Editors Picks: 15 Things Not to Miss in New Yorks Art World This Week – artnet News

Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. See them below.

Tricia Wright, Pandoras Box (detail, 2019). Courtesy of the artist and BRIC.

1. Present Bodies: Papermaking at DieuDonn at the Gallery at BRIC House

The BRIC gallery is presenting a curated collaboration with DieuDonn, the Brooklyn-based studio where artists can learn paper-making techniques. The exhibition features the work of eight artists (Swoon, Noel W. Anderson, Lesley Dill, Candy Gonzalez, Lina Puerta, Paul Wong, Saya Woolfalk, and Tricia Wright), each of whom are presenting works based on the theme of paper as a repository of memories.

Location:Gallery at BRIC House, 647 Fulton StreetPrice:FreeTime:Opening reception, Wednesday 7 p.m.9 p.m.; TuesdayFriday, 11 a.m.7 p.m.; Saturday & Sunday, 11 a.m.5 p.m.

Caroline Goldstein

A promotional image for John Dowell: Cotton: Symbol of the Forgotten. Courtesy of Laurence Miller Gallery.

2. John Dowell: Cotton, Symbol of theForgotten at Laurence Miller Gallery

John Dowells sobering works reflect on the histories and legacies of race relations in America. This show focuses in particular on the lives of black Americans in New York state, and includes a digital rendering ofSeneca Village, a once-vibrant community that was founded in 1825. InDowells work, the hub, which was razed to make space for Central Park, is imagined alongside the apartment buildings that replaced it.

Location:Laurence Miller Gallery, 521 West 26th Street, 5th floorPrice:FreeTime:TuesdaySaturday, 10 a.m.6 p.m.

Nan Stewart

Calvin Tompkins, The Lives of Artists: Collected Profiles. Photo courtesy of Phaidon Press.

3. The Lives of ArtistsAn Evening with Calvin Tomkins at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

TheNew YorkersCalvin Tompins will discuss his latest book box set, The Lives of Artistsa compilation of over 80 of his most important artist profiles from 1962 to 2019with artist Paul Chan.

Location:The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 1000 5th AvenuePrice:Free with registrationTime:6:30 p.m.7:30 p.m.

Sarah Cascone

Portrait of Michela Marino Lerman. Photo: Luis Guillen, courtesy of the Whitney.

4. Jazz on a High Floor in the Afternoon: Michela Marino LermansLove Movement at the Whitney Museum of American Art

What better way to spend a frigid winter evening than cozied up in the Whitney listening to jazz? As part of the programming for composer and pianist Jason Morans exhibition, Moran and curator Adrienne Edwards have orchestrated live performances alongside Morans installations, which riff on iconic jazz venues from around New York.

Location:The Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort StreetPrice:$25 general admission; $18 for members and students

Time:Friday, 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.; Saturday, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.

Caroline Goldstein

Isaac Mizrahi narrating Peter and the Wolf. with choreography by John Heginbotham, for the Guggenheim Works and Process series. Photo by Robert Altman.

5. Peter & the Wolf With Isaac Mizrahi at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahis version of Sergei Prokofievs childrens classicPeter and the Wolfhas become an annual holiday tradition at the Guggenheim. In addition to providing the costumes, Mizrahi narrates the 1936 symphony, reimagined here to take place across the street in Central Park.

Location:The Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th AvenuePrice:General admission $45Time:Friday, 6:30 p.m.7 p.m.; Saturday, 1 p.m.1:30 p.m.;2:30 p.m.3 p.m.; 4 p.m.4:30 p.m.; Sunday,2:30 p.m.3 p.m.; 4 p.m.4:30 p.m.

Sarah Cascone

Fiona Banner, Self-Portrait as a Publication (2009). Courtesy of Susan Inglett Gallery.

6. By/Buy Me at Susan Inglett Gallery

In a new group show at Susan Inglett Gallery, curator David Platzker has brought together editioned artworks that have been self-published by artists. The show, which explores themes of commodification and the role of an artist in a commercial art world, includes works by Fiona Banner, Tauba Auerbach, Dan Graham, Hannah Wilke, Richard Prince, and Lynda Benglis, among others.

Location:Susan Inglett Gallery, 522 West 24th StreetPrice:FreeTime:TuesdaySaturday, 10 a.m.6 p.m.

Caroline Goldstein

Installation view of Elias Sime: Tightrope at Hamilton Colleges Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art. Photo by Janelle Rodriguez.

7. Elias Sime: Tightrope at Hamilton Colleges Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art

Repurposing electronic waste such as old computer keyboards, motherboards, and electrical wires,Ethiopian artist Elias Sime creates densely detailed, layered colorful sculptures. He imbues these unexpected materials with a sense of beauty, drawing comparisons between the workings of such manmade machinery and the pathways that spring up organically in the natural world.

Location: Hamilton College, Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, 198 College Hill Road, Clinton, New YorkPrice:FreeTime:TuesdaySunday, 11 a.m.5 p.m.

Sarah Cascone

Michael Apteds 63 Up.

8. 63 Up at Film Forum

In 1964, Michael Apted was tapped to work as a researcher on 7 Up, a British documentary that took a peek into the lives of 14 seven-year-old children from around the country, examining the differences across social classes. Every seven years since, Apted has followed up with his subjects, directing one of cinemas most enduring documentaries. The ninth and latest edition, likely the lastApted is 78 and in failing healthdebuted on the UKs ITV in June, and you can catch it this month at Film Forum.

Location:Film Forum, 209 West Houston Street, west of 6th AvenuePrice:General admission $15Time:12:30 p.m., 3:20 p.m., 6:20 p.m.,9:15 p.m.

Sarah Cascone

Installation view of John Chamberlain & Donald Judd at Paula Cooper. Photo courtesy of Paula Cooper.

9. John Chamberlain & Donald Judd at Paula Cooper

Paula Cooper pairs the giants of John Chamberlain and Donald Judd in this two-person exhibition that highlights their friendship in the 1960s. The two influenced each others work, with Judd experimenting withmotorcycle lacquers after encountering them in Chamberlains work, and even supplying the raw materials for a series of his friends crushed metal sculptures.

Location:Paula Cooper, 524 West 26th StreetPrice:FreeTime:TuesdaySaturday, 10 a.m.6 p.m.

Nan Stewert

Installation view of Gilles Barbier: Laughing at clouds at the Chimney. Photo courtesy of the Chimney.

10. Gilles: Barbier: Laughing at clouds at the Chimney

A native of the Oceanic island republic of Vanuatu, Gilles Barbier presents his first solo show, channelling Rene Magritte with a surreal installation of floating umbrellas that transform the gallery into an otherworldly landscape. The show was inspired by a photograph of President Donald Trump abandoning his wife Melania to stand in the rain as he engaged with reporters from underneath an umbrella.

Location:The Chimney, 200 Morgan Avenue, BrooklynPrice:FreeTime: Saturday and Sunday, 2 p.m.6 p.m.

Tanner West

Tianyi Zhang, installation view of 99 Agreements (2019). Courtesy of Elijah Wheat Showroom.

11. Tianyi Zhang: 99 Agreements at Elijah Wheat Showroom

China-born, New York-based Tianyi Zhangs new gallery exhibition explores gender identity and power dynamics through media-informed role playing. In the titular multichannel video work, Zhang inhabits 99 different high-femme personas, all vocalizing the word yes in a different situation. Viewers are left to intuit each characters emotional state and broader narrative based only on minimal visual context and the tone of their respective acquiescence. Together, the 99 simultaneous vignettes nod toward the overwhelming number of women who feel pressured to comply in a whole range of personal and professional scenarios every dayand how much would change if they instead decided to bear the (sometimes significant) risks of refusing.

Location: Elijah Wheat Showroom,1196 Myrtle Avenue, BrooklynPrice: FreeTime: FridaySunday, 12 p.m.6 p.m.

Tim Schneider

Installation view of Lucien Samaha: A History of Digital Photography. Courtesy of Pioneer Works.

12. Lucien Samaha: A History of Digital Photography at Pioneer Works

Red Hook-based Pioneer Works is showing three decades worth of works by New York-based photographer Lucien Samaha, whose career coincides with the inception and rise of digital photography. In 1990, Samaha won the inaugural Kodak Professional Photography Division scholarship, which allowed him to use the companys newfangled digital camera system before anyone else. In the intervening years, Samaha has documented just about every place hes been, and the fruits of his labors are the focus of this show.

Location:Pioneer Works,159 Pioneer StreetPrice:FreeTime:Wednesday-Sunday, 12 p.m.7 p.m.

Caroline Goldstein

Vanessa German, Serena as Black Madonna #2(2015). Courtesy of the artist, Pavel Zoubok Fine Art, & Fort Gansevoort.

Vanessa Germans works are like Mickalene Thomass photo-tableaux in three dimensions, crossed with Niki de Saint Phalles colorful sculptures. In the press release accompanying the exhibition, German says: I am in love with the deep survival, elastic resilience, and ordinary creative genius of Black people.

Location:Fort Gansevoort, 5 9th AvenuePrice:FreeTime:Opening reception, 6 p.m.8 p.m.; TuesdaySaturday, 10 a.m.6 p.m.

Caroline Goldstein

Travis Boyer, Boyersock. Courtesy of the artist and False Flag.

14. Travis Boyer: Amongus at False Flag

Though Travis Boyers work is grounded in performance, the range of his practice is diverse, and includes painting, sculpture, cyanotype, videos, and textiles. Inspired by familiar scenes, such as drinking games and group fitness classes, his performative works meld the private with the public. As the artist himself explains:it is about the activity being really legible in such a way that you, as a participant, can take it or leave it, project onto it or ignore it.

Location:False Flag, 1122 44th Road, Long Island City, QueensPrice:FreeTime:Opening reception, 6 p.m.8 p.m.; TuesdaySunday, 12 p.m.6 p.m.

Eileen Kinsella

Jamal Penjweny, from the series Saddam is Here (2010). Courtesy of the artist.

15. Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 19912011 at MoMA PS1

This ambitious exhibitionwhich examines the impact on visual culture and art of American-led wars in Iraq over the past 30 yearsis not really the kind you can spin through on your lunch hour. Instead, come back two or three times, taking in a floor or two during each visit. The show features more than 30 works by more than 80 artists based in Iraq and its diasporas, as well as artists considering the warthe first to be televised during the rise of 24-hour cable newsfrom the West. Its a slow burn that will stay with you for a long time.

Location:MoMA PS1, 2225 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, QueensPrice:$25 general admissionTime:MondayThursday, 10 a.m.5:30 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m.9 p.m.; Saturday & Sunday, 10 a.m.5:30 p.m.

Julia Halperin

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