New York: Your Concise Art Guide for April

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March 30, 2022 • View in browser

Your Concise New York Art Guide for April 2022

Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month, including Morgan Bassichis, Kazuko Miyamoto, Frida Orupabo, and more. | Cassie Packard

NEWS THIS WEEK

The Caribbean Cultural Center expands its presence with a new 5,000-square-foot space in East Harlem.

Hetvonulsen NH, a new 3,000-square-foot gallery run by two college graduates, opens in the heart of Williamsburg in Brooklyn.

An anonymous artist spray-paints massive graffiti on the New Museum’s façade.

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Lin Shih Pao Recycles Windows Into Sculptures With Golden Age

The works created during Lin’s residency at Crystal Foundation and Park will be on view at Artexpo New York from April 7 to 10. Learn more.

Messing with Museums and Our Desire for Order

Is the earth a necropolis in which the survivors live among the dead and their sarcophagi, which includes museums, pyramids, and monuments of all kinds? | John Yau

The Problems and Pleasures of an Activist Art Exhibition

I am often skeptical of protest art behind glass, yet I still cannot deny the pleasure of experiencing politically charged artworks in a venue making the effort. | Billy Anania

What Can We Learn From Italy’s Early Leftist Modernists?

The artists in Staging Injustice: Italian Art 1880-1917 faced a real problem: how to represent injustices and project a hopeful vision of what changes were possible? | David Carrier

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Keith Haring: A Radiant Legacy Is on View at the Michener Art Museum

Featuring more than 100 unique works by the acclaimed Pop Art icon, this exhibition in Doylestown, Pennsylvania is open through July 31. Learn more.

Arthur Jafa’s Medley of Joy Everlasting Versus Hell on Earth

The video installation akingdoncomethas is an epic montage of sermons and performances from Black churches. | Justin Kamp

Gwendolyn Brooks Championed Black Authors and Presses

Materials from the poet’s personal library testify to lifelong engagement with the Black community. | Marcella Durand

Julia Fish’s Architectural Abstractions Are Joyful Enigmas

Fish’s artworks elude every attempt to enclose them in language, and they resist explanation. They become something only a painting can be. | John Yau

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CLOSING SOON

Berenice Abbott, “Night View, New York” (1932), gelatin silver print; printed later, 35 1/2 x 28 3/8 inches (© Berenice Abbott/Getty Image)

A Female Gaze: Seven Decades of Women Street Photographers
Howard Greenberg Gallery through April 2

Gretchen Scherer: Sometimes, Light
Monya Rowe Gallery through April 2

The New Bend
Hauser & Wirth through April 2

Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks
Guggenheim Museum through April 4

ON VIEW

Adelita Husni Bey: These Conditions
Annex at the Brooklyn Army Terminal through April 8

Harriet Korman: New Work
Thomas Erben Gallery through April 9

Vik Muniz: Scraps
Sikkema Jenkins & Co. through April 9

The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time
Brooklyn Museum through April 10

Julia Fish: Threshold/s with Hearth: recent paintings and a site intervention
David Nolan Gallery through April 16

Mimi Park: Dawning: dust, seeds, Coplees
Lubov through April 16

Jule Korneffel: Here comes the night
Spencer Brownstone Gallery through April 16