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Final days to see Giants at the Brooklyn Museum & Joan Jonas at the MoMA
Issue #39: July 2 - 8
Art Pulse NYC
July 02, 2024
📌 Highlights
🚨 Giants at the Brooklyn Museum, Joan Jonas at MoMA, and Hidden Faces at the Met are closing. In the galleries, it’s your final week to see Stanley Whitney at Gagosian and Maria Lassnig at Petzel.
🎉 Alex Katz: Four Seasons is opening at the MoMA. No new galleries are opening this week.
💖 Read our Ongoing Favorites & Further Reading below.
🚨 Last Chance
In the Museums
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys
📍 Brooklyn Museum
⏰ closing July 7
❓ showcasing prominent Black diasporic artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lorna Simpson, and more, highlighting Beatz’s and Keys’s support of Black creativity
✚ Nona Faustine: White Shoes and In the Now: Gender and Nation in Europe are also closing July 7
MELEKO MOKGOSI, “Bread, Butter, and Power”, 2018 | Self-Captured
Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning
📍 MoMA
⏰ closing July 6
❓ comprehensive retrospective of Jonas’s five-decade career, showcasing performance, video, sculpture, and more
Installation view of Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning | Photo: Jonathan Dorado
Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance
📍 Metropolitan Museum of Art
⏰ closing July 7
❓ 60 multisided and covered portraits from the 15th and 16th centuries
In the Galleries
Stanley Whitney: By the Love of Those Unloved
📍 Gagosian | 980 Madison
⏰ closing July 3
❓new paintings and works on paper with masterful color and improvisation, inspired by jazz
✚ Anselm Kiefer: Punctum also closing July 3 on Madison
Maria Lassnig: Drawings
📍 Petzel | E 67th
⏰ closing July 3
❓28 abstract works created from 1955 - 2009
Maria Lassnig, “Wie am Gartenzaun (Like Beside the Garden Fence)”, 1961 | Source
Every drawing is a prevented oil painting, because I do not repeat a drawing in an oil painting, [my drawings] are autonomous.
In addition:
Spotlight: Maud Madsen is closing at The Flag Art Foundation on July 3
🎉 Just In
In the Museums
Alex Katz: Four Seasons
📍 MoMA
⏰ opening July 4
❓four monumental (recent) paintings that chronicle the changing seasons
Alex Katz. “Spring”, 2023-24. Oil on linen | © Alex Katz / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery. Photography by David Regen
In the Galleries
No major gallery exhibits are opening this week. However, as a reminder, the following are excellent ongoing exhibits that worth stopping by:
Maja Ruznic: The World Doesn’t End at Karma (Noho)
Amanda wall: Sky got dark at Almine Rech (UES)
Julia Isídrez: Mundo de Julia at Kasmin (Chelsea)
Yoko Matsumoto: Darkness Against Nature at White Cube (UES)
Darcy & Darcy: In Monochrome at Nunu Fine Art (Nolita)
Patterns at Luhring Augustine (Chelsea & Tribeca)
Diamond Stingily: Orgasms Happened Here at 52 Walker (Tribeca)
📚 Further Reading
Amid Challenges, Small New York City Museums Are Closing Their Doors — The NYTimes
The Man Who Could Paint Loneliness — The New Yorker
Introducing CULTURED's 2024 Young Collectors List — Cultured
Welcome to the slow museum, where less is more — The Art Newspaper
💖 Ongoing Favorites
To bask in a comprehensive collection of monumental Black artists: Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, closing in July
To celebrate innovative Black artistic expression of the 1920s-40s: The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, closing in July
To see the latest and greatest in American Art: The Whitney Biennial: Event Better Than The Real Thing, closing in August
For an iconic installation of word & political art: Jenny Holzer: Light Line, closing in September
To witness the trailblazing portraits of an Expressionist: Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich Bin Ich/ I Am Me, closing in September
Image Sources: self-captured
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