New York Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month, including colossal sculptures along the East River, spectral ceramics in a South Brooklyn cemetery, and more. | Billy Anania HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK Its first iteration at Knockdown Center in Queens will be ditching white-walled gallery spaces and VIP ropes to reflect New York’s greater population, with more than 130 independent artists working to break the industry’s barriers to entry. Food justice is at the center of recent discussions on global supply shortages. As such, the New York Botanical Garden is exploring the diasporic origins of common household foods through planting and cooking traditions that date back millennia. Heeseop Yoon's new exhibition finds her commanding an entire gallery at Korea Society with monochromatic still life drawings that incorporate architectural elements of major American cities. LATEST REVIEWS An exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery underscores not only how engaging and innovative, but also influential and visionary Adkins really was, and remains. | Gregory Volk Donald Evans concentrated all of his attention on the postage stamp, unlocking its potential to evoke distant, unseen lands. | John Yau Artist Minouk Lim wants to offer a very different perspective on how one might deal with a grim history whose effects continue to be felt in the present. | John Yau Edelson followed the hunch that if women artists didn’t create this history for themselves, no one would. | Ela Bittencourt with her name, penetrate earth’s floor remembers the Korean-American creative producer who was murdered in Lower Manhattan at age 35. | Isabel Ling NEWS & HAPPENINGS “Brazen” couple tries to walk out of Taglialatella Galleries with a $45,000 Basquiat work. Art dealer Inigo Philbrick receives a seven-year prison sentence for an $86 million “Ponzi-like” fraud scheme. Strapped in place by supportive metal implements, New York’s Alamo Cube is no longer spinning. Become a Member CLOSING SOON Squeak Carnwath, "Don't Mess" (2022), oil, alkyd, gouache, and graphite on polypropylene, 56 x 57 1/4 inches (image courtesy the artist and Jane Lombard Gallery) Squeak Carnwath: Pattern Language
Jane Lombard Gallery through June 4 Mary Beth Edelson: A Celebration
David Lewis Gallery through June 4 Donald Evans: Philatelic Counter
Tibor de Nagy Gallery through June 4 with her voice, penetrate earth’s floor
Eli Klein Gallery through June 5 Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet’s Work in Community
Morgan Library through June 5 Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running
Jewish Museum through June 5 ON VIEW Terry Adkins
Paula Cooper Gallery through June 11 Willie Cole: No Strings
Alexander and Bonin through June 18 Articulating Activism: Works from the Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection
8th Floor Gallery through June 18 Staging Injustice: Italian Art 1880-1917
Center for Italian Modern Art through June 18 Intervención/Intersección
Rockefeller Center though June 24 Not Me, Not That, Not Nothing Either
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art through June 25 | 