Editors’ Picks: 24 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World, Print Week Edition

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

Sunday, October
20–Wednesday, November 20

1. “Anton Ginzburg and Dasha Shishkin: Partial
Eclipse” at Fridman Gallery

An uncompromising group show of two expat Russian artists of the
Perestroika generation, this treat at Fridman Gallery is as notable
for the diamond-sharp artworks in it as for the scenographic
setting in which they are displayed. First, the art:
Neo-Constructivist paintings and drawings by Anton Ginzburg,
employing hard-edged geometries to open up imaginary dimensions and
landscapes, plus a mesmerizing video of Uzbek men hand-counting one
million Uzbekistani Soms (about $400) in the basement; and
free-hanging paintings on linen and Mylar by Dasha Shishkin,
featuring semi-abstracted naked figures who smoke cigarettes and
drip strange substances into one another’s orifices. As for the
setting, Ginzburg has deployed his strict geometries to painting
color blocks on the gallery’s walls (including one large, bold,
brown square), creating dazzling lines of sight as one traverses
the gallery and fusing the disparate works into a single
expression.

Location: Fridman Gallery 169 Bowery
(between Delancey and Broome)
Price: Free
Time: Wednesday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Andrew Goldstein

Monday, October
21

2. “Judy Chicago: New
Views” at the Cooper Union 

It’s a busy fall for Judy
Chicago, with solo shows in three
cities across the US: “The End: A Meditation on Death and
Extinction” at the National Museum of Women in the Arts through
January 20; and “Los Angeles” at Jeffrey
Deitch Los Angeles and “Picturing Extinction:
Studies for the End” at New York’s Salon 94 Freemans Alley,
both through November 2. Last week also marked the launch of the
Judy Chicago Research Portal, providing
online access to the artist’s archives, which are housed at the
Schlesinger Library for the History of Women in America at Harvard,
the Penn State University Libraries, and NMWA. The tireless
80-year-old will discuss her life and career with author Sarah
Thornton at the Cooper Union, followed by a signing for Chicago’s
new book, Judy Chicago: New
Views.

Location: The Great Hall at Cooper Union,
7 East 7th Street
Price: Free with RSVP
Time: 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Tuesday, October 22

3. “Fine
Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Korakrit Arunanondchai” at
Pratt Institute 

Whitney Biennial standout artist Korakrit Arunanondchai is
featured in Pratt’s visiting artist series, where he will speak
about his diverse practice spanning film, photography, performance,
and technology. The artist lives and works between Bangkok and New
York, and is best known for his lush, fantastical narrative
filmscapes.

Location: Pratt Institute, Higgins
Hall Auditorium, Brooklyn Campus at 200 Willoughby Avenue
Price: Free
Time: 7 p.m.–9 p.m.

—Caroline Goldstein

Tuesday, October 22–Saturday,
February 29, 2020

4. “The Expressionist Legacy” at Galerie St.
Etienne

Galerie St. Etienne, which helped introduce the US to Austrian
and German Expressionism, turned 80 this year, and has celebrated
with a trio of exhibitions. The final show revisits the challenges
faced by founder Otto Kallir given anti-German sentiment during and
following World War II, and his dedication to artists such
as Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Paula Modersohn-Becker, and
Egon Schiele, all of whom had their first US solo shows with the
gallery. Drawing from private collections and the holdings of
international museums, the current exhibition features some of the
important works sold by Kallir during those years.

Location: Galerie St. Etienne, 24 West
57th Street, #802
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Friday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Wednesday, October
23–Friday, October 25

5. “Vera List Center Forum
2019: If Art Is Politics” at the New School Vera List Center
for Art and Politics

For its annual forum on art as political practice, the Vera List
Center has invited African artist collective Chimurenga,
winner of the institution’s Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social
Justice, to stage its piece Pan African Space Station
(PASS). The work is inspired by the second World Black and
African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC), a gathering of
leading black artists, activists, and intellectuals including Alice
Walker, Betye Saar, and Barkley Hendricks that was held in Lagos,
Nigeria in 1977. The weekend’s programming will feature a concert
from jazz legend Craig Harris that reprises a historic performance
from the original event.

Location: The New School, Sheila C.
Johnson Design Center, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, 66
5th Avenue; Tishman Auditorium, University Center, 63 5th
Avenue
Price: Free with registration
Time: Times vary

—Sarah Cascone

Wednesday, October
23–Wednesday, November 20

6. “HARVEST: A Convening of
Materiality & Form” at ChaShaMa

ChaShaMa, real estate heiress Anita Durst’s charity offering
exhibition and studio space to artists, is hosting the inaugural
exhibition for new art advisory Sidel & McElwreath. The duo works
exclusively with living artists—Mark Tribe, Caris Reid, and Hiba
Schahbaz are among those featured in the upcoming show—and part of
the proceeds will benefit the Wassaic Project Artist Residency in
upstate New York.

Location: ChaShaMa, 172 East 4th
Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Wednesday–Saturday, 12 p.m.–5 p.m.

—Nan Stewert

Wednesday, October
23–Friday, December 20

7. “Amy Khoshbin: GHOSTS” at Project for Empty Space

Inspired by the death of her father, an Iranian immigrant, Amy
Khoshbin has created a site-specific presentation about loss and
migration. Highly critical of the state of contemporary society,
Khoshbin examines her personal experience from the wider lens of
the so-called American dream as contrasted with white supremacy and
the patriarchy. It’s the last show at Project for Empty Space’s
current home, before the art nonprofit opens a new space in January
2020.

Location: Project for Empty Space, 2
Gateway Center Gallery, Newark
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Monday–Friday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Wednesday, October
23–Sunday, September 27, 2020

8. “Frederick J. Brown: Dreams
and the Possibility of…” at the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art &
Storytelling

Over his nearly 50-year career, expressionist painter Frederick
J. Brown (1945–2012) painted all manner of dreamlike canvases. The
artist’s son, Bentley Brown, has co-curated this exhibition with an
eye toward themes of self, mythology, and the American dream,
inviting poet Felipe Luciano, who collaborated with Brown, to
provide written reflections in response to the artworks.

Location: Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art &
Storytelling, 898 St. Nicholas Avenue at West 155th Street
Price: $7 general admission
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Thursday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

—Tanner West

Thursday, October
24

9. “Creative Time Gala 2019” at
the Skylight on Vesey

Earlier this month, it was a sobering affair when Creative Time
projected Jenny Holzer’s VIGIL, featuring testimony from people
affected by gun violence, on the buildings of Rockefeller
Center. The artist, who has now done three projects with Creative
Time, will now be the center of attention for a more celebratory
occasion, as the honoree for the public art nonprofit’s 2019 gala.
The after party will feature DJ duo Chances With Wolves and Italian
food from Parm.

Location: Skylight on Vesey, 300 Vesey
Street
Price: Dinner from $1,500; after party from
$100
Time: Dinner, 6:30 p.m.–10 p.m.; After party,
10 p.m.–1:30 a.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Thursday, October
24–Saturday, October 26

10. The International Print Center New
York’s PrintFest

Emerging artists get a moment in the sun during Print Week at
the IPCNY’s annual event featuring MFA and senior BFA students from
New York’s New School Parsons School of Design, the Rhode Island
School of Design, the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, and
other schools. There’s an artist panel discussion on Saturday and
inking demonstrations from the Speedball Print
Posse.

Location: 550 West 29th Street
Price: Free
Time: Thursday, 5 p.m.–9 p.m.;
Friday and Saturday, 12 p.m.–7 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Thursday, October
24–Sunday, October 27

11. The New York Satellite
Print Fair at Mercantile Annex 37

A stone’s throw from the International Fine Print
Dealers Association’s Fine Art Print
Fair at the Javits Center, the New York Satellite Print
Fair also offers prints, drawings, and works on paper. The
offerings of the 17 participating dealers range from the handiwork
of Impressionist masters such as Edgar Degas and Childe Hassam to
contemporary artists including Carrie Moyer and Markus
Linnenbrink.

Location: Mercantile Annex 37, 517
West 37th Street
Price: Free with registration
Time: Thursday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–7 p.m.;
Sunday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

12. Editions/Artists’ Books
Fair at the Caldwell Factory

A total of 37 dealers, including Brooklyn’s Dieu Donné and
Chicago’s Spudnik Press Cooperative, will grace the 2019 edition of
the E/AB Fair, presented by the Lower East Side Printshop in a new
location next to the High Line.

Location: The Caldwell Factory, 547 West
26th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues
Price: Free (VIP vernissage $50)
Time: VIP preview, 5 p.m.–9 p.m.; Friday
and Saturday, 11 a.m.–7 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Thursday, October
24–Saturday, December 7

13. “Jason Rhoades:
Tijuanatanjierchandelier” at David Zwirner

Immerse yourself in a large-scale, neon light-studded
installation by late American artist Jason Rhoades at David
Zwirner’s 19th Street location this Thursday. By intermixing found
objects such as mattresses, rugs, pelts, sombreros, souvenirs, and
other tchotchkes with a complex network of wires and neon lights,
Rhoades makes a biting commentary on modern consumer culture and
cultural identity. The installation titled
“Tijuanatanjierchandelier” is being shown for the first time in New
York after having previously been exhibited in 2006 at Centro de
Arte Contemporáneo in Málaga, Spain, and then at the 52nd Venice
Biennale in 2007.

Location: David Zwirner, 519 West 19th
Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Neha Jambhekar

14. “Laurent Grasso: OttO” at Sean Kelly New
York

The show centers on the film Grasso created for the Sydney
Biennale, making its US debut at the gallery alongside paintings,
videos, and sculptures related to the project. The work explores
aboriginal Australian sites, where Grasso captures electromagnetic
radiation resulting in spectral, ethereal imagery. The artist will
be on site at the gallery opening, and on Saturday, October 26,
will be presenting an artist talk.

Location: Sean Kelly New York, 475 10th
Avenue
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.; artist talk, Saturday, October 26
at 11:30 a.m.

—Caroline Goldstein

Thursday, October 24–Friday,
December 20 

15. “Ebony G. Patterson…to dig
between the cuts, beneath the leaves, below the soil…” at Hales
Gallery

Those who have read Michael
Pollan’s 2001 hit book The Botany of Desire may recall the
biological argument that flowers became pretty and fruit sweet not
by chance, but rather as purposefully developed traits intended to
increase propagation—that is, they are pleasing human predilections
to meet their own intentions. The artist Ebony G. Patterson might
be thought to do the same, using innate beauty of a garden to
“physically, psychologically and emotionally” ensnare her viewers
to her own unexpected ends. For this, her first show with the
gallery, she presents dazzling, tangled paper-cuts of entwined
vines, vegetal patterns, and heavy blossoms. Among these, a careful
eye will find various lost human relics—children’s toys,
silhouettes of limbs—to an unnerving effect. 

Location: Hales Gallery,
547 West 20th Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m. 

—Katie White

Thursday, October
24–Saturday, January 18, 2020

16. “The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and
Fashion” at Aperture

Curator and art critic Antwaun Sargent organized this show
looking at the intersection of fine art and fashion in work by
black artists. The show includes 15 artists who focus on the black
body and its role in consumer culture, and the media at large,
while providing intimate perspectives on individuality and
community. The show also coincides with the release of Sargent’s
book of the same name.

Location: Aperture Foundation
Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m.;
Thursday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.

—Caroline Goldstein

Thursday, October
24—Sunday, January 26, 2020

17. “Hans Haacke: All Connected” at the New
Museum

The first US survey of Haacke’s work in over 30 years will
explore the way the German artist expanded the parameters of his
practice to encompass the social, political, and economic
structures in which art is created and displayed. On opening day at
7 p.m., the artist will be in conversation with artistic
director Massimiliano Gioni and curator Gary Carrion-Murayari,
co-curators of the exhibition. Haacke, Gioni, and Carrion-Murayari
will revisit major moments in the artist’s trailblazing career,
from his early kinetic and environmental works to his critical
interventions into the ethics, politics, and economies of the art
world. Get information on tickets here.

Location: New Museum, 235 Bowery, New
York
Price:  $18; Seniors and visitors
with disabilities (care partner free of charge) $15; Students $12;
Members and visitors ages 15–18, free
Time: Tuesday and
Wednesday 11 a.m.–6 p.m. ;
Thursday 11 a.m.–9 p.m.; Friday–Sunday 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Eileen Kinsella

Saturday, October 26 and
Sunday, October 27

18. “Otis East Village
Exhibition Opening” at Otis

Appealing to would-be art collectors who don’t have the means to
buy the works of blue-chip artists by themselves, the co-owning
platform Otis launched in July selling shares of Kehinde Wiley’s
St. Jerome Hearing the Trumpet of Last Judgement (2018),
which it bought for $237,500. Now, the sold-out painting is going
on view along with other Otis offerings, such as a pair of Nike Air
Mag sneakers and works by KAWS, Takashi Murakami, and Virgil
Abloh.

Location: Otis East Village, 47 East 3rd
Street
Price: Free with RSVP
Time: 1 p.m.–6 p.m.; VIP member previews 12
p.m.–1 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Saturday, October
26–Saturday, November 23

19. “Ryan Bock:
Somnambulist” at Ki Smith Gallery

The new series of works by Ryan Bock is inspired by a character
from The Cabinet of Dr. Cilgari, who becomes a
murderer while in a sleep state, and the film serves as an allegory
for the traumas of war. The title and themes of the work are made
literal in the artist’s chosen medium—many of these works are
painted on wooden bed frames, and take on the look of geometric
surrealist paintings.

Location: Ki Smith Gallery, 712 West 125th
Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–10 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–7 p.m.

—Caroline Goldstein

Through Saturday, October
26

20. “Ed Clark” at Hauser &
Wirth

Second generation New York School painter Ed Clark began creating masterfully
color abstract works using a massive, broom-sized brush in 1956—a
breakthrough he’s dubbed “the big sweep.” He died last week at 93
years old, but lived long enough to see his first show with
Hauser & Wirth, featuring paintings made after the year 2000. The
gallery aims to bring about greater recognition for Clark’s
considerable contributions to the history of Abstract
Expressionism.

Location: Hauser & Wirth, 548 West 22nd
Street
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Saturday, October 26 and
Sunday, October 27

21. “West Harlem Art Fund:
Crossing the Sands” at Governors Island

It’s the last weekend of the season at Governors Island, which
means it is your last chance to catch the West Harlem Art Fund’s
thoughtful group show “Crossing the Sands,” featuring contemporary
art by artists from Caribbean, Africa, and the Americas.
Curator Savona Bailey-McClain has had fun with the install,
hanging the upstairs rooms like white cube galleries while going
full-on interior designer in the elegant living room, where
sculpture sits alongside upscale furniture. The standout is the
installation Tomo Mori in the kitchen, a vibrant collage and
painting inspired by the the artist’s grandmother.

Location: Governors Island, Nolan Park
10
Price: Free
Time: 12 p.m.–5 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

Through Friday, November
1

22. “The Many Faces of Tamara de Lempicka” at the
Kosciuszko Foundation

This new project space from the Kosciuszko Foundation is aiming
to introduce more Polish artists to a US audience, and if there’s
one Polish artist to know, it’s probably Tamara de Lempicka (a
favorite artist of Madonna). The show, curated by Bartek Remisko,
traces her career and includes archival materials and memorabilia
on view to the public for the first time in decades.

Location: The Kosciuszko Foundation, 15
East 65th Street
Price: Free
Time: Monday–Friday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m.

—Caroline Goldstein

Through Saturday, November
16

23. “Emily Marie Miller: 8th House”
at Barney Savage Gallery

Tribeca’s Barney Savage Gallery presents new paintings by
emerging artist Emily Marie Miller. This is Miller’s first solo
exhibition, having been included previously in group shows with
Kasmin Gallery in New York and Wildpalms in Düsseldorf. Her eerie
enchantresses, often nude or donning translucent white clothing,
have been published in ArtMaze Mag and even
Playboy.

Location: Barney Savage Gallery, 87
Franklin Street, 2nd Floor
Price: Free
Time: Wednesday–Saturday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m.

—Cristina Cruz

Through Sunday, April
26

24. “Sisters in Liberty: A Bridge
Between Florence and New York” at the Ellis Island National
Museum of Immigration

This show delves into the ideas and art that unite Italy and the
US. Two special Sisters in Liberty are the symbols and
protagonists: the Statue of Liberty by Frédéric Bartholdi,
which has dominated New York’s harbor since 1886, and the
elegant Liberty of Poetry by Pio Fedi, inaugurated in 1883 as
a monument to the Italian patriot Giovanni Battista Niccolini
in the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence. Even today, among
art historians, the question remains of whether Bartholdi, who
visited Florence, was inspired by Fedi’s Liberty. Thanks to a
partnership with Kent State University, the Liberty of Poetry was
recently subjected to high-resolution 3-D scanning that allowed the
creation of a life-size reproduction for the show.

Location: Ellis Island, accessible by
Statue Cruises ferries departing from Castle Clinton National
Monument, Battery Park, and 1 Audrey Zapp Srive, Liberty State
Park, Jersey City, New Jersey
Price: Ferry tickets $18.50 for adults
Time: 9 a.m.–5:15 p.m.

—Eileen Kinsella

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