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1 week ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad
In the storied histories of New York’s art scenes, the early years of graffiti have a magical sheen. They’ve been romanticized and cinematized so much that it’s hard to imagine what they were actually like for those of us who weren’t there. For this reason, and for the sheer excitement of it, Gordon Matta-Clark: NYC Graffiti 1972/3 at White Columns is not to be missed. Beginning in 1972, Matta-Clark took thousands of photographs of the city’s graffiti artists and their work.
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2 weeks ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad
As its title suggest, arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified: Chapter Eight is two things at once: a group exhibition featuring longtime collaborators and an exploration of the art collective fierce pussy. Structurally, it’s more the former. With one exception, the works represent the individual practices of the core collective members.
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2 weeks ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Lisa Zhang |Julia Curl |Daniel Larkin |Julie Schneider
From jobs to clothing to colors, and more, there’s a lot of variety in our list this week. While our critics are enjoying historical shows focused on labor in the United States and women’s workaday clothes, an exhibition that proposes different ways of looking at color is well worth a visit, as is one that brings together conceptual works by four longtime collaborators. And who can resist John Singer Sargent’s bewitching portrait “Madame X,” on view in The Met’s newly opened Sargent and Paris?
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3 weeks ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Lisa Zhang |Petala Ironcloud |Rebecca Schiffman |Jasmine Weber
If one theme stands out in this week’s list, it’s the presence of strong, talented women. With Patty Chang, Myrlande Contant, and Amy Sherald all featured in solo exhibitions, it’s a great moment to consider the massive skills of these mid-career artists. And while Rembrandt may be the artist driving the Jewish Museum’s current exhibition, the Book of Esther is the inspiration. That said, all the artists in a show on BIPOC design history at the Ford Foundation are definitely worth checking out.
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3 weeks ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad
Myrlande Constant’s opulent textile art can be so captivating that seeing it is almost an immersive experience. In the Haitian artist’s latest exhibition, The Spiritual World of Haiti at Fort Gansevoort gallery, “Devosyon Makaya” (2021–24), stretching nearly 12 feet across, enlivens the historic building’s small third floor.
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4 weeks ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad
CINCINNATI and CLEVELAND — Last year, Shahzia Sikander created a trio of complementary works for her traveling career survey Collective Behavior, currently at the Cincinnati Art Museum and Cleveland Museum of Art. “Gendered Currents: Gopi Regatta,” “Ode to Venice,” and “Procession” — a graphite drawing, intaglio print, and mixed-media collage, respectively — all depict a group of female figures on a gondola, a reference to the show’s debut at the Venice Biennale last year.
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1 month ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Hrag Vartanian |Natalie Haddad |Faye Hirsch |Julia Curl
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. If art both reflects and critique the world around us, there’s more than enough to say at the moment — and plenty of art that can provide some insight.
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1 month ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. A compact exhibition with a massive presence, Giant Women on New York at James Fuentes Gallery takes its name from a series of drawings and collages by Anita Steckel. In Steckel’s works, dating from 1969 to ’74, women the size of skyscrapers overtake New York City, their voluptuous curves challenging the authority of the phallic buildings.
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1 month ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Exhibitions focused on writers are often an uneasy balance of biography and interpretation, image and text, but Franz Kafka, who continues to fascinate and confound readers well into the 21st century, presents an especially complex case. A show dedicated to the author at the Morgan Library & Museum is worthwhile for any fan.
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1 month ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Lisa Zhang |John Yau |Seph Rodney |Alexandra Thomas
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Sometimes there’s nothing more satisfying than encountering the work of a creative force. Our favorite shows this week are each centered on a single figure. Some are visual artists, ranging from historical innovators (Volodymyr Tatlin) to under-appreciated names (Judy Linn) to perhaps unknown names (Abraham Lincoln Walker).
