Editors’ Picks: 14 Events For Your Virtual Art Calendar This Week

Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting,
and thought-provoking, shows, screenings, and events. In light of
the global health crisis, we are currently highlighting events and
exhibitions available digitally. See our picks from around the
world below. (Times are all EST unless otherwise noted.)

Tuesday, April
28

1. “A Conversation with
Christine Coulson, Author of Metropolitan Stories” at the
National Arts Club

Author Christine Coulson, a 25-year veteran of New York’s
Metropolitan Museum of Art—she left to write full-time last
year—will speak Glenn Raucher about her whimsical
novel, Metropolitan Stories, inspired by
behind-the-scenes goings on at the institution. It’s a beautiful
little book that does justice to the museum’s encyclopedic
collection in all sorts of unexpected ways.

Price: Free with registration
Time: 7 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

2. “ART MATTERS@home: A Conversation Between Deborah
Kass and Arnold Lehman” at Phillips

Are you experiencing Zoom fatigue? The cure, I think, is
limiting your video intake to conversations among people with a
healthy dose of perspective. And that certainly applies to the
inaugural episode of “ART MATTERS@home,” a digital adaptation of a
discussion series helmed by Phillips senior advisor Arnold Lehman.
The series kicks off Tuesday with a 30-minute interview with wise
and outspoken artist Deborah Kass. The interviews will be available
as podcasts on Phillips’s website (and wherever you get your
podcasts) and as Zoom video interviews on Phillips’s Facebook.
Future episodes will feature artists Ai Weiwei, Judy Chicago, and
Lee Quiñones, as well as curator Eugenie Tsai.

Price: Free
Time: From 12 p.m. onward

—Julia Halperin

How do you continue to communicate and make art while under
government censorship? Well, in the OG days of social distancing,
artists in Latin America were able to circumvent authoritarian
restrictions by using the postal service to keep in touch and share
experimental art works on an international scale. From the 1960s
through the 90’s artists were able to continue their practice in
dire circumstances. As part of the “Curated Conversations” program
at the Blanton, curators Vanessa Davidson and Florencia
Bazzano will discuss how the medium helped transmit the message. As
a special bonus, the museum has a suggested cocktail in keeping
with the theme for viewers to enjoy (the recipe is on the website).

Price: Free with registration
Time: 5 p.m.

—Caroline Goldstein

4. “Death Cafe: Hot Pot
Edition” at BRIC and Green-Wood Cemetery

Green-Wood Cemetery began holding Death Café gatherings, a
global trend offering opportunities to partake in informal
discussions about death and dying, in 2017. Now, the café has done
virtual, taking the cemetery’s current art show, “Death Becomes
Her,” curated with BRIC, as inspiration. Exhibition artist Heidi
Lau will start things off by talking about her practice and the
significance of hot pot in Chinese culture, where it is both a meal
and a social activity. She’s also provided a selection of hot pot
recipes, including a bootleg quarantine edition made from instant
ramen seasoning, should you wish to dine in accordance with the
evening’s theme.

Price: Free with registration
Time: 5:30 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

5. “To Be a Witness: Amy
Sherald in Conversation With Massimiliano Gioni” at the New
Museum

Since being selected to paint then-First Lady Michelle Obama’s official
portrait just a few years ago, Amy Sherald has become
known as one of the most important painters working in America
today. Sherald will join New Museum artistic director Massimiliano
Gioni online to discuss her portraiture as it relates to the act
and responsibility of witnessing—a subject that feels increasingly
relevant in the face of fake news, filter bubbles, and denied
justice.

Price: Free with RSVP
Time: 7 p.m.

—Tim Schneider

Wednesday, April
29

6. “Remake the Model” at the Art Funders Forum

The mission of the Art Funders Forum, launched last December
during Art Basel Miami Beach to create a more sustainable future
when it comes to funding in the arts, is more timely then ever as
institutions around the world face an uncertain financial future in
light of extended coronavirus closures. This Zoom conversation with
Patton Hindle, head of arts at Kickstarter; Jennie Lamensdorf, of
the Facebook art department; artist Steve Locke; and Holly
Shen, deputy director of the San Jose Museum of Art will consider
the ways in which technology can help the cultural sector weather
the current economic crisis.

Price: Free with registration
Time: 1 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

7. “Artnet News Watercooler
Chat: How Can Art Dealers Survive the COVID-19 Crisis?” at
tk

The Artnet News Watercooler Chat is back for its second edition,
which sees our executive editor Julia Halperin and our senior
market Editor Eileen Kinsella chat with Heather Hubbs,
executive director of the New Art Dealers Alliance. They’ll discuss
the challenges galleries face as they look to rebound from the
coronavirus, and how art dealers are looking to survive this
difficult time.

Price: Free
Time: 4 p.m.–4:45 p.m.

—Tatiana Berg

Thursday, April 30

8. “Art in Isolation” at the Courtauld Institute of Art

The Courtauld Institute of Art
has launched a month-long program of weekly talks called Open
Courtauld Hour. The first event is called Art in Isolation, in
which the Courtauld’s head of research Alixe Bovey will lead a
discussion about why art matters in quarantine. She will speak with
the Courtauld Gallery’s deputy head Barnaby Wright, the National
Gallery’s curator of Italian painting, Caroline Campbell, and the
cofounder of Underpinning, Lorraine Smith. It will also feature a
poetic reinterpretation of Paul Cézanne’s “Montagne Sainte-Victoire
with Large Pine” by the poet Shagufta K. Iqbal.

Price: Free
with registration
Time: 8:05 p.m. GMT (3:05 p.m. EST)

—Naomi Rea

9. “In Conversation: Paul
Mpagi Sepuya and Julia Bryan-Wilson” co-hosted by McEvoy Foundation for the Arts and
University of California,
Berkeley

Photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya joins Julia Bryan-Wilson,
professor of modern and contemporary art at University of
California, Berkeley, for a conversation about his practice and his
work on display in McEvoy Foundation for the Arts’ recent
exhibition “Orlando.”

Price: Free with registration
Time: 6 p.m.–7 p.m. PST

—Eileen Kinsella

10. Christie’s Education Presents a Conversation on the
Sale “Andy Warhol: Better Days” at Christie’s

Christie’s presents a conversation about “Andy Warhol: Better
Days,” an online sale to support the Warhol Foundation for the
Visual Art’s recently announced emergency relief fund for artists,
artist-centered organizations, and the creation of new work and
projects. Though Warhol is best known for his paintings, he was
also a prolific photographer, and the sale aims to show a different
side of his work. Participants include: Allison Immergut, a junior
specialist in the auction house’s postwar and contemporary art
department, and Michael Hermann, director of licensing at the Andy
Warhol Foundation.

Price: Free with registration
Time: 5 p.m.

—Eileen Kinsella

Thursday, April 30–Sunday,
May 3

11. Common Field
Convening

Common Field, which looks to support and advocate for artists by
building a network, had to move its 2020 Convening Online.
Programming kicked off last weekend, but you can still catch Zoom
sessions like “Houston, We Have a Problem: Confronting Racism in
the Arts” with the Center for the Healing of Racism and the Rothko
Chapel, and “Towards a Fossil Free Future.”

Price: Free with registration
Time: Times vary

—Sarah Cascone

Friday, May
1 

12. “Cocktails
with a Curator” at the Frick Collection

In this delightful new series,
the Frick pairs a fascinating cocktail with the work from the
collection (the drink recipes are posted on their website in
advance, with non-alcoholic options, too). Last week a Pink Gin met
with Anthony Van Dyck’s Sir John Suckling, while this week
Gin and Dubonnet is the suggested accompaniment to John Constable’s
White Horse. While you sip on your concoction, a Frick
curator dives deep into the fascinating stories behind that week’s
work. The first three episodes were hosted by chief curator Xavier
F. Salomon, and are very much worth streaming from YouTube if you
missed them (Salomon has a voice made for a career in audio). This
week, curator Aimee Ng takes the stage. By the end of this
quarantine we might all be slightly soused experts on the
collection. 

Price: Free
Time: 5 p.m.

– Katie White

Friday, May 1–Saturday, May
30

13. “Tim Youd: The Tunnel Retyped” at the
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

For Tim Youd’s ongoing “100 Novels” series, the artist retypes
famous novels on a single sheet of paper, using the same type of
typewriter that the author would have used to compose the original.
The creation of each work is a performance art piece unto itself,
most recently carried out at the Armory Show in New York (which was
still only last month, believe it or not). Now, forced to shelter
in place at home in Los Angeles, Youd is retyping his 67th novel,
William Gass’s 650-page novel The Tunnel, from
self-isolation in his garage, a process he expects will last the
entire month. (Which is actually nothing compared to the 26 years
it took Gass to write the original.) The artist’s gallery, Cristin
Tierney, and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, will livestream
each and every keystroke as Youd attempts to metaphorically tunnel
his way to freedom by completing this monumental task.

Price: Free
Time: 12 p.m.–5 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Saturday, May
2

14. “Artmaking From Home: DIY
Pottery” at the Whitney Museum of American Art

If self-isolation has got you in a crafty mood, tune in for this
pottery class hosted by the Whitney. Artist Stina Puotinen will
teach you how to make clay from the everyday household materials of
flour, cornstarch, salt, and water. She’ll then use works in the
museum collection by Betty Woodman and Arlene Shechet as a jumping
off point in making handmade sculptures.

Price: Free with registration
Time: 3 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

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