Editors Picks: 12 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week

Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and
thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. See them
below.

Tuesday, February 18

1. “Importance of Provenance in
Legal Matters and Ownership Disputes” at the Frick
Collection

Lawyer Leila A. Amineddoleh will give a talk about the
importance of provenance in the art market, and how a paper trail
for a work of art can prove ownership and help resolve legal
disputes.

Location: The Frick Collection, 1 East 70th
Street
Price: Free with registration
Time: 5 p.m.–6 p.m.

—Tanner West

Thursday, February 20–Sunday,
April 19

2. “Death Becomes Her”
presented by BRIC and the Green-Wood Cemetery

How do death and dying affect
the living? How do we materialize our mourning rituals?  This
show of seven female-identifying artists is an introspective and
personal exploration of the inevitability of death. Coinciding with
the exhibition, a series of three intimate gatherings will be led
by artist McKendree Key at the Catacombs of Green-Wood, bringing
strangers and fellow artists to discuss the end of this life and
the possibilities of the hereafter. 

Location: BRIC Main
Gallery, 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn
Price:
Free
Time:
Opening reception, February 19, 7
p.m.–9 p.m., Tuesday–Friday, 11 a.m.–7 p.m., Saturday and Sunday,
11 a.m.–5 p.m.

— Katie White

Thursday, February
20–Saturday, April 4

3. “Lee Seung Jio: Nucleus” at
Tina Kim Gallery

Though Lee Seung Jio was once deemed “a future giant of Korean
painting,” many Western audiences still aren’t familiar with his
work. His first-ever solo show at Tina Kim in New York is a great
chance to get acquainted. The artist, who died in 1990, was best
known for his geometric abstractions, often returning to a series
of cylindrical pipe shapes that create an optical illusion the
longer you stare at them.

Location: Tina Kim Gallery, 525 West 21st
Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Caroline Goldstein

Friday, February 21–Sunday,
February 23

4. “Art Fair 14C” at the Hyatt
Regency

Over the course of the year, New York City plays hosts to dozens
of art fairs. Now, there’s one for Jersey City, which some proud
residents like to refer to as the sixth borough. Art Fair 14C’s 54
exhibitors feature a mix of artists, galleries, and art
organizations, most hailing from the surrounding area. That
includes Jersey City’s Art House Productions, New York’s Painting
Center, Fort Lee’s Paris Koh Fine Arts, and Bridgehampton’s Kathryn
Markel Fine Arts, as well as more far-flung participants, including
Detroit’s River’s Edge Gallery and Sciatto Studio in São Paolo.
There’s also a juried art show featuring New Jersey artists such
as Lisa Ficarelli-Halpern, Pat Lay, Sofia Zubi, and Grace
Mikell Ramsey.

Location: Hyatt Regency Hotel, 2 Exchange
Place, Jersey City
Price: One day pass for Saturday or Sunday
$20, weekend pass for Saturday and Sunday $35, VIP all-access pass
$100
Time: Friday, VIP access 5 p.m.–6 p.m.,
public hours 6 p.m.–9 p.m.; Saturday, VIP access 11 a.m.–12
p.m., public hours 12 p.m.–8 p.m.; Sunday, VIP access 11
a.m.–12 p.m., public hours 12 p.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Friday, February 21–Sunday,
April 12

5. “THE MIRACLE: Jaimie
Warren” at Pioneer Works

For her first institutional solo show, Jaimie Warren has turned
Pioneer Works into a DIY-style stage set for a musical
production, THE MIRACLE, which will debut April 4 and
11. The accompanying exhibition is being billed as “resembling a
high school musical backdrop, a vintage Disney ride, or the
campy gore of a community-built haunted house.” Featuring
animatronics, costumes, and special effects, the project is an
amalgamation of ideas gleaned from participants in recent workshops
that Warren staged with local actors, puppeteers, and stage
designers.

Location: Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 7 p.m.–9 p.m.;
Wednesday–Sunday, 12 p.m.–7 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Friday, February
21–Saturday, May 9

6. “Per(Sister): Incarcerated
Women of Louisiana” at the Ford Foundation Gallery

Before arriving in New York this show originated at the Newcomb
Art Museum at Tulane University. It’s based around an intriguing
concept: Organizers interviewed 30 Louisiana women who have spent
time behind bars or are currently incarcerated, and enlisted
contemporary artists to make work based on their stories. Expect
tales of resilience in the face of loss, despair, and
injustice.

Location: The Ford Foundation Gallery, 320 East
43rd Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception Monday, March 2, 6 p.m.–8
p.m.; Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Through Saturday, February
22

7. “Melanie Baker: The
Optimates” at Cristin Tierney

For her first solo show in nearly a decade, Melanie Baker
presents drawings of male politicians. Each composition is cropped
to omit their faces, yet the men’s elevated position and status is
apparent in other details—their tailored suits, or the ornate
podiums at which they stand. The pictures hint at the dark side of
power and masculinity and its propensity toward corruption —the
exhibition is named after the optimates of ancient Rome, who
favored rule by oligarchy.

Location: Cristin Tierney, 219 Bowery, 2nd
Floor
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Friday, 10 a.m.–6
p.m.; Saturday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

8. “Judith Schaechter: Almost
Better Angels” at Claire Oliver Gallery

The new home of Claire Oliver Gallery opened its doors in a
four-story Harlem brownstone last month with a show from Judith
Schaechter—who also inaugurated the dealer’s previous location in
Chelsea nearly twenty years ago. For this outing, she’s showing
seven new, large-scale stained glass works in illuminated light
boxes.

Location: Claire Oliver Gallery, 2288 Adam
Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

9. “Azikiwe Mohammed: 396
Wortman Ave” at Anna Zorina Gallery

Azikiwe Mohammed’s colorful paintings are inspired by visits in
the late 1990s and early 2000s to his family in the predominantly
black neighborhood of New Lots, Brooklyn. To present the work,
curator Ché Morales has dramatically transformed Anna Zorina
Gallery into a living room with wall-to-wall carpeting, plus a
fenced-in “backyard,” an apartment facade, and even a local
storefront.

Location: Anna Zorina Gallery, 532 West 24th
Street
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Through Sunday, February
23

10. “Limbo: Mark Ryan
Chariker” at 1969 Gallery
Among the many young contemporary artists
currently borrowing from the depths of art history, Mark Ryan
Chariker sets himself apart. His secular scenes, littered with beer
cans and fast food wrappers, channel the apocalyptic language of
the divine. His Comforts of Being
Clean (2020) is like a Baroque nativity scene for a
new decade — a small baby is being changed amid a dark, vaguely Da
Vinci-esque architectural backdrop, while various adult figures
crowd around. The mournful, blue-green hues and atmospheric drama
of Tidal Forces, meanwhile, cues up the scary magic of El
Greco. There are nods and allusions to Goya, Tiepelo, and Fragonard
elsewhere in the show. What links the works together, and makes
them timely, is a sense of turmoil lurking just under the surface,
as the figures seem to await some coming rapture or
disaster. 

Location: 1969 Gallery,
103 Allen Street
Price: Free
Time: Wednesday to Sunday, 11.00  a.m.–6: 00
p.m. 

— Katie White

Through Sunday, March
8

11. “Arena” at East Projects
Gallery

This group exhibition curated by Bjorn Stern brings together
five emerging artists from the US and Switzerland who explore the
idea of competition, sports, choreography, spectacle, and
ceremony.

Location: East Projects Gallery, 165 East
64th Street
Price: Free
Time: Open by appointment

—Eileen Kinsella

Through Saturday, March
28

12. “Don Van Vliet: Parapliers
the Willow Dipped, Paintings 1967–1997” at Michael Werner
Gallery

American singer, songwriter, and visual artist Don Van Vliet,
better known as Captain Beefheart, passed away in 2010. Now, he
gets a New York exhibition for the first time in over a decade at
Michael Werner Gallery. “Van Vliet painted throughout his many
years performing, and in the mid-1980s turned away from music to
devote his intense creative energy solely to painting,” press
materials note. The selection of works was made by fellow artist
Spencer Sweeney.

Location: Michael Werner Gallery, 4 East
77th Street
Price: Free
Time: Monday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Cristina Cruz

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