Editors’ Picks: 19 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. 

Monday, August
5

1. Meet and Greet with Maria Qamar/@hatecopy at Richard Taittinger
Gallery

The Desi-pop artist, Maria Qamar—aka @hatecopy to her 170k
followers—is having a book and poster signing at Richard Taittinger
Gallery to mark her first solo exhibition in New York, which is on
view through September 2. The show pokes fun at the outdated ways
that women are still expected to behave in Indian and Pakistani
cultures and even has samosa-shaped bean bag chairs, and Maggi
Noodle balloons! If you’re a fan, then make sure to line up nice
and early so that you don’t miss out on the best merch.

Location: Richard Taittinger Gallery, 154
Ludlow Street
Price: Free
Time: 6 p.m.–8 p.m.

—Neha Jambhekar

Tuesday, August
6

2. “Viewpoints With Isabella
Rossellini” at the Watermill Center

The latest guest in the Watermill Center’s conversation series
dedicated to contemporary creative themes is filmmaker and actress
Isabella Rossellini.

Location: The Watermill Center, 39 Watermill
Towd Road, Water Mill
Price: $10
Time: 7:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.

—Nan Stewert

3. “Jiri Dolezel: Memory
Traces” at Bohemian National Hall

The Czech Center, New York, has organized
an exhibition of Jiri Dolezel’s “Memory Traces” exhibition,
featuring photos and interviews of Czech immigrants forced to flee
their native country for the US in 1938, ’48, and ’68.

Location: Bohemian National Hall, 321 East
73rd Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 7 p.m.–9 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Tanner West

Wednesday, August
7

4. “Dark ‘Toons” at Socrates
Sculpture Park

Looking for an avant-garde antidote to the new (or old) Lion
King? Head over to Socrates Sculpture Park by dusk on
Wednesday to catch a compilation of European animated shorts that
embrace the dark side. The centerpiece will be This
Magnificent Cake, a celebrated stop-motion short that weaves
45 minutes of magical realism around Belgium’s colonization of the
Congo Basin in the 19th century. (You can see the trailer here.) The Old Traditional Polish Cuisine
food truck will be on site to make sure you don’t have to descend
into the uncanny on an empty stomach.

Location: Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01
Vernon Blvd, Long Island City
Price: Free
Time: 7 p.m.

—Tim Schneider

Wednesday, August 7–Sunday,
August 11

5. “Savannah Knoop: Tripod
Sweep” at the Leslie-Lohman Museum

Savannah Knoop, who gained notoriety in the early 2000s as the public face of the
teen literary phenomena J.T. Leroy hoax, presents a
installation at the Leslie-Lohman Museum, featuring her wrestling
performance “Tripod Sweep.” It’s part of the month-long show
“Arch,” curated by Noam Parness and Daniel J. Sander, with
consecutive gallery takeovers by four different artists and
collectives. Knoop’s piece is an interactive, durational
performance in which she will use the Tripod Sweep, a Brazilian
jiu-jitsu move, to destabilize visitors to the space as part of a
game about connectivity and choice.

Location: Leslie-Lohman Museum, 26 Wooster
Street
Price: Suggested donation $10
Time: Opening reception, Thursday, August 7,
6 p.m.–8 p.m.; Wednesday, Friday–Sunday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m.; Thursday,
12 p.m.–8 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Thursday, August
8

6. “Priority Mail: Our 2019
Mail Art Biennial” at Ground Floor Gallery

This week marks the opening celebrations for Ground Floor
Gallery’s biannual mail art show (on view August 8–September 15),
which promises to showcase any and all small works sent to the
gallery from artists all over the world. The more than 100
participants hail from such diverse locales as Chicago, Block
Island, Montreal, and Brazil. Each piece is priced at just $125,
and can be taken home at any point during the exhibition. The
gallery is also donating 10 percent of the profits to the Committee
to Protect Journalists.

Location: Ground Floor Gallery, 343 5th
Street, Brooklyn
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–9 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

7. “Intricacies: Fragment and
Meaning” at Aicon Gallery

“Intricacies: Fragment and Meaning” is one of the two shows
opening at Aicon Gallery’s upstairs/downstairs establishment (the
other one being a solo exhibition of Pakistani artist Ghulam
Mohammad). This exhibition is a three-person showcase of works by
Rina Banerjee, Mequitta Ahuja, and Peju Alatise, female artists who
focus on themes of feminism and cultural identity. The works
consist of various mediums, including works on paper, paintings,
and sculpture, and are sure to provide an oasis in the late-summer
art desert.

Location: Aicon Gallery, 35 Great Jones
Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Neha Jambhekar

8. “Devin Kenny: los giros
de la siguiente” at MoMA PS1

Gain new insight into the work of artist Devin Kenny, whose
show, “rootkits rootwork,” is currently on view at MoMA PS1. (Fun
fact: The artist has stipulated that the exhibition be closed for
30 minutes each day to allow museum guards to experience and
interact with the works.) The performance draws on many of the same
themes explored in the show, including gentrification,
displacement, and diaspora. Kenny’s music draws connections between
“cumbias rebajadas,” a style that originated in Monterrey, Mexico,
and “chopped and screwed,” a school of hip hop that emerged in
Houston during the ’90s.

Location: MoMA PS1, 46-01 21st Street,
Long Island City, Queens
Price: Free
Time: 6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Tickets will be
distributed starting at 6 p.m. on a first-come, first-served basis
or with advance registration.

—Julia Halperin

Friday, August 9–Sunday,
August 11

9. “30th Anniversary
Screenings: Do the Right Thing” at the Museum of the
Moving Image

Spike Lee’s masterful, politically charged exploration of race
relations remains all-too-relevant thirty years after its initial
release. As we enter the dog days of summer, catch a new 35 mm
print of the film, set on hot, steamy Brooklyn day, at screenings
running all weekend at the Museum of the Moving Image.

Location: The Museum of the Moving Image,
36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, Queens
Price: $15 general admission
Time: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday,
4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Friday, August 9–Sunday,
August 25

10. “Open Call 3” at the Shed

If you’ve rolled through Hudson Yards in recent days, you might
have noticed that the Shed’s much-vaunted moveable shell is finally
in evidence, just in time for the start of the new cultural
institution’s first open-air performances. The third part of the
“Open Call” series commissioning new work from New York-based
emerging artists, the performances will feature 14 artists and
collectives including Salsa Masala, an Indo-Latin fusion band, and
the Illustrious Blacks, who have composed an electro-punk-funk
opera.

Location: The Shed, the Bloomberg
Building, 545 West 30th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues
Price: Free
Time: Dates and times vary

—Sarah Cascone

Saturday, August
10

11. “Graveyard Shift: Kim
Brandt” at Green-Wood
Cemetery

Red Hook’s Pioneer Works has teamed up with
Green-Wood Cemetery to commission new art and performances pieces
to increase public engagement at the site, and reclaim its
historic function as a place for social gatherings and
recreation. Kim Brandt’s Untitled (Green-Wood) is her
first piece performed outdoors, and will see participants build and
break down town mobile structures across the graveyard’s Cedar
Dell, a bucolic circular landscape.

Location: Green-Wood Cemetery, 500
25th Street, Brooklyn
Price: $25
Time: Doors, 6 p.m.; last entry 7:15 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

12. “Alternatives & Futures:
Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Combo Chimbita” at the Queens
Museum

As the Queens Museum celebrates the final days of “Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in
the Americas” (on view through August 18), it’s hosting an
outdoor concert from Afro-Latinx band Combo Chimbita, followed by a
spoken word performance by exhibition artist
Guillermo Gómez-Peña. The museum galleries will be open late
until 8:30 p.m. that night.

Location: Queens Museum, New York City
Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
Price: Free with RSVP
Time: 7:30 p.m.–10 p.m.

—Nan Stewert

Sunday, August
11

13. “Sapphire Pools 3”
launch party at Selenas Mountain

Need a new beach towel after a wild, nutcracker filled, weekend
at the Rockaways? Make sure to cop a limited edition,
artist-designed towel at Selenas Mountain’s launch party this
Sunday afternoon. Participating artists include Dalia Amara,
Katie Buckleitner, Ryan Travis Christian, Lauren Clay, Alexander
Deschamps, Carlos Jaramillo, Anjuli Rathod, and Josh Reames. Towels
start at $130, but hey, they can always double as tapestries if
they’re kept sand, salt-water, and booze free.

Location: Selenas Mountain, 63 Woodward
Ave. #6321, Ridgewood, Queens
Price: Free entry, towels start at $130 and
can be pre-ordered online
Time: 3 p.m.–7 p.m.

—Cristina Cruz

14. “Artists at Noguchi | Bang
on a Can Music Series: Laraaji” at the Noguchi
Museum

Bang on a Can, a performing arts
organization dedicated to innovative music, has teamed up with the
Noguchi for a monthly concert series held in the museum’s outdoor
garden. August sees Laraaji, an instrumentalist and vocalist known
for his virtuosity with the zither, grace the stage.

Location: The Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33rd
Road at Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, Queens
Price: Free with museum admission; general
admission $10
Time: 3 p.m.–4 p.m.

—Tanner West 

Through Thursday, August
15

15. “Westside Exposure: Whitney
Staff Art Show” at Westbeth Gallery

It’s been a tumultuous year at the Whitney Museum of American,
thanks to protests against board vice chair Warren Kanders. Some 90
members of the staff get to speak their mind through art, in this,
the museum’s fourth public staff exhibition.

Location: Westbeth Gallery, 55 Bethune
Street
Price: Free
Time: Wednesday–Sunday, 1 p.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Through Friday, August
16 

16. “Plastic
Garden” at Asya Geisberg

The mind-melting heat of summer
finds a visual equivalent in this exhibition of landscapes that are
all in various ways synthetic, from toxic colored skies to looming,
mammoth flora. The seven-person show hints at the enduring legacies
of Henri Rousseau’s fantastical jungle scenes and Georgia O’Keeffe
desert scenes. Emma Webster’s baroque-meets-Lisa-Frank scenes are
at once decadent and dystopian.

Location: Asya
Geisberg, 537b West 23rd Street
Price: Free

Time:
Tuesday–Friday, 11
a.m.–6 p.m. 

—Katie White

Through Sunday, August
18

17. “Pigeonhole: The Life and
Work of Bobby Alam” at the Knockdown
Center 

Husband and wife team Priyanka Dasgupta and Chad Marshall
have tapped into the little known history of Bengali-Americans who
passed as black to avoid being discriminated against through
anti-Asian immigration laws. Their fictional portrait
of Bahauddin “Bobby” Alam includes a dressing room rehearsal
space, and even a stage where contemporary musicians have been
tapped to play during the exhibition’s run. A closing exhibition
from jazz trio the Modern School will be held Sunday, August 18, 5
p.m.–8 p.m.

Location: The Knockdown Center, 52-19
Flushing Avenue, Maspeth, Queens
Price: Free
Time: Thursday and Friday, 2 p.m.–6 p.m.;
Saturday and Sunday, 2 p.m.–7 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Through Sunday, August
25

18. “GO” at Tiger Strikes
Asteroid

Based on the classic Chinese game of the same name, “GO” takes
the form of a telephone-type photography exercise wherein artists
exchange pictures back and forth, changing them little by little
each time. The result is a sequence of semi-collaborative photos
lining the gallery’s walls that speaks to the instability of the
medium in the hyper-digital age.

Location: Tiger Strikes Asteroid, 1329
Willoughby Ave #2A, Brooklyn
Price: Free
Time: Saturday–Sunday, 1 p.m.–6 p.m.

—Taylor Dafoe

Through Friday, August
30

19. “Night & Day” at Thierry
Goldberg Gallery

Go see fantastic works by Nash Glynn, Sasha Gordon, Marco
Lorenzetti, and Nadia Waheed at Thierry Goldberg’s summer group
show. Salvadorian-American artist John A. Rivas has yet to begin
his MFA program at Columbia and is already seeing great success,
having just had a work acquired by the Dean Collection. Many
blessings to this fellow Central American who is known to
use frijoles (beans) as an artistic medium.
Epic!

Location: Thierry Goldberg Gallery, 109 Norfolk
Street
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Friday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Cristina Cruz

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