Editors’ Picks: 11 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.
(Please check institution website for holiday hours over
Thanksgiving weekend.)

Tuesday, November
26–Saturday, December 21

1. “Vincent Desiderio: Recent Paintings” at
Marlborough 

The gallery will present 10 new oil-on-canvas paintings created
over the past two years alongside several earlier works.
Desiderio’s work often plays cognitive readings against optical
clues. Whether a depiction of characters “from the films of
Pasolini, foreboding rocky landscapes, a sleeping child or sniper,”
according to the gallery, the often mysterious narratives that
result are rendered in surreal, almost dreamlike scenes with a
powerful visual punch.

Location: Marlborough, 40 West 57th
Street, #2
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Eileen Kinsella 

Friday, November 29–Sunday,
January 12, 2020

2. “Mallrat to
Snapchat: The End of the Third Place” at Front Room
Gallery

If you don’t feel like lining up outside a mall as soon as
you’ve digested your Thanksgiving turkey, the Lower East Side-based
Front Room Gallery has a very different experience for your Black
Friday. Artist Phillip Buehler has been photographing some of the
nation’s most deserted and decrepit sites for decades, and in his
new series he’s exploring the demise of the commercial shopping
mall. The timing feels especially poignant as centers like Hudson
Yards and New Jersey’s forthcoming Dream Mall are cropping up.

Location: Front Room Gallery, 48 Hester
Street

Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 7 p.m.–9 p.m.;
Thursday–Sunday, noon–6 .p.m.

—Caroline Goldstein

Through Saturday, November
30

3. “Canyon Castator: Infidel” at
Postmasters

The young Los Angeles-based artist’s second exhibition at
Postmasters is full of exuberant, explicit paintings that look a
bit like a peek into the inside of an addled person surfing the web
(particularly one who spends a lot of time on Reddit), overrun with
clip art and demented cartoons. The nontraditional press
release—which is actually a poem by the artist titled “The Ballad
of a Conspiracy Theorist”—suggests Castator is interested in how
images can be remixed to obscure the truth as much as reveal
it.

Location: Postmasters, 54 Franklin
Street
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.;
Thursday, 11 a.m.–8 p.m.

—Julia Halperin

Through Saturday, November
30

4. “Hannah Wilke: Force of Nature” at Ronald
Feldman Gallery

The late Hannah Wilke’s longtime gallery Ronald Feldman has
assembled some 50 works by the artist for this show, including
Wilke’s chewing gum sculptures and her “Performalist
Self-Portraits,” a term she invented as a way to give credit to the
assistants who helped her create the images in which she herself
posed.

Location: Ronald Feldman Gallery, 31
Mercer Street
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Nan Stewart

Sunday, December
1

5. “William Kentridge in Conversation” at the
Morgan Library & Museum

Next month, William Kentridge, the art world’s favorite set
designer, will present the stage set for the Metropolitan Opera’s
production of Wozzeck. The opera, which was
composed by Alban Berg between 1914 and 1922, tells the bizarre and
cruel tale of a group of townspeople and soldiers in a small German
town, whose odd behaviors speak to the absurdity of the First World
War. (For Kentridge fans, the theme will be familiar.) To mark the
production, the artist will be in conversation at the Morgan
Library & Museum, where he will discuss his work on the opera and
“the ominous yet captivating pre-World War I setting he has
created,” according to a museum spokesperson.

Location: The Morgan Library & Museum, 225
Madison Avenue
Price: Free, registration is required
Time: 3 p.m.

—Pac Pobric

Through Saturday, December
7

6. “The Practice of Freedom:
Jordan Casteel” at Casey Kaplan

An assistant professor of undergraduate painting at Rutgers
University-Newark, Jordan Casteel has turned her students into
subjects for her latest exhibition at Casey Kaplan. The show draws
its name from bell hooks’s 1994 book Teaching to
Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, which
encourages teachers to create a reciprocal relationship with their
students. In that spirit, Casteel has let her subjects chose the
setting each for their portraits.

Location: Casey Kaplan, 121 West 27th
Street
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Through Friday, December
20

7. “Ebony G. Patterson: …to dig
between the cuts, beneath the leaves, below the soil…” at
Hales Gallery

Make sure to get lost in Jamaican artist Ebony G. Patterson’s
large-scale paper collage gardens at Hales Gallery before the show
ends on December 20. The artist uses mixed media such as torn
paper, fabric, and found objects to create these colorful floral
masterpieces that according to her “investigate their relationship
to beauty, dress, class, race, the body, land, and death.”

Location: 547 West 20th Street
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Neha Jambhekar

Through Saturday, December
21

8. “Mary Corse: Recent Paintings” at Pace
Gallery

For anyone who missed Mary
Corse’s (long-overdue) first solo museum show at the Whitney last
year, Pace is offering something of a second chance by exhibiting a
compact overview of her practice. On view in the ground-floor
gallery is a series of epic new “Inner Band” paintings made with
the artist’s signature glass microspheres, which refract incoming
light so that the works’ surfaces seem to constantly shift in
appearance as viewers move through the surrounding space. The sixth
floor hosts one of Corse’s late 1960s electric-light works, powered
wirelessly by a Tesla coil of her own design, as well as a new
freestanding, open-air painting on steel installed on Pace’s
outdoor terrace. Together, the show is a worthy time capsule of
where the versatile California artist has been, and where she’s
headed next. 

Location: 540 West 25th
Street

Price: Free

Time: Tuesday–Saturday,
10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Tim Schneider

Through Sunday, December
29

9. “Rosson Crow: Trust Fall” at The Hole

For her debut solo exhibition at The Hole, LA-based artist
Rosson Crow is showing super-packed canvases that wrestle with some
of the most pressing issues facing society in 2019. Themes like
fast fashion, immigration, and climate change are brought to bear
in her panoramic paintings, which may look colorful and vibrant,
but the devil (in this case, humanity) is in the details.

Location: The Hole, 312 Bowery

Price: Free
Time: Wednesday–Sunday, 12 p.m.–7 p.m.

—Caroline Goldstein

Through Saturday, January
11

10. “The Art of Tony
Bennett/Anthony Benedetto” at the Art Students League of New
York

The Art Students League of New York has quietly unveiled an
exhibition of paintings by the beloved singer and entertainer Tony
Bennett, who also happens to be a passionate visual artist, working
under his given name, Anthony Benedetto. The exhibition reflects
the breadth of his long career, with depictions of musical greats
from Duke Ellington to Lady Gaga to Miles Davis. There is also a
painting of Bennett by his friend Everett Raymond Kinstler,
the great portrait artist who died in May at age 92. Timed to the
show’s opening earlier this month, the league honored Bennett, a
one-time student, with the Everett Raymond Kinstler Lifetime
Achievement Award.

Location: The Art Students League of New
York, American Fine Arts Society Gallery, 215 West 57th Street
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Through Saturday, January
18

11. “Jessica Lange: Highway 61” at Howard Greenberg
Gallery

Highway 61, the famed
thoroughfare now largely erased, still exercises a mythic allure in
the American imagination. This new exhibition of photographs (which
coincides with the publication of a book of the same name) by the
photographer and actress Jessica Lange proves there still something
left to the strip’s gritty magic. Over the past seven years, Lange
has made many trips to what remains of the road that originally ran
between Chicago and Los Angeles to make these intensely lit images,
street photography in the tradition of Robert Frank or Helen
Levitt, which captures the violence and intimacy of everyday
life.

Location: Howard Greenberg
Gallery, 41 East 57th Street, Suite 1406

Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

— Katie White

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