| Spring has sprung! The cherry blossoms threw up their flowers overnight, which I know because (don’t tell) I was running late and took the long way through the park anyway. Baseball’s back: I’m pleased that the Mets are off to a better start than last year’s five straight losses, and the Yankees have some sort of newfangled “torpedo bat.” My god, it was almost 80 degrees on Saturday. And MoMA’s got a new director. No, that’s not an April Fool’s joke, though I can see why you’d be suspicious. Spring in the art world means openings, and in this case, re-openings. The Frick — “arguably New York City’s most beautiful museum,” Aaron Short writes in his report — is back and better than ever, with 10 additional gallery rooms. (Okay, to be specific, it’ll be back to the public on the 17th). Monstrous Beauty, a can’t-miss exhibition on Chinoiserie at the Met, opened this past week. And Amy Sherald’s exhibition at the Whitney, spanning 18 years of work and her first solo at a New York museum, opens to the public next week. (Yes, Michelle Obama’s portrait will be in the show.) There are many more firsts to check out this week, such as the first exhibition of artist Madalena Santos Reinbolt outside of Brazil — who, fun fact, was a live-in cook for poet Elizabeth Bishop for some time — at the American Folk Art Museum. In these works, Debra Brehmer writes, the sun pulses over scenes flickering with butterflies and birds; the townspeople are “promenading, going somewhere and nowhere at once.” Sounds like a plan to me.
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 | | The Manhattan museum’s Gilded Age mansion reopens this month, bringing its world-famous collection of works by the likes of Vermeer and Rembrandt back on public view. | Aaron Short |
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| | | | | Exposure at Ulterior Gallery | | “...a subtle show that sometimes seems intentionally to resist easy photographic reproduction, might not offer the quick answers our ever-shrinking attention spans demand.” |
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| | | | A Rose Is at FLAG Art Foundation | | “The rose might be the most densely described flower in history: It’s pure and chaste, like the Virgin Mary; stained by the blood of Aphrodite and the bloodshed of the Wars of the Roses.” |
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SPONSORED |  | | | | Japan Society showcases rarely displayed Japanese masterworks from the 12th to the 21st centuries unified by the central theme of celebration. Learn more |
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BEHIND THE SCENES |  | | Curator Iris Moon knew she wanted to bring the voices of Asian-American women into Monstrous Beauty, and an audio guide provided the perfect platform. | Sarah Bochicchio |
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Last weekend, a pop-up exhibition of Mexican artist and activist Elina Chauvet in Tribeca probed gender-based violence. -
Seriously, MoMA’s got a new director: Christophe Cherix, previously the prints and drawings curator. -
Associate Editor Lakshmi Rivera Amin visited the world’s largest print fair, the IFPDA, and found it “overwhelming and exhilarating.” -
Staff Writer Rhea Nayyar, meanwhile, had a “really fun” (italics hers) time at the “cozy” Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair. -
And Staff Writer Maya Pontone offers advice on how to select a print via interviews with experts like NYPL’s print curator. -
Tonight, Harmonia Rosales will be lecturing on myth-making through a West African lens, and engaging in conversation with African diasporic religions scholar Akissi Britton at NYU’s Center for Black Visual Culture. (Wed Apr 2) [cbvc.nyu.edu] -
Lynne Tilmman will be in conversation with Johanna Fateman over the former’s new story collection at Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene (Thurs Apr 3) [greenlightbookstore.com] -
Aperture’s moving uptown and will be selling off books (including signed artist books 👀), back issues, prints, merch, and “hidden gems.” (Thurs Apr 3–Sat Apr 5 [aperture.org] -
Take a Nostalgia Ride to the Mets’ Home Opener this Friday at noon from Hudson Yards to Mets-Willets Point! (Fri Apr 4) [nytransitmuseum.org] -
Black Futures Society is hosting its third annual potluck, with a community cookbook, open mic, music, and more. (Fri Apr 4) [partiful.com] - Martinician director Euzhan Palcy will be in conversation with Hagop Kourounian (perhaps better known as @DirectorFits) after a screening of two of her films at Metrograph. (Fri Apr 4)[metrograph.com]
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“Women, Workers, & Whores on Film,” guest programmed by Ayanna Dozier, gathers recent movies that recast tropes around sex work, with an accompanying zine. (Fri Apr 4–Thu Apr 10) [anthologyfilmarchives.org] -
The New York Indonesian Food Bazaar’s back and welcoming in the spring season in Elmhurst. (Sat Apr 5) [instagram.com] - The New York Restoration Project’s giving away free trees in all five boroughs. (Sat Apr 5–Sun May 4) [nyrp.org]
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Tickets for the New York Transit Museum’s tours of Old City Hall station — a restricted access site — just opened for members only. They sell out quick. [nytransitmuseum.org]
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