| I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving. You know, I used to wish I had a big extended family for the holiday, à la that Norman Rockwell painting. I’ve been over that for some time now (in fact, find the work creepy), not least because of friends’ harrowing tales of dinner-table infighting, or Vice President-elect J. D. Vance’s absolutely cursed take. This holiday, it was just my immediate family and my brother’s girlfriend — six Chinese Americans and one Dutch woman — in a townhouse in Queens, gathered around turkey and ribs, stuffing and noodles, gravy and chili oil, in a most un-Rockwell-like scene. It made me think about how I got there — that particular dinner table in this particular city as my particular self — and feel grateful for it. In his ongoing comics series NYC Housing Stories, too, Noah Fischer tells the tales of how particular people — artists, activists, others — came to find themselves in our city, and how they live. “Inequality was being etched into the landscape,” Fischer writes of Miguel Robles-Durán, an urbanist and professor at the New School. “He knew this would be his life’s work.” What else to be grateful for, big and small? A train that arrives just as you sprint onto the platform, saves you from being late. A scarf that cuts through this biting December wind. A city with so much good and thought-provoking art to see: Ralph Lemon’s poetic and confounding choreography/poetry/visual art; a group show about the relationship between text and the African diaspora; 10 new art spaces to check out, and always more. — Lisa Yin Zhang, Associate Editor | |
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| | | An artist-run exhibition program, a Lower East Side gallery’s Chelsea outpost, and other recently opened art spots to add to your itinerary. | Valentina Di Liscia, Rhea Nayyar, Maya Pontone |
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SPONSORED | | | | Check out an exceptional selection of unique gifts created by 92NY Ceramics Studio students and instructors. Over 25 diverse makers, working hundreds of hours, have created one-of-a-kind pieces for sale that will bring joy to any occasion. Taking place at The 92nd Street Y, New York, December 7-9.
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FROM OUR CRITICS | | | | Scrawlspace at 8th Floor gallery | “...Why is Blackness, which is a political designation, a cultural locale, and, most fundamentally, a state of being, confined to being an emblem of resistance and liberatory strategies?”
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SPONSORED | | | | A five-decade survey at the Connecticut museum highlights the the architectural and compositional fascinations that define the artist’s vision. Learn more |
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AT THE MET | | | | Tong Yang-Tze’s “Dialogue” (2024) in the museum’s Great Hall engages with the ancient art form on a monumental level. | Rhea Nayyar |
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| | | | The exhibition is part of a biannual Met tradition since 1935. | Maya Pontone |
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WHAT TO SEE UPSTATE | | | | Erica Hauser’s exploration of blue, Stephen Towns’s paradisal quilts, the carnivalesque antics of SHABOOM, and much more. | Taliesin Tomas |
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CITY STORIES | | | | Meet the artists, activists, and organizers on the front lines of the housing justice movement in New York City. Part five of a series. | Noah Fischer |
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| WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING? | | | How affordable are New York City museum cafés? Staff reporter Isa Farfan trekked to 10 cafés to find out. The Williamsburg art scene held a family reunion at Pierogi gallery’s 30th anniversary opening. Workshops for Gaza is hosting an in-person reading at Yu and Me Books tomorrow, Wed. Dec. 4. [instagram.com] Also tomorrow, Wed. Dec 4., Hilton Als is delivering a lecture at the New School. [instagram.com] Hell Gate’s throwing a holiday party this Thurs. Dec. 5 at Sugar Hill Restaurant & Supper Club, which turns 45 this year. [eventbrite.com] This Saturday, Dec. 7, Dense Magazine and the Newark Museum of Art are hosting a Zine Fest. [newarkmuseumart.org] Interference Archive is selling duplicate books, pamphlets, and ephemera this Saturday, Dec. 7, in Park Slope. [instagram.com] Smack Mellon is hosting an open studios this Saturday, Dec. 7. [instagram.com] Álvaro Urbano, Jess Wilcox, and Jeremy Johnston are in conversation about artist Scott Burton at SculptureCenter this Sat., Dec. 7. [instagram.com] Press Play book fair is happening at Pioneer Works this weekend, Dec. 7 and 8. [pioneerworks.org] Also this weekend, Dec. 7 and 8, why not pick up some holiday gifts at the Renegade Craft Fair? [instagram.com] This Sunday, Dec. 8, the Queens Museum’s holding a poetry symposium. Regular contributor Eileen G’Sell will be heading a Q&A.[events.humantix.com] |
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