| “In March,” Sylvia Plath wrote to her mother at the tail end of February 1953, “I’ll be rested, caught up and human.” Are you there yet? If not, you’ve got some time yet, and the extra hour of sunlight we’re set to pick up this weekend can’t hurt. This week, our Upstate critic Taliesin Thomas walks us gently through the “melodramatic in-betweenness” of March, as she puts it, “with its many moods.” As the weather warms, follow her footsteps from a survey of Maria Lai at Magazzino in Cold Spring — which might be the highlight of the season — to a group show at a newcomer gallery, Ruthann in Catskill. This time of year can be temperamental indeed — see this past Saturday, with its mood swings between 60s and nice to 30s and awful. There’s a kind of varying emotional weather to be found in each of the below gallery shows, too, from the peaceful intimacy Reviews Editor Natalie Haddad felt while convening with medieval works at Luhring Augustine gallery to the deep pathos I felt watching Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s video installation, told from the perspective of an unexploded bomb the United States dropped on Vietnam. In her show at the DeKalb Gallery at Pratt Institute, Alex Strada works with the very porousness between the gallery space inside and the city outside, making an art out of mutual aid. How will each of us, she asks us, go about the world? — Lisa Yin Zhang, Associate Editor | | |
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| | See socially and politically engaged art, Trenton Doyle Hancock paired with Philip Guston, plus geometric abstraction and some medieval treasures. | Natalie Haddad | | Michel Goldberg’s black and white dance of birth and death, ransome’s stoic and elegant portraits, Kipton Hinsdale’s near-berserk mark-making, and more. | taliesin Thomas |
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UPCOMING EVENT | | | On March 10, join Hyperallergic’s Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian, artist Lee Quiñones, PPOW Gallery Co-Founder Wendy Olsoff, and Sean Corcoran, Senior Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Museum of the City of New York, for a discussion on graffiti as an art form and the lasting influence of artist and collector Martin Wong. Before the panel, ticket holders may arrive early at MCNY for an after-hours viewing of the exhibition Above Ground: Art from the Martin Wong Graffiti Collection. | | Monday, March 10, 7pm at the Museum of the City of New York
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| | | | | | | | Treasures of the Medieval World continues at Luring Augustine | | “The gallery setting also encourages visitors who are used to viewing contemporary art in galleries to see the work from a different perspective — a strategy that can fail when important historical context is elided, but here it illuminates the bold and innovative aesthetic choices made by artists nearly a millennium ago.” |
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| | | | Collective Mobilities at DeKalb Gallery at Pratt Institute | | “[These sculptures] subvert the aesthetic codes that New Yorkers unconsciously understand — the same sixth sense that prickles the skin at the sight of a police uniform, or may compel us to avert our eyes from someone asking for change, tacitly denying an acknowledgment that they exist at all.”
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WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING? | | | After being closed to the public for about a year, the New Museum will reopen this fall with an 150-artist exhibition. Last Thursday, Feb 28, city council members, Brooklyn Museum workers, and union representatives called on the institution to “exhaust all options” before laying off 47 people. Staff Writer Rhea Nayyar paid a visit to the Outsider Art Fair. It was, she writes, a “discombobulating” experience. Elizabeth Street Garden is suing New York City in a new stage of its eviction battle, arguing that it is a unique artwork protected under law. Danielle de Jesus visited Luigi Mangione’s hearing at a Manhattan courthouse with watercolor pencils and paper in hand. Small Editions is hosting a book publishing “small talk” with a “mingle” afterward. (Wed Mar 5) [partiful.com] Land to Sea is hosting a woodblock printing workshop and discussion with FAR-NEAR, an artist-run book series/platform. (Sat Mar 8) [instagram.com] Community arts org. Little Nights wil be hosting Drawn Together, a drawing and mark-making series, at Interference Archive. (Mon March 10) [eventbrite.com] This week at Storm Books & Candy, everything from an exploration of somatic practices to a family workshop of bookmaking to Arabic adult classes to screenings related to food. (Wed Mar 5–Tues Mar 12) [stormbookstore.com] Celebrate the release of Laila Lalami’s new novel, The Dream Hotel, at the Center for Fiction. (Tues Mar 11) [centerforfiction.org] Torrey Peters is also releasing a new novel — Stag Dance — and will be at the Strand with Andrea Long Chu for a book launch. (Tues Mar 11) [strandbooks.com] NYU is hosting the annual Review of Law & Social Change journal colloquium, hosting panels highlighting workplace organizing and labor law. (Tue Mar 11–Wed Mar 12) [lu.ma] |
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