Editors’ Picks: 17 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week

Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting,
and thought-provoking, shows, screenings, and events. See them
below. 

Monday, August
19

1. “Inverted Eyeball” at
the Drawing Center

The Drawing Center presents video works selected by Theodore
Darst, Jonathan Ehrenberg, and Young Joo Lee, three of the artists
featured in “Open Sessions 2018–2020:
What’s Love Got to Do With It?” (through September 15).

Location: The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster
Street
Price: Free with RSVP
Time: 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

2. “Supersonic: The Design and
Lifestyle of Concorde” at the Cooper Hewitt 

Lawrence Azerrad will speak about his 2018 book Supersonic: Design and
Lifestyle of Concorde, with Debbie Millman, host of the
podcast Design Matters. Active from 1976 to 2003, the Concorde was
the world’s first, and to-date only, luxury supersonic airliner.
Known for its speed—it could make the Atlantic crossing in less
than three hours—the Concorde was also a marvel of industrial
design, with interior elements from notable designers including
Terence Conran, Roger Excoffon, Raymond Loewy, and Andrée Putman.
All guests at the talk will receive a limited-edition box of
Concorde memorabilia designed for the occasion by Neenah Paper
and Azerrad’s studio, LADdesign.

Location: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design
Museum, 2 East 91st Street
Price: $15 general admission
Time: Doors, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.; talk, 7 p.m.;
book signing and cash bar, 8 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Tuesday, August
20

3. “Truth Lies Beyond” at Foley Gallery

Curated by artist Christopher Parrott, “Truth Lies Beyond”
groups together works very relevant in 2019, tackling themes of
gender, power, reality, and fiction. All proceeds from this show go
to support the campaign of Jaime Harrison, the South Carolina
democratic candidate looking to unseat Lindsey Graham. The
candidate will also be in attendance during the opening.

Location: Foley Gallery, 59 Orchard
Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–9 p.m.;
Wednesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–5:30 p.m.

—Neha Jambhekar

4. Screening of Ulay: Project
Cancer at signs & symbols

The Dutch performance artist Ulay was in the midst of moving
to Ljubljana, Slovenia, and planning a new film when, in the
midst of it all, he was diagnosed with cancer. The film turned
into a documentary of his disease, beginning in a Slovenian
oncology ward in 2011, where Ulay was undergoing chemotherapy, then
following the artist as he travels to Berlin for the premiere of a
new film by his ex-collaborator and lover Marina Abramovic, then on
to New York, and home to Amsterdam. According to the gallery, “Ulay
treated his illness as the biggest and most important project
of his life.”

Location: signs & symbols, 102 Forsyth
Street
Price: Free
Time: 7:30 p.m.

—Rachel Corbett

Wednesday, August
21

5. March of the
Penguins at Socrates Sculpture Park

Visitors to Socrates Sculpture Park will enjoy live music from
Eleanor Dubinsky with Benhur Oliveira and Wesley Amorim followed by
a screening of the touching nature documentary March of
the Penguins (2005), set to the back drop of the supper show
“Chronos Cosmos: Deep Time, Open Space,” on view through September
3.

Location: Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01
Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, Queens
Price: Free
Time: 7 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Wednesday, August 21,
2019–February 2, 2020

6. “In Search of Contoured
Playground” and “Models for Space” at the Noguchi
Museum

The Noguchi Museum takes a look at Isamu Noguchi’s unrealized
design for Contoured Playground (1941), with a
ten-foot square enlargement of the artist’s scale model for the
project. A second exhibition, “Models for Spaces,” will feature
five little-known models for other projects that Noguchi designed,
including a never-built garden for the Connecticut General Life
Insurance Company (1956/57).

Location: The Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33rd
Road at Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, Queens
Price: $10 general admission
Time: Wednesday–Friday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.;
–Saturday/Sunday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Thursday, August
22

7. “Celebration: Happy Birthday
Marsha!” at the Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum celebrates Marsha P. Johnson, the pioneering
AIDS activist and advocate for gay rights who died in 1992, with
screenings of Happy Birthday, Marsha! (Sasha Wortzel and
Tourmaline, 2018) and Pay It No Mind: The Life and Times of
Marsha P. Johnson (Michael Kasino, 2012). Afterwards, enjoy
cake from Butter & Scotch and a champagne toast with music from
queer hop-hop party DJ extraordinaire Roze Royze. It’s all in honor
of Johnson’s 74th birthday, which would have been this week.

Location: The Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern
Parkway, Brooklyn
Price: $16 general admission, which includes
museum entrance
Time: 7 p.m.–10 p.m.

—Tanner West

Thursday, August 22 and
Thursday, August 29

8. “Cocktails With Cohen”
at the Jewish Museum 

If you haven’t made it to “Leonard Cohen: A Crack in
Everything” (on view through September 8) yet, the following
two Thursday nights are as good a time as any—or maybe even better,
since the museum is serving up $10 cocktails inspired by the
musician’s drink of choice. The singer songwriter came up with his
signature cocktail, the Red Needle, back in 1975, in Needles
California. Made with tequila, cranberry juice, lemon, and ice, the
refreshing beverage will be for sale in the museum lobby courtesy
of Russ & Daughters.

Location: The Jewish Museum, 1109 5th
Ave at 92nd Street
Price: $18 general admission, $10 Red Needle
cocktails
Time: 5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Friday, August 23

9. “Kitsuné X New Museum:
Sunset Series” at the New Museum

All summer, the New Museum has been throwing rooftop member
parties with clothing brand and music label Maison Kitsuné.
The last date in the series will feature a performance by Young
Franco and a DJ set by Penguin Prison. Tickets come with one free
drink, followed by a cash bar, plus the chance to see exhibitions
by Mika Rottenberg, Marta Minujín, Lubaina Himid, and Diedrick
Brackens after hours.

Location: The New Museum, 235 Bowery
Price: $10 general admission is sold out, a
$70 annual membership is good for two tickets and two drink
tickets
Time: 6 p.m.–9 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Friday, August 23

10. “Basia Goszczynska: Alien
Nation” at One Brooklyn Bridge 

ChaShaMa presented “Alien Nation,” a plastic-filled installation
by Brooklyn-based artist Basia Goszczynska that looks to
highlight the absurdity of politicians’ inability to stop arguing
and take definitive action in the face of the disastrous effects of
climate change. The artist takes aim at both sides of the aisle,
with two figures, one in a MAGA hat, the other a pink pussy hat,
lying on their backs in piles of rainbow-colored shredded plastic,
seemingly succumbing to the crisis despite being equipped with
safety goggles and a respirator.

Location: One Brooklyn Bridge Park (360 Furman
Street), Brooklyn
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–9 p.m.;
Wednesday–Friday, 2 p.m.–7 p.m.; Saturday/Sunday, 12 p.m.–8
p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Through Friday,
August 23

12. “Kurt Schwitters: A Selection of Collages” at Nahmad
Contemporary

Nahmad Contemporary presents a selection of Kurt Schwitters’s
abstract collages made between the 1920s and ’40s, often using
materials salvaged from the garbage. As Dadaism swept Europe,
Schwitters sought to establish a style all his own. “I called
Merz this new process whose principle was the use of any
material,” the artist later explained. “It was the second syllable
of Kommerz. It first appeared in Merzbild, a painting in
which, apart from its abstract forms, one could read ‘Merz,’ cut
and pasted from an advertisement for Kommerz- und Privatbank. … I
was looking for a term to designate this new genre, for I could not
classify my paintings under old labels such as expressionism,
cubism, futurism and so on.”

Location: Nahmad Contemporary, 980 Madison
Avenue, Third Floor
Price: Free
Time: Monday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Saturday,
August 24–Saturday, September 7

11. “Cut + Paste” at the School of Visual Arts

A jury of SVA students has selected work by six of their peers
around the theme of “Cut + Paste,” inspired by the sensory overload
of 21st-century life and the necessity of making choices and
selections about what we chose to focus on. The works
from Esmé C. Eldridge, Sadia Fakih, Jihyun Han, Barbara Owen,
and Paul Simon include such wide-ranging mediums as
photography, painting, sculpture, paper-craft, and video.

Location: SVA Flatiron Gallery, 133/141
West 21st Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception Wednesday, September
4, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.; Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–7 p.m.; Saturday, 10
a.m.–6 p.m.

—Nan Stewert

Through Saturday, August
31

13. “Dave Pollot: Calorie Composition” at Guy
Hepner 

These lush paintings send up the genre of stuffy still-life
paintings with a contemporary twist: Artist Dave Pollot finds oil
paintings at yard sales and thrift stores, and then adds what the
gallery calls “embellishments,” riffing on modern consumer
culture.

Location: Guy Hepner Gallery, 520
West 27th Street, Suite 303
Price: Free
Time: Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

—Caroline Goldstein

Through Friday, August
23

14. “For Mario” at Tina Kim
Gallery 

When you peek into the Tina Kim
gallery from the street you may think the space is closed for
installation—but no,
it’s actually cotton muslin, lavishly draped everywhere, across
walls, floors, pooling here and there. The fabric creates a
classicizing and decidedly romantic backdrop for this transportive
group exhibition of modern and contemporary art and design, curated
by the architecture firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero. A 1920s lamp, a
watercolor by Cynthia Talmadge, Katie Stout’s pink porcelain
cabinet with a tea set nestled inside are all presented with a
ceremonial delicacy. You feel as though you’ve been handed the key
to a shut-up apartment. The “Mario” of the title makes references
Mario Praz, a critic of art
and literature whose detailed
study of every object in his Roman apartment became his 1964
The House of
Life,
an autobiography told
through object and space. To both the writer and to the life of
objects, the exhibition is a touching homage. 

Location: Tina Kim
Gallery, 525 West 21st
Street
Price: Free
Time: Monday–Friday, 10 a.m-6 p.m.

—Katie White

Saturday, August
24

15. “Warm Up: THE MARTINEZ
BROTHERS/Shigeto/NOODLES/P-Lo/Djrum/Grace Ives/DJ Osh Kosh” at
MoMA PS1

Headlining the penultimate “Warm Up 2019” show at MoMA PS1 are
the Martinez Brothers. With residencies in Ibiza and sold-out shows
at clubs worldwide (including the legendary, now-defunct, Output
Club in Williamsburg) these Boricua, Bronx-natives are one of house
music’s biggest names. While you’re there, be sure to check out
the James Turrell Skyspace that re-opened earlier this
month, as well as the Gina Beavers and Simone Fattal exhibitions that close in a
couple of weeks.

Location: MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue,
Long Island City, Queens
Price: $18 advance, $22 at the door, free for
Long Island City residents
Time: 12 p.m.–9 p.m.

—Cristina Cruz

Saturday, August 24–Sunday,
August 25

16. “Streetwise and Tiny: The
Life of Erin Blackwell” at the Museum of the Moving
Image

Between 1983 and 2016, director
Martin Bell, photographer Mary Ellen Mark, and journalist Cheryl
McCall united to produce two searing documentaries about the
day-to-day struggles of life on the socioeconomic fringes.
Streetwise
explores easily overlooked hardship
through multiple young people forced to survive on the streets of
Seattle. Tiny: The Life of
Erin Blackwell follows
the most memorable of the subjects from Streetwise more than 30 years later, showing how societal
neglect and the cruelty of circumstance can force even the most
determined to relive patterns of addiction, desperation, and
difficulty—often, through their own children.

Location: The Museum of the Moving
Image, 36-01 35th Avenue,
Astoria
Price: $15
Adults; $11 Seniors (Age 65+) and Students (Age 18+); $9 Youth
(Ages 3–17)
Time: Saturday, 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.; Sunday, 1:30
p.m.

—Tim Schneider

Through Sunday, September
29

17. “Book as System: The Artists’ Books of Sol LeWitt”
at Printed Matter

Though he’s known for his conceptual installations and
sculptures, Sol LeWitt was also a prolific maker of art books—a
medium well-suited for his interests in sequence and
reproducibility. “Book as System,” a heavily researched exhibition
produced with the LeWitt estate, surveys the artist’s book
experiments across his 50-year career. Printed Matter also teamed
up with Brooklyn-based publisher Primary Information to reprint one of
LeWitt’s most famous books, Four Basic Kinds of Lines &
Colour (1977), for the occasion.

Location: Printed Matter, 231 11th
Avenue
Price: Free
Time: Monday–Wednesday/Saturday, 11 a.m.–7
p.m.; Thursday–Friday, 11 a.m.–8 p.m.; Sunday, 12 p.m.–6
p.m.

—Taylor Dafoe

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