July 14, 2021
Your Concise New York Art Guide for July 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month. | Dessane Lopez Cassell and Cassie Packard
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Basilica SoundScape: A Weekend of Music + Art
Far from a typical music festival, Basilica SoundScape features live concerts, art installations, conceptual sound performances, author readings and more, this year held at PS21— an open-air venue on 100 acres in Chatham, NY. The initial artist lineup features Circuit des Yeux, Moor Mother, Tomberlin and William Basinski. Get tickets.
Louise Bourgeois’s Long Relationship With Psychoanalysis
For all of its emphasis on unraveling, the most intriguing works in Freud’s Daughter are often the most abstruse ones. | Alana Pockros
Victoria Dugger Materializes the Frictions of Accessible Space
For Dugger, who is disabled, bodies are mutable and prone to rupture, yet they remain expansive, even cosmic. | Justin Kamp
What to Do About the Artists in Your Studio
If Philip Guston wanted everyone, including himself, to leave his studio, Franklin Evans seems to be inviting everyone in. | John Yau
A Staggering New Play Creates Space for Black Interiority and Grief
What to Send Up When It Goes Down holds Black people at its center, inviting unique moments of commiseration, anger, and helplessness with no apologies. | Erica Cardwell
A Photographer Retraces New York’s Forgotten Springs and Wells
James Reuel Smith documented over 160 springs between 1897 and 1903. Decades later, photographer Stanley Greenberg followed Smith’s footsteps. | Lauren Moya Ford
New Views of the Everyday World
Emily Pettigrew and Aubrey Levinthal are two painters who have much in common, but their differences run deeper and are more telling. | John Yau
Closing Soon
Julie Mehretu, “Stadia II” (2004), ink and acrylic on canvas
- 13 Artists: A Tribute to Klaus Kertess' Bykert Gallery 1966–75 at David Nolan Gallery through July 30
- Deborah Remington: Early Drawings at Craig F. Starr Gallery through July 30
- Frank Bowling – London / New York at Hauser & Wirth NY through July 30
- Alice Neel: People Come First at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through August 1
- Open Call at the Shed through August 1
- Felipe Ehrenberg: Testamento at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) through August 7
- Julie Mehretu at the Whitney Museum through August 8
On View in Museums
- Projects: Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill at the Museum of Modern Art through August 15
- Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life at MoMA PS1 through September 6
- Born in Flames: Feminist Futures at the Bronx Museum of the Arts through September 12
- Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughterat the Jewish Museum through September 12
- Estamos Bien — La Trienal 20/21 at El Museo del Barrio through September 26
- Off the Record at the Guggenheim Museum through September 27
- Deana Lawson, Centropy at the Guggenheim Museum through October 11
- Kusama: Cosmic Nature at the New York Botanical Gardens through October 31
- Liza Lou’s “Kitchen” at the Whitney Museum through February 2022
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