Editors’ Picks: 9 Events for Your Virtual Art Calendar This Week, From Moyra Davey’s Book Release to a Primer on Activist Comics
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.)
Launching Monday, June
15
Amalia Pica answered Magalí Arriola’s
question “How does landscape come into being as a space for
political inscription?” with this image. Photo courtesy of Question
and Appearances.
1. Questions and Appearances from
Kadist Kadist
Kadist, the Paris- and San Francisco-based art foundation, is
launching a new online art publishing series today called Questions
and Appearances, inspired by wondering how people in different
parts of the world are reacting to the global health crisis.
They’ve invited curators to pose questions to artists, who are
asked to respond to an image. The resulting dialogues—from Santa
Fe, Ho Chi Minh City, São Paolo, and more—are being posted on
Instagram.
Price: Free
Time: New posts will be shared every day or
two
—Sarah Cascone
Tuesday, June
16
University of Texas at Austin students
discussing Sonya Clark’s Madam C.J. Walker (2008). Photo
courtesy of Blanton Museum of Art.
2. “Madam C.J. Walker: Iconic
Trailblazer” at the Blanton Museum of Art
Since its acquisition a few years ago, one of the most popular
works in the Blanton’s permanent collection has proven to be Sonya
Clark’s monumental assemblage of plastic combs forming a portrait
of Madam C.J. Walker. Purported to be the first self-made woman
millionaire in United States history, Walker was born in the
American South just after the abolition of slavery and went on to
tremendous success creating and marketing beauty products for Black
women like herself—and those are only the broadest strokes of her
remarkable life story. To dig deeper, Blanton curator Veronica
Roberts will chat with collector, activist, and museum board member
Marilyn Johnson about Walker’s legacy and the acquisition of
Clark’s striking portrait.
Price: Free with advance
registration
Time: 5 p.m. CDT; 6 p.m. EST
—Tim Schneider
Wednesday, June
17
3. Moyra Davey with Maggie
Nelson at Community Bookstore
Moyra Davey, Index Cards (2020).
Courtesy of New Directions Publishing.
On the occasion of the release
of her new book of essays, Index Cards, photographer and
writer Moyra Davey will chat with author Maggie Nelson in a Zoom
webinar sponsored by Brooklyn’s Community Bookstore. The pairing
makes perfect sense: both work in a lyrical autofiction that
blends perspicacious personal stories with esoterica culled
from other writers and artists. Register for the free talk
here
and purchase a copy of Davey’s
book here.
Price: Free (Registration
Required)
Time: 7:30
pm
—Taylor Dafoe
Courtesy of Galstian Advisory LLC
4. United for Change: An Anti-Racism Fundraising
Exhibition at Galstian Advisory
LLC
In solidarity with the anti-racism movement, Galstian Advisory
LLC presents a fundraising exhibition on Artnet with artists who
support equality and inclusiveness. The artists include Andreas
Stylianou, Catalina Guirado-Cheadle, Maxim x WLS, Misia-O’, Hayden
Kays, Jermaine Francis, Jon Daniel, Jan Antonio Guirado, and Todd
Williamson. Curated by Lee Sharrock and Galstian Advisory LLC,
United for Change will raise funds for the Stephen Lawrence
Foundation, For Freedoms, and the Underground Museum.
Price: Free
Time: All Day
—Neha Jambhekar
Emily Alesandrini and Gemma Arguello.
Photo courtesy of Art Curator Grid and Assembly Room.
5. Curator Conversations from Art Curator Grid and Assembly
Room
Curators Gemma Argüello, from Mexico, and Emily
Alesandrini, of Philadelphia and New York, will discuss what
it means to be a women in their field, the pay gap, and patriarchy
in Western art history, for the first in a new event series from
Art Curator Grid and Assembly Room.
Price: Free with registration
Time: 4 p.m.
—Sarah Cascone
Thursday, June
18
Charlotte Major Wyllie, A Wanderer
in the Elysian Fields. Photo by John Faier, ©the Richard H.
Driehaus Museum.
6. “Live from the Drawing Room:
The Language of Flowers” at the Richard H. Driehaus Museum,
Chicago
The Driehaus Museum has launched a new virtual concert series,
inspired by its home in the Gilded Age Nickerson Mansion, built in
part to entertain guests, as well as mid-century variety shows. The
second edition will feature Patrick Donley on piano and
vocalist Ana Everling, as well as vintage recipes for liquid
libations from “The Cocktail Guy.” Tune in on Youtube or Facebook.
Price: Free
Time: 8 p.m. CDT; 9 p.m. EST
—Tanner West
Thursday, June 18–Saturday,
August 15
Devan Shimoyama, Self-Portrait with
Bowie (2020). Image courtesy of the artist and Anna Zorina
Gallery.
7. “Sit Still: Self-Portraits in the Age of
Distraction,” at Anna Zorina Gallery, New
York
Believe it or not, for the first time in a long time, it’s an
actual in-real-life (IRL) opening of a show of self portraits,
curated by artists Patty Horing and Deborah Brown. The show
will run through August 15 and will be open “by appointment” until
New York fully reopens later in the summer. Artists whose
self-portraits are on view include Matt Bollinger, Sally Saul, Hiba
Schahbaz, and Devan Shimoyama.
Where: Anna Zorina Gallery, 532 West 24th
Street, New York
Price: Free
Time: By appointment
—Eileen Kinsella
Comics as Resistance with Bianca Xunise.
Image courtesy of the Believer.
8. “Comics as Resistance with Bianca Xunise” from
the Believer
The Believer, a bimonthly literature, arts, and culture
magazine from the University of Nevada has been hosting Friday
night illustration classes from comic book artists designed to help
us all get through this stressful time. Recent topics have included
self care comics, instruction on how to draw your lockdown life,
and comics journaling. This week, Bianca Xunise will show how she
channels the power of art for activism.
Price: Free with registration
Time: 7 p.m.
—Sarah Cascone
Friday, June 19 – Sunday, June
21
Isaac Julien, J.P. Ball Studio 1867
Douglass (Lessons of The Hour) (2019). Courtesy of Metro
Pictures.
9. Isaac Julien’s Lessons of the Hour at
Metro Pictures
After a two-week pause in
programming, Metro Pictures is resuming its film series on Friday
with a single-screen presentation of Isaac Julien’s
Lessons of the
Hour. The film delves
into the remarkable life of Frederick Douglass, America’s leading
abolitionist figure and one of history’s greatest orators. The
film, which screens on Juneteenth, touches on some of his most
well-known speeches including “What to the Slave Is the 4th
of July?” and “Lecture on Pictures,” which theorizes how
photography and technology could influence human
relations.
Price: Free
Time: Available to stream
on Metro Pictures’ Vimeo from Friday, 12 p.m. to Sunday, 12
a.m.
— Katie White
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