminiscent of ancient civilizations.

Location: Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, New York
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m..

—Sarah Cascone

 

Sunday, February 13

Alex Strada and Tali Keren, <em>Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?</em> in "Year of Uncertainty (YoU) — Phase I: Participate & Build." Photo by Zynab Cewalam, courtesy of the Queens Museum.

Alex Strada and Tali Keren, Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System? in “Year of Uncertainty (YoU) — Phase I: Participate & Build.” Photo by Zynab Cewalam, courtesy of the Queens Museum.

8. “Defending Our Bodily Autonomy in a Broken System” at the Queens Museum

Artists Alex Strada and Tali Keren’s participatory installation, Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?, on view in “Year of Uncertainty (YoU) — Phase III: Synthesize and Reflect” (through February 13) will serve as the stage for programming addressing the ways in which many Black, Indigenous, and other people of color face reproductive and gender-based oppression. A presentation by CUNY Law professor Cynthia Soohoo will discuss the inadequacies of legal protection for reproductive rights, the likely overturn of Roe v. Wade, and how we can ensure reproductive justice for all. A hands-on self-defense workshop, led by Deena Hadhoud of Malikah, will follow.

Location: Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Meridian Road, Queens
Price: Free with registration
Time: 1 p.m.–3:30 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Through March 19

Lucia Love, <I>BDW</I>, 2021

Lucia Love, BDW, 2021. Courtesy JDJ and the artist.

9. “Lucia Love: Angel At The Wheel” at JDJ Tribeca

The new show of paintings by Lucia Love at JDJ World’s recently opened location in Tribeca see the artist taking a darker, more cynical turn. Love’s surrealist and often figurative paintings are inspired by fraught political situations, and she does not seem to think things have gotten much better since her last show with the gallery in 2020. As fellow artist Emily Mae Smith wrote in the press release for the show, “The figures in Love’s paintings are amalgamated bodies, often balancing on impossible podiums or floating in broken geometries that defy perspectival logic. Love captures the instability of moral ground in our time of global peril.”

Location: JDJ Tribeca, 373 Broadway B11
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m.

—Annie Armstrong

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