Editors Picks’: 14 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.)
Tuesday, April
14
John Sonsini, Pedro (2014/18).
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles.
1. “Garden
Conversations: Susanne Vielmetter + John Sonsini” on Instagram
Live
As part of Vielmetter Los Angeles’s new series, artist John
Sonsini will be live to talk about how he’s managing his new
reality, and his studio practice more broadly. Sonsini’s solo
exhibition was on view at the Los Angeles-based gallery through
February 2020.
Price: Free
Time: On Instagram live at 12 p.m. PST (3
p.m. EST)
—Caroline Goldstein
Miata Edoga. Photo courtesy of the Art
World Conference.
2. “Financial Strategies for
Artists and Freelancers Impacted by COVID-19” at the Art World Conference
The Art World Conference is hosting two free webinars in
response to the coronavirus pandemic. The first looks to address
the financial insecurity facing freelance art professionals who
have found themselves suddenly unemployed thanks to industry-wide
closures and event cancellations. Miata Edoga, founder of Abundance
Bound, a financial education company for creative entrepreneurs,
will lead the program with a Q&A to follow. Slots appear to be
full at the moment, but you can still register for next week’s
talk, “Taxes for Artists,
Freelancers, and Creative Businesses: What You
Need to Know NOW,” on April
21 with Hannah Cole, a tax expert who specializes in working with
artists and creative businesses.
Price: Free with registration
Time: 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
—Sarah Cascone
Starting Tuesday, April
14
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that3. “Praise You: IG Live Chats” at
Praise Shadows Art Partners
Art advisory Praise Shadows Art Partners is starting a new
Instagram Live series featuring founder Yng-Ru Chen in daily
conversation with art world professionals around the world. The
series kicks off tomorrow with independent curator Sara Raza and
there are some impressive names on the schedule: Duke Riley, artist
behind the very popular Fly by Night; Eugenie Tsai,
curator at the Brooklyn Museum; and Phil Tinari, director of UCCA
Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing.
Price: Free
Time: Times vary by day, each chat will be 30
minutes
—Sarah Cascone
Tuesday, April
14–Thursday, April 23
An installation view of Mamie Tinkler’s
now-shuttered exhibition at Ulterior Gallery in New York. The
dealer is offering her work in the Dallas Art Fair Online. Photo
courtesy of Ulterior Gallery.
One of the first art fairs that was postponed due to the global
health crisis, the Dallas Art Fair, originally set to open this
week, has postponed its 12th edition until October. But following
the example of Art Basel Hong Kong, the fair is hosting online
viewing rooms where collectors can digitally preview and purchase
exhibitors’ offerings.
Price: Free
Time: Open daily, at all times
—Sarah Cascone
Wednesday, April
15
Andy Warhol,
Dollar Sign (1981). Courtesy Sotheby’s.
5. “Round Table Discussion:
Navigating Forward During Covid-19” at POWarts
Concerned about the future of the art industry in the economic
fallout of the coronavirus pandemic? Lost your job and in need of
unemployment benefits? POWarts is hosting a Zoom discussion to help
arts professionals chart a course through the uncertain waters of
our time, led by Francesca Altamura, a curator at New York’s New
Museum and the organization’s newest steering committee member.
Price: Free with registration
Time: 12 p.m.
—Sarah Cascone
Wednesday, April
15–May 15
Kiki Smith, Harbor,
(Ocean-rocks-birds), 2015. Courtesy Timothy Taylor,
London.
6. “Dwelling Is the Light”
at Timothy Taylor
Curator and art historian Katy Hessel, who runs the Instagram
account @thegreatwomenartists, has
curated this exhibition—the first in a series of online shows—for
Timothy Taylor. Drawing its name from William Wordsworth’s 1798
poem “Tintern Abbey,” it features works by women artists including
Hope Gangloff, Hilary Pecis, and Kiki Smith, with both interior and
exterior scenes, landscapes and domestic settings.
Price: Free
Time: Open daily, at all times
—Sarah Cascone
Friday, April
17
Courtesy of Parsons Design +
Technology.
7. “Alex Chen: Design and Technology
Cloud Salon” at Parsons Design + Technology
Alex Chen, creative director at Google Creative Lab, becomes the
latest luminary to Zoom into Parsons’s ongoing series of Friday
afternoon webinars about the mash-up of art, design, and
technology. With Parsons assistant professor Richard The handling moderator duties, Chen
will discuss his process and recent projects, including MTA.me, which transformed the New York
subway map into an interactive digital string instrument, as well
as Google’s larger investigations into the workings of music and
machine learning.
Price: Free; register here.
Time: 3 p.m.–4 p.m.
—Tim Schneider
Through Friday, May
8
Alfredo Jaar, I Can’t Go On. I’ll Go
On, 2016. Image courtesy of the artist and Galerie Lelong
8. “RED” at Galerie
Lelong
This group exhibition of 25 works by the gallery’s artists is
centered on the color red, charged as it is with connotations of
the body, emotions, and politics. It includes work in a variety of
media by artists such as Etel Adnan, Sarah Cain, Petah Coyne,
Angelo Filomeno, Ficre Ghebreyesus, Andy Goldsworthy, Jane Hammond,
Alfredo Jaar, Samuel Levi Jones, Rosemary Laing, Lin Tianmiao,
Nalini Malani, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Hélio Oiticica, Yoko
Ono, Jaume Plensa, Kate Shepherd, Nancy Spero, Mildred Thompson,
Barthélémy Toguo, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Krzysztof Wodiczko, and
Catherine Yass. RED also marks the gallery’s new digital initiative
and is its first to be held entirely online. Further, Galerie
Lelong will donate a portion of the proceeds to Heart to Heart International to support
their international and domestic responses to COVID-19.
Price: Free
Time: Open daily, at all times
—Eileen Kinsella
Through
Thursday, May 14
Performa Radical Broadcast TIME SHARE
2020. Image courtesy of Performa.
9. “TIME SHARE” at Performa
Performa associate curator Job Piston has launched a new online
series that brings performance art online, via Radical Broadcast, the performance art
organization’s online channel. To kick things off, the website has
been overlaid with the video documenting Judy
Chicago’s Women and Smoke (1971–72), in which nude
female performers set off colored smoke fireworks in the California
desert. Piston has put together work from 24 artists for the
occasion, including historic works like Robert Rauschenberg’s first
choreographic work, Pelican (1963), as well as
contemporary projects that embrace modern technologies, such as
Nick Sethi’s Instagram stories communicating with the Kalbelia, a
nomadic Western India tribe. Tune in throughout the month to catch
pieces from the likes of Jacolby Satterwhite, Ryan Trecartin,
Zanele Muholi, and many more.
Price: Free
Time: Open daily, at all times
—Sarah Cascone
Through Saturday, August
15
Fraenkel Gallery, Hiroshi Sugimoto:
Opticks, Installation View
10. “Hiroshi Sugimoto:
Opticks” at Fraenkel Gallery
Fraenkel Gallery presents new works by Hiroshi Sugimoto in which
the well-known Japanese artist photographs the patterns of
light through a prism. His carefully calibrated process depends on
waiting for the right weather and the ideal moment of the day to
capture the best light in his Tokyo studio. Known for ethereal
black-and-white photography of seascapes and theater interiors,
Sugimoto opens a new chapter in his oeuvre with these
rainbow-hued works.
Price: Free
Time: Available online until August 15th
—Neha Jambhekar
Ongoing
Rineke Dijkstra, Marianna and Sasha,
Kingisepp, Russia, November 2, 2014 (2014). Copyright Rineke
Dijkstra. Photo courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman
Gallery.
11. “Rineke Dijkstra: Online
Exhibition” at Marian Goodman Gallery
One of the most interesting outcomes of the lockdown era is the
fact that institutions that historically have spurned “trendy”
initiatives such as online viewing rooms have been compelled to
embrace them. One such old-school enterprise is Marian Goodman
Gallery, which just launched its inaugural virtual exhibition based
on the Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra’s first UK show, which
was cut short in London. The online version comes with a video tour
narrated by Dijkstra, meaty text describing the artist’s most
famous and latest series, and… wait for it… prices! As a gallery
that would frequently turn away any journalist inquiring about hard
numbers at art fairs, Goodman making the decision to include prices
is as compelling a signal as I’ve seen yet that the
social-distancing era may change art-world mores for good. (If you
are wondering, the works range from €35,000
to €75,000.)
Price: Free, with email submission
Time: Available online, no confirmed end
date
— Julia Halperin
Jemima Kirke, Alex in lingerie
(2020), $4,500. Courtesy of Sargent’s Daughter.
12. “small joys” at Sargent’s Daughters
Subscribe to the Sargent’s
Daughters e-newsletter and you’ll get a weekly missive showcasing a
single work of art priced below $5,000—a reminder, says the
gallery, “to appreciate the small joys” despite the global health
crisis. “We are all alone, but we are all in this together. Artists
continue to make art and galleries continue to support
them.” This week’s offering was an erotic watercolor by
former Girls star Jemima Kirke of a man provocatively
posed in women’s lingerie.
Price: Free
Time: Weekly email
—Sarah Cascone
Cao Fei, Same Old, Brand New
(2015). Sound by artist Dickson Dee. Co-commissioned by Art Basel
and the International Commerce Centre in Hong Kong.
13. “Out of Blueprints: Same Old, Brand New” at NOWNESS
NOWNESS has partnered with the Serpentine Galleries and K11 Art
Foundation on a new online exhibition series titled “Out of
Blueprints” after Cao Fei’s temporarily closed exhibition at the
London institution, “Blueprints.” For the program, NOWNESS is
releasing a moving-image work by an East Asia-based artist each
week, and the first is a documentary film of Cao Fei’s 2015 work
Same Old, Brand New.
A commission for Art Basel Hong Kong, the artist created a
large-scale video installation that was projected onto the façade
of the tallest skyscraper in the city. The moving image
work incorporates elements from popular 1980s video games including
Pac Man, Space Invaders, and Tetris as a comment on the speed of
modern life in Asia.
Price: Free
Time: Open daily, at all times
—Naomi Rea
Installation View, “Thalia Rodgers: You
make my heart smile but you also make my eyes cry”, 2020. Courtesy
of The Union for Contemporary Art.
14. “Thalia Rodgers: You make my heart smile but you
also make my eyes cry” at the Union for Contemporary
Art
On view at the Union for Contemporary Art in Omaha earlier this
year, Thalia Rodgers’s “You make my heart smile but you also make
my eyes cry” is now getting a second life on the center’s website.
Rodgers has developed a distinctive motif: her large works resemble
blown-up pages from her notebooks, complete with rows of blue lines
and perforated, torn edges as if they’d been pulled from a spiral
binder. Throughout, her explosions of abstracted, graffiti-like
form are masterfully balanced and sprinkled with surrealistic
figures and swirling landscapes. “I’m interested in making my own
world in my pieces and shitting color all over them,” Rodgers
explains.
Price: Free
Time: Open daily, at all times
—Cristina Cruz
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