How's your mask game these days? With art spaces steadily reopening, now might be a good time to inv
How’s your mask game these days? With art spaces steadily reopening, now might be a good time to invest in a new autumnal shade—all the better to keep you safe and stylish as you check out one of our top exhibitions to catch this month. We’ve also highlightedseveral virtual shows, to give you some options amid the uncertainty.One not to miss before it closes this weekend is the delightfully sharp video exhibition at Microscope, Ina Archer: Osmundine (Orchid Slap). Taking on the racist fantasies of Old Hollywood, it’s a clapback for the ages. In Manhattan, Adina Glickstein previews the upcoming Lynda Benglis show. Spanning three locations, it highlights the artist’s knack for flouting genre “just as handily as [she] rejected the limiting gender roles” of her day.Also worth catching this week: the Vera List Center’s annual forum, an annual convening of artists, curators, and scholars, which this year hones in on the invisible power of protocol.– Dessane Lopez Cassell, Editor, ReviewsP.S. Have you registered to vote yet? There are just two days left until the New York deadline, October 9, so now’s a great time to remind your friends, siblings, cousins, and colleagues. Scream it from the rooftops and call it performance art. I dare you. | |
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| Ten Shows to See in NYC (and online) |
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| | Betye Saar, “Spread from Mexico sketchbook” (image courtesy the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles) |
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| What's Happening Online this Week |
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| | Clutch Your Pearls: Ina Archer’s Cinematic Clapbacks A razor-sharp rebuke of Hollywood’s penchant for stoking white supremacist fantasies, Osmundine (Orchid Slap) shatters any illusion that conforming to the standards of respectability will ever reward you. Dessane Lopez Cassell |
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| Can Finding Joy Be Defiant in 2020? In his drawings embellished with blossoms, artist Ronald Vill invites us to perceive 2020 as an exercise in defiant jubilance. Daniel Larkin |
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| | An Abstract Painter Defines a Space of His Own In his clashing compositions and use of artificial colors and materials Odita generates something very different from artists associated with geometric abstraction and Minimalism. John Yau |
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| Robert Kobayashi: Moe’s Meat Market at Susan Inglett, through November 7“Kobayashi subverted the stereotype of cheap production by elevating a painted object fashioned of recycled tin into the realm of art.” – John Yau Martha Tuttle: A stone that thinks of Enceladus at Storm King, through November 9“Tuttle lets the installation stand as the answer to its own questions, even if it can feel that much is left unsaid.” – Louis Bury Hope Wanted at New York Historical Society, through November 29“As budgets continue to remain tight for many across the city, Hope Wanted offers a crucial free opportunity to ruminate on not just on art, but also local history in the making.” – Dessane Lopez Cassell |
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| | The Chinatown Art Brigade participating in an “Anti-Displacement Walking Tour and Public Action” in May 2019 (photo by Hrag Vartanian) |
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