🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876—Now

📍 The Met

⏰ closing Feb 17

❓exploring how Black artists and cultural figures have engaged with ancient Egypt over 150 years of art, performance, and more with almost 200 works

🔗 see exhibit details. 

➕ Performance on Feb 14 at 3 & 7 pm in conjunction with the exhibit: Flight into Egypt: M. Lamar

➕➕ Colorful Korea: The Lea R. Sneider Collection closes on Feb 16

Keep in mind, we’re now in the final month of Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930 at the Guggenheim. Plan your trip!

In the Galleries

Henry Taylor: No Title

📍 Hauser & Wirth | 18th St

⏰ closing Feb 15

❓series of limited-edition etchings and hand-painted monoprints, reflecting Taylor’s personal experience

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Mark Leckey: 3 Songs from the Liver

📍 Gladstone | 21st St

⏰ closing Feb 15

❓introducing a musical and conceptual project shaped by Leckey’s engagement with London’s NTS radio and a fascination with liminality; Leckey reflects on ecstasy, displacement, and the blurred boundaries between material and immaterial realms

🔗 see exhibit details. 

In addition:

• Paintings as sites of political resistance: Rajkamal Kahlon: Are My Hands Clean? closes on Feb 15 at PPOW in Soho

• Sculptural furniture (commodes): Ingrid Donat: Ancestral closes Feb 15 at Carpenters Workshop Gallery

🎉 Just In

In the Museums

No openings to report — last week, Caspar David Friedrich at The Met and Christine Sun Kim at the Whitney opened.

In the Galleries

Katherine Qiyu Su: Night Landing

📍 Half Gallery | 4th St

⏰ opening Feb 12, with an opening reception at 6-8pm

❓vibrant paintings between abstraction and figuration, deconstructing bodies and movement

🔗 see exhibit details. 

➕ Tommy May: Airlight, featuring expansive small paintings on light, opens the same day

Guan-Hong Lu: View from My Window

📍 Nunu Fine Art

⏰ opening Feb 12

❓exploring media distortion and cultural contradictions through playful yet thought-provoking compositions, inspired by the digital connections during the pandemic

🔗 see exhibit details. 

In addition:

• Portraits subverting traditional gender norms: Sylvia Sleigh: Every leaf is precious opens at Ortuzar Projects on Feb 12

• Sculptures and photographs of car culture: Robert Grosvenor opens on Feb 15 at Paula Cooper Gallery

• Immersive theater of a Polish play: The Mother: An Unsavory Monologue opens on Feb 14 at Pace Gallery

🗓️ Events of the week

• Judith Bernstein in Conversation with Catherine Morris (Kasmin Gallery, Feb 13, 6-8pm) — Judith Bernstein in conversation with Brooklyn Museum curator Catherine Morris on the occasion of Judith Bernstein: Public Fears, which was extended through Feb 20

• An-My Lê and David Campany in Conversation (Marian Goodman Gallery, Feb 15, 4-6 pm) — on the occasion of the exhibition An-My Lê: Dark Star/Grey Wolf

• Late Shift x Hilma’s Ghost and Eve Biddle: Chromatic Altar (Guggenheim, Feb 13, 5:30-8pm) — explore the Guggenheim’s ongoing exhibitions in the evening

• Close Looking with the Curator: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930 (Guggenheim, Feb 18, 12-1pm) — final look at the Orphism exhibit with a curator-led tour

• Studio Workshop—Color Theory and Drawing for Figurative Painting (The Met, Feb 15, 2-5pm) — gain insight into color theory and drawing techniques for figurative painting with artist and Met copyist Jas Knight; note, this event is $150

📚 Further Reading

• [Podcast] Annie Leibovitz & Amy Sherald — Edge of Reason, The Atlantic

• Caspar David Friedrich: A Solitary Wanderer Finding His Way in the Fog — The NYTimes

• Christine Sun Kim’s Landmark Whitney Survey Translates the Deaf Experience Into Art — Artnet

• How Do You Survey an Artist Whose Work Was Temporary and Site-Specific? — Artnet

• ArtSeen: Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now — Brooklyn Rail

• German Expressionist Gabriele Münter Finally Gets Her Moment in the Spotlight — Artnet

• Controversial Open Letter Calls on Christie’s to Halt A.I. Auction — Artnet

• Ahead of a New Collaboration With Sotheby’s, Victoria Beckham Takes Us Inside Her and David’s Collecting Practice — Cultured Mag

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