Editors’ Picks: 23 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week
Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and
thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. See them
below.
Monday, September
30–Sunday, October 27
David Benjamin Sherry, LeConte
Glacier. Photo courtesy of the artist, the Bridge Initiative,
and the Alaska Whale Foundation.
1. David Benjamin Sherry Billboard on Lafayette
Street
On the heels of last week’s UN Climate Change Summit, David
Benjamin Sherry is unveiling the first in a series of billboards
that look to raise awareness of the risks posed by global warming.
Going up in Soho, the billboard shows a photograph of the LeConte
Glacier and asks viewers to “imagine a future where your children
will only see this in an image.” Sherry shot the picture during a
July 2018 expedition to Alaska with the Bridge Initiative and
the Alaska Whale Foundation. A
show of the artist’s jewel-tone-tinted landscape photographs,
titled “American Monuments,” is also
on view at Salon 94 Bowery through October 26.
Location: Lafayette Street, south of Canal
Price: Free
Time: 24/7
—Sarah Cascone
Tuesday, October
1
The Best American Comics 2019.
Courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
2. “The Best American Comics
2019 Panel With Bill Kartalopoulos” at the Strand
New York Comic Con hits the Javits
Center this weekend, and you can gear up for the big event with a
panel discussion on the 2019 edition of The Best American
Comics compendium. Series editor Bill Kartalpoulos will
moderate with a panel female comic artists, E.A. Bethea, Xia
Gordon, Laura Lannes, Leslie Stein, and Laura
Weinstein. Buying a ticket to the event gets you either a $15
gift certificate to the store or, for $25, a signed copy
of the book.
Location: The Strand, 828 Broadway at East
12th Street
Price: $15–25
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
—Sarah Cascone
3. “Lonnie Bunch in
Conversation With Gayle King” at the Apollo
Theater
Lonnie G. Bunch III, the founding director of National Museum of
African American History and Culture and the newly appointed secretary
of the Smithsonian, has written a new book—titled A Fool’s Errand:
Creating the National Museum of African American History and
Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump—about the
challenges of opening the hugely popular institution. He’ll talk
with Gayle King, anchor of CBS This Morning, about his
personal and professional journey.
Location: The Apollo Theater, 253 West
125th Street
Price: Free with RSVP
Time: 7:30 p.m.
—Sarah Cascone
Tuesday, October 1–Tuesday,
October 15
Gail Albert Halaban, photo of Peter
Daverington’s Bald Eagle, Audubon Mural Project. Photo
courtesy of Aperture.
4. “Audubon Mural Project: Photographs
by Gail Albert Halaban” at Aperture
Way uptown, in the northern reaches of Harlem and in Washington
Heights, you might notice a proliferation of
bird-themed murals on the security gates of local bodegas,
barbershops, and other businesses. Each artwork represents one of
the 314 species of North American birds that are currently
threatened by global warming. The Audubon Mural Project was
started by local art gallery Gitler & _____ in
2014 and has completed 117 murals to date. This year, fashion maven
Jill Fairchild commissioned artist Gail Albert Halaban to document
the existing murals, which will soon begin to fade due to exposure
to the elements.
Location: Aperture, 547 West 27th Street,
4th floor
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception Thursday, October 3,
7 p.m.–8 p.m.; Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–10:30 p.m.
—Sarah Cascone
Wednesday October
2
Marilyn Minter, RESIST FLAG
(2017), part of the “Pledges of Allegiance” project commissioned by
Creative Time. Courtesy of Creative Time.
5. “Swing Left Cocktail
Reception” at Marilyn Minter’s Studio
A bevy of art world A-listers—Glenn Ligon, Laurie Simmons,
Richard Prince, Kimberly Drew, Gina Nanni, Stanley Whitney, Cindy
Sherman, Cecily Brown, and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn—are co-hosting
a cocktail reception at Marilyn Minter’s studio for Swing Left, a
grassroots political organization working to defeat Donald
Trump.
Location: Marilyn Minter’s Studio, address
provided with RSVP
Price: $175–500
Time: 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
—Sarah Cascone
Courtesy of Roz Chast, Neil
Goldberg.
6. “The Extraordinary in the Ordinary
With Roz Chast & Neil Goldberg” at the Museum of the City of
New York
Cartoonist Roz Chast and video artist and photographer Neil
Goldberg, both of whom draw on the trials and tribulations of every
day life in New York City for artistic inspiration, will give
presentations about their work, followed by a conversation with
author and former NPR host Jacki Lyden.
Location: The Museum of the City of New
York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at East 103rd Street
Price: $40
Time: 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
—Sarah Cascone
Thursday, October
3
Guests at the opening of “Henry
Chalfant: Art Vs. Transit, 1977–1987” at the Bronx Museum of the
Arts. Photo courtesy of the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
7. “The Bronx Museum of the
Arts Ball” at the Bronx Museum
The Bronx Museum of the Arts is honoring Mickalene Thomas and
local activist and collector Racqual Chevremont at its annual gala,
being held on site at the museum for the first time in a decade.
Bronx-based creative collective Ghetto Gastro is planning the
dinner, which features local restaurants and chefs, and the Bronx
Brewery is setting up a pop-up beer garden for the after party. The
DJs will include photographer Stefan Ruiz and artist José
Parlá, with dancing by B-Girl Rokafella and the Full Circle
Souljahs. Guests will also have after-hours access to current
exhibitions “Henry Chalfant: Art Vs. Transit, 1977–1987” and “The
Life and Times of Alvin Baltrop.”
Location: Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040
Grand Concourse, Bronx
Price: After party $350
Time: Dinner 6:30 p.m.; after party 8:30
p.m.–11 p.m.
—Sarah Cascone
Thursday, October 3–Sunday,
October 6
SATELLITE Art Show in Miami, 2018. Photo
courtesy of SATELLITE Art Show.
8. SATELLITE Art Show at the Pfizer
Building
Don’t miss the first full-fledged New York
edition of Miami’s scrappy SATELLITE Art Show. Founded and run
by artist Brian Whiteley, the fair is dedicated to keeping booth
prices as low as possible, to provide emerging artists a chance to
showcase their work to the public. Known for offering experiential
art projects and performance art, the fair will include more than
40 presentations, including work from artists Kalup Linzy and
Rachel Rampleman.
Location: Pfizer Building, 630 Flushing
Avenue
Price: $10
Time: Thursday and Friday, 5 p.m.–12 a.m.;
Saturday, 12 p.m.–12 a.m.; Sunday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m.
—Sarah Cascone
Monica Bill Barnes. Photo courtesy of
Arts Brookfield.
9. “Monica Bill Barnes &
Company: Days Go By” at Brookfield Place
Arts Brookfield has commissioned a new, large-scale,
site-specific performance from Monica Bill Barnes & Company,
debuting this week at the Winter Garden in Brookfield Place. Many
of the cast members are not actually dancers—including actor Danny
Pudi (Abed on Community)—or even performers, creating a
unique experience as the piece unfolds amid the comings and goings
of real New Yorkers passing through the space. Audience
members will each receive a pair of headphones to listen to the
music, which largely features one-hit-wonders.
Location: Brookfield Place New York, 230
Vesey Street
Price: Free
Time: 7 p.m.–8 p.m.
—Nan Stewert
Thursday, October
3–Saturday, November 2
Leon Berkowitz, Big Bend No. II
(Double Violet) (ca. 1976). Courtesy of Hollis Taggart.
10. “Thresholds of Perceptibility: The Color Field
Paintings of Leon Berkowitz” at Hollis
Taggart
In the first Leon Berkowitz solo show since taking over
exclusive representation of his estate in February, Hollis
Taggart’s new show dedicated to the late Color Field painter
highlights his distinct facility working with large swaths of
color. In his largest paintings (measuring almost nine feet),
Berkowitz’s deftness in managing the subtleties of each color is
fully appreciated.
Location: Hollis Taggart, 521 West 26th
Street
Price: Free
Time: Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–5:30
p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
—Caroline Goldstein
Anthony Brunelli, Depot at
Dusk (2017). Courtesy of Louis K. Meisel Gallery
11. “Anthony Brunelli: In
Retrospect” at Louis K. Meisel
Gallery
Anthony Brunelli, a pioneering member of the new generation of
American photorealists, focuses on capturing panoramic cityscapes.
In “Anthony Brunelli: In Retrospect,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery
presents a survey of his work over the last 25 years from his
earliest paintings of his hometown of Binghamton, New York, to his
later exploration of scenes from Asia and Europe. The large scale
and hyper-realistic nature of the works truly captivate the viewer
and bring them into the scenes.
Location: Louis K. Meisel Gallery, 141
Prince Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–7 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
—Neha Jambhekar
Thursday, October
3–Saturday, November 16
Marc Yankus, Hudson on My Mind.
Photo courtesy of ClampArt.
12. “Marc Yankus: New York Unseen” at
ClampArt
Marc Yankus’s photographs of familiar places in New York City
are strangely unsettling, but it takes a minute to put your finger
on why: He’s stripped the streets of people and cars, transforming
our bustling metropolis into a haunting ghost town.
Location: ClampArt, 247 West 29th
Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
—Sarah Cascone
Thursday, October 3–Monday,
January 13
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Tightrope
Walker (1908-19). Image courtesy of the Neue Galerie, New
York
13. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner at
Neue Galerie
This major overview of the German Expressionist’s career will
span from 1907 to 1937, exploring several distinct phases
associated with the main cities where he lived and worked,
including Dresden, Berlin, and Davos. The exhibition will
concentrate on the artist’s use of color across media and will
include paintings, decorative works, drawings, and prints, and was
made possible with the help of loans from public and private
collections worldwide.
Location: Neue Galerie, 1048 Fifth
Avenue
Price: General admission $25; seniors
$16; students and educators $12; visitors with disabilities $12;
free first fridays, 6 p.m.–9 p.m.
Time: Thursday through Monday, 11 a.m.–6
p.m.; Tuesday and Wednesday closed
—Eileen Kinsella
Friday, October 4–Sunday,
October 6
Jennifer Rubell, Happy Birthday
(2019), film excerpt. Courtesy of the artist.
14. “Taste of Priceless” at
Spring Studios
Mastercard is venturing into the pop-up exhibition scene with an
experiential art installation featuring work by big-name artists,
all shown inside a site-specific installation by Monika Bravo. The
half-hour-long experience will include Marilyn Minter’s
video Green Pink Caviar, which went on tour with
Madonna; designer Daniel Lismore as a living sculpture; and a new
multi-sensory film-based piece by Jennifer Rubell,
titled Happy Birthday. At the end, guests will
be treated to the “taste of priceless”—a nod to the company’s
long-running ad campaign—in the form of two bespoke macarons
from Kreëmart founder Raphaël Castoriano. Ticket sales
will go toward funding school lunch programs across the US.
Location: Spring Studios, 6 Saint
Johns Lane
Price: $10
Time: Friday, 6 p.m.–9 p.m., Saturday, 12 p.m.–11
p.m., Sunday, 12 p.m.–7 p.m.
—Sarah Cascone
Downtown Brooklyn Arts Festival. Photo
courtesy of Downtown Brooklyn Partnership
15. “Downtown Brooklyn Arts
Festival” at the Plaza
A host of local arts organizations are among the groups
participating in this weekend’s Downtown Brooklyn Arts Festival,
including BRIC, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Museum of
Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, and Urban Glass. Stop by the
main stage at the Plaza for live dance, music, and other
performances, or visit venues around the Brooklyn Cultural District
to enjoy exhibitions, film screenings, classes, and other
activities.
Location: The Plaza at 300 Ashland,
Brooklyn
Price: Free
Time: Times vary by location; main stage
Friday, 5 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m.–7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 12 p.m.–9
p.m.
—Tanner West
Friday, October 4–Sunday,
January 12, 2020
John Singer Sargent, Sybil Sassoon,
later Marchioness of Cholmondeley (1912). Photo courtesy of
the Morgan Library & Museum, private collection.
16. “John Singer Sargent: Portraits in
Charcoal” at the Morgan Library &
Museum
Famed American portraitist John Singer Sargent actually stopped
painting the large-scale oils for which he is best known back in
1907. For the last 18 years of his life, he did his portrait
commissions in charcoal, an under-appreciated facet of his practice
that gets its first dedicated exhibition at the Morgan. The show’s
curator, Richard Ormond, will give a
lecture about Sargent’s change in mediums at 6:30 p.m. on the
show’s opening night (tickets $20).
Location: The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison
Avenue
Price: $22
Time: Tuesday–Thursday, 10:30 a.m.–5 p.m.; Friday,
10:30 a.m.–9 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.–6
p.m.
—Sarah Cascone
Opening Saturday, October
5
Marian Zazeela, 22 – 28 VIII 75
(1975). Photo by Bill Jacobson Studio, New York, ©Marian
Zazeela.
17. “Marian Zazeela” at
Dia:Beacon
Together with La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela has become known
for her large-scale light and sound installations, but Dia is
focusing on her lesser-known works on paper, with a selection of
some 30 works mainly from the 1960s and ’70s.
Location: Dia:Beacon, 3 Beekman Street
Price: General admission $15; students and
seniors $12; members and children under 12, free
Time: Through October 31, Thursday–Monday, 11
a.m.–6 p.m.; November–March, Thursday–Monday, 11 a.m.–4
p.m.;
—Sarah Cascone
Saturday, October 5–Sunday,
November 3
Carly Ries, Floribunda/Peach Rose,
from Lesbian Lust: Volume 5, Number 5 (1993/2018). Courtesy of
the artist.
18. “Carly Ries: CENTERFOLD”
at ZH Projects
In Ries’s “CENTERFOLD” series, scans of vintage girl-on-girl
porn magazines are cropped to isolate interlaced body parts and
curious background props, imbuing in the material a sense of
intimacy that belies its original context. Interspersed with the
artist’s own photos of flowers and spare still-lifes, the work
revels in the beauty of forms—and shows us it’s possible to do so
empathically.
Location: ZH Projects, 195 Calyer
Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 7 p.m.–9 p.m.
—Taylor Dafoe
Saturday, October 5–Sunday,
February 23, 2020
J.M.E. Turner, Whitby (circa
1824). Courtesy of Tate Britain.
19. “J.M.W. Turner: Watercolors
From the Tate” at the Mystic Seaport Museum
Somehow, Connecticut’s Mystic Seaport Museum has scored a loan
of no less than 97 watercolors from Tate Britain, part of the
Turner Bequest of 30,600 works donated by JMW Turner to Great
Britain upon his death in 1851. The show will include the painter’s
famous seascapes, but also his domestic interiors, architectural
reliefs, and pastoral landscapes.
Location: Mystic Seaport Museum, 75
Greenmanville Avenue, Mystic, Connecticut
Price: General admission $28.95; seniors
$26.95, youth ages 13–17 $24.95; children 3–12 $18.95; members and
children under 3, free
Time: 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
—Sarah Cascone
Through Sunday, October
6
Margaret Bourke-White, photograph from
“Franklin Roosevelt’s Wild West,” LIFE, November 23
(1936). Photo ©LIFE Picture Collection, Meredith Corporation.
20. “LIFE: Six Women
Photographers” at the New-York Historical
Society
The New-York Historical Society spotlights six women
photographers who worked for LIFE magazine between the
late 1930s and the early ’70s, helping shape American culture and
identity, and define the boundaries of modern photojournalism.
Featuring some 70 images by Margaret Bourke-White, Hansel Mieth,
Marie Hansen, Martha Holmes, Nina Leen, and Lisa Larsen, the
exhibition examines their legacies and documentation of what
LIFE editor-in-chief Henry Luce called the “American
Century.”
Location: New-York Historical Society, 170
Central Park West at Richard Gilder Way (West 77th Street)
Price: General admission $21
Time: Tuesday–Thursday and Saturday, 10
a.m.–6 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m.–8 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
—Nan Stewert
Sunday, October 6–Sunday,
February 16, 2020
Nicolas Moufarrege, title unknown, 1984.
Image and work courtesy Nabil Moufarrej and Gulnar “Nouna”
Mufarrij, Shreveport, Louisiana.
21. “Nicolas Moufarrege: Recognize My
Sign” at the Queens Museum
During a career that lasted just
over 10 years, Nicolas Moufarrege created an eclectic and poignant
body of work centered on tapestries and embroidered paintings
incorporating imagery ranging from Arabic calligraphy, to Islamic
tilework, to western Pop artists. But what made his work special
was his ability to weave these disparate visual reference
points—most of which he encountered firsthand while living between
Egypt, Beirut, Paris, and New York—into deeply personal reflections
on human conflict, cultural assimilation, and queer
life.
Location: New York City Building, Flushing
Meadows Corona Park
Price: $8 Adults; $4 Seniors; Free for
children aged 18 and under
Time: Wednesday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
—Tim Schneider
Through Saturday, October
12
Illustration from Detective
Comics #742, page 12, The Honored Dead (2000). Script
by Greg Rucka, pencils by Shawn Martinbrough, inks by Steve
Mitchell, and letters by Todd Klein. Courtesy of the Society of
Illustrators.
22. “Illustrating Batman: Eighty
Years of Comics and Pop Culture” at the Society of
Illustrators
This show featuring original Batman illustrations by such comic
book greats as Frank Miller, Bob Kane, and Jim Lee is actually one
of a quartet of shows dedicated to the Dark Knight currently on
view at the Society of Illustrators.
Location: The Society of Illustrators, 128
East 63rd Street
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m.–8 p.m.;
Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
—Sarah Cascone
Through Sunday, October
20
Courtesy of Company Gallery
23. “Raúl de Nieves: As Far As UUU Take Me” at Company
Gallery
A burst of color awaits you in the Lower East Side. Mexican
artist Raúl de Nieves transforms the gallery into a hallucinatory
place of worship through the use of a suspended, stained-glass
ceiling and rainbow- beaded sculptures and masks. Catch it before
it closes on October 20th!
Location: Company Gallery, 88 Eldridge
Street, fifth floor
Price: Free
Time: Wednesday–Sunday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m.
—Cristina Cruz
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