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March 23, 2022 • View in browser

Surrounded by Wealth, an Artist’s Comment on Education Loses Its Edge

Within the well-patrolled boundaries of Madison Square Park, it’s hard not to see Hugh Hayden’s Brier Patch as just another amenity, offering a pleasant opportunity for virtue signaling. | Erin L. Thompson

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The MoMA ramps up police presence, renewing a contract it had with the NYPD before the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020.

With the world on fire, the Met Gala returns on the first Monday of May, announcing this year's new theme.

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Robert Ryman’s Joyful Last Paintings

The pleasure Ryman took in seeing and sensing the world of things so closely is what viewers who are open to his work will take away. | John Yau

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The Morgan Library & Museum Presents Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet’s Work In Community

Now on view in New York City, this exhibition celebrates the life and work of American poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black author to win a Pulitzer Prize. Learn more.

Street Photography That Highlights the Female Gaze

Twelve women photographers demonstrate their creative ingenuity and raw technical skill. | Julia Curl

Losing Ourselves in Liz Larner’s Shapeshifting Sculpture

By approaching sculpture as an open-ended experience of embodiment, Larner provokes us to repeatedly lose and locate ourselves in her work. | Cassie Packard

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The Deeply Satisfying Pleasures of Harriet Korman’s Paintings

Walter Pater famously said, “All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.” Korman’s paintings exist in a musical state. | John Yau

Art as an Exercise in Moving Through Grief

What’s clear in These Conditions is artist Adelita Husni Bey’s ambition to push art to be more than an exercise in spectatorship. | Ela Bittencourt

David Byrne’s Hopeful Drawings

Byrne’s drawings makes me wonder what else art is for, but to remind us that what we call “being reasonable” is too often our expedient alibi for not using our imagination. | Tim Keane

CLOSING SOON

Diedrick Brackens, “survival is a shrine, not the small space near the limit of life” (2021), cotton and acrylic yarn, 92 x 98 inches, on view in The New Bend

Robert Ryman: The Last Paintings
David Zwirner through March 26

Liz Larner: Don’t put it back like it was
SculptureCenter through March 28

The New Bend
Hauser & Wirth through April 2

A Female Gaze: Seven Decades of Women Street Photographers
Howard Greenberg Gallery through April 2

ON VIEW

Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks
Guggenheim Museum through April 4

Adelita Husni Bey: These Conditions
The Annex at the Brooklyn Army Terminal through April 8

Harriet Korman: New Work
Thomas Erben Gallery through April 9

Scraps
Sikkema Jenkins & Co. through April 9

Mimi Park: Dawning: dust, seeds, Coplees
Lubov through April 16

Jule Korneffel: Here comes the night
Spencer Brownstone Gallery through April 16

Greater New York 2021
MoMA PS1 through April 18