Every week, we check out New York to see the most exciting and challenging programs, screenings and events. Given the global fitness situation, we are recently organizing virtual events as well as open face-to-face exhibitions in the New York area. (All hours are EST, unless otherwise noted).
1. “Open Air” organized through Tong Art Advisory in East Hampton
Many promising artists have had their performances canceled or delayed due to closure. This show, organized through Tong Art Advisory in a garage in East Hampton, aims to give them a boost. Approximately 15 emerging artists and in the middle of their career, aged between 22 and 35, have contributed to new works. Ten percent of the proceeds from each sale will be donated to a charity chosen by the artist.
Eileen Kinsella
2. “Hope Is Wanted: Quarantined New York City” at New York Historical Society
What could be more appropriate at this time than a special outdoor exhibition documenting the reports of New Yorkers in the five districts at the height of the closure? The exhibition features more than 50 photographs of Kay Hickman and 12 audio interviews with the subjects of the photographs through publisher Kevin Powell, all accumulated during an extended two-day vacation through the city in early April. The exhibition is located in the museum’s backyard, offering an outdoor setting for visitors. “We hope that this exhibition will give our visitors a moment of convenience to reflect on what they and the city in general have experienced over the past few months and to better perceive this moment,” said Dr. Louise Mirrer, President of the Historical Society of New York.
—Eileen Kinsella
3. “Doug Aitken: Migration (Empire)” at the Carnegie Museum of Art
One painting that adapts well to nature backwards today is Doug Aitken’s Migration (Empire), which will be available on the Carnegie Museum of Art’s online page starting Wednesday. This presentation is the time for a series of reflections in the museum’s video collection, following a presentation of Rachel Rose’s paintings in early spring. During migration, migratory animals from North America move and appear in motel rooms rather than in their herb habitats. A surreal picture for surreal times!
– Caroline Goldstein
4. “Field of Dreams” at the Parrish Art Museum
This exhibition is a component of the museum’s new “Art in the Prairie” initiative, created to activate its vast spaces with a diversity of sculptures involving architecture and landscape. For the inaugural presentation, Parrish’s 14-acre box will house the paintings of 10 foreign multigenerational artists running in a variety of genres. The offerings come with several new amenities created for the museum through Theaster Gates; a series of 4 new sculptures through Jaume Plensa; and new paintings through Jim Dine. Monumental sculptures will be installed in the coming weeks through Isa Genzken and Giuseppe Penone.
Eileen Kinsella
5. “To Tame a Wild Language: Artist’s Interview with Claudia Cano” at the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art
Curator Alana Hernandez leads a series of discussions on Instagram Live with artists included in “To Tame a Wild Tongue”, an exhibition that examines the legacy of the post-Chicano artistic movement. This Thursday, she will speak with San Diego artist Claudia Cano, whose photography paintings, films and functionality explorers paint at home and the invisibility of Latinx’s pictorial force.
Katie White
6. “Sean Fader: Thirst / Trap” at denny Dimin Gallery, New York
Photographer Sean Fader presents two series encouraged by how LGBTQ culture in the United States has evolved over the course of 20 years. Presented in ornate gold frames, “Best Lives” features heroic portraits of members of the queer community. The artist created a traditional app to organize queer hashtags such as #instagay, #nonbinary and #genderfluid, then contacted potential subjects on Instagram to organize a photo shoot. The framework at the moment, “Insufficient Memory”, is based on the arrival of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 1999, a bill that took 10 years to pass. In photographs of houses, camps and other scenes likely risk-free, Fader documents the sites of 80 murders committed against LGBTQ people. He traveled 15,000 miles to complete the series, which he filmed with a low-resolution virtual camera. The granularity of large-scale photographs is a nod to the speed with which these crimes have been forgotten and the difficulty Fader has had in finding them, as they are overlooked in the local media.
—Sarah Cascone
7. “Artmaking From Home: Suspended Sculptures” at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Get out of your head and use your hands this Friday afternoon. Whitney’s latest 30-minute art creation workshop (safely organized online, of course) puts Ruth Asawa in the foreground on the temperament table, while artist and educator Camilo Godoy guides participants through the three-dimensional bureaucracy creation procedure that can animate inside from the air. You’ll want to supply the recommended fabrics yourself (click to see the list), but commands and inspiration are free.
—Tim Schneider
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