Editors’ Picks: 18 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week

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

Tuesday, September
10–Saturday, October 19

In the gallery’s first show of Anni Albers’s work since David
Zwirner announced representation of the artist’s estate, Albers’s
complex works will be on view in all their geometric glory. A
highlight is Albers’s 10-foot-high wall hanging Camino
Real, from 1968, seen for the first time outside its home in
Mexico City, and revealing the impact Latin American culture had on
the artist’s work.

Location: David Zwirner, 537 West 20th
Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8
p.m.; Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Caroline Goldstein

Wednesday, September
11

2. Gallery Night at the Fuller Building

Eight dealers in the Fuller Building are teaming up to hold
their fall openings in concert and remind the art world why the Art
Deco architectural gem has historically been a gallery hub.
Highlights will include six decades worth of prints by Ed Ruscha at
David Benrimon Fine Art and neo-expressionist painter Louisa
Chase—currently the subject of an exhibition at the Parrish Art
Museum—at Hirschl and Adler.

Location: The Fuller Building, 41 East
57th Street
Price: Free
Time: 6 p.m.–8 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

3. “Performance & Artist Talk
with Qinza Najm” at A.I.R. Gallery

A.I.R. celebrates a trio of fall openings with a performance of
Qinza Najm’s Tabdeeli, Urdu for
“transformation.” The work, which debuted at the Queens Museum in
2017, features video projections, a soundtrack, and five dancers
encased in translucent fabric, representing the restrictions
presented by various political and social taboos.

Location: A.I.R. Gallery, 155 Plymouth St,
Brooklyn
Price: Free
Time: 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Thursday, September
12

4. Lisa Barnard, The Canary and The Hammer
Talk and Signing at Printed
Matter

Lisa Barnard’s newest book, The Canary and The Hammer (MACK,
2019), blends documentary photography, text, and archival materials
to look at humanity’s continued obsession with gold and the lengths
we go to obtain it—even as the materiality of wealth becomes
increasingly abstracted in our technocapitalist world. Barnard will
present a talk on the project at the book’s launch party, hosted by
Printed Matter.

Location: Printed Matter, 231 11th
Avenue
Price: Free
Time: Thursday, 6 p.m.–8 p.m

—Taylor Dafoe

5. The Crow Screening
and Q&A at Nitehawk Cinema

Culture Canon, a new roving film screening series curated by Jon
Hogan, launches with an ode to the 25th anniversary of The
Crow, perhaps best known for the on-set death of star Brandon
Lee. Following a 35mm screening, Hogan will lead a Q&A with
Bruce Lee biographer Matthew Polly.

Location: Nitehawk Cinema, 188 Prospect
Park West, Brooklyn
Price: $18
Time: 7:15 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Thursday, September
12–Sunday, September 22

6. Photoville at Brooklyn Bridge
Park

For the eighth straight year, Photoville sets up shop
under the Brooklyn Bridge, parking shipping containers and
turning them into art galleries to create an immersive photography
village. The New York Times will present “Redefining
Representation: The Women of the 116th Congress,” a project by
photojournalist Elizabeth D. Herman and photographer Celeste Sloman
documenting the 131 women currently serving in Congress.

Location: Brooklyn Bridge Park
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Thursday, September
12–Thursday, October 12

7. “DREAMstate” at GR Gallery

Opening on Bowery this Thursday at GR Gallery is “DREAMstate,” a
group show featuring artists Joseph Lee, Erik Mark Sandberg, Dennis
Osadebe, and Joshua Vides. All are exhibiting with the gallery for
the first time but I’m most looking forward to Sandberg’s works.
His fuzzy and gelatinous textures are a sensory experience akin to
slime oozing onto Oppenheim’s cup and saucer.

Location: 255 Bowery
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–9 p.m.;
Wednesday–Sunday, 12 p.m.–7 p.m.

—Cristina Cruz

Thursday, September
12–Saturday, October 19

8. “Shut Up: Joe Massey’s
Messages from Prison” at Ricco/Maresca

A mysterious figure of the Outsider Art field, African American
artist and poet Joe Massey was  serving time for murder in
the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus when the surrealist
magazine View began printing his submissions,
alongside works by the likes of Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp.
Ricco/Maresca presents a selection of drawings, mostly done in
black or blue pen, created during Massey’s nearly 16-year
incarceration. The artist’s later life is shrouded in mystery.

Location: Ricco/Maresca, 529 West 20th
Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Friday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Thursday, September
12–Saturday, November 2

9. “Aleah Chapin: What Happens
at the Edge” at Flowers Gallery

Flowers Gallery is starting the fall season with a bang with a
solo show of New York Academy of Art alumna Aleah Chapin. Chapin
juxtaposes soft, nude female figures against the rigidity of rocks
and other natural formations in these large, monochromatic
paintings in an effort to explore a “world concerned with
‘in-betweenness and edges’”.

Location: Flowers Gallery, 529 West 20th
Street, third floor
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Neha Jambhekar

Thursday, September
12–Saturday, October 26

10.”Hannah Van Bart: Places and
Beings” at Marianne Boesky Gallery

This marks the sixth solo show of work by Amsterdam-based artist
Hannah Van Bart and the selection of new paintings—landscapes,
portraits, and still-life scenes—feature her signature moody
palette and often mysterious imagery. Van Bart is known for
skillfully melding figural and abstract styles to convey both the
physical imagery and psychological sense of people and places..

Location: 507 West 24th Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Eileen Kinsella

Friday, September
13

11. “Double Vision: Agathe Snow & Marianne Vitale”
Closing Reception at the Elaine de Kooning House

Artists and frequent collaborators Marianne Vitale and Agathe
Snow spent the month of August creating work in residency at the
Elaine de Kooning House in East Hampton. The resulting exhibition
is a multimedia explosion, with figurative paintings as well as
sculptural installations, including a piece made from car bumpers
left behind by John Chamberlain, who lived in the house after
Elaine de Kooning. The artists have also built a bar in the
basement, which they’ve been using to serve drinks during a series
of parties and events, all culminating with a closing party this
weekend during the Bridge, an invitation-only art
and car show in nearby Bridgehampton.

Location: The Elaine de Kooning House, 55
Alewive Brook Road, East Hampton
Price: Free with RSVP
Time: Closing reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

12. “Restoring Notre Dame: A Look at the Digital
Scans That Could Help” at the Frick Collection

In the wake of the devastating fire that burned the spire of
Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral, Lindsay Cook, a visiting assistant
professor at Vassar College’s art department in Poughkeepsie, New
York, presents high-resolution 3-D laser scans of the historic
church conducted by the late architectural historian Andrew Tallon
beginning in 2010. Cook will explain how this near-complete digital
record of the building is assisting in the restoration efforts.

Location: The Frick Collection, Music
Room, 1 East 70th Street
Price: Free
Time: 4 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Opening Friday, September
13

13. “Janiva Ellis” at 47 Canal

One unmissable highlight of the 2019 Whitney Biennial was Janiva
Ellis’s Uh Oh, Look Who Got Wet (2019), a 20-foot-long
show-stopper of a painting depicting a woman with child busting
through an oil-slicked neon river against a crimson sky. The
deafening praise made it easy to forget that Ellis, who is 32, has
had just one New York solo show in her career, and it was just two
years ago. Her second opens Friday at the star-making Lower East
Side outfit 47 Canal. There’s little information about what’s in
store, but hopefully we will get another set of grandly scaled,
psychedelically tinged paintings.

Location: 47 Canal, 291 Grand Street, Second
Floor
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Nate Freeman 

Friday, September
13–Saturday, October 20

14. “Annie Morris” at Timothy
Taylor

British artist Annie Morris’s first show with Timothy Taylor
features new tapestry works as well as her precariously stacked
spherical sculptures, formed from plaster and sand and painted with
ultramarine, viridian, and ochre pigments that the artist has
hand-sourced.

Location: Timothy Taylor, 515 West 19th
Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Friday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Friday, September
13–Sunday, October 20

15. “Holly Village” at
Bodega

A strange and delightful press release accompanies “Holly
Village,” a group show opening Friday at Bodega, on the Lower East
Side. Instead of the normal abstract artspeak, curator James
Michael Shaeffer describes, at great length, the series of unlikely
events that led him to put together the show—starting with a chance
encounter with artists at, of all places, a sports bar in the East
Village where he was watching an NBA Finals game. “Unwittingly,
this sports bar had managed to attract a gaggle of MFAs,” he
writes. From there, Shaeffer describes how he chose works by
Whitney Claflin, Trisha Baga, Greg Parma Smith, and Lutz Bacher,
among others for the stacked group show, and in a meta note, he
also describes the process behind the press release itself. The
first set of eyes to read it was his mother.

Location: Bodega, 167 Rivington Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Wednesday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Nate Freeman

Friday, September 13–Saturday,
October 26

16. “Tali
Lennox: The Ballad of Linda Leven” at Meredith Rosen
Gallery

For her first solo exhibition
with Meredith Rosen, Tali Lennox presents a series of portraits
that mash up real New York subjects with fantastical
representations of the (often forlorn) personal mythologies they’ve
manifested. Inspired by the haunting allegorical imagery of Brassaï
and Otto Dix, Lennox captures the eerie beauty of ravaged hopes, as
well as the weirdly alluring aftermath of entire lives lived in
excess on the societal fringes of modern America.

Location: Meredith
Rosen Gallery, 11 East 80th Street
Price:
Free
Time:
Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Normal hours, Tuesday–Saturday, noon–6 p.m.

—Tim Schneider

Friday, September
13–Saturday, November 2

17. “Aliza Nisenbaum: Coreografias” at Anton Kern
Gallery

After her star turn at the 2017 Whitney Biennial, Aliza
Nisenbaum is making her New York gallery debut at Anton Kern with a
new suite of portraits and raucously colorful canvases. The works
are born from Nisenbaum’s interaction with community groups as an
activist, and that level of intimacy and investment in her subjects
shows.

Location: Anton Kern Gallery, 16 East
55th Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Caroline Goldstein

Sunday, September
15–Monday, December 16, 2019

18. “École du Soir (The Evening Academy)” at
SculptureCenter

At SculptureCenter, Rwandan-born artist Christian Nyampeta takes
the institution’s prompt, “thinking Africa” then and now, to
consider the idea of an “evening school,” as well as functional
communal objects.

Location: 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island
City
Price: $10 suggested donation
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Thursday–Monday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Caroline Goldstein

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