Editors’ Picks: 11 Virtual Art Events Not to Miss This Week, From a Live Talk With Jerry Saltz to an Online Print Art Fair

by admin

May 11, 2020

artnet

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, May
12

Jerry Saltz and Andrew Goldstein. Photo courtesy of Artnet News.

Jerry Saltz and Andrew Goldstein. Photo
courtesy of Artnet News.

1. “Online Q&A: Art Critic
Jerry Saltz and Andrew Goldstein in Conversation” at the
National Arts Club

Join Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Jerry Saltz and Artnet
News’s own editor-in-chief, Andrew Goldstein, for a conversation
about Saltz’s new book, How to Be an Artist, and a
discussion about why now may be both the best and worst of times
for those looking to hone their creative chops. The discussion on
Zoom is presented by the National Arts Club and any donation will
benefit the NAC Artist Fellows program, which works to develop the
careers of up-and-coming artists.

Price: Free with registration and suggested
donation
Time: 3 p.m.–4 p.m.

—Julia Halperin

Chinese contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei in New York in 2017. Photo: Giles Clarke/Getty Images.

Chinese contemporary artist and activist
Ai Weiwei in New York in 2017. Photo: Giles Clarke/Getty
Images.

2. “Art Matters @ Home: Ai
Weiwei” at Phillips

Phillips has tapped its senior advisor, retired Brooklyn Museum
director Arnold Lehman, to host a new conversation series with art
world luminaries. He’s spoken with artist Deborah Kass and
gallerist Marianne Boesky, and ext up is Ai Weiwei, who’ll talk
about his new film about the 2015 Rohingya refugee crisis in
Myanmar, as well as his time in detention and living in New York’s
East Village in the 1980s.

Price: Free
Time: Released at 12 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Courtesy of the Whitney Museum of
American Art.

3. “Art History From Home: Me, Myself, and I” at the
Whitney Museum of American Art

The quarantine selfie is but the
newest genre of self-portraiture to emerge in our contemporary age.
In this moderated chat, Janine DeFeo, a teaching fellow at the Whitney,
will explore how artists including Ana Mendieta, Paul Mpagi Sepuya,
and Adrian Piper have used self-portraiture as a means for
expression from the isolated spaces of their homes or studios.
Attendees are encouraged to submit questions via the chat
function.

Price: Free
Time: 6
p.m.

—Katie White

Wednesday, May
13

Stanya Kahn, still from <i>No Go Backs</i>, 2020. Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles.

Stanya Kahn, still from No Go
Backs (2020). Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los
Angeles.

4. “Stanya Kahn in
Conversation” at the Wexner Center for the Arts

Multidisciplinary artist Stanya Kahn will discuss her latest
short film, No Go Backs, with Wexner Center curators
Lucy Zimmerman and Jennifer Lange in conjunction with the artist’s
(now-paused) exhibition at the institution. The dreamlike,
dialogue-free film—which is available for free online viewing
through May 15 via Kahn’s dealer, Susanne Vielmetter—follows two
teenagers as they leave behind a collapsing civilization to trek
into the California wilderness, where they attempt to forge a new
life with others they encounter along the way. Shot on 16mm film
and scored by original music from artists including super-producer
Brian Eno, the late emo-trap pioneer Lil Peep, and Kahn
herself, No Go Backs bridges the faded past and
the tenuous present in search of a better future.

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

—Tim Schneider

Bisa Butler and one of her artworks. Photo courtesy of the Museum of the African Diaspora.

Bisa Butler and one of her artworks.
Photo courtesy of the Museum of the African Diaspora.

5. “In the Artist’s Studio:
Bisa Butler” at the Museum of the African Diaspora

Bisa Butler will offer a glimpse into her studio, where she
creates her vibrant textile works, in a chat on Zoom hosted by the
Museum of the African Diaspora and Claire Oliver Gallery in Harlem.
“I use West African wax printed fabric, kente cloth, and Dutch wax
prints to communicate that all of my figures are of African
descent,” says the New Jersey-based artist.

Price: Free
Time: 1 p.m.–2 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Wednesday, May 13—Saturday,
June 13

Alex Katz, <i>Forest Woodcut</i> (2008) Photo Credit: Betsy Senior Fine Art

Alex Katz, Forest Woodcut (2008).
Photo: Betsy Senior Fine Art.

6. The International Fine Print Dealers Association’s
Virtual Fair

The IFPDA (International Fine Print Dealers
Association) will launch a one-month-long online fair from May 13
to June 13. The association invited all 150 members to
participate, and waived all exhibitor fees in response to the
current economic and health crises. The fair was
originally scheduled to be held at the Javits Center in New
York. The nonprofit association represents a vetted community of
galleries and publishers of contemporary editions in 12 countries.
The IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair is the largest international art fair
celebrating more than 500 years of printmaking, from the 16th
century to new editions by today’s best-known artists.

Price: Free
Time: Open daily, at all times

—Eileen Kinsella

Thursday, May
14

KC Crow Maddux,
Untitled (2020). Courtesy of Paradice Palase.

7. “Virtual Artist Talk with KC Crow Maddux” at Paradice Palase

The Brooklyn-based emerging artist initiative Paradice Palace is
hosting an online talk with artist KC Crow Maddux to accompany
their virtual exhibition, Superimpose, which opens on
May 14. Maddux’s work consists of an exploration of the
“traditional” cis-masculine body in western culture and attempts to
show an alternate side of this view. The talk will take place on
Zoom and can be joined with the ID 732-1090-9727.

Price: Free
Time: 5 p.m.–5:45p.m.

—Neha Jambhekar

Courtesy of the Francis Young Tang
Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College.

8. “Tang Live: Senior Thesis
Celebration” at the Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art
Gallery at Skidmore College

In lieu of having a 2020 senior thesis exhibition at the Tang
Teaching Museum, digital media associate Fiona McLaughlin is
hosting a live takeover for the graduating students on the museum’s
Instagram, at @tangteachingmusuem. The event will feature short
studio visits with seniors in various disciplines such as ceramics,
communication design, drawing, painting, and beyond.

Price: Free
Time: 7 p.m.

—Neha Jambhekar

Thursday, May 14—May
27

9. “Screening of Tony
Orrico’s Leveraging sound from sensation with
every in and out breath until the heart becomes a tender
object” at signs & symbols
In this 20-minute
video, artist Tony Orrico manipulates the sound of his own breath
to create a composition of sorts for the audience, as well as a
heightened emotional state within himself. The screening is part of
the gallery’s series of two-week, online-only video exhibitions
during lockdown. The gallery has also shifted much of its sales
online, too, with a series of limited editions and other projects
from gallery artists, including two new special editions by the
late performance pioneer Ulay, the proceeds of which will support
the gallery, the Ulay Foundation, and the Bowery Mission.

Price: Free, for permission
contact info@signsandsymbols.art

Time: 6 p.m.

—Nan Stewert

Thursday, May 14–Thursday,
May 28

Pair of Chinese Porcelain Turquoise Glazed Vases, early 18th century. Photo courtesy of Chait.

Pair of Chinese porcelain turquoise
glazed vases, early 18th century. Photo courtesy of Chait.

10. “The Philadelphia
Show”

The 58th edition of the Philadelphia Show brings its antique
offerings online, with a wide range of art, furniture, jewelry,
design, and decorative objects. The plan is to start with 1,500
works on offer, and to add new inventory to the fair website each
day as collectors snap up treasures like a Tiffany Studios leaded
glass dragonfly lamp from Lillian Nassau or a gorgeously painted
dower chest likely made in Berks Country, Pennsylvania, between
1780 and 1800, from Olde Hope Antiques.

Price: Free
Time: Open daily, at all times

—Nan Stewert

Saturday, May
16

SassyBlack. Photo by Texas Isaiah.

11. “AFTERGLOW: Celebrating the
Class of 2020” at Cornish College of the Arts

Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts is making the best of a
bad situation with a virtual commencement
ceremony, followed by an Instagram live concert titled
AFTERGLOW. Alumni SassyBlack, Chong the Nomad, Gabrielle Friedman,
and Mary Lambert will perform.

Price: Free
Time: 1 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

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