Art Exhibits, Events & Installations in NYC ~ it’s The May 2022 Art Roundup

 

 

 

 

Chuck Stewart, Duke Ellington, c. 1940s In The Photography Show 2022 (AIPAD) in the Keith de Lellis Gallery Booth #221, Center 415, Opening on Friday, May 20th at 415 Fifth Avenue between 37th/38th Streets. NYC AIPAD NYC 2022.

Ushering in annual in-person events, May will open its doors to the ever popular Jane’s Walk, TEFAF will return to the Park Avenue Armory, NYCxDesign celebrates its 10th anniversary, Madison Avenue prepares for its Spring Gallery Walk, the Roof Garden Commission, Lauren Halsey, will unveil at The Met, FRIEZE New York returns to The Shed, along with #FRIEZEWEEK including Volta and The Photography Show. The Chelsea Market’s ARTECHOUSE explores the human brain, the Costume Institute at The Met unveils Part Two, and Salmagundi Club opens its doors to Light and Wonder: Photography Today + so much more. Here are a few suggestions for the month of May, 2022.

Van Cleef & Arpels Unveils Blooms Along Fifth Avenue ~ May 1

French artist Alexandre Benjamin Navet at work at Van Clef & Arpels. Image via Van Clef & Arpels

Spring is in the air on Fifth Avenue. Van Cleef & Arpels and French artist Alexandre Benjamin Navet partnered to create fifteen colorful sculptures inspired by the artists’ sketches. New Yorkers will find the installations along Fifth Avenue from 47th to 59th Streets, and will be on view from May 1st to May 31st.

 

The Broadway Bach Ensemble ~ May 1

Broadway Bach, 2008

One of our favorite events, Broadway Bach, is back and will be performing on Sunday, May 1st at 2:00pm at The Broadway Presbyterian Church on West 114th Street and Broadway in Morningside Heights.

The NY Philharmonic bassist, Timothy Cobb returns to join the orchestra in a performance of Vanhal’s Concerto in E Major. Also on the program, the Sigurd Jorsalfal Suite by Grieg, and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.

 

Hippo Ballerina + Friends Arrive on Pershing Square Plaza ~ May 2

Hippo Ballerina, Image courtesy Cavalier Galleries

Cavalier Gallery is pleased to reveal the return of Hippo Ballerina. The iconic bronze sculpture, installed in New York City’s Pershing Square Plaza West located on the west side of Park Avenue between East 41st and East 42nd Streets in Midtown Manhattan. Created by Danish artist Bjørn Okholm Skaarup, the monumental sculpture will be accompanied by Hippo Ballerina, pirouette and Rhino Harlequin, pirouette permitted as part of the New York City Department of Transportation’s Art Program.

 

Light and Wonder: Photography Today at Salmagundi Club ~ May 2

Rod Brayman, Photography Today exhibition. Image courtesy of the artist and Salmagundi Club.

The Salmagundi Club presents Photography Today, on view for two weeks only from May 2 through May 14, 2022, in the Rockwell Gallery. This exhibition of fine art photography showcases the work of 23 photographer members.

 

New Works by Richard Serra at David Zwirner Chelsea ~ May 4

Richard Serra, Up the River, 2021. Image courtesy of the Gallery.

David Zwirner is pleased to present concurrent exhibitions of new work by American artist Richard Serra at the gallery’s 537 West 20th Street location in New York, on May 4, 2022. On view will be a new sculpture in forged steel, and a new series of drawings by the artist will be presented in the second-floor galleries.

 

Cindy Sherman. 1977 ~ 1982 at Hauser & Wirth New York, 69th Street ~ May 4

Cindy Sherman, Untitled, 1981; Chromogenic color print; Edition 2/10, 2 AP; 83.4 x 147.3 cm/32 7/8 x 56 in; © Cindy Sherman. Courtesy the artist & Hauser & Wirth

With her early work, Cindy Sherman revolutionized the role of the camera in artistic practice and opened the door for generations of artists and critics to rethink photography as a medium. On 4 May 2022, Hauser & Wirth New York will present over one hundred works from Sherman’s most groundbreaking and influential early series – including the complete set of 70 Untitled Film Stills, Rear Screen Projections and Centerfolds – in her first major solo exhibition with the gallery.

 

Artist Ademola Olugebefola in Conversation with Art Historian, Howard Singerman at Hunter East Harlem Gallery ~ May 4

Image: A recent portrait of artist Ademola Olugebefola with a few select books and museum catalogues that include his art and career achievements. Photo by Lisa DuBois circa 2020. Courtesy of New England Review.

Join artist Ademola Olugebefola and art historian Howard Singerman on Wednesday, May 4, 2022 in conversation around the current exhibition, Ademola Olugebefola: Afrofuturist. from 6:30 to 8:00pm at Hunter East Harlem Gallery, 2180 Third Avenue, NYC.

 

Enrique Cabrera unveils El Toro de Oro in Meatpacking District ~ May 5

El Toro de Oro by Enrique Cabrera, at Gansevoort Meatpacking NYC. Photographer Credit: Alejandro Jimenez

Installed on May 5th (Cinco de Mayo), El Toro de Oro adds to May’s plethora of art exhibition during Art Week, with the opening of the Whitney Biennial, TEFAF and NYCxDesign, followed by VOLTA, FRIEZE, and The Photography Show.

 

First Thursday in DUMBO ~ May 5

Yuko Nishikawa, Spring Sprung (detail), 2022.

DUMBO’s next First Thursday event takes place on May 5! All are welcome to visit the neighborhood and view new artwork at their own pace. Most galleries will stay open until 8 PM, when attendees are invited to gather at Superfine for drinks and conversation.

 

Denis Meyers: New York 2022 at Galerie l’Atelier ~ May 5

SHARE CREATE I, Denis Meyers, 2022, 39″ x 63″. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Renowned Belgian Artist Denis Meyers will be presenting his first American exhibition “DENIS MEYERS – NYC 2022” at Galerie l’Atelier.  Born in 1979, Denis Meyers is a Belgian urban artist. He studied at the National Superior School of Arts and Visuals of la Cambre, in Brussels, city where he currently lives and works.

 

Francis Hines: Unwrapping the Mystery of New York’s Wrapper at Hollis Taggart Southport, Connecticut ~ May 5

Francis Hines, Untitled, 1987; Hardpoint pastel on Arches paper mounted on wood with synthetic fabric wraps, 48 x 68 in. (121.9 x 172.7 cm)

We were intrigued by a story that first caught our eye on Twitter. The few lines we read were about a dumpster-diving car mechanic who retrieved artwork that turns out to be the work of ‘wrapper-artist’ Francis Hines. While most of this exhibition is on view in Southport, Connecticut – we think it’s worth the trip.

 

‘Scooter LaForge: Sculpture’ at Theodore ~ May 6

Scooter LaForge, Tall Flower, 2022; Figure with Dangling Eyes, 2022; Chick, 2022. Images courtesy of the artist and Theodore, New York.

Theodore is pleased to present (and we are excited to see) an exhibition of sculpture by Scooter LaForge opening on May 6th with Opening Reception from 5:00 to 8:00pm.

 

Tavares Strachan: The Awakening at Marian Goodman ~ May 6

Tavares Strachan, the Awakening. Image courtesy of the Gallery.

Marian Goodman Gallery will open its doors to The Awakening, Tavares Strachan’s first major exhibition in the New York space, which will open on Friday, 6 May through Saturday, 11 June 2022. The Awakening marks part one of a trilogy of exhibitions, which will continue with In Total Darkness at Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, and In Broad Daylight at Galerie Perrotin, Paris, which will be on view concurrently this Fall, in October 2022

 

Free First Friday at Poster House Museum ~ May 6

Join Poster House on the First Friday of every month for free admission and extended hours! Explore the museum’s latest exhibitions and get in on the fun by attending a tour, workshop, or activity throughout the day. This month, the museum is thrilled to partner with ‘Welcome to Chinatown for a series of programming that celebrates the culture, community, and resilience of Chinatown. Reserve your Free Ticket.

 

The Annual Jane’s Walk 2022 ~ May 6-8

Astor Row, Harlem

The annual event is a global festival of free, volunteer-led, neighborhood walks. This year, the festival will feature in-person guided group walks, self-guided in-person walks, virtual talks, social media activations and more. We spotted some of our favorite places and installations including a tour of The Audubon Mural Project in Hamilton Heights, Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem,

Above image, Astor Row in Harlem. Part of the Tour by Kathleen Haskins and Connie Lee from Landmark East Harlem, “A Great Day in Harlem: Crossing the 5th Avenue Divide” on Sunday, May 8th.

 

TEFAF New York Returns to The Park Avenue Armory ~ May 6-10

TEFAF NYC SPRING 2019

TEFAF New York 2022 returns to The Park Avenue Armory with artworks ranging in styles, eras, cultures, and mediums from 91 dealers ~ 78 returning dealers, and 13 dealers who are exhibiting for the first time. The dealers represent 14 countries and will be presented in the soaring 55,000 square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall, along with the first and second floors.

 

The Met Unveils ‘The Costume Institute, Part Two’ ~ May 7

Image: Ball gown, Marguery Bolhagen (American, 1920–2021), ca. 1961; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Jr., 1966 (2009.300.2556a, b). The Richard and Gloria Manney John Henry Belter Rococo Revival Parlor, ca. 1850, Gift of Sirio D. Molteni and Rita M. Pooler, 1965 (Inst.65.4). Photo © Dario Calmese, 2021.

The Costume Institute’s 2022 spring exhibition, In America: An Anthology of Fashion—the second of a two-part presentation—will explore the foundations of American fashion through a series of sartorial displays featuring individual designers and dressmakers who worked in the United States from the 19th to the mid-late 20th century.

In celebration of In America: An Anthology of Fashion, The Costume Institute Benefit (also known as The Met Gala™) will return to the first Monday in May. The benefit provides The Costume Institute with its primary source of annual funding for exhibitions, publications, acquisitions, operations, and capital improvements. The exhibition will open to the public on May 7, 2022.

 

Wonder Women, Curated by Kathy Huang at Jeffrey Deitch Wooster Street ~ May 7

Image: Tammy Nguyễn, Anno Domini 40, 1945, 1969, 2022. Photo by Genevieve Hanson.

Inspired by Lim’s poem, Wonder Women, curated by Kathy Huang, presents thirty Asian American and diasporic women and non-binary artists responding to themes of wonder, self, and identity through figuration. While some artists explore wonder as it relates to mythology and legend, others depict the heroines in their lives, offering works that highlight family, community, and history. Several of the works in Wonder Women address colonial and patriarchal structures in the West.

Also on view, Sasha Gordon: Hands of Others at Jeffrey Deitch Grand Street.

 

First Artist-in-Residence at Green-Wood Cemetery Unveils ‘Gardens as Cosmic Terrains ~ May 7

Heidi Lau: Gardens as Cosmic Terrains at Green-Wood Cemetery

The Green-Wood Cemetery today announced a new installation by the Cemetery’s first artist in residence, Heidi Lau. Gardens as Cosmic Terrains, inspired by Lau’s explorations of the Cemetery, was created specially for the Catacombs, which are usually closed to the public. The installation opens on Saturday, May 7th.

 

Happy Mother’s Day ~ May 8

Here are a few suggestions

Some of your favorite neighborhoods, streetscapes, shops & restaurants in watercolor on Fine Art America. Watercolor maps as tea towels, aprons and totes on Etsy, and original watercolor maps of Harlem and East Harlem currently on view at Living With Art Salon through May, 2022. Prints on sale at Nilu Gift Shop, Harlem.

 

Bong Jung Kim: Convalescence at Kate Oh Gallery ~ May 9

Bong Jung Kim. Image courtesy of the Artist and the Gallery.

Kate Oh Gallery opens its doors to a Bong Jung Kim’s world of oriental philosophy  merged with western aesthetics. Kim’s art explores a philosophical relationship and quest to the subject matter of love, desire, and longing, bridging the gesture and expression of his body and soul.

 

NYCxDesign Celebrates its 10th Year ~ May 10-20

NYC x Design Festival, 2021, DLV Design

New York City’s official celebration of design is set to begin May 10-20, 2022 with NYCxDESIGN’s 10th Anniversary Festival. The annual event attracts thousands of visitors from across the globe that make the trip to experience the very best in design at all scales and disciplines. As an international design capital, all five boroughs are stepping up to the plate with activations, tours, exhibits, talks, workshops and films taking place at museums, schools, neighborhoods, galleries, restaurants and hotels. Hundreds of events will highlight the creatives and visionaries who have been at the core of New York’s expansive design community over the past decade. Anchored by two internationally renowned trade shows, the International Contemporary Furnishings Fair (ICFF) and WantedDesign Manhattan, the programs also present international and national design talent that travel to New York to be part of this important cultural moment.

 

Hamptons: Houses & Gardens of the Gilded Age: 1880-1930, a Virtual discussion at National Arts Club ~ May 12

Architect, author, and historian Gary Lawrance visits the Hamptons of the Gilded Age in a rare view into the great summer resort homes that made the Hamptons, often referred to as the “American Riviera,” one of the premier resorts of glamour, luxury, and architectural achievement. This is a free event with Registration.

 

Steve Marcus: Top Dog of Kosher Pop Art at Museum at Eldridge Street ~ May 12

Steve Marcus, Eldridge Street Hot Dog Stand. Image courtesy of the Museum and the Artist

In a new exhibition at the Museum at Eldridge Street, New York City artist Steve Marcus takes viewers on a journey into the cartoon world of kosher folk art through a series of new artworks inspired by one of the many great Jewish contributions to American culture: the hot dog. Linking his quirky sense of humor with a passion for his own roots and culture, Marcus’s hand-drawn works on paper answer to a higher authority. Let’s be frank: Marcus has once again created art that viewers of all ages can relish. Steve Marcus: Top Dog of Kosher Pop Art opens at the Museum at Eldridge Street on Thursday, May 12 and runs through November 6, 2022.

 

Grand Opening of the New Flatbush Central Marketplace ~ May 13

Flatbush Central. Image courtesy of Urbane

The Grand Opening will take place on Friday, May 13th, with remarks from Mayor Adams, elected officials and others. The opening celebration invites the community to enjoy steel drum/Haitian folk music performances, stilt walkers, chef demos and food tastings, dance and printmaking classes, tours of the newly revitalized marketplace, and more during a weekend-long block party-style event, kicked off with remarks from elected officials and key stakeholders of the project.

 

Forward Festival of the Arts at Queens Theatre ~ May 13-22

Omnium Circus. Image courtesy Queens Theatre

This May, Queens Theatre (QT) will present several days of dynamic performances and events in its first-ever Forward Festival of the Arts, a national festival highlighting the artistry of Deaf/Disabled performers.

 

Juilliard Music Advanced Program Chorus (MAP) Performs a Free Concert at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine ~ May 14

This free concert by Juilliard’s Music Advanced Program Corus will be conducted by Francisco J. Núñez. The Cathedral is located at 1047 Amsterdam Avenue at 113th Street in Morningside Heights, NYC. MAP: A New World will take place on Saturday, May 14th at 6:30pm.

 

Annual Madison Avenue Spring Gallery Walk ~ May 14

Installation view at Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art.

A prestigious roster of over 60 internationally acclaimed galleries will open their doors for tours and discussions of their current exhibitions during the Madison Avenue Spring Gallery Walk 2022 on May 14. The event, held in association with ARTnews, is timed to celebrate Madison Avenue Art & Design Weekend and Frieze Week. It encompasses many of the foremost galleries located on Madison Avenue between 57th and 86th streets and the adjoining side streets.

 

ARTECHOUSE Explores The Human Brain in ‘Life of a Neuron’ at Chelsea Market ~ May 14

Rendering, Life of a Neuron. Image credit: ARTECHOUSE

On May 14, ARTECHOUSE will bring its boundary-pushing, immersive exhibition Life of a Neuron to its New York City location in Chelsea Market. Through the latest creative technologies, the exhibition will innovatively tell the universal story of the human experience and allow audiences to learn about neuroscience in a whole new way. As visitors walk through the cerebral cortex, they will encounter artistic renditions of a brain at the cellular level — including a larger-than-life neuron — while being enveloped by a captivating sound design. The main installation is supported by technology-driven interactive artworks that explore how vision, stress and addiction affect the brain.

 

Nevelson at Noon ~ May 17

Nevelson Chapel. Image via nevelsonchapel.org

Nevelson at Noon meditative recitals will be returning this month, broadcast on Facebook and YouTube beginning May 17, 2022 at Noon.

 

Public Art Fund Unveils ‘Black Atlantic’ Along Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Waterfront ~ May 17

Today, Public Art Fund unveiled a group exhibition at Brooklyn Bridge Park, co-curated by artist Hugh Hayden and Public Art Fund Adjunct Curator Daniel S. Palmer. This is the first time in his career that Hayden will take on the dual role of artist and co-curator. Titled Black Atlantic, the exhibition brings together new site-responsive artworks by Leilah Babirye, Hugh Hayden, Dozie Kanu, Tau Lewis, and Kiyan Williams. Their commissions, wide-ranging both materially and conceptually, create an exchange of ideas among artists of a similar generation that proposes an open, multifaceted, and heterogeneous idea of identity in the United States today. The exhibition will be on view from May 17 through November 27, 2022 throughout Brooklyn Bridge Park.

 

VOLTA New York 2022 during Frieze Week ~ May 18-22

Image via Center548

VOLTA will be returning to New York as part of Frieze Week 2022 from May 18 through May 22nd. The Fair will be located in the former Dia Building and Hauser & Wirth gallery space at 548 West 22nd Street, just one-block from the High Line and a ten-minute walking distance from FRIEZE New York’s location at The Shed.

 

The Met Roof Garden Opens to Music and a Roof Garden Bar ~ May 19

Image Credit: The Met’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Photo by Filip Wolak.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today the reopening of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden and the Roof Garden Bar on Thursday, May 19. Visitors are invited to experience stunning views of Central Park and the New York City skyline while enjoying refreshments, including cocktails and wine, and light fare created by Bon Appétit. The Roof Garden Bar will be open on Sunday–Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.

 

FRIEZE New York Return to The Shed ~ May 19-22

Image courtesy Frieze New York

The Tenth Edition of FRIEZE New York 2022 returns to The Shed exhibiting more than 65 galleries from 17 countries from May 19-22, with an Invitation-Only Preview day to be held on Wednesday, May 18th.

 

1-95 Contemporary African Art Fair 2022 ~ May 19

Image via The Harlem Parish

1-95 Contemporary African Art Fair 2022 returned to New York from Friday, May 20th through Sunday, May 22nd, with a VIP Opening Reception on Thursday, May 19th. The annual Event will be held at the historic Harlem Parish, 258 West 118th Street, NYC.

 

33rd Annual Contemporary Art Student Exhibition Returns to BRIC ~ May 19

Students of IS 30 creating “Nothing Can Dim The Light Which Shines From Within”, 2021 ~ Photo credit: Mollie Roth

BRIC, a leading arts and media institution, is pleased to announce its 33rd annual student exhibition, Re: generation, celebrating the creativity of K-12 graders who represent a network of over 2,000 students across 43 schools and three community centers around Brooklyn. With the return of students to full-time, in-person learning for New York City Public Schools in September 2021, the need for community re-building was necessary more than ever. With the support of BRIC’s Youth Education residency programs and its 30 teaching artists and professional educators, classrooms in participating schools became spaces in which students could reconnect and express themselves through visual arts and media. On view from May 19 to June 12, 2022, with an opening reception May 21, the exhibition explores topics of identity, activism, current events, mental health, community, and the characteristics that shape one’s personal and communal identities.

 

The Photography Show (AIPAD) ~ May 20-22

Image via The Photography Show

The power of photography will be on full view when The Photography Show presented by AIPAD opens on Friday, May 20, and runs through Sunday, May 22, 2022, with a VIP Opening on Thursday, May 19. The Show will be held at a new midtown location: Center415 on Fifth Avenue between 37th and 38th streets. The Photography Show will bring together 49 galleries from 9 countries and 23 cities from across the U.S. and around the world. The exhibitors are all members of the prestigious Association of International Photography Art Dealers known as AIPAD, recognized as the world’s leading galleries of fine art photography.

 

TriBeCa Gallery Walk ~ May 21

TriBeCa Gallery Walk

The TriBeCa Gallery Walk is back, with 47 participating galleries to be held on Saturday, May 21st from Noon to 6:00pm. Free and open to the public, with no reservations required.

 

Villa Albertine’s ‘Night of Ideas’ in NYC ~ May 21

Villa Albertine, Night of Ideas. Photo credit: Elizabeth Leitzell

Villa Albertine today announced the lineup for the US edition of Night of Ideas, a free annual nocturnal marathon of philosophical debates, performances, readings and more, hosted in 19 cities across the country this May. The US joins the international community in celebrating this global event, which is being hosted in over 100 countries and is coordinated by the Institut français.

 

Steelpan Player Victor Provost at Flushing Town Hall ~ May 21

Victor Provost, Steel Pannist

On Saturday, May 21st, steel pannist Victor Provost, who is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading voices on the unique, and often misunderstood, steelpan, will deliver his signature Trinidadian steelpan performance at Flushing Town Hall.

 

ImageNation’s Cocktails and Sol Cinema: It’s Different In Chicago at Apollo Theater ~ May 26

ImageNation’s Cocktails and Sol Cinema: It’s Different In Chicago. Image courtesy Apollo Film
On Tuesday, May 26 at 7:00pm ET, the Apollo Theater and ImageNationpresents a film screening of It’s Different In Chicago as part of ImageNation’s Cocktails and Sol Cinemaon the Apollo’s Soundstage.

 

Still on View:

Peter Nadin: The Distance From A Lemon To Murder at Off Paradise will be on view to May 8, 2022

Lawrence Weiner, Dan Graham, Peter Nadin and Louise Lawler at 84 West Broadway, 1979. Courtesy of Peter Nadin; Claude Rutault, de-finition/method #447: full-length self-portrait, 2011. Paint on canvas. 168 x 110 cm and 33 x 22 cm. Photograph by Antoine Cadot. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.

On the heels of the exhibition Claude Rutault, A Proposal to Peter Nadin, 1979, realized 2022 (on view through February 19), Off Paradise will open its doors to Peter Nadin, The Distance From A Lemon To Murder on March 3, 2022. This is a solo exhibition of recent paintings by the artist, making his return to painting “from life” for the first time since 1992.

 

Forward Ground at Fridman Gallery on view to May 8, 2022

Mollie McKinley, Salt Veil, 2021, Charred salt, blown glass, sheet glass, New York-mined rock salt, 22 x 24 x 24 in

Forward Ground is a multidisciplinary exhibition highlighting the work of fourteen contemporary artists. They take the inability to relive the past as a point of departure, turning friction into textures, creating new forms through inventive use of familiar materials, moving their (back)ground forward.

 

The Mad Silkman: Zika & Lida Ascher Textiles and Fashion at Czech Center New York on View to May 20, 2022

Screen-printed Giselle silk crepe, 1969, © Peter Ascher.
Photo © The Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, Ondřej Kocourek, Ascher Family Archive

Czech Center New York in collaboration with UPM, The Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague presents “Mad Silkman: Zika & Lida Ascher Textiles and Fashion,” the first U.S. exhibition focused on the life and work of Zika and Lida Ascher, a husband-and-wife duo who left Czechoslovakia before the outbreak of WW2 and built a textile empire in the United Kingdom, which supplied fabrics to the international fashion industry. The exhibition will be on view March 25-May 20, 2022.

 

Willie Birch ~ Chronicling Our Lives: 1987-2021 at Fort Gansevoort on View to May 21, 2022

Willie Birch, Martin Luther King, McDonald’s & Miami’s Burning, 1989, Pencil graphite and gouache on paper with acrylic painted papier-mâché frame, 44.5 × 56.5 × 1.75 inches. Exhibition, Willie Birch: Chronicling Our Lives 1987-2021 at Fort Gansevoort New York

Fort Gansevoort Gallery opened its doors to Chronicling Our Lives: 1987-2021, a solo exhibition of works by Louisiana-based artist Willie Birch. Opening Thursday, March 3, 2022, the presentation features large paintings on paper and painted papier-mâché sculptures created between 1987 and 1996, complemented by a new monumental, mural-like work executed in black and white. Together, the thirty works on view reflect Birch’s perspective on the beauty and complexities of the human experience.

 

Ana Benaroya: Swept Away at Venus Over Manhattan on view to May 21, 2022

Street view of Venus Over Manhattan’s new space at 55 Great Jones Street, NYC
Courtesy Venus Over Manhattan

On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, Venus Over Manhattan is pleased to announce that the gallery will open a second New York City location at 55 Great Jones Street between Lafayette Street and the Bowery, beside the historic carriage house that was formerly owned by Andy Warhol and housed the studio of Jean-Michael Basquiat. Venus’ new 4,000 square foot downtown space will complement the gallery’s Upper East Side townhouse location at 120 East 65th Street, and will be inaugurated on April 8th, 2022 with an exhibition of new work by Ana Benaroya.

 

Miscreant Matter at JVS Project Space on view to May 22, 2022

The Exhibition, from L-R, Artist Katherine Earle, Curator Connie Lee, Artist Carol Paik. Image courtesy Connie Lee and the gallery

With the exhibition Miscreant Matter, artists Katherine Earle and Carol Paik pose the question, “Can we capture all the discarded, rejected, degenerate, degraded and miscreant matter and repurpose it through these small acts of creation?” It appears so ~ today, Earth Day, is the perfect day for this post.

 

The Drawing Center: Fernanda Laguna: The Path of the Heart and Drawing in the Continuous Present on View to May 22, 2022

Fernanda Laguna, Amor (Love), 2000

The Drawing Center will open its doors to two exhibitions running from March 10th to May 22, 2022. The exhibitions are ‘Fernanda Laguna: The Path of the Heart‘ and ‘Drawing in the Continuous Present.’

 

Alviani X Ancient at C1760 on view to May 22, 2022

Alviani X Ancient, Exhibition view, Presented by C1760. Photo by Arturo Sanchez

C1760 is pleased to present “Alviani X Ancient,” a new exhibition featuring a dazzling display of abstract art and jewelry by Getulio Alviani (1939-2018), a key figure in Zero, and Optical, in dialogue with antiquities from three millennia. The most exclusive of Alvin’s works will be on view, including never before shown artworks from his private estate and some only displayed in the most prestigious institutions. “Alviani X Ancient” will be on view at 38 East 70th Street from Thursday, April 7 to Sunday, May 22, 2022.

 

Foster Sakyiamah: The Lines That Guide Me at Allouche Gallery’s 2nd Ave Pop-Up on view to May 22, 2022

Foster Sakyiamah, Bluer Wedding Guest, 2022; Acrylic on canvas, 39.4 x 39.4 in. Image courtesy of the gallery

Created in 2022, The Lines That Guide Me is a series of paintings that explore Sakyiamah’s psychological connection with his domestic sphere and his thriving community. An emblematic symbol of Foster Sakyiamah’s practice is the remarkable clarity of his craft and process. The technical challenge in creating his gestural compositions becomes an equal interest for him.

 

That’s Life: Vintage Photographs from America’s Weekly Picture Magazine at Keith de Lellis Gallery on View to May 26, 2022

Jack Jenkins, Elizabeth Eckford, age 15, who was one of the ‘Little Rock Nine’ is pursued by a mob, with Hazel Massery directly behind, at Little Rock Central High School on the first day of classes, 1957

Keith de Lellis Gallery presents a selection of over fifty photographs assigned by the editors for the pages of Life Magazine, one of the most renowned picture magazines in the world. Published weekly from 1936 to 1972, the magazine chronicled in image and word every historical event both big and small that impacted the lives of Americans north, south, east and west. Life revolutionized how readers experienced these historical events by pioneering the photo-essay, where narratives are told through the power of pictures while words take on a less significant role. This exhibition captures the wide-ranging themes published in Life Magazine including politics, war and race to popular culture, major sporting events and everyday moments that were at the heart of American culture in the twentieth century.

 

ARTECHOUSE #Trust at Chelsea Market on view to May 30, 2022

ARTECHOUSE at Chelsea Market ‘Trust’

Open to the public from January 31 to May 30, 2022, TRUST is a unique data-driven immersive exhibition that explores and interprets the multiple meanings and implications of the concept of trust, generating distinctive real-time data experiences throughout the run of the exhibition. On a broad level, through data examination it observes how historical events have influenced trust and considers how this can evolve in the future. More specifically, it further uses the data points to examine how the presence or absence of trust can shift the perception of our individual realities.

 

A Conversation Between Women at Living with Art Salon on view through May, 2022

Artist Elizabeth Riley, center, flanked by artist Barbara Lubiner ~ for the exhibition ‘A Conversation Between Women’

A Conversation Between Women is an unexpected dialogue that takes place across mediums of twenty contemporary female artists. The artists are multigenerational and culturally diverse ~ what they have in common besides their gender is that they are part of a community of artists that works collaboratively with the curator, and nonprofit organization, Art Lives Here.

 

Stage Fright at LGDR on view to June 4, 2022

Stage Fright, on view at LGDR. The exhibition feature works by Louise Bourgeois, Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Duchamp, Marisol Escobar, Alberto Giacometti, Yves Klein, and Alina Szapocznikow. Exhibition view courtesy of the gallery located at 90 Madison Avenue, Second Floor.

Guided by a desire to illuminate and to inspire reflection on the sculptural form, Dominique Lévy of LGDR invited Rachel Harrison to curate a presentation of 20th-century sculpture. The exhibition that emerged presents a group of works that consider modernism’s devotion to that most fundamental of subjects: the human figure. Stage Fright features works by Louise Bourgeois, Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Duchamp, Marisol Escobar, Alberto Giacometti, Yves Klein, and Alina Szapocznikow that represent the body in extremis—shown ruptured in pieces or pared down to the essentials—in surrogates that stand for the whole.

 

Faith Ringgold: American People at New Museum on view to June 5, 2022

Image (above): Faith Ringgold, American People Series #18: The Flag Is Bleeding, 1967. Oil on canvas, 72 x 96 in. (182.9 x 243.8 cm). National Gallery of Art, Washington, Patrons’ Permanent Fund and Gift of Glenstone Foundation (2021.28.1). © Faith Ringgold / ARS, NY and DACS, London, courtesy ACA Galleries, New York 2021

From February 17 to June 5, 2022, the New Museum will present the first full retrospective in New York of the art of Faith Ringgold (b. 1930, New York, NY). Bringing together over sixty years of work, “Faith Ringgold: American People”provides the most comprehensive assessment to date of Ringgold’s impactful vision. Her role as an artist, author, educator, and organizer has made her a key figure whose work links the multi-disciplinary achievements of the Harlem Renaissance to the political art of young Black artists working today. During the 1960s, Ringgold created some of the most indelible art of the Civil Rights era by melding her own unique style of figurative painting with a bold, transformative approach to the language of protest. In subsequent decades, she challenged accepted hierarchies of art and craft through her experimental quilt paintings and undertook a deeply studied reimagining of art history to produce narratives that bear witness to the historical sacrifices and achievements of Black Americans.

 

Nadav Kander: The Thread at Howard Greenberg Gallery on view through June 10, 2022

Nanjing X, Jiangsu Province, from the series Yangtze – The Long River, 2007. Chromogenic print; printed 2022. Image size: 38 x 48 3/8 inches. Paper size: 48 1/4 x 58 3/4 inches

An exhibition of photographs by the renowned London-based artist Nadav Kander will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from April 21 through June 10, 2022. Nadav Kander: The Thread, the Prix Pictet-winning photographer’s first exhibition with Howard Greenberg Gallery, will present evocative landscapes and penetrating portraits from the 1990s-2020s that evoke the interconnectedness of humanity. The exhibition title, inspired by the poem “The Way It Is” by William Stafford, refers to this common thread.

 

Stan Squirewell: Who That Is at Claire Oliver Gallery on View to June 11, 2022

Stan Squirewell ~ exhibition ‘Who That Is? at Claire Oliver Gallery. Installation view.

Claire Oliver Gallery announces inaugural exhibition Who That Is? by artist Stan Squirewell, marking the artists’ debut at the gallery, on view March 25 – May 15, 2022.   Through a ritualized process, Squirewell’s work examines who curates and controls the narratives that become accepted as history; from what perspective is history written, whose stories are told, and whose are neglected? Featuring more than 15 new works by the Louisville based artist, Who That Is? showcases works from Squirewell’s series While Shepherds Kept Their Watching, the creation of which is a summation of the multimedia artists’ practices of painting, photography, sculpture, and performance.

 

Clyde Hopkins ~ Chaunticlere: Paintings from the 1980s at Upsilon Gallery on view to June 11, 2022

Clyde Hopkins: the First Kipper Belch, 1986. Image courtesy of the gallery.

About this selection of paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art curator John Guy notes, “[They] represent Hopkins’ intensely personal psychological journeying, that is at once dangerous and inviting. Whilst venturing far from shore, Hopkins always extended a lifeline to his viewer, a glimpse of something that just might be a remembering of something figurative, a powerful idea, or a quirky title that evoked its own sense of place, or, of a moment experienced, made unexpectedly familiar.” Guy goes on, “[They] have another quality not immediately apparent at first glance: they are deeply pleasurable. Colours have a remarkable intensity, a dark ominous blue or impasto black verging on the foreboding, creating a tension that is then relieved on occasion by grid structures or by arabesques that cartwheel across the composition. Light blues and whites are given the luminous effervescence of reactive minerals, radiating off the dark dense canvas. Others have a lighter mood, curlicues that evoke a memory of Matisse’s balcony, with the atmosphere of a balmy Mediterranean summer night. In Hopkins abstractions, you always stay connected, no matter how tenuously, with the material world.”

 

The Camera is Cruel: Lisette Model, Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin at Austrian Cultural Forum New York on view to June 15, 2022

The Camera is Cruel. Image credit: © 2022 Estate of Lisette Model, courtesy Lebon, Paris/Keitelman, Brussels. Installation photos © David Plakke

The Austrian Cultural Forum New York will open its doors to ‘The Camera is Cruel: Lisette Model, Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin.’ Curated by Dr. Gerald Matt, the exhibition, previously shown at FLATZ Museum in Dornbim (2018) and the WestLicht Museum for Photography in Vienna (2019), brings together a selection of key works in an exclusive joint presentation of the work of three iconic photographers. The exhibition is on view April 8 ~ June 15, 2022, with Opening Reception on Thursday, April 7th.

 

Nicolas de Crécy : Ruthless Portrait at Philippe Labaune Gallery on view to June 18, 2022

Café de Paris, 2001, Charcoal and crayon on paper, 15.5 x 20.75 inches. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Nicolas de Crécy offers, through his various portraits, a singular vision of human beauty removed from the standards of advertising aesthetics. In his paintings, through what is still today considered to be a model of perfection, the artist is able to echo Greek and Roman statuary by highlighting contrast, the banal, and the non-aesthetic. Indeed, these are the faces of the street that no one would notice, faces without apparent beauty, damaged by life, hollowed out by age, sometimes ridiculous, often strange, yet always amazing once one takes the time to discover them. Nicolas de Crécy’s references are to be found in the German expressionism of the thirties, Otto Dix and Georges Grosz, and their sharp and raw vision of the human condition. Even if less perceptible, other influences are present, such as those of the great portrait painters Marlène Dumas and Alice Neel, through the powerful portrayal of the fragility that emanates from their models.

 

Capucine Bourcart: Plastic Fantastic! on view in Harlem Art Park to June 26, 2022

Image courtesy of the artist

Harlem Art Park unveiled its latest temporary public art installation, Plastic Fantastic! With a kaleidoscope of color, artist Capucine Bourcart encourages the viewer to evaluate their own environmental footprint. The large-scale installation measures over 66-feet wide and 7-feet high, demonstrating the abundance of single use plastics and its impact on our public spaces and our environment. Plastic Fantastic! interacts with Jorge Luis Rodriguez’s permanent sculpture, Growth, installed in 1985, along with the unique architectural elements that make this park a hidden gem in East Harlem.

 

Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure on view to June 30, 2022

Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure

The dates for the exhibition Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure have been announced. Featuring over 200 never before and rarely seen paintings, drawing, ephemera and artifacts, this celebration of Basquiat’s life will open on April 9, 2022 at the NYC Landmark Starrett-Lehigh Building. On view to June 30, 2022.

 

Susan Stair: Ascending the Mountain in Marcus Garvey Park on view through June 30, 2022

Taking a closer look. Susan Stair: Ascending the Mountain in Marcus Garvey Park

Harlem-based non-profit the Marcus Garvey Park Alliance, Public art organizer Connie Lee and Harlem-based artist Susan Stair are pleased to announce the installation of Ascending the Mountain, a public artwork in Marcus Garvey Park. Installed in three distinct sections along the staircase that leads up to the overlook terraces known as the Acropolis and the Harlem Fire Watchtower. The artwork is exhibited as part of NYC Parks’ Art in the Parks program and is one of six temporary public art installations organized by the public art committee in Harlem this Summer.

 

The Abyss of the Ocean: Cuban Women Photographers presented by CCADI on view through June, 2022

Marta María Pérez Bravo. No son míos, 2008-2010. © Marta María Pérez Bravo. Courtesy of the artist.

The Abyss of the Ocean: Cuban Women Photographers, Migrations, and the Question of Race focuses on identity and resistance through the creative practices of five artists living and working in the United States, Mexico, and Spain. The exhibition reveals the experiences and strategies of survival of María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Coco Fusco, Marta María Pérez Bravo, Gertrudis Rivalta, and Juana Valdés within the matrix of Latinx Art. Through their work, these artists challenge the concept of Latinidad and its relationship to Blackness in the modern/colonial project. Unsettling the totalizing definitions of Cuban, Latin American, and Latinx Art, The Abyss of the Ocean presents key photographic series produced since the 1990s. These photographs lay bare the nuance of the artists’ multiple Diasporic identities while confronting racist and colonialist stereotypes of women’s bodies.

 

Julio Valdez: I Can’t Breathe at Collyer Brothers Park on view to July 10, 2022

Julio Valdez: I Can’t Breathe on view at Collyer Brothers Park, Harlem

A dialogue began last year, serious and thoughtful discussion ensued, and artists have continued the conversation. Here, alongside a small pocket-park on 128th Street in Harlem, artist Julio Valdez unveiled his installation this week entitled ‘I Can’t Breathe.‘ The installation is just a few blocked away from last year’s colorful ‘Black Lives Matter‘ mural on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. extending from 125-127th Streets.

 

Faces of the Wild on the Ruth Wittenberg Triangle on view through July 31, 2022

Photo credit: Cayla Spatz

This four-month exhibit (through July 31, 2022) will feature nine, six-foot-tall sculptures, representing some of the most endangered animals in the world. Each sculpture will have a QR code that provides more information on the animals and an option to donate to World Wildlife Fund, Gillie and Marc’s charity partner.

 

Winslow Homer: Watercolors and Oil Paintings at The Met on view through July 31, 2022

Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910). The Gulf Stream, 1899. Oil on canvas, 28 1/8 x 49 1/8 in. (71.4 x 124.8 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1906 (06.1234)

Renowned for his powerful paintings of American life and scenery, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) remains a consequential figure whose art continues to appeal to broad audiences. Opening April 11, 2022, Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents will reconsider the artist’s work through the lens of conflict, a theme that spans his prolific career. A persistent fascination with struggle permeates Homer’s art—from emblematic images of the Civil War and Reconstruction that examine the effects of the conflict on the landscape, soldiers, and formerly enslaved people to dramatic scenes of rescue and hunting, as well as monumental seascapes and dazzling tropical works painted throughout the Atlantic world. The centerpiece of the exhibition will be The Met’s iconic The Gulf Stream, a painting that reveals Homer’s lifelong engagement with the charged subjects of race, geopolitics, and nature. Featuring 88 oils and watercolors, this major loan exhibition represents the largest critical overview of Homer’s art and life in more than a quarter of a century.

 

Louise Bourgeois: Paintings at The Net on view to August 7, 2022

Louise Bourgeois, Red Night, 1945-47, Oil on Linen. In this nightmarish scene, Bourgeois huddles in bed with her three sons, immersed in a field of red. For Bourgeois, the color red carried multiple connotations: it was the color of blood, pain, and violence.  Her diaries of the 1940s convey her struggles with the duties and responsibilities of motherhood and record recurring dreams in which she and her children were in danger.

Louise Bourgeois: Paintings is the first comprehensive exhibition of paintings produced by the iconic, French-American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) between her arrival in New York in 1938 and her turn to sculpture in 1949. The exhibition opens on April 12th.

 

Gillian Wearing: Diane Arbus on view at Doris C. Freedman Plaza to August 14, 2022

Artist, Gillian Wearing will unveil a bronze monument to celebrated photographer, Diane Arbus at the Doris C. Freeman Plaza, at the entrance to Central Park this October. This is a fitting location for the Arbus monument, since many of her best-known images were taken in this Park.

 

Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art at Museum of Arts & Design on view to August 14, 2022

A young Yu, DMZ Performance(performance still), 2020. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Matthew Yu mage dimensions: 6720px x 4480px

The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) will present Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art, the first global survey exhibition dedicated to the use of clothing as a medium of visual art. On view March 12 to August 14, 2022, the exhibition examines work by thirty-five international contemporary artists, from established names to emerging voices, several of whom will be exhibiting for the first time in the United States. By either making or altering clothing for expressive purposes, these artists create garments, sculpture, installation, and performance art that transforms dress into a critical tool for exploring issues of subjectivity, identity, and difference.

 

Propagazioni: Giuseppe Penone at Sèvres at Frick Madison on View through August 28, 2022

Giuseppe Penone with four of his eleven porcelain disks, on view in Propagazioni: Giuseppe Penone at Sèvresat Frick MadisonPhoto: Joseph Coscia Jr.

Beginning March 17, 2022, The Frick Collection will present a one-room installation by Italian artist Giuseppe Penone (b. 1947) at the museum’s temporary home, Frick Madison. Displayed in the broader context of the museum’s decorative arts and Old Master paintings and sculpture, this unprecedented exhibition by the acclaimed Arte Povera artist is the first to feature his work in the medium of porcelain. Consisting of eleven disks created during a 2013 collaboration with the Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory in France, works never before shown publicly, this project invites a dialogue with the Frick’s rich holdings in the medium. Penone’s series of disks will be shown on the third floor in concert with a nearby gallery featuring eighteenth-century porcelains by several renowned manufactories. Propagazioni: Giuseppe Penone at Sèvres is organized by Giulio Dalvit, the Frick’s Assistant Curator of Sculpture, and will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue authored by Dalvit, with an introduction by Xavier F. Salomon, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator.

 

Santi Flores: HERE on view in Garment District through August 29, 2022

HERE’ New art installation by artist Santi Flores. Image credit: Alexandre Ayer/© DiversityPics for the Garment District Alliance

Fourteen oversized sculptures with raised hands will provide a warm welcome to New Yorkers and visitors as part of the Garment District Alliance’s latest public art exhibit Here. Created by artist Santi Flores, Heresymbolizes unity, diversity and individuality, and will be dedicated to all New Yorkers and visitors passing through the neighborhood.

 

Alice Mizrachi: Renaissance Women on view in Marcus Garvey Park through August, 2022

Alice Mizrachi: Renaissance Women

Marcus Garvey Park has a plethora of art over this past few months, with the installation of Susan Stair: Ascending the Mountainand Thomas J. Price: Witness,  added to the park’s weekly music and dance. Now, we look forward to the unveiling of Alice Mizrachi: Renaissance Women, an abstract, figurative sculpture that honors women of the Harlem Renaissance ~ paving the way for many of the artists today, including Mizrachi.

 

Sam Durant, Untitled (drone) on the High Line Plinth through August, 2022

Sam Durant, Untitled (drone), 2016-2021 (rendering). Proposal for the High Line Plinth. Commissioned by High Line Art.

Sam Durant’s monumental fiberglass sculpture in the shape of an abstracted drone atop a 25-foot-tall steel pole continues High Line Art’s mission of presenting new, powerful, thought-provoking artworks that generate and amplify some of today’s most important conversations.

 

Félix Marzell: The Big Apple on view in Bella Abzug Park to September, 2022

The Big Apple at the entrance to Bella Abzug Park. You can see the #7 subway entrance to the right in the background.

This latest addition to Bella Abzug Park’s landscape comes from HYHK’s ambitious public art program that seeks to continually beautify and uplift the neighborhood. In partnership with NYC Parks, funding from the Québec Government Office in New York, and sponsorship from local stakeholder Amazon NYC, HYHK was able to bring this project to life.

 

RESET: Towards a New Commons at Center for Architecture on view through September 3, 2022

Reset: Towards a New Commons aims to foster more diverse and inclusive solutions to building community. Rather than designing specific spaces for specific needs, the exhibition considers how spaces may be designed for all, addressing the importance of barrier-free environments and practices rooted in “Universal Design.” The majority of the exhibition will be dedicated to four projects developed by interdisciplinary design teams—one focusing on New York City, one on Cincinatti, Ohio, and two in the San Francisco Bay Area—which envision environments that encourage new modes of living collaboratively, with special attention paid to ameliorating the divisions of age, race, and ability.

 

Jamel Shabazz: Eyes on the Street at The Bronx Museum of the Arts on view to September 4, 2022

Jamel Shabazz

Starting at the young age of fifteen, Brooklyn born photographer Jamel Shabazz identified early on the core subject of his lifelong investigation: the men and women, young and old, who invest the streets of New York with a high degree of theater and style, mixing traditions and cultures. Despite following a celebrated tradition of street photography that includes Gordon Parks, Garry Winogrand, and Lee Friedlander, it is to his credit that Shabazz has been one of the first photographers to realize the joyous, infectious potential of youth culture in neighborhoods such as Red Hook, Brownsville, Flatbush, Fort Greene, Harlem, Manhattan’s Lower East Side and the Grand Concourse section of the Bronx.

 

Part 1 of The Costume Institute at The Met on view through September 5, 2022

Ensemble, Christopher John Rogers (American, born 1993), fall/winter 2020–21; Courtesy Christopher John Rogers. Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo by Christina Fragkou

The Costume Institute’s next major exhibition will be a two-part show on view from September 18, 2021 through September 5, 2022. Part One, In America: A Lexicon of Fashion—opening in the Anna Wintour Costume Center on September 18, 2021 ~ will feature approximately 80 individual ensembles encased and arranged as “squares” in horizontal and vertical rows representing the qualities that collectively define American fashion. Part Two, In America: An Anthology of Fashion—opening in the American Wing period rooms on May 5, 2022—will explore the development of American fashion by presenting narratives that relate to the complex and layered histories of those spaces. Parts One and Two will close on September 5, 2022.

 

Raphael Montañez Ortiz: A Contextual Retrospective at El Museo del Barrio on View to September 11, 2022

Raphael Montañez Ortiz with Archaeological Find #22, 1961. Image courtesy El Museo del Barrio

El Museo del Barrio is pleased to present Raphael Montañez Ortiz: A Contextual Retrospective, from April 14 to September 11, 2022, the first large-scale exhibition dedicated to the artist, activist, educator, and founder of El Museo del Barrio, since 1988. Curated by El Museo’s chief curator, Rodrigo Moura, and guest curator  Julieta González, the exhibition spans several decades of his production, from the 1950s to the early-2020s, in different media such as film, painting, photography, video installations, documents, and assemblages. This is the largest exhibition-to-date dedicated to the artist.

 

Thomas J. Price: Witness in Marcus Garvey Park to October 1, 2022

Thomas J. Price: Witness in Marcus Garvey Park

The Studio Museum in Harlem announced its fall programming, kicking-off the season with Thomas J. Price: Witness, the artist’s first solo museum presentation in the United States. As part of the Studio Museum’s ongoing inHarlem initiative, the nine-foot-tall bronze sculpture entitled The Distance Within (2021) will depict a young Black man looking down at his cell phone. The large-scale artwork celebrates a familiar form rarely monumentalized within a public setting and continues the artist’s exploration of blackness and Black masculinity as it relates to presence, movement, and freedom.

 

The Roof Garden Commission: Lauren Halsey at The Met on View through October 23, 2022

Lauren Halsey. Photo credit: Russell Hamilton, courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles and New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that American artist Lauren Halsey has been commissioned to create a site-specific installation for The Met’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Halsey will create a full-scale architectural structure imbued with the collective energy and imagination of the South Central Los Angeles Community where she was born and continues to work. Titled the eastside of south central los angeles hieroglyph prototype architecture (I), the installation is designed to be inhabited by The Met’s visitors, who will be able to explore its connections to sources as varied as ancient Egyptian symbolism, 1960s utopian architecture, and contemporary visual expressions like tagging that reflect the ways in which people aspire to make public places their own. The Roof Garden Commission: Lauren Halsey will be on view from May 17 through October 23, 2022.

 

Whitney biennial 2022 on view through October, 2022

Ralph Lemon, Untitled, 2021. Oil and acrylic on paper, 26 × 40 in. (66.1 × 101.6 cm). Image courtesy the artist

The Whitney Museum of American Art announced today that sixty-three artists and collectives will be participating in Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept, co-organized by two Whitney curators, David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards. This will be the eightieth iteration in the long-running series of annual and biennial exhibitions launched by the Museum’s founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, in 1932. The 2022 Biennial takes over most of the Whitney from April 6 through September 5, with portions of the exhibition and some programs continuing through October 23, 2022.

 

Hebru Brantley: The Great Debate at The Battery through November 13, 2022

Hebru Brantley: The Great Debate at The Battery.. Image credit: NYC Parks/Malcolm Pinckney

Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYC Parks Commissioner Gabrielle Fialkoff joined The Battery Conservancy President and Founder Warrie Price, Council Member Margaret Chin, Community Board 1 Chair Tammy Meltzer, artist Hebru Brantley, and community members on Sunday to unveil Brantley’s sculpture, The Great Debate, at The Battery. The artwork, which stands 16-feet tall, is exhibited in partnership with The Battery and NYC Parks’ Art in the Parks program, and will be on display through November 13, 2022.

 

Healing Practices: Stories from Himalayan Americans will be on view at The Rubin Museum of Art to January 16, 2023

Parnashvari, Goddess of Natural Healing; Central Tibet; 19th century; pigments on cloth; Rubin Museum of Art, C2003.36.3 (HAR 65302)

On March 18, 2022, the Rubin Museum of Art will present “Healing Practices: Stories from Himalayan Americans,” a new exhibition highlighting the diverse ways that Tibetan Buddhist artworks and practices have served as roadmaps to well-being. The exhibition juxtaposes objects from the Rubin Museum’s collection with stories from Himalayan Americans, revealing the many ways these living traditions are transformed and adopted for today’s world, especially in times of crisis. “Healing Practices: Stories from Himalayan Americans” is the Rubin Museum’s first collaborative exhibition with a Community Advisory Group and will be on view March 18, 2022 to January 16, 2023.

 

The Zoo by artist Idriss B On Park Avenue in Murray Hill on view through February 2023

Mojo the Gorilla!

If you are waking up in Murray Hill today, you will be delighted to find whimsical creatures along the Park Avenue medium between 34th and 38th Streets. Patrons of Park Avenue (POPA) invited French artist Idriss B to create a one-of-a-kind urban jungle as an inaugural installation.

 

The Girl Puzzle, Roosevelt Island on view ~ To Be Announced

Installation for The Girl Puzzle in progress on Roosevelt Island. Image via prometheusart.com

The Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation (RIOC) has selected Amanda Matthews/Prometheus Art to construct the Nellie Bly Monument on the northern end of Roosevelt Island at Lighthouse Park. The sculptural installation will be known as “The Girl Puzzle” and invites the viewer to experience many facets of Nellie Bly’s talent, conviction and compassion. The ground-breaking journalist and women’s rights advocate exposed the horrors of the Blackwell Island Insane Asylum in 1887 on Roosevelt Island.

 

The Met’s Great Hall will Display Ancient Maya Stone Monuments from Republic of Guatemala until 2024

Portrait of a queen regent trampling a captive (Stela 24) Estela 24 de Naranjo-Sa’al, Petén, Guatemala MUNAE 15213 Registro 1.1.1.11100 Cortesía Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes de Guatemala © Archivo Digital MUNAE

The two massive stelae—both significant long-term loans from the Republic of Guatemala—feature life-sized representations of influential Indigenous American rulers: a king, K’inich Yo’nal Ahk II (ca. A.D. 664–729), and queen, Ix Wak Jalam Chan (Lady Six Sky) (ca. A.D. 670s–741), one of the most powerful women known by name from the ancient Americas. The installation heralds the upcoming exhibition Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art, which is scheduled to open in fall 2022 and will highlight Maya visual narratives featuring a cast of gods: sacred beings that are personified elements of the cosmos, nature, and agriculture. The Great Hall display is also the first in a series of special exhibitions and installations that will present art of the ancient Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania throughout The Met’s galleries while the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing is closed for a renovation project that will reenvision these collections for a new generation of visitors.

See you in June!