Editors’ Picks: 8 Things Not to Miss in the Virtual Art World This Week

Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting,
and thought-provoking, shows, screenings, and events. This week, in
light of the global health crisis, we are highlighting events and
exhibitions available digitally. See our picks from around the
world below.

Monday, March
16

1. Livestreaming Panel:
Artists In a Time of Global Pandemic at Howlround Theatre
Commons

It is a particularly scary time to be an artist right now—most
are freelance workers with no health insurance or sick pay. That’s
why Howlround Theatre Commons has organized a panel of experts
to discuss how COVID-19 is having an impact on freelance artists
from all disciplines, and where they can find support. Listen in
for tips about how to take your work virtual, how to seek out
emergency funding, and how to save smartly in a time of crisis.
Panelists include Mark Rossier (director of grants at the New
York Foundation for the Arts) and Avita Delerme (senior counsel at
The Public Theater), among many others. The event will be
livestreamed with ASL and captions.

Time: 8 p.m. EST

—Julia Halperin

Through Saturday, March
28

2. “Robert Morris: Voice 1974” at Castelli
Gallery 

The physical exhibition, which is
open by appointment only, re-stages one of the artist’s rarely
presented audio installations along with preparatory drawings and
diagrams. By making sound a key element in Voice, the
artist “challenges the expectation that a work of art must be
material, visual, and actively created by the artist,” according to
a statement. The gallery is also presenting video of a recent panel
discussion of the show, moderated by Pepe Karmel with Mónica Amor,
Christophe Cherix, and James Meyer.

Location: Castelli Gallery, 25 West 40th
Street, New York
Price: Free
Time: The gallery is open by appointment only.
Panel discussion available on the Events page.

—Eileen
Kinsella

Opening Wednesday, March
18

3. Art Basel Online Viewing
Rooms VIP Preview

In February, after more than a month of concerned letters from
exhibitors and collectors, Art Basel cancelled its Hong Kong fair
due to the novel respiratory illness that had ravaged the region
for months. While a major disappointment for the fair’s parent
company, it was seen as a necessary step, and one that could be
offset with alternative buying platforms. Enter the Online Viewing Rooms, a
series of portals accessible from your living
room that would open the same week the Hong Kong fair was
supposed to take place, with the galleries offering the exact same
works they were had been planning to bring. Basel’s directors could
not have imagined that their timing would be so tragically
relevant: when the viewing rooms open to VIPs Wednesday, most of
the collecting world will be in self-quarantine, and even if if
they might not be in the mood for art shopping, they might be
thirsty for a some sense of normalcy.

Time: Beginning 6 a.m.
EST

—Nate Freeman

Thursday, March
19–Saturday, April 25

4. “Ella Walker: Cosmati Floor and Wax
Fruit” at Huxley-Parlour 

A medieval, carnivalesque
atmosphere suffuses the canvases of London-based painter Ella
Walker. Rich with color and historical references—from
Chaucer’s The Wife of
Bath to
Commedia
dell’arte—these images
collapse contemporary time into long-ago histories that seem
bizarrely relevant today. See the suite of intriguing work online,
here.

Time: 24/7

— Katie White

Through Saturday, April
4

5. “Invisible City:
Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-Garde” at University of
the Arts, Philadelphia 

In conjunction with a physical exhibition that opened across
four campus buildings on January 20, the University of the Arts has
created a rich online resource that digs deeper into the story of
Philadelphia’s cutting-edge contributions to visual art, music,
architecture, and other disciplines between the years 1956 and
1976. In addition to images of the works themselves, the
institution has compiled a dynamic chronology of events in Philly’s
avant-garde community during that span, as well as more than a
dozen video interviews with key
players in the scene. Exploring any or all of the above gives new
insights and fresh context to a city that, as the exhibition’s
title indicates, is too often overlooked in the development of
postwar American art.

Time: 24/7

—Tim Schneider

Through Sunday, April
19

6. “Srijon Chowdhury” at Foxy Production

Srijon Chowdhury’s first solo show in New York opened at Foxy
Production during Armory Week, and despite the closures of
galleries across the city, it was enough of a highlight that
it’s worth catching it on the gallery website. Born in Dhaka,
Bangladesh, Chowdhury’s saturated paintings of flowers are often
framed with botanical or architectural elements. The result
resembles religious tableaus or prayer cards, while the intensity
in which Chowdhury applies color gives the canvas an almost
fluorescent look. “Color affects a person viscerally and quickly,”
the artist has said. “I think about the chakras which begins with
crimson that roots us to this reality and this body.” Also included
in the exhibition are portraits and scenes from parenthood and an
enormous 16-foot-wide oil painting titled Pale
Rider.

Time: 24/7

—Cristina Cruz

Through Sunday, April
26

7. “Aki Kuroda: Happy Boy in
Manhattan” at Richard Taittinger 

Aki Kuroda (1944–) has never had a solo show in New York before,
but he’s renowned in his native Japan, where he became the
youngest artist to get his own exhibition at Tokyo’s National
Museum of Modern Art, in 1993. The curator, Yoyo Maeght has
been friends with Kuroda for 40 years, since Kuroda’s first
exhibition in France in 1980. The gallery is currently closed, but
you can enjoy a virtual walk-through of
the show from Eazel.

Time: 24/7

—Sarah Cascone

March 15, 2020-ongoing

8. “Savage Beauty” at Galway 2020 European Capital
of Culture 

A rural stretch of Ireland’s Connemara mountains were meant to
be the site of “the largest site-specific light artwork ever
created” as part of Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture
program, and while the live event was cancelled, the show lives on
thanks to the internet. Flemish artist Kari Kola’s installation is
comprised of 20 kilometers worth of cables attached to 1,000
lanterns powered by some 16 generators, many of which were put into
position via helicopter. Oscar Wilde once referred to the rugged
terrain of Connemara as a “savage beauty,” inspiring the work’s
title, and as pubs and bars close in Ireland (and far beyond) due
to the global health crisis, we can all toast St. Patricks Day
remotely while we take in the luminous
video.

Time: 24/7

—Caroline Goldstein

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