New York
November 30, 2022 A group exhibition at the Americas Society investigates ideas of paradise, approaching the Caribbean region as a product of the visitor economy regime. | Sebastián Meltz-Collazo Tropical Is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime
Sept. 7–Dec. 17
Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue, Manhattan (as-coa.org) SPONSORED Russel Albert Daniels, Tailyr Irvine, and Donovan Quintero provide insights into contemporary Native life in this New York City exhibition. Learn more. LATEST REVIEWS Contemporary society in the United States normalizes the idea of the exhausted mother, so why wouldn’t mother nature be equally exhausted? | Annabel Keenan I’m Not Your Mother
Oct. 28–Dec. 3
PPOW gallery, 390 Broadway, Tribeca (ppowgallery.com) The pleasure of Siena’s art arises from the tension between the overall image or the changing visual field and the individual units. | John Yau James Siena
Oct. 20–Nov. 26
Miles McEnery Gallery, 525 West 22nd Street, Chelsea (milesmcenery.com) Become a member today to help keep our reporting and criticism free and accessible to all. Become a Member HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK Euphoria
Nov. 29–Jan.8, 2023
Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, Lenox Hill (armoryonpark.org) Featuring music from the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and jazz drummers, Julian Rosefeldt’s immersive multi-channel film installation dives headfirst into the breakneck absurdity of capitalism as performers in bizarro sites of consumption deliver quotes from figures like Ayn Rand, Warren Buffett, and Snoop Dogg. Saya Woolfalk: Field Notes From the Empathic Universe
Oct. 21–Dec.31
Newark Museum of Art 49 Washington Street, Newark, New Jersey (newarkmuseumart.org) Brooklyn-based artist Saya Woolfalk’s socially realistic fiction is a posthuman world where the Empathics, a special race of women, fuse diverse cultures to produce hybrid artifacts and relics. Also on display is Woolfalk’s first self-portrait, which critiques nationalism and belonging, placed next to the museum’s renowned collection of Hudson River School paintings. CLOSING SOON Stressed World
Jun. 5–Dec. 3
The School 35 Broad Street, Kinderhook, New York (jackshainman.com) Jack Shainman’s Kinderhook outpost in Upstate New York, where the gallery often mounts ambitiously scaled projects, offers up a rich melange of work by 30 artists. A fabulous sequined tondo by Nick Cave, bold iris print landscapes by Gordon Parks, and a gleaming wall-hanging sculpture by El Anatsui infuse the space with vibrant hues. In with the Old: (Nearly) Six Years of Project Art Distribution
Sept. 8–Dec. 10
Yeh Art Gallery 8000 Utopia Parkway, Jamaica, Queens (sjuartgallery.org) More than 200 P.A.D. artists contributed to the 400-piece In with the Old, a retrospective named for the platform’s efforts to reverse market decadence. Pieces from previous sidewalk exhibitions in Manhattan, Munich, and Miami span the walls and floor of Yeh Art Gallery around their signature “pad column,” which often forms the centerpiece of their shows. Read Louis Bury's review. | 