Editors’ Picks: 13 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. 

Tuesday, December
10

1. “Louis Fratino, Loie Hollowell, Nicolas Party, Billy
Sullivan, and Robin F. Williams in Conversation,” hosted by the
FLAG Art Foundation

FLAG Art Foundation’s founder Glenn Fuhrman will moderate a
panel with some of the most buzzed-about artists working
today. All of the artists are included in FLAG’s current
exhibition, “Nicolas Party: Pastel”
(through February 15, 2020), which juxtaposes pastel works by a
range of artists, dating from the 18th century to 2019, with
Party’s own soft-hued murals.

Location: Hauser & Wirth Bookshop, 548
West 22nd Street
Price: Free
Time: 6 p.m.–8 p.m.

—Caroline Goldstein

Wednesday, December
11

2. The First Annual Registrar
of the Year Awards

Registrars are the unsung heroes
of the art world—they know where the art is, where it’s headed, and
are often pulling the most important strings from behind their
computer screens. A new award sponsored by logistics company
Atelier 4 seeks to honor these quiet warriors with a $5,000 cash
prize for the “Registrar of the Year,” chosen from among more than
a dozen nominees. 

Location:
Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley
Price: Free with
RSVP
Time: 6:30 p.m. to
8:30 p.m.

—Julia Halperin

3. “Talk With Suzy Lake and
Laurie Simmons” at Arsenal Contemporary

Despite a career spanning five decades, artist Suzy Lake is only
now getting her first solo show. To mark the occasion, she’ll speak
with fellow photographer Laurie Simmons about her work, which
considers the ways in which society responds and relates to the
female body.

Location: Arsenal Contemporary, 214
Bowery
Price: Free with RSVP
Time: 7 p.m.

—Nan Stewert

Saturday, December
14

4. “BODY BEAUTIFUL Artist Talk” at the Untitled
Space

A number of the 50 artists included in the gallery’s current
exhibition, “BODY BEAUTIFUL” (on view
through December 20), will talk about how their work celebrates
body positivity for a wide range of body types and ages, across
gender and race.

Location: The Untitled Space, 45 Lispenard
Street
Price: Free with RSVP
Time: 2 p.m.–5 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Sunday, December
15–Thursday, January 9

5. “SuperReal” at
Cipriani

When it took over Cipriani over the summer, SuperReal was
an unexpectedly impressive entry into the current pop-up museum
craze, with a 45-minute site-specific video that transformed the
ritzy Italian restaurant’s cathedral-like dining room into five
surreal worlds. The Moment Factory, which specializes in
interactive projection mapping, has brought the project back to the
space for a limited engagement over the holidays, with a special
“Super Classic Experience” that includes Cipriani’s famous peach
bellini cocktail on December 20, 21, 27, and 28.

Location: Cipriani, 25 Broadway
Price: $28 general admission, $18 children
under 13, $55 Super Classic Tickets (ages 21 and up)
Time: Monday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–8 p.m.;
Sunday, 10 a.m.–7 p.m. Closed December 25.

—Sarah Cascone

Through Friday, December
20

6. “Anish Kapoor” at Lisson
Gallery

The latest offering from Anish Kapoor continues the British
Indian artist’s exploration of shiny, reflective surfaces with two
new large-scale stainless steel works,
titled Tsunami (2018)
and Newborn (2019).

Location: Lisson Gallery, 504 West 24th
Street
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Tanner West

Through Friday, December 20
and Sunday, December 22

7. Nicole Cherubini at Marisa Newman Projects and Derek
Eller Gallery

Nicole Cherubini flexes different aspects of her practice in two
concurrent solo shows. In “Stacked” at Marisa Newman Projects, the
artist showcases an uncharacteristic series of wall-mounted and
custom-framed photographs, each depicting stacked china or
interiors in an empty home. Atop some, she’s installed fragmented
earthenware sculptures—a meditation on forms and perspective.
Meanwhile, in “Full Moon” at Derek Eller Gallery, Cherubini reverts
back to the layered vessels for which she’s best known, bringing
into the fold earthen objects based on Eames chairs.

Location: Marisa Newman Projects, 38 West 32nd
Street, Suite 1602; Derek Eller Gallery, 300 Broome Street
Price: Free
Time: Marisa Newman Projects: Wednesday–Friday, 1
p.m.–6 p.m; Derek Eller Gallery, Wednesday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–6
p.m.

—Taylor Dafoe

Through Saturday, December
21

8. “Albert Oehlen:
Spiegelbilder” at Nahmad Contemporary

This is the first show dedicated to Albert Oehlen’s
“Spiegelbilder” or “Mirror Paintings” series, made between 1982 and
1990. (The exhibition was paired with a concurrent show at Galerie
Max Hetzler in London that closed last month.) The canvases
incorporate actual mirrored panes, collaged onto the surface and
expanding the field of the work to include the viewer.

Location: Nahmad Contemporary, 980 Madison
Avenue, third floor
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

9. “Ruby Neri” at Salon 94 Bowery

California artist Ruby Neri is finally getting her first New
York solo show. Salon 94 is presenting a series of the artist’s
colorful ceramic vases, shaped from boldly naked, cartoon-like
female figures, and pastels on paper. The large-scale sculptures
recall the pioneering female ceramicist Viola Frey, and evoke
powerful women on the brink of losing control. In Neri’s words, the
sculptures have a “self-imploding pressure—they are
self-destructing in front of our eyes.”

Location: Salon 94 Bowery, 243 Bowery
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

10. “Robert De Niro, Sr. –
Intensity in Paint: Installation of Six Works”
at DC Moore Gallery

Timed to the release of a new monograph of his
work, the late Robert De Niro, Sr., a long-overlooked
contemporary of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko and father to actor
Robert De Niro, has a show of his landscape paintings at DC
Moore.

Location: DC Moore Gallery, 535 West 22nd
Street
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Through Saturday, January
4

11. “pUnser die Zukufnt” at
GRIMM

Make sure to see German artist Daniel Richter’s first New York
solo show with GRIMM this holiday season. Richter plays with the
boundary between the abstract and the figurative in his large-scale
canvases. These dynamic works evoke a sense of figures in conflict
while at the same time captivating the viewer through the vibrant
use of color.

Location: GRIMM, 202 Bowery
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Neha Jambhekar

Through Saturday, January
11

12. “Sarah Palmer: Outs and Ins” at
Mrs.

If you missed Mrs.’s booth at
NADA Miami this year, head over to its permanent space in Maspeth
to drink in the photo-based work of 2011 Aperture Portfolio Prize
winner Sarah Palmer. Palmer makes each of her visually rich pieces
in camera by meticulously layering images from source materials as
disparate as decades-old Sears catalogs, rape-prevention manuals,
and a rare 17th-century manuscript combining actual zoology with a
taxonomy of imagined beasts. The results adorn dye-sublimation
prints on aluminum, silk tapestries, and even artist-designed
wallpaper. Each piece seems to tell a lush yet unsettling
meta-narrative about human vulnerability, and none quite look like
traditional photography.  

Location: Mrs., 60–40 56th Drive, Maspeth,
New York
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Friday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.;
Saturday, noon–5 p.m.

—Tim Schneider

Through Saturday, January
11

13.
“Double Trouble: February James & John
Rivas” at ross+kramer
gallery

Curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah,
the senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, this
exhibition includes both new individual as well as collaborative
works by James and John Rivas, two artists known for
punch-to-the-gut figurative works exploring trauma and identity.
Their approaches are visually distinct, however, with Newark-based
Rivas operating with energetic brushstrokes, and often
incorporating three-dimensional elements into his canvases, while
James’s tender watercolor portraits possess a dreamy sense of
melancholy. A special feature of the exhibition are a series of
works on paper that the artists created collaboratively by sending
them back and forth in the mail. 

Location: ross+kramer
gallery, 14 East 63rd
Street

Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Saturday,  11 a.m.–6
p.m.

—Katie White

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