Editors’ Picks: 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, March
10

1. “Katherine Bradford:
Answering The Most Often Asked Questions About Her Work” at the
New York Studio School

Painter Katherine Bradford, who mixes abstract
and figurative elements in her colorful paintings, is giving a talk
at the New York Studio School.

Location: New York Studio School, 8 West
8th Street
Price: Free
Time: 6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Tuesday, March 10–Sunday,
April 5, 2020

2. “Robert Indiana: LOVE is in the
Air” at Galerie
Gmurzynska

Having mounted several major exhibitions of the artist’s work,
now the gallery is presenting a career-spanning show of
notable and rarely seen pieces, ranging from 1959 to 2007 and
highlighting Indiana’s expansive and multi-faceted career. The
gallery was instrumental in lending significant works to “Beyond
Love,” the seminal 2013 exhibition at the Whitney Museum, curated
by Barbara Haskell.

Location: Galerie Gmurzynska, 3 East 78th
Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Eileen Kinsella

Wednesday, March 11–Sunday,
April 19

3. “Jennifer Bolande: The Composition of Decomposition” at
Magenta Plains

The press release for Jennifer Bolande’s upcoming show reads
simply “News becomes history. Beneath the surface things assume a
different kind of order.” These facts are taken literally in
Bolande’s work The Composition of Decomposition opening at
Magenta Plains, marking her first solo show in New York since 2008.
Newspapers are the physical material that make up the bulk of
Bolande’s show. In the work Image Tomb, for example, she
cut through a two-year stack of New York
Times newspapers, “excavating” the printed matter, and
revealing hidden images and words beneath the front page—in this
case, a historical photograph of skeletal remains found in London.
Bolande’s decades-long practice probes how news becomes history and
the ever-increasing speed of that process with internet outlets
proliferating.

Location: Magenta Plains, 94 Allen Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Caroline Goldstein

4. “The City Within: Brooklyn Photographs by Alex
Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb” at the Museum of the City of New
York

Brooklyn, before it became part of New York, was the country’s
fourth biggest city all on its own. After living in the borough for
20 years, artists Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb began a new
photography series documenting Kings County in its entirety in
2014. The MCNY has pared down the duo’s images to a selection of
just over 30 images that illustrate its lasting diversity and
concerns of immigration, nature, and community.

Location: Museum of the City of New York,
1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Price: Suggested admission, $18
Time: Open daily, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Nan Stewert

Thursday, March
12–Thursday, March 19

5. Asia Week New York

Despite the growing coronavirus pandemic, and the postponement
of the Asia Week sales at Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Bonhams, Heritage,
and Doyle until mid June, Asia Week New York touches down on
Thursday. In tow are 34 international dealers (down from 48 at last
year’s 10th anniversary edition) specializing in Asian art, from
ancient to contemporary, and from the Himalayas to Japan. New
York’s Kang Collection is highlighting a blue and white
18th-century Korean dragon jar,
recently snapped up for $75,000 at Sotheby’s New York, while Akar
Prakar of New Dehli brings recent work by Ganesh Haloi, who paints
gouache on handmade Nepali paper.

There are fewer events than in years past. Thanks to COVID-19
concerns, for instance, the Rubin Museum has cancelled its annual
party. Still, there’s a 75th anniversary gala
at Staten Island’s Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art on Friday. Other
exhibitions across the metropolitan area include “The Private World of
Surimono” at the Yale University Art Gallery in Connecticut and
“MINHWA & minhwa: Korean Folk Paintings in Dialogue with the
Contemporary” at the Korean Cultural Center New
York—although the opening reception for the show has been
cancelled.

Location: Various galleries on the Upper East
Side and other institutions across the city
Price: Free
Time: Hours vary by venue

—Sarah Cascone

Thursday, March
12–Wednesday, April 8

6. “Overwrite” at Greene
Naftali

This group exhibition unites three artists concerned with
arguably the central tension of 21st-century life in the developed
world: How exactly do we reconcile humanity’s finite capacities for
engagement with the ever-rising tides of information (and
expectation) produced by our digitally networked, always-on
lifestyle? Cory Arcangel, Tony Conrad, and Jacqueline Humphries
suss out answers through an array of new and traditional media,
each hinting at possibilities for respite, or at least endurance,
in the nonstop blitz that is the attention economy.

Location: Greene Naftali, 508 West 26th
Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Tim Schneider

Through Sunday, March
15

7. “Waiting for Omar Gatlato:
Contemporary Art from Algeria and its Diaspora” at the Wallach
Art Gallery, Columbia University

This look at contemporary Algerian art from 26 artists takes its
title from a 1979 publication about early Algerian film that
references both Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for
Godot and Merzak Allouache’s Algerian film Omar
Gatlato (1976). The exhibition considers how Algeria’s unique
history and cultural identity—its long colonial relationship with
France, its minority community of non-Arab Muslim Berbers, and the
early rise of militant Islam in the 1990s—has effected its artists
and their cultural production.

Location: The Wallach Art Gallery, Lenfest
Center for the Arts, Columbia University, 615 West 129th
Street
Price: Free
Time: Wednesday and Friday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m.;
Thursday 12 p.m.–8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Tanner West

Sunday, March 15–Sunday, June
14

8. “Bisa Butler: Portraits” at the Katonah Museum of Art

It’s the first museum solo for Bisa Butler, whose incredible
quilted portraits look more akin to oil paintings than handmade
bedspreads, blurring the divide between craft and high art. The
African American artist, drawing on her Ghananian heritage and
African textiles, is something of an heir to Faith Ringgold,
celebrating an artform traditionally viewed as women’s work. Her
compositions, based on historical photographs, are also on view at
a solo show, “The Storm, the Whirlwind
and the Earthquake,” at Claire Oliver Gallery’s new Harlem
flagship through April 25.

Location: Katonah Museum, 134 Jay Street,
Katonah, New York
Price: $5 general admission
Time: Sunday, 12 p.m.–5 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Through Sunday, April
19

9. “Haley Josephs: Paintings and Drawings for
Childhood’s End” at Jack
Barrett

For her second solo show at Jack
Barrett, Haley Josephs zeros in on that brief moment when girlhood
ends and womanhood begins. It’s a period when both death and birth
co-exist, and as such, Josephs’s imagery tends toward the
allegorical. It’s also phantasmic and even a little bit unsettling:
one child is engulfed in flames while another is transfigured into
a yawning flower. The paintings are hung on blotchy, pastel-pink
walls, which the artist painted herself using sanitary
pads.

Location: Jack
Barrett, 173 Henry Street
Price: Free
Time: Wednesday–Sunday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m.

—Taylor
Dafoe 

Through Sunday, April
26 

10. “Farah Al Qasimi: Playhouse” at Helena
Anrather 

Call it theater of the everyday.
Photographer Farah Al Qasimi has a touch for capturing moments from
daily life that hint at everyday extravagance. “Playhouse” is an
apt title for an exhibition; the images are like a fun-house mirror
of reality filled with pastel domestic interiors, glamorous women
in headscarves, and intricately carved melon. Her works are also
currently on view in “Back
and Forth Disco” a Public Art Fund exhibition at bus shelters
throughout the city. 

Location: Helena
Anrather, 28 Elizabeth Street

Price: Free

Time: Wednesday–Sunday,
12 p.m.–6 p.m.

—Katie
White 

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