New York: Upstate Art Weekend Is Back, and Bigger Than Ever

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July 20, 2022 • View in browser

New York’s Upstate Art Weekend is Back, and Bigger Than Ever

The event celebrates its third edition with 100 exhibitions and more than 50 open studios from Beacon to the Catskills. | Billy Anania

This Friday, July 22, Upstate Art Weekend returns for its third and largest edition of programs across the Hudson Valley and the Catskill Mountains. More than 145 participants have signed on in eight counties, encompassing over 100 exhibitions and 50-plus artists’ studios opening to the public.

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Celebrate the Art and Science of Edible Plants at Around the Table: Stories of the Foods We Love

New York Botanical Garden’s latest exhibition focuses on how food choices impact our world and features special picnic tables designed by Bronx artists. Learn more.

IN THE CITY THIS WEEKEND

Francheska Alcántara, “Hispan@s y Candad@s” (2018) (image courtesy the artist and Recess)

Francheska Alcántara: Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps, and Throw the Bones
Recess, opening July 21

Through an examination of “loaded objects,” such as brown paper bags and Hispano Cuaba soap, Bronx-based Dominican artist Francheska Alcántara unpacks histories of racial coding and governance over queer bodies.

Zulu Padilla: Everything Is Migrating
The Compound Cowork through July 23

In Everything Is Migrating, Zulu Padilla merges the seasonal migration of warbler birds and queer cruising in Prospect Park, bringing to mind the varied meanings of flight in New York and how gentrification influences Brooklyn’s nature and culture.

LATEST IN ART

Discovering Rick Barton

I am not alone when I say that I had never heard of Barton before his exhibition opened at the Morgan Library & Museum. | John Yau

Charles Gaines Brings Trees Back to Times Square

Gaines’s sculpture “Roots,” encompassing seven sweetgum trees that were once native to the region, engages with the nation’s history of colonization and enslavement. | Elaine Velie

ON SCREEN

Talking Sex With Two Film Curators

Hyperallergic talks to programmers Róisín Tapponi and Jed Rapfogel about their Anthology Film Archives retrospective and formative erotic film experiences. | Dan Schindel

A Series Spotlights NY’s Underground Art and Cinema in the Early 1960s

Focused on the years 1962–1964, a program by Film at Lincoln Center pairs with a Jewish Museum exhibition and a survey at Film Forum. | Billy Anania

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CLOSING SOON

Woomin Kim, “Shijang: Shoe Store” (2021), fabric, 55 x 50 inches (courtesy Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC)

Woomin Kim: The Shijang Project
Susan Inglett Gallery through July 29

From Student to Master: Tokuko Ushioda and Her Teachers
Alison Bradley Projects through July 29

Lee Lozano: All Verbs & Cindy Sherman 1977–1982
Hauser & Wirth through July 29

Ani Liu: Ecologies of Care
Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space through July 30

Between Worlds
Kentler International Drawing Space through July 31

Tuçe Yasak: Light Is Generous
FiveMyles through July 31