New York: Hypnotic Paintings Invite Slow Looking

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June 29, 2022 • View in browser

Alison Hall’s Hypnotic Paintings Invite Slow Looking

Hall makes no attempt to entice the viewer to begin looking and to look again, letting her methodical craft compel viewers to reflect upon their experience. | John Yau

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NEW EXHIBITIONS THIS WEEK

Detail from “Eva Hesse in Her Bowery Studio, New York” (c. 1966) (courtesy SRGF, the Estate of Eva Hesse, and Hauser & Wirth)

Angela Miskis: It’s a Luxury to Look Back
Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, opening June 30

The Ecuadorian artist transforms recycled materials into colorful, nostalgic abstractions through a process she developed during her family’s migration to Southeast Queens.

Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, opening July 5

The Met’s latest exhibition dedicated to Greek and Roman sculptural history analyzes the rhetorical uses of color, or “polychromy.” Employing 3D imaging techniques, curators developed new restorative methods to simulate how ancient art appeared in its time.

Eva Hesse: Expanded Expansion
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, opening July 8

A new Hesse exhibition leans into the Post-Minimalist sculptor’s flair for the absurd, which she often used to critique traditional formalism. Visitors are also given a rare look into the artist’s working and living space through unedited footage captured on film by Dorothy Beskind.

LATEST REVIEWS

What Does Spiritual Diversity Mean in Contemporary Art?

In From Confucius to Christ, artists from around the world touch on notions of wisdom and insecurity in Confucianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity. | Billy Anania

Can Western Architecture Ever Be Truly Decolonial?

The Project of Independence at MoMA probes the limits of modernist construction in South Asia. | Sanoja Bhaumik

Stanley Rosen’s Embrace of Vulnerability

If art is regarded traditionally as an impermeable form that resists the effects of time, Rosen acknowledges and accepts their inevitable triumph. | John Yau

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CLOSING SOON

Vivian Browne, “Assistant to the Chief” (c. 1973), acrylic on canvas, 52 3/4 x 64 3/4 inches (courtesy RYAN LEE Gallery, New York, and Adobe Krow Archives, Los Angeles)

Vivian Browne: Africa Series 1971-1974
RYAN LEE Gallery through July 1

Minouk Lim: Fossil of High Noon
Tina Kim Gallery through July 1

Stanley Lewis: Paintings and Works on Paper
Betty Cuningham Gallery through July 1

The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947-1985
Museum of Modern Art through July 2

Stanley Rosen: Vessels
Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects through July 2

Heidi Lau: Gardens as Cosmic Terrains
Green-Wood Cemetery Catacombs through July 3

ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS & GALLERIES

Kate Casanova: Gut Feeling
Yi Gallery through July 9

Baseera Khan: I Am an Archive
Brooklyn Museum through July 10

From Confucius to Christ
Yeh Art Gallery through July 14

Ani Liu: Ecologies of Care
Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space through July 30

Lydia Ourahmane: Tassili
SculptureCenter through August 1