New York: Your Ultimate Summer Guide

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June 15, 2022 • View in browser

21 Art Shows to See in New York This Summer

Make the most of this summer with our list of must-see, fun, and insightful art events in and around New York City. | Billy Anania

This summer already feels different from the last couple of years. Spending time with family and friends is a welcome respite, as is experiencing art in person again across the five boroughs. Against all odds, New York’s museum and nonprofit spaces are operating at full capacity for the first time since 2019, with programs looking back on recent history and forward to challenges ahead. With the summer equinox just around the corner, we present our most anticipated exhibitions of the season.

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Rediscovered Beat-Era Artist Rick Barton’s Drawings Publicly Showcased for the First Time

The Morgan Library & Museum’s Writing a Chrysanthemum: The Drawings of Rick Barton features over 60 never-before-seen works. On view in NYC through September 11. Learn more.

LATEST IN ART

Looking Back at Vivian Browne’s Shift to Abstraction

The lively colors and patterns in Browne’s Africa painting series hint at the depth and breadth of visual stimuli she experienced traveling to West Africa. | Cassie Packard

What Does Southern Queerness Look Like?

Artist Chloe Chiasson, who grew up in a small conservative town in Texas, draws from its iconic imagery to make space for queer figures. | Elaine Velie

Seeing Robert Rauschenberg for the First Time, All Over Again

Rauschenberg gave artists an enormous sense of freedom and permission to create anything they could dream of, so long as they were earnest in their ideas and execution. | Catherine Yang

Lorraine O’Grady Still Won’t Play It Safe

Much like her writing, O’Grady’s photomontages pressure binaries until something other, something “both/and” emerges. | Ela Bittencourt

THROUGH THE LENS

Beware! Horror Film Master Dario Argento Is Coming to NYC

Film at Lincoln Center’s series Beware of Dario Argento will be screening 20 of the Italian giallo master’s works with a chance to meet him in the flesh. | Elizabeth Horkley

In the Films of Dore O., Feelings Create Their Own Reality

Overlooked for too long in the experimental scene, the recently deceased German director is getting a tribute series at Anthology Film Archives. | Dana Reinoos

Capturing the Lovers of New York’s Beaches

Erica Reade’s photos meditate on moments of romance and intimacy in public spaces. | Sarah Rose Sharp

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CLOSING SOON

Willie Cole, “Dial-a-Tune” (2022), Yamaha 3/4-size acoustic guitar parts (courtesy Alexander and Bonin, photo by Joerg Lohse)

Willie Cole: No Strings
Alexander and Bonin through June 18

Articulating Activism: Works from the Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection
8th Floor Gallery through June 18

Staging Injustice: Italian Art 1880-1917
Center for Italian Modern Art through June 18

Robert Rauschenberg: Venetians and Early Egyptians, 1972-1974
Gladstone Gallery through June 18

ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS & GALLERIES

Intervención/Intersección
Rockefeller Center though June 24

Chloe Chiasson: Fast Hearts and Slow Towns
Albertz Benda Gallery through June 25

Not Me, Not That, Not Nothing Either
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art through June 25

Vivian Browne: Africa Series 1971-1974
RYAN LEE Gallery through July 1

Minouk Lim: Fossil of High Noon
Tina Kim Gallery through July 1

Stanley Lewis: Paintings and Works on Paper
Betty Cuningham Gallery through July 1