Editors’ Picks: 7 Things for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Ruth Asawa-Inspired Workshop to an Outdoor Photo Show
Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and
thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. In light of the
global health situation, we are currently highlighting digital
events, as well as in-person exhibitions open in the New York area.
(Times are all EST unless otherwise noted.)
Monday, August 17—Sunday,
November 29
In Queens, a man asks people and cars
that pass by for financial help. Photo credit: Kay Hickman
1. “Hope Wanted: New York City
Under Quarantine” at the New-York Historical
Society
What could be more apt right now than a special outdoor
exhibition documenting the experiences of New Yorkers across the
five boroughs during the height of the shutdown? The show
features more than 50 photographs by Kay Hickman and 12 audio
interviews with the photographs’ subjects by writer Kevin Powell,
all gathered during an intensive two-day journey across the city in
early April. The exhibition takes place in the museum’s rear
courtyard, providing an open-air environment for visitors. “We hope
this exhibition can offer our visitors a moment of solace to
reflect on what they and the city as a whole have experienced in
recent months and to better understand this moment in
time,” said Dr. Louise Mirrer, president of the New-York
Historical Society.
Location: New-York Historical Society, rear
courtyard of the museum at West 76th Street between Central Park
West and Columbus Avenue
Price: Free
Time: Thursday (age 65+ and
immunocompromised only), 11 a.m.–5 p.m.; Friday, 11 a.m.–8 p.m.; Saturday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
—Eileen Kinsella
Wednesday, August
19—November 15
Doug Aitken, migration (empire)
(2008). Production still. Courtesy of the artist; 303 Gallery, New
York; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich; Victoria Miro Gallery,
London; and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
2. “Doug
Aitken: migration (empire)” at the Carnegie Museum of
Art
One artwork well suited to the topsy-turvy nature of the world
these days is Doug Aitken’s migration (empire),
available through the Carnegie Museum of Art’s website beginning
Wednesday. The presentation is the second in a series of spotlights
on the museum’s video collection, following a presentation of work
by Rachel Rose earlier this spring. In migration,
North American migratory animals are displaced, popping up in motel
rooms instead of their natural habitats. A surreal work for surreal
times!
Price: Free
Time: Online, 24/7, through November 15
–Caroline Goldstein
Thursday, August
20
Jaume Plensa, Carlota (oak), Julia
(oak), Laura Asia (oak), and Wilsis (oak), (2019) Photo by Tria
Giovan. Image courtesy Parrish Art Museum.
3. “Field of Dreams” at the Parrish Art Museum
This outdoor show is part of the museum’s new “Art in the
Meadow” initiative, created to activate its extensive outdoor
spaces with an array of sculpture that engages the architecture and
landscape. For the inaugural presentation, the 14-acre grounds at
the Parrish will host work by 10 international, multi-generational
artists working in a variety of genres. Offerings include several
new installations created for the museum by Theaster Gates; a suite
of four new sculptures by Jaume Plensa; and new works by Jim Dine.
Monumental sculptures by Isa Genzken and Giuseppe Penone will be
installed in the coming weeks.
Price: Free
Time: Museum grounds are open every day, 11
a.m.–5 p.m.
–Eileen Kinsella
Thursday, August
20
Claudia Cano, Rosa Hernandez–The
Cleaning Lady (2012–2016). Courtesy of MCASD.
4. “To
Tame a Wild Tongue: Artist Talk with Claudia Cano” at the
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Curatorial fellow Alana Hernandez
is leading a series of Instagram Live talks with artists included
in “To Tame a Wild Tongue,” a now-online exhibition that looks at
the legacy of the post-Chicano art movement. This Thursday, she’ll
be speaking with San Diego-based artist Claudia Cano, whose work in
photography, film, and performance explorers domestic work and the
invisibility of Latinx workforce.
Time: 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST
Price:
Free
–Katie White
Through Friday, August
21
Sean Fader, @gogo_gemini #gaylife
#gaybeard #femme #masc from the series “Best Lives” (2019–20).
Photo courtesy of Denny Dimin Gallery, New York.
5. “Sean Fader: Thirst/Trap” at
Denny Dimin Gallery, New York
Photographer Sean Fader presents two series inspired by the ways
that LGBTQ+ culture in the US has evolved over the past 20 years.
Presented in ornate gilded frames, “Best Lives” features heroic
portraits of members of the queer community. The artist built a
custom app to aggregate the posts to queer hashtags such as
#instagay, #nonbinary, and #genderfluid, and then reached out to
potential subjects on Instagram to arrange a photoshoot. The second
body of work, “Insufficient Memory,” is inspired by the
introduction of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 1999, a bill that
took 10 years to pass. In photographs of homes, fields, and other
innocuous-looking scenes, Fader documents the sites of 80 murders
committed against LGBTQ+ individuals. He drove 15,000 miles to
complete the series, which he shot with a low-resolution digital
camera. The graininess of the large-scale images is a nod to how
quickly these crimes were forgotten, and the difficulty Fader had
in researching them, since they are often overlooked by local news
outlets.
Location: Denny Dimin Gallery, 39 Lispenard
Street, New York
Price: Free
Time: By appointment
—Sarah Cascone
Friday, August
21
Installation view of Ruth Asawa,
Untitled (S.693, Hanging Six-Lobed, Two-Part, Complex Form
Within a Form With One Suspended Sphere in the Top Lobe) (ca.
1956); Untitled (S.335, Hanging Four-and-a-Half Open Hyperbolic
Shapes That Penetrate Each Other), (ca. 1954); Untitled
(S.531, Hanging Six-Lobed, Two Continuous Interlocking Forms)
(circa 1950). Photo by Ron Amstutz, courtesy of Glenstone Museum;
©estate of Ruth Asawa.
6. “Artmaking From Home: Suspended
Sculptures” at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Get out of your head and use your hands for a bit this Friday
afternoon. The Whitney’s latest half-hour live art-making workshop
(conducted safely online, of course) puts Ruth Asawa front and
center on the mood board, as artist and educator Camilo Godoy
guides participants through the process of creating 3-D forms that
can liven up their interiors from mid-air. You’ll have to supply
the suggested materials yourself (click through to see the list),
but the instruction and inspiration are free.
Price: Free with registration
Time: 1 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
—Tim Schneider
Saturday, August 22—Monday,
September 7
Orion Martin, Twirl (2020). Image
courtesy Bodega.
7. “Open Air” organized by Tong Art Advisory in East
Hampton
Many up-and-coming artists saw their shows get cancelled or
delayed as a result of the lockdown. This show, organized
by Tong Art Advisory inside an open-air garage space in East
Hampton, aims to give them a boost. Around 15 emerging and
mid-career artists, ranging in age from 22 to 35, contributed
works, most of which are brand new. Ten percent of the proceeds
from each sale will be donated to a charity of the artist’s
choice.
Price: Free
Time: Wednesday–Sunday, 12 p.m.–6
p.m.; Monday–Tuesday, by appointment. (Must
practice social distancing, mask required.)
–Eileen Kinsella
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