Editors’ Picks: 14 Things Not to Miss in the Virtual Art World This Week From Art History Happy Hour at the Brooklyn Museum to Adult Coloring Night

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.)

Monday, May 18—Monday, June
1

1.”New York We Love You”: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Benefit
Auction

This online benefit auction includes artworks by New
York City-based artists who are part of the LMCC community,
including Camille Henrot, Julie Mehretu, Richard Mosse, Vik
Muniz, Yoko Ono, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Arlene Shechet, and
others. Proceeds from the auction will directly support LMCC’s
initiatives to sustain the arts community and the work and
livelihood of their artists.

Price: Free to browse
Time: Open daily at all times

—Eileen Kinsella

Tuesday, May
19

2. Film Premiere and Conversation with Jes
Fan 

Art21 is debuting the latest installment in the “New York Close
Up” series with the artist Jes Fan ahead of the public release on
May 20. The video, titled Jes Fan: Infectious Beauty homes
in on the artist’s practice of exploring how biology and race are
linked across various cultures using glass, silicon, and other
biological materials. Following the video, Fan will chat with
curator Danielle Brock in a live Q&A on Zoom.

Price: Free with registration
Time: 12 p.m.

—Caroline Goldstein

3. “Behind Closed Doors” at
the Museum of Art and Design

New York’s Museum of Art and Design is offering culture vultures
a valuable opportunity to snoop on renowned collectors. Each week
as part of an expanded multimedia program, the museum is teaming up
with an art and design collector to offer tours to the public over
Zoom. This week’s takes you inside the home of Frederick Fisher, an
architect and former chairman of the environmental design
department at Otis College of Art and Design. What better way to
spend your lunch break than getting design inspiration from a
professional? To register, email patrons@madmuseum.org.

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

—Julia Halperin

Wednesday, May
20

4.”#VDHMHomeStories” Instagram Live with
Hans-Ulrich Obrist hosted by Vitra Design Museum

Should there be a “new normal,” and how will artistic production
change after the pandemic is over? Switzerland’s Vitra Design
Museum director Mateo Kries and Hans-Ulrich Obrist will be on
Instagram Live to discuss how the art scene is reacting to the
coronavirus crisis and to chat about the future of museums and
galleries. Obrist will also talk about the Serpentine’s current
exhibition “Cambio” by the design duo Formafantasma.

Price: 
Time: 1:30 p.m.

—Kate Brown

Thursday, May
21

5. “Art History From Home: Asian American Perspectives” at
the Whitney Museum of American Art

This talk by Xin Wang, a Whitney teaching fellow and Ph.D
candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York
University, looks at works in the museum’s collection that focus on
or explore Asian American identity. Among the artists to be
discussed are Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ching Ho Cheng, Martin Wong,
and An-My Lê.

Price: Free with registration
Time: 12 p.m.–12:30 p.m.

—Nan Stewert

6. “Endings. (Soma)tic Poetry
Rituals. CACONRAD” at RIBOCA2

Acclaimed poet CAConrad is hosting a live reading and talk for
RIBOCA2, the second Riga Biennale that was set to take place in
Riga, Latvia. The show has now moved online into a film format.
This particular iteration of CAConrad’s ongoing poetry rituals will
ask how we can transform the contemporary moment, one of
significant shifts in ideas, systems, and ways of being, into a
time of renewal and new beginnings. Those who are interested in
attending are asked to prepare for the talk by
reading (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals:
The Basics in 3 Parts.

Price: Free with registration
Time: 12 p.m.

– Kate Brown

7. “Virtual Adult Coloring Night and Conversation” at
ColorATL

For anyone in the 18-and-up
crowd who felt a little pang of envy after seeing the
handiwork of
several Artnet-adjacent kids unleashed on MoMA’s coloring
book, mark your
calendars for this Thursday. That evening, Atlanta-based art
nonprofits Atlanta Contemporary and ColorATL will present a
live-streamed community coloring-book night for grown-ups, centered
on the latter organization’s freely
downloadable, artist-created pages. The program will also
include a conversation between ColorATL’s team and participating
artists Charmaine Minniefield, Monica Alexander, Killamari, and
Matthew Evans. (And if you enjoy the event, consider buying one of
ColorATL’s coloring books, too. For every purchase, the
organization will donate a copy to an Atlanta-area medical
facility.) 

Price: Free with RSVP
Time: 6 p.m.–8 p.m.

—Tim Schneider

8. “Inside Christie’s Spring
Photography Sale: A Conversation with Darius Himes” at
Christie’s

Join a free Zoom conversation between
Himes, who is international head of the photographs department and
Marisa Kayyem, director of continuing education at Christie’s. They
will discuss the auction house’s upcoming Spring photography sale. Both will
share insight and opinion about select works, ranging from the
1940s rare collaboration between Anni Albers and Nancy Newhall
created at Black Mountain College, to Alison Rossiter’s
contemporary abstractions made with expired photo paper. Himes will
address the themes, artists, and collections of this sale, which
ranges from the classic to the contemporary. A Q&A follows the
conversation.

Price: Free
with RSVP
Time: 5 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

—Eileen Kinsella

9. “Envisioning a Future, Seizing the
Now” at the Association of Art Museum Curators

Arts leaders will discuss the
big picture issues facing the art world today in this webinar. They
will talk about current pain points, new collaborations, and
fostering a better community within the arts.

Speakers include Maureen Bray,
the executive director of Art Dealers Association of America, Emil
J. Kang, the arts and cultural heritage program director at the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Lauren Shadford, the executive
director of Voices in Contemporary Art, and Pauline Willis, the
director and chief executive at the American Federation of
Arts. 

The discussion will be moderated
by Paula Gangopadhyay, the deputy director for museum services at
the Institute of Museum and Library services.

Price: Free with registration
Time: 2 p.m.–3:15 p.m.

—Naomi Rea

10. “Keep for Old Memories” at Young Space

For anyone that has been using the quarantine to build their art
collection by supporting their favorite artists, this is the event
for you! Emerging artists platform Young Space is presenting an
online selection of 24 artists from around the world in a show
titled “Keep for Old Memories,” co-curated with Celine Mo of
Victori+Mo. According to Kate Mothes, founder of Young Space,
“[a]ll of the artists in some way address the accumulation of
history, memory and mythology, and as an exhibition it aims to
reflect how the time we’re in is ultimately historical and will be
mythologized in years to come.” This exhibition is also the start
of Young Space Views, a platform that will serve as an ongoing
online gallery. The sale will go live at 12 p.m. on Thursday with
one work from each of the 24 artists with more works added later.
You can follow the sale on their Instagram account at @yngspc.

Price: Free
Time: 12 p.m.

—Neha Jambhekar

11. “Art History Happy Hour”
at the Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum is reimagining its popular art history happy
hour event for the new age of online events. The first virtual
edition kicks off with Joan Cummins, the senior curator for Asian
Art, on how Kitagawa Utamaro’s Courtesans Strolling
Beneath Cherry Trees Before the Daikokuya Teahouse is
more than just a beautiful springtime scene. Pour yourself a glass
of sake or Sapporo as she reveals what the triptych has to say
about the role of gender and commerce in late 18th-century
Japan.

Price: Free
Time: 6 p.m.–6:30 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Friday, May
22

12. Interview with Cristina Camacho on Instagram
Live with Praxis

With Instagram Live becoming the new normal (for every account
and their mom’s), it’s understandable to be hesitant when it comes
which ones you want to join in on. Take my word for it that Praxis’
weekly artist interviews on Instagram Live are worth your while.
Occurring each Friday between 4 and 5 pm, Justina Gomez
Romero, Sales and Gallery Manager at New York’s Praxis Gallery,
leads a discussion with the gallery’s artists and takes questions
from those “tuning in.” This week will be an interview with
Colombian artist Cristina Camacho. With a glass of wine, this is
the perfect start to the “quarant-weekend.”

Price: Free
Time: 4 p.m.–5 p.m.

—Cristina Cruz

13. “Jimmie Durham in
Conversation” at the National Arts Club

Artist and activist Jimmie Durham will speak with culture
advisor Michela Bondardo about his 45-year career, which includes
serving as a political organizer for the American Indian Movement
during the 1970s, being part of the downtown New York arts scene in
the 1980s, and winning the coveted
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2019 Venice
Biennale.

Price: Free with registration
Time: 12 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Friday, May 22–Saturday,
May 23

14. “The Making of Amarillo Ramp, Introduced by Lee
Ranaldo” at the Holt/Smithson Foundation

Artist Nancy Holt filmed The Making of Amarillo
Ramp as her husband, Robert Smithson, created his
final earthwork, Amarillo Ramp—he died in a plane crash
while documenting the still-in-progress piece. The Holt/Smithson
Foundation has enlisted Lee Renaldo of Sonic Youth, who named an
album after the artwork, to introduce the film as it streams online
for 24 hours on Vimeo and Instagram Live.

Price: Free
Time: Friday, 2 p.m.–Saturday, 2 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

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