Happy Wednesday! Dessane Lopez Cassell is out this week, so I'll be handling this edition of the news
| Happy Wednesday! Dessane Lopez Cassell is out this week, so I’ll be handling this edition of the newsletter. Museums will soon be reopening in New York, so let’s see what they (and other institutions) are offering!— Dan Schindel, Associate Editor for Documentary | |
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| New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has given the go-ahead for museums and other “low-risk” indoor cultural activity venues to reopen, starting this past Monday. Since that announcement, numerous NYC institutions have announced their reopening dates. Of course, things are hardly back to normal, with every location enacting social distancing measures, requiring timed tickets for entry, and operating at a significantly reduced capacity, among other restrictions. Still, it’ll be nice to see art in person again!As summer winds down, we’ve continued to highlight some of the superb work produced by recent MFA graduates from around the country. Standouts in this most recent edition, include Columbia’s Paula Lycan, Cornell’s Yasmeen Abedifard, and the School of Visual Arts’s Maximilian Juliá.John Yau writes about Susan Chen: On Longing, a new show at Meredith Rosen Gallery. Chen’s paintings are thick with allusions to everything from current events to classic literature to the wider history of art. Through subtle indicators and placements, she challenges the Eurocentric conception of art history. |
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| | A Powerful Debut As a young Asian American painter, Susan Chen knows what she is up against and is consciously pushing back. John Yau |
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| Picking Up Where Things Left Off Before the Pandemic |
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| The sudden closures of numerous institutions this past March left many exhibitions in a state of limbo. Some of them subsequently moved online, but with museums reopening, you have a new chance to check them out! Here are a few reviews of shows that you now have a second chance to visit at the Museum of Modern Art (reopening August 27) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (reopening August 29). |
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| | Dorothea Lange's Humanist Vision In Lange’s photography, human ingenuity and grace triumph over the unspeakable blows of the Great Depression and other social oppression, even when hope is in short supply. Natalie Haddad |
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