Editors’ Picks: 10 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. In light of
the global health situation, we are currently highlighting events
and exhibitions available digitally. See our picks from around the
world below. (Times are all EST unless otherwise noted.)

Beginning Monday, March
23 

1. “In
Company With: Barbara Hammer Streaming Videos” at
Vimeo

As part of a new virtual viewing initiative, Company Gallery is
launching a series called “In Company With,” where digital
performances, readings, and screenings are available on Instagram
live with gallery artists. Kicking off the project is an archive of
the late, great queer artist Barbara Hammer’s films, ready for your
viewing pleasure on Vimeo.

Price: Free; those so moved are asked to donate to Queer I
Art, which helps to fund the Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental
Film Grant.
Time: Open daily, at all times

—Caroline Goldstein

Monday, March 23–Saturday,
May 2

2. “Staying With the Trouble:
Prompts for Practice” at A.I.R. Gallery

Brookyln’s A.I.R. Gallery, which has championed women artists
since 1972, has devised a raft of new online programming “in the
spirit of intimacy without proximity.” That kicks off tonight with
“Staying With the Trouble,” a six-week prompt-based art project led
by artist Alison Owen, a former A.I.R. fellow. She’ll share
prompts every other night in the hopes of inspiring new works of
art, literature, or music. Interested parties are encouraged to
spend the evening ruminating on the prompt, and to use it as a
jumping-off point for the next day’s studio practice—however they
see fit, be it for new projects or for a new direction for existing
work. Share the results on social media under
#stayingwiththetrouble or #AIRpromptsforpractice2020 to be included
in the official project archive.

Price: Free
Time: Prompts will be posted 6 p.m. every
other day

—Sarah Cascone

Wednesday, March
25

3. “Apart, Together: The Immigrant
Artist Biennial Zoom Series – 1. The Emergency Exposes Your Status…
and Our Shared Vulnerability” from the EFA Project
Space

New York’s Immigrant Artist
Biennial is meant to be a response to intensifying
anti-immigrant sentiment, offering a platform of cultural exchange.
The central exhibition, “Here, Together!,” was supposed to open
March 18 at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts’ project space on
West 39th Street. Instead, the NYFA-sponsored event is staging a
roundtable discussion on Zoom, moderated by curator Katya
Grokhovsky and Dylan Gauthier and featuring artists Esperanza
Cortés, Bahareh Khoshooee, Daniela Kostova, Levan
Mindiashvili, Qinza Najm, Anna Parisi, daaPo reo,
and Yali Romagoza. The meeting ID is 378 427 830, and you
can call in at +1 646-876-9923. The multi-venue exhibition is being
postponed in lieu of a series of online talks, workshops, and other
programming that will allow immigrant artists to share their
thoughts on identity, the meaning of home, and the challenges of
being an immigrant cultural worker today.

Price: Free
Time: 7 p.m.–9 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

4. “Louise Bourgeois: Drawings 1947–2007” at Hauser &
Wirth

After decades of staging museum-scale exhibitions across three
continents, the mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth will mark another
milestone this week: On Wednesday, it will open its first
online-only exhibition, a survey of drawings by Louise Bourgeois,
spanning 1947 to 2007, three years before the artist’s death.
That’s a pretty ambitious topic to take up for a show that’s only
on computer screens and smart phones, and it promises to be a
large-scale investigation into an overlooked part of the artist’s
practice. Though she’s best known as a sculptor and installation
artist, the gallery points out that, for Bourgeois, drawing was “a
necessary tool to record and exorcise her memories and emotions.”
Put together by longtime Bourgeois assistant Jerry Gorovoy—who is
now the head of the late artist’s estate, the Easton Foundation—the
exhibition is part of Dispatches, the cyberspace-based slate of
programming the gallery is putting together while the world is
quarantined. Look for more Hauser & Wirth programming to be rolled
out on the information superhighway in the coming weeks.

Price: Free
Time: Open daily, at all times

—Nate Freeman

5. “GWA Live: Jordan
Casteel” hosted by the Great Women Artists 

Art historian Katy Hessel’s Instagram account @thegreatwomenartists celebrates
the work of female visual artists. Her latest feature, launching
this week as a digital alternative to shuttered galleries and
museums, is a series of live artist interviews. She’s starting with
Jordan Casteel, who currently has a show at New York’s New Museum
of her nearly life-size portraits of African American subjects.
Hessel is inviting her followers to submit questions for the
painter ahead of the interview on Wednesday.

Price: Free
Time: 6 p.m. GMT

—Sarah Cascone

Through Saturday, March
28

After Timothy Taylor Gallery in London closed to the public,
putting a premature end to its exhibition of Josephine
Meckseper’s video PELLEA[S], the gallery decided to put
the full 42-minute film online for free. For a limited time, you
can watch the video—which debuted at the Whitney Museum in 2018 and
was screened last year at the Kitchen—from the comfort of your
couch. An adaptation of Maurice Maeterlinck’s surreal play
Pelléas et Mélisande, the film tells the story of a doomed
love triangle set in a largely abandoned Washington, DC—sound
familiar?—featuring real footage from Donald Trump’s inauguration
and the 2017 Women’s March.

Price: Free
Time: Open daily, at all times

—Julia Halperin

Through Sunday, March
29

7. “Faustin Linyekula: My Body, My
Archive” at Tate Modern 

Congolese choreographer and
artist Faustin Linyekula was one of the artists scheduled to
perform as part of this year’s recently canceled BMW Tate Live
Exhibition. Instead, Linyekula and his performers collaborated with
the museum to present a one-off site-specific work performed to a
camera in the Tanks, the museum’s devoted performance space which
was formerly used to hold oil when the gallery was a power station.
The performance “My Body, My Archive” is an autobiographical
exploration of the millennia’s of knowledge held within the body as
opposed to the relatively brief accounts of written histories.
Musicians, performers, and actors join Linyekula to poignantly
activate personal and collective memories. 

Price: Free

Time: Open daily at all
times

—Katie White

Through Saturday, April
4 

8. “Nicholas Galanin: Carry a
Song / Disrupt an Anthem” at Peter Blum Gallery

Available for online viewing is Peter Blum’s exhibition of
Native American artist Nicholas Galanin. Having just shown at the
2019 Whitney Biennale, Galanin is making his solo exhibition debut
in cyberspace (although it was intended for Peter Blum’s New York
gallery). “To carry the songs of Indigenous people, to carry the
songs of the land, is inherently disruptive of the national
anthem,” the artist says of the exhibition title. In The
Imaginary Indian (Totem), a totem is covered in the same
floral wallpaper as the wall it hangs on, a metaphor for attempted
and forced assimilation between European and Native American
cultures.

Price: Free
Time: Open daily, at all times

—Cristina Cruz

Through Saturday, April
18

9. “Jansson Stegner” at
Almine Rech

What can I say? I’m totally in awe of Jansson Stegner’s
genuinely weird approach to figuration. The people that populate
his world come from the uncanny valley of just-distorted-enough to
tickle my brain, full of muscular huntresses captured in gloriously
active poses. I wish I could stand in front of these in person to
fully appreciate Stegner’s masterful approach to remixing Western
painting tropes, but I’m very happy to share my computer monitor
with these in the meantime.

Price: Free
Time: Open online or by appointment through April
18

—Tatiana Berg

Until Further
Notice

10. “Addie Wagenknecht: There
Are No Girls on the Internet” at the Museum of the Moving
Image

In November 2019, the Museum of the Moving Image began
installing quartets of animated GIFs inside its main
elevator—one GIF on each wall, another on the
ceiling—as part of a series dubbed “The Situation Room.”
Each foursome of GIFS was commissioned from a different artist and
set to run for two months, with the GIFs simultaneously being
released on GIPHY.

The piece installed just before the museum was forced to
temporarily close comes from self-described “anti-disciplinary”
artist Addie Wagenknecht, and it investigates the meme holding that
the internet is strictly a man’s world. Wagenknecht recorded her
search through hundreds of video chats looking for another woman,
moving on as soon as her next potential conversation partner was
revealed as anyone but. In just a few seconds, each of her four
GIFs reinforces the disturbing gender imbalance and fundamental
weirdness of the online experience, as the artist is served up a
steady stream of dudes lying in bed, dudes wearing only a towel,
even dudes serving active military duty—and nothing else
except the occasional empty room.

Price: Free
Time: Open daily, at all times

—Tim Schneider

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