🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing

📍 Whitney

⏰ closing August 11

❓ the 81st edition the Biennial, featuring the longest-running survey of American Art, with 69 artists and 2 collectives focused on ideas of “the real”, exploring discussions on identity and the change

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ People Who Stutter Create: Stuttering Can Create Time is closing Aug 11, at 95 Horatio St

✚✚ Sharing our favorite works from the Biennial

An Atlas of Es Devlin

📍 Cooper Hewitt

⏰ closing August 11

❓showcasing transformative works, from kinetic stage designs to public installations, from the 30-year archive of Es Devlin

🔗 see exhibit details.

In the Galleries

The Swimmer

📍 The Flag Art Foundation | 25th St

⏰ closing Aug 9

❓group exhibition inspired by John Cheever’s 1964 short story, featuring Cindy Sherman, Ed Ruscha, and more, with themes of class, idealism, and failure through depictions of bodies of water

🔗 see exhibit details.

✚ Spotlight: Nathaniel Oliver is closing the same day

Betty Tompkins: Just a Pretty Face

📍 PPOW | 392 Broadway (Soho)

⏰ closing Aug 9

❓highlighting Tompkins’ decades-long exploration of female representation and sexual desire

🔗 see exhibit details.

✚ Airhead is closing the same day

Julia Isídrez: Mundo de Julia

📍 Kasmin | 10th Ave

⏰ closing Aug 9

❓contemporary reinterpretation of traditional Paraguayan Guaraní ceramic techniques

🔗 see exhibit details.

✚ Crossings is closing at the 27th St location on the same day

In addition:

• Demetrius Wilson: BAM! and Tenki Kiramatsu: Slow Living at Half Gallery are closing on Aug 10

🎉 Just In

No new major exhibits to report in neither museums nor galleries.

🗓️ Events of the week

• Free Second Sundays at Whitney (Aug 11) — an opportunity to go to the Whitney for free all day, along with your final chance to see the Biennial

• $10 Second Sundays at Fotografiska (Aug 11) — reduced admission all day

• Artists on Artworks—Shari Mendelson on Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co. at the Met (Aug 9, 6-6:45pm) — join Mendelson to explore the exhibition through her insights

• Kelly Lee Owens and 8ULENTINA (DJ Sets) at MoMA (Aug 10, 4-8pm)

📚 Further Reading

• The World Should Know 94-Year-Old Artist Susan Weil — Artnet

• The Bad Dream of Surrealism — The New Yorker

• Stitch by Stitch, Pacita Abad Crossed Continents and Cultures — The NYTimes

• At 88, Mexican Surrealist Pedro Friedeberg Has Seen It All — Artnet

• 8 Questions Artists Should Ask Before Signing With a Gallery — Artnet

• An Opera About John Singer Sargent and a Male Model — The New Yorker

• A Creole in Napoleon’s Paris — Puck News

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