| The Met Gala, in all its decadent, dandyish vainglory, took place last night — and it’s pretty clear that many attendees failed to grasp the theme, which wasn’t, in fact, “No Pants.” Look out for our piece on that later today, as well as our coming review of The Met’s accompanying exhibition, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, which opens this Saturday. More importantly, in my humble opinion, we’re in MFA season, and Pratt has an exhibition that’ll skew your sense of space, while the School of Visual Arts paints a portrait of our zeitgeist. Both make you reconsider your place (pun intended) in the world. You’ve got a couple of days to check out the Pratt show in its glimmering new ship-like building at Brooklyn Navy Yard (the show draws on those military-industrial resonances), but SVA closes today, so you better get going. I also recommend a trip to Fragment Gallery, where Ho Won Kim reviews the works of eight queer artists who draw strength from instability, keeping the open the window for fracture, possibility, and transformation. Meanwhile, an exhibition at James Cohan on work by the Wichí weaver Claudia Alarcón and the collective she helped form channels a sense of time attuned not to the individual but to the land and celestial bodies. So deep breaths, and all that — history’s a long arc. And, of course, fairs, fairs, and more fairs. NADA and Future open tomorrow; Frieze, Spring/Break, and Independent the day after; and TEFAF and 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair the day after that. It’s enough to drive the blood pressure up, but we’ve got a low-stress guide to all the happenings. Plus, Hyperallergic Members get free tickets to Spring/Break and discounts on other fairs, including 25% off NADA, so do join us, if you can. If membership isn’t in the cards today, we’ve got a code for our beloved readers, too (yes, you), because we’re all about community, baby. — Lisa Yin Zhang, Associate Editor |
