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Hyperallergic Fall 2018 Your list of New York Art Guide must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this season. Eddie Martinez: White Outs at the Bronx Museum of the Arts Eddie Martinez, “Lemondrop” (2018), silkscreen ink, oil paint, and spray paint on canvas image courtesy the Bronx Museum hyperallergic.com Opening in Hyperallergic is a forum for playful, serious, and radical perspectives on art and culture in the world today. Hyperallergic focuses on publishing quality writing Letter from and images from informed and provocative perspectives, and is read by over 1 million people per month. Founded in 2009, Hyperallergic is headquartered in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. the Editor Contributions Deena ElGenaidi, Elisa Wouk Almino, Hrag Vartanian Production Anna Carolin Haleblian, Veken Gueyikian Design Peter Rentz What does it mean to embrace art as part of your daily life? It could be allowing it to inform your Hyperallergic Newsletter thoughts and waking moments, or feed you with new 3/ Amy Hill, “Young Woman with Cat” (2018), oil on canvas, Get the latest from Hyperallergic in your inbox ideas and perspectives that can stay with you for September 17 × 22 inches image courtesy Front Room Gallery decades to come. Subscribe for updates on arts-related news, reviews, commentary, and events at hyperallergic.com/ New York has been a world capital of art for almost newsletters. a century, and if there is any city that has integrated the 2/ Rackstraw Downes, “Skylit Loftspace, NYC (standing)” (2015), oil on canvas, 24 × 27 inches image courtesy Betty Cuningham Gallery Our New York and Los Angeles weekly newsletters spectrum of contemporary art and culture into its highlight the best events and exhibitions in each city. daily life, it is certainly this one. This guide is designed to invite you to be part of a vibrant art scene that continues to provoke, challenge, and illuminate the Hyperallergic Podcast contemporary world. Hyperallergic aims to be at the center of that Introducing the New Hyperallergic Weekly Podcast, Art Movements conversation, and a must-read for artists, curators, collectors, and art lovers around the world. We A weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world with host Hrag Vartanian, co-founder and advocate for an accessible art world, where people of editor-in-chief of Hyperallergic. all interests, tastes, and world views converge — Listen on iTunes and anywhere else you listen to podcasts! including you — and can debate with and learn from one another. Museums and art spaces are some of our most cherished public spaces, offering us the opportunity to transport ourselves out of the comfort of our lives to experience the world as others have, often with exciting results. And most importantly, art offers us another idea 1/ Ada Trillo, “Claudia,” from the series How Did I Get Here? 5/ Viola Frey, “Untitled (Man in Brown Suit & Female Nude (2015), archival pigment print, 24 × 16 inches © 2015 Ada Trillo, Lying on Ground)” (1985), oil and acrylic on paper, 60 × 40 of time, a more timeless vision that helps us see courtesy the artist inches image courtesy Nancy Hoffman Gallery ourselves in a history that we have an agency to change. 4/ Julie Heffernan, “Self-Portrait with Spill” (2018), oil on canvas, 96.5 × 68 inches We hope you use this guide as a start to chart your own image courtesy P.P.O.W. journey through the world of art in a city that celebrates it every day. Rackstraw Downes: Paintings and Drawings /2 September 5–October 14 — Hrag Vartanian “There is one thing I think Amy Hill: Sculptors and Editor-in-chief and co-founder, Hyperallergic The Un-Heroic Act: realism is definitely not, though “Back to Nature” /3 Their Drawings /5 Representations of Rape in it is often confused with it, and September 5–October 21 Julie Heffernan: September 6–October 13 Contemporary Women’s Art that is a technique,” says the Hunter Gatherer /4 in the US /1 artist Rackstraw Downes. In her new series, Amy Hill September 6–October 6 In this group show, you’ll have September 4–November 2 “Technique is a skill you can does something unusual and the chance to see how a learn so you don’t have to compelling: She borrows the You could easily spend hours sculptor privately works out The subject of rape in respond to what you are looking style of 19th-century folk art with Julie Heffernan’s intricate their ideas on paper, contemporary art is, according at, you don’t have to be painting to depict scenes of paintings, which borrow transitioning from the two- to curator Monika Fabijanska, inquisitive about it. If something 1960s US counterculture. “The imagery from Old Master dimensional to the three- “a major theme that is coming is real to you, the question worldly life had been rejected paintings, advertisements, film dimensional. It will be back.” Her exhibition, The becomes, not How do I do that, by peoples as far back as the stills, and pornography to shed fascinating to see how various Un-Heroic Act, spans many but What is this phenomenon Sadhy of India and the Ancient light on society’s behavior and artists—including Nicolas media and three generations of I’m perceiving?” Paintings and Greeks, so ours isn’t the first give voice to silenced women. Africano, Ilan Averbuch, Joan women, including Ana Drawings features 11 paintings, culture to inspire a yearning for Hunter Gatherer is Heffernan’s Bankemper, Jesse Small, and Mendieta, Senga Nengudi, and all made from observation, with simpler times,” says Hill. “In my eighth solo exhibition at P.P.O.W. Viola Frey—move between Yoko Ono, among several other several related drawings paintings I try to create a more and will feature a series of new ceramics and gouache, or pastel notable artists. hanging alongside. natural world.” self-portraits. and stone. Anya and Andrew Shiva Betty Cuningham Gallery Front Room Gallery PPOW Gallery Nancy Hoffman Gallery Gallery 15 Rivington Street, 48 Hester Street, 535 West 22nd Street, 520 West 27th Street, 860 11th Avenue, Lower East Side, Manhattan Lower East Side, Manhattan Chelsea, Manhattan Chelsea, Manhattan Upper West Side, Manhattan 2 Fall 2018 New York Art Guide 3 Toyin Ojih Odutola: Odyssey: Jack Whitten NeoRealismo: Pink: The History of a Punk, Black Citizenship in Simone Leigh Petah Coyne: Mary Mattingly: Liliana Porter: Suellen Rocca: Drawings /13 When Legends Die Sculpture 1963–2017 /6 The New Image in Italy, Pretty, Powerful Color /8 the Age of Jim Crow /9 September 8–October 20 Having Gone I Will Return /10 What Happens After /11 Other Situations /12 September 14–October 27 September 6–October 27 September 6–December 2 1932–1960 /7 September 7, 2018– September 7, 2018– September 13–October 27 September 13–November 11 September 13, 2018– September 6–December 8 January 5, 2019 March 3, 2019 Simone Leigh continues to mine January 27, 2019 An original member of the Hairy When Legends Die closes the Jack Whitten’s previously black diasporic traditions in her Vanity, grief, and tragedy figure Mary Mattingly’s new work, Who—a group of six Chicago final chapter of a fictional trilogy unknown sculptures are inspired In the 1950s, Italian neorealist Today, the stereotype of pink as Marking the 150th anniversary recent (and always gorgeous) prominently in Petah Coyne’s commissioned by BRIC, looks at The Argentina-born artist Liliana artists from the 1960s—Suellen Toyin Ojih Odutola constructed by place and migration, with literature and film captured life a feminine color still persists, of the ratification of the 14th sculptures and in brand-new sculptures. Her work is rich with the connection between mineral Porter has resided in New York Rocca will exhibit 30 drawings about two aristocratic Nigerian historical roots in Africa, the after World War II. This but the symbolism behind the Amendment, Black Citizenship video work. The works draw literary and cultural references, mining and the military since 1964, though this is her at the Matthew Marks Gallery. families. “In her reimagined Mediterranean, and the exhibition, however, looks at color has been varied and in the Age of Jim Crow looks at upon “disparate, seemingly most notably Japanese industrial complex. The first museum solo show in the Made between 1981 and 2017, worlds,” writes Seph Rodney for Southern United States. His the period before, during, and multifaceted. In the 18th the struggle for citizenship and anachronistic histories” of literature and film. The title of exhibition includes a city in over 25 years. Porter has these bright, imaginative works Hyperallergic, “people of the works, first created in New York after the war, focusing on century, pink was a fashionable racial equality that occurred after ancient Roman-Egyptian and the exhibition itself is a 19,000-pound military cargo a unique sensibility, creating present animals, trees, and African Diaspora...have comfort and later in his summer home the striking photographic work color for men, and in India, it the Civil War. Through art, American art and architecture. translation of two Japanese truck, along with sculpture and bewildering settings with other creatures. and ease and self-possession.” on Crete, are made out of that emerged from Italy. remains so. This exhibition will artifacts, photographs, and terms for “goodbye,” borrowed photography commenting on objects found at flea markets. What began for Ojih Odutola as carved wood, combined with NeoRealismo pairs over 175 track the changing history and media, this exhibition highlights Luhring Augustine from Richard Lloyd Parry’s book these relationships. This survey will give you a Matthew Marks Gallery a written story with illustrations, found materials such as bone, photographs by over 60 symbolism of “the most divisive the roles of Black Americans 531 West 24th Street, Ghosts of the Tsunami.