Editors’ Picks: 13 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 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, April
20

1. “Stoned Therapy with Dr. Lisa”
on Zoom

Artist Lisa Levy has offered her (completely unlicensed)
services as a therapist before—you may have spotted her at the
SPRING/BREAK Art Show a few years ago. Now she’s back, thanks to
the magic of Zoom, in celebration of the five-year anniversary of
her radio show, Dr. Lisa Gives a Shit. Also, she’s going
to be stoned. “I’m actually pretty good when I’m high,” Levy
promises. “You can be stoned or not-up to you!”

Price: Free
Time: 5 p.m.–9 p.m., with five to 10 minute
sessions

—Sarah Cascone

Through Monday, April
20

2. “Pictures for
Elmhurst” Benefit Sale

It’s your last chance to buy a print and help a
hospital in dire straits through the wildly popular “Pictures For
Elmhurst” fundraiser. The 10-day flash sale features 187
photographers—it began with only 100, but since then even more artists have
joined in—and each print is just $150. Participating artists
include the likes of Justine Kurland, Alec Soth, Petra Collins,
Thomas Demand, and Tyler Mitchell (all of whom make work that would
otherwise a lot more than $150 a pop). So far, the
project has raised more than $700,000.

Price: Prints are $150 each
Time: Sale ends at midnight

—Caroline Goldstein

Monday, April 13–Monday,
June 1

3. “Janet Turner: Pause and
Observe” at JODY KLOTZ FINE
ART

Jody Klotz Fine Art presents a selection of prints by pioneering
printmaker Janet Turner (1914–88), whose subject of choice was the
natural world. Now that everyone is stuck at home in front of
various screens, her beautiful prints provide a much needed-escape
for both the eyes and mind.

Price: Free
Time: Available online until June 1

—Neha Jambhekar

Tuesday, April
21

4. “Curated Conversations: Filling
Gaps, Finding Gems Curator Q&A on Modern & Contemporary
Acquisitions” at the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin

Veronica Roberts and Claire Howard, curators at the Blanton,
will chat on Zoom about the
challenges of putting together a diverse collection. They’ll
highlight some of the museum’s recent acquisitions, from the
119-piece Latin American art collection of Roberta and Richard
Huber to a work by Nate Lewis ER nurse-turned artist.

Price: Free with registration
Time:  6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Tuesday, April
21–Tuesday, May 5

5. not cancelled
Salon

In-person citywide art weeks may not be happening right now, but
weeklong digital art events featuring a rotating slate of European
galleries will be accessible starting April 21 on the website not
cancelled.art. On Thursday, April 23,
Warsaw galleries will be featured, and on Saturday, April 26, users
can browse content provided by Paris galleries. Additionally, the
nonprofit initiative will offer for sale work by 17 artists,
including Sophie von Hellermann, Jakob Lena Knebl, Jonas Lips, and
Michael Luberry.

Price: Free
Time: Open daily, at all times

—Cristina Cruz 

Wednesday, April
22

6. “Upgrade Available: Live and
Illustrated—Julia Christensen in Conversation with Aria Dean and
Jessica Gambling” at the Los Angeles County Museum of
Art

The opening of Julia Christensen’s
solo show, co-presented by ArtCenter and LACMA’s Art + Technology
Lab, has been postponed, but the writer and artist is giving an
online presentation about her forthcoming book, Upgrade
Available, this week. The book (as well as her project with
the lab) explores how “upgrade culture”—the constant pressure to
update our electronic devices—informs our sense of the passage of
time.

Price: Free with RSVP
Time: 7 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Thursday, April
23

7. “Shantell Martin Presents We Are We
Conversation Series x Absolut Art”

Artist Shantell Martin has teamed up with Absolut Art to monitor
a weekly chat with artists working in isolation around the world.
On tap for this week are data journalist, writer, and illustrator
Mona Chalabi—you may have seen her graphics explaining the global
health crisis on Instagram—and sculptor and performance artist
Baseera Khan.

Price: Free
Time: 4 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Friday, April
24

8. “Whitney Screens: Clara
Tossin’s Ch’u Mayaa” at the Whitney Museum of American
Art

The Whitney’s efforts to expand its online presence include
“Whitney Screens,” which offers screenings of video works recently
added to the collection. It kicked off last week with Alex Da
Corte’s Rubber Pencil Devil, and continues with Clara
Tossin’s Ch’u Mayaa, inspired by the Maya Revival
architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright’s historic Hollyhock House.
In the video, performance artist Crystal Sepúlveda dances
outside the home, each pose inspired by ancient Maya
iconography.

Price: Free
Time: 7 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Friday, April 24–Sunday,
April 26

9. “Isaac Julien: Baltimore” in
the Metro Pictures Online Film Festival

Every weekend through mid-June, the venerable Chelsea gallery is
programming a limited-engagement viewing for a different bravura
film or video work by one of its artists. The latest installment
will feature Isaac Julien’s Baltimore, a
three-channel piece that wields some of the defining traits of
1970s American cinema’s so-called “blaxploitation” genre (including
a starring role for the genre’s arguable founder,
writer/director/actor Melvin Van Peebles) to construct what the
artist calls an aesthetic “third dimension” grappling with the
past, present, and future of black culture in the US. Shot largely
in three cultural institutions in its namesake city—the Walters Art
Museum, the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum, and the George
Peabody Library—Baltimore bends time, reality, and
identity (FYI: there’s even a cyborg) to investigate how history
shapes our understandings of ourselves and each other.

Price: Free with sign-up to
the Metro Pictures email list (or follow the gallery on Instagram
@Metro_Pictures)
Time: Friday, 5 p.m.–Sunday, midnight

—Tim Schneider

Friday, April
24–Monday, April 27

10. The Antique Dealers Association of America
Online Show

As the art world moves online, so does the antiques world.
The members of the Antique Dealers
Association had plans to exhibit at shows in Chicago, New
Hampshire, New York, and Connecticut as well as Pennsylvania this
spring. Instead, the offerings of 50 exhibitors will be shown in
one virtual space. An added plus for new buyers is the
ADA guarantee on all purchases.

Price: Free
Time: Friday, 10 a.m.–Monday, 10 p.m.

—Eileen Kinsella

Through Friday, April
24

11. “Invitation for Dawn” by
Lee Mingwei at Gropius Bau

Among the most highly anticipated spring shows in Berlin was Lee
Mingwei’s solo exhibition “禮 Li, Gifts and Rituals” at the Gropius
Bau, now off-limits for until at least May 4. Yet the New
York-based artist has found a novel way to activate the conceptual
elements of the show while the physical experience is out of reach.
Lee’s new project, Invitation for Dawn, is
a one-on-one performance that draws on the artist’s live
artwork Sonic Blossom: a classically trained opera singer
performs a single song a capella—but now, it’s for a
virtual guest. Each song signals an “invitation for dawn,”
interpreted as hope in this crisis. You can sign up for your
personal serenade online.

Price: Free with sign-up r
Time: 15-minute time slots are available until
April 24 from 4 p.m. until 5:45 p.m. CET. More information on how
to sign up is available here.

—Kate Brown

Ongoing

12. Annabel Daou’s I
will worry for you (from today until tomorrow) at
Signs & Symbols 

Got something weighing you down?
Let artist Annabel Daou take that burden from you, even briefly.
Every night, from just before midnight until just after, the
Beirut-born, Brooklyn-based artist will pace the hallways of her
home with a set of worry beads in hand, contemplating other
people’s fears. 

Those who would like to share a
worry (or two) can write to iwillworryforyou@gmail.com. The artist
will then send participants a timesheet to choose a time for her to
keep in mind their specific worry.

Price: Free
Time: 11:30 p.m.–12:30 a.m., daily on Instagram
Live

—Katie White

Ongoing

13. “The Business of Recovery”
with Elizabeth Dee, Russell Blaymore, and Jonathan
Travis

One of the biggest challenges facing galleries and other small
art businesses right now is rent. How do you pay a hefty fee on a
space that is currently closed to the public? Independent’s
Elizabeth Dee hosted a 30-minute panel discussion with real-estate
broker Jonathan Travis and real estate lawyer Russell Blaymore on
Zoom about how galleries with commercial retail leases can
broach the issue. Points of discussion include how to leverage
capital improvements, what to put in writing to your landlord and
what to say over the phone, and possible best- and worst-case
scenarios. Dee plans to continue this talk series next month. For a
clip, see above. For the full talk, click here.

Price: Free
Time: Open daily, at all times

—Julia Halperin

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