18 Things Not to Miss in New York's Art World This Week
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Events and Parties (https://news.artnet.com/art-world/events) Editors’ Picks: 18 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week Here's what's on our agenda. Sarah Cascone (https://news.artnet.com/about/sarah-cascone-25), November 4, 2019 Maripol, Debbie Harry in the Loft (1980). Polaroid by Maripol, courtesy of the artist. Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting, and thought-provoking, shows, screenings, and events. See them below. Monday, November 4 Jerry Saltz. Photo by Celeste Sloman, courtesy of Jerry Saltz. Jerry Saltz. Photo by Celeste Sloman, courtesy of Jerry Saltz. 1. The Museum of Art and Design’s “MAD Ball (https://madmuseum.org/press/releases/museum-arts-and- designs-mad-ball-2019-honor-hass-brothers-visionaries-award)” New York magazine art critic Jerry Saltz is master of ceremonies at this year’s annual benefit for the Museum of Arts and Design, the MAD Ball. The event honors the Haas Brothers with its Visionaries! Award, which was designed this year by artist Kiki Smith. Saltz will also announce the winner of this year’s $50,000 Burke Prize, which is given to a young contemporary artist who works with traditional craft materials. Location: Cipriani 42nd Street, 110 East 42nd Street Price: $750–2,500 Time: 6:30 p.m. cocktails and silent auction; 7:30 p.m. dinner; 9 p.m. dancing —Rachel Corbett Marilyn Minter. Photo by Nadya Wasylko. 2. “Badass Art Woman Awards (http://www.projectforemptyspace.org/bawa)” at Project for Empty Space The third annual Badass Art Woman Awards, from Newark nonprofit gallery and artist residency program Project for Empty Space, honors Brooklyn Museum associate curator Carmen Hermo, of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art; scholar and activist Salamishah Tillet, and legendary feminist artist Marilyn Minter. The party will feature surprise performances and a chance to see Amy Khoshbin’s current exhibition, “GHOSTS (http://www.projectforemptyspace.org/ghosts),” as well as cocktails and dinner. Location: Project for Empty Space Price: From $225 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-badass-art-woman-awards-auction-tickets-65064061359) Time: 6 p.m.–10:30 p.m. —Sarah Cascone Wednesday, November 6–Thursday, November 21 Domenic Esposito, Opioid Spoon (2019). Photo courtesy of the artist. 3. The Opioid Spoon Project at Mountainside Chelsea See the famous Opioid Spoon and hear artist/creator Domenic Esposito talk with Mountainside director of community development Dan Smith about how art, activism, and recovery intersect to achieve awareness about the opioid crisis. Location: Mountainside Chelsea, 243 West 18 Street, New York Price: Free (RSVP Here (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mountainside-presents-the-opioid-spoon-project-tickets- 75757283073)) Time: Opening reception 6 p.m.–8 p.m.; Tuesday – Friday 1:00 –2:30 p.m. and 5:00 –7:00 p.m. Saturday 12:00 –4:00 p.m. —Eileen Kinsella Wednesday, November 6–Sunday, May 24, 2020 Reconstructed panel of bricks with a striding lion. Neo-Babylonian Period (reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, circa 604–562 BC). Processional Way, El-Kasr Mound, Babylon (modern Hillah), Iraq. Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 4. “A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate” at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (https://isaw.nyu.edu/) Experience the incredible beauty and craftsmenship of ancient Babylonian artifacts made from unremarkable materials clay bricks, glass, and stone in this exhibition of surviving fragments from the lost kingdom’s Ishtar Gate and Processional Way. Location: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 15 East 84th Street Price: Free Time: Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; Friday, 11 a.m.–8 p.m. —Sarah Cascone Thursday, November 7 Boy Kong, Chasing Stripes from the Art for Tibet auction. 5. Art for Tibet Live Event and Auction (https://www.artfortibet.org/) Students for a Free Tibet’s Art for Tibet fundraiser this year takes to a gallery up in Harlem, Faction Arts (http://factionartprojects.com/), for a week-long show. If you haven’t been yet, it’s more than worth heading uptown for the annual charity auction and get-together on Thursday. The good cause has attracted works-for-sale from the likes of Shepard Fairey and Cey Adams, better known as founding creative director of Def Jam (both are on the committee for the event). Other highlights range from a painting from Tibetan artist Pema Rinzin to a piece by NYC subway graffiti star Al Diaz. It’s all up in the online auction, taking bids now (https://benefitevents.com/auctions/sft2019/catalog.asp). A personal favorite may be the ukeyo-e-inspired inspired surrealist tiger by Boy Kong (https://www.boykongart.com/) (above). Also expect a performance from Tibetan musician Tenzin Choegyal (http://www.tenzinchoegyal.com/) in the lead up to the auction during the evening’s festivities. Location: Gallery 8, 2602 Frederick Douglass Boulevard Price: free Time: 6 p.m.–9 p.m. —Ben Davis Through Thursday, November 7 Boedi Widjaja, 等著你回來 (Waiting for You), 2016. Courtesy of Helwaser Gallery. © Boedi Widjaja. Photography by Cher Him Chua. 6. “Boedi Widjaja: Declaration of” at Helwaser Gallery Since Singapore-based multidisciplinary artist Boedi Widjaja left Indonesia early in his youth, his experience of his home country has largely developed through media imagery and his own imagination. Now in the final days of its run at Helwaser Gallery, the artist’s exhibition “Declaration of” continues the aptly titled “Imaginary Homeland” series that he began in 2015 to explore the contours and complications of this long-distance relationship. The show focuses on large-scale drawings, photographs, and a newly commissioned installation, all based on press photos of Indonesia’s founding president, Sukarno, and his successor by purge, major general Suharto, who went on to rule the country for the next 31 years. Location: Helwaser Gallery, 833 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor Price: Free Time: Tuesday–Thursday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. —Tim Schneider Thursday, November 7–Thursday, November 21 A “Canstruction” sculpture made from canned food donated to City Harvest. Photo courtesy of Brookfield Place. 7. “Canstruction (https://bfplny.com/event/canstruction/)” at Brookfield Place For the 12th straight year, Brookfield Place is hosting a canned food sculpture design competition to benefit food charity City Harvest. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, the massive installations will be donated to the hungry following the exhibition’s end. There are awards for using the most cans, for structural integrity, for best design, and even for the cans that would make for the best meal. Location: Brookfield Place, 230 Vesey Street Price: Free, suggested donation of canned food Time: 10 a.m.–8 p.m. —Sarah Cascone Thursday, November 7–Saturday, November 30 Diarmuid Kelley, Seville Oranges (2019). Courtesy of Offer Waterman. 8. “Diarmuid Kelley: Recent Paintings” at Offer Waterman Gallery London’s Offer Waterman Gallery touches down in New York with a pop-up exhibition hosted by Stellan Holm Gallery, featuring large-scale portraits and still lifes by Diarmuid Kelley. The paintings, sometimes deliberately unfinished, draw on Renaissance art history while remaining decidedly contemporary. Location: Stellan Holm Gallery, 1018 Madison Avenue Price: Free Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.; Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. —Sarah Cascone Thursday, November 7–Saturday, December 21 Mary Corse, Untitled (White, Black, Red, Beveled), 2019. Photo ©Mary Corse, courtesy Kayne Griffin Corcoran. 9. “Mary Corse: Recent Paintings (https://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/mary-corse-2/)” at Pace Gallery Following the California light and space artist’s 2018 retrospective at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, Pace Gallery snapped up Mary Corse. Her first show with the gallery was in Hong Kong during that city’s Art Basel; this New York outing focuses on recent work that sees Corse, known for her deceptively plain black and white canvases studded with the tiny glass microspheres found in road paint, embrace color. Location: Pace Gallery, 540 West 25th Street Price: Free Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.; Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. —Sarah Cascone Thursday, November 7–Saturday, January 18, 2020 Lee Bul, Perdu XXII (2019). Photo courtesy of Lehmann Maupin. 10. “Lee Bul – Interlude: Perdu (http://origin.www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/lee-bul7)” at Lehmann Maupin Fresh off her inclusion in the international exhibition at this year’s Venice Biennale, Lee Bul presents a new show of mixed-media paintings that incorporate mother of pearl, velvet, and acrylic paint. The artist’s vaguely anthropomorphic figures are at once beautiful and disturbing, suggesting new bioengineered species born of a dystopian future. Location: Lehmann Maupin, 536 West 22nd Street Price: Free Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.; Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. —Sarah Cascone Friday, November 8 and Saturday, November 9 Diana Whitten, Vessel (2014), still. Photo courtesy of Diana Whitten. 11. “Reproductive Rights Film Festival (https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/event/opening_reproductive_rights_film_festival_november_2019)” at the Brooklyn Museum As more and more states pass legislation restricting women’s access to abortion, the Brooklyn Museum holds a two-day film festival celebrating the right for reproductive rights. Opening night will include a screening of Reversing Roe (2018), Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg’s documentary about the right’s long-term political campaign to overturn the landmark Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortion nationwide. Screenings of Dawn Porter’s Trapped (2016); Tracy Droz’s Abortion: Stories Women Tell (2016); Alessandra Zeka and Holen Sabrina Kahn’s A Quiet Inquisition (2014); and Diana Whitten’s Vessel (2014) are scheduled for Saturday, along with a conversation between several of the filmmakers and Andrea Miller, president of the National Institute for Reproductive Health.