9 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Show of Artist-Made Jewelry to a Cat Gif Screening in Times Square
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We’re looking for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, demonstrations, and events, both digital and in person, in the New York area each week. Check out our selections from around the world below. (Times are all EST unless otherwise noted.)
Tuesday, August 10th
Paul Lazar in “When a priest marries a witch, an artist lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra in the lead role with Paul Lazar”. Photo by Peter Serling, courtesy of Suzanne Bocanegra.
1. “Suzanne Bocanegra: When a Priest Marries a Witch” at the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin
As part of the program of the current exhibition “Suzanne Bocanegra: Valley” (on view until September 19), the Blanton Museum of Art is holding a virtual demonstration of her unorthodox lecture from 2010 “When a Priest Marries a Witch”. Bocanegra hired an actor, Paul Lazar, to play her and tell colorful stories from her early life with astronauts, Elvis, and the title witch, to name a few. The evening will also include a livestream Q&A with Bocanegra following the demonstration.
Price: Pay what you want, register here
Time: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm CT
—Sarah Cascone
Wednesday 11th August
Tablet with proto-cuneiform inscription, late Uruk (approx. 3,400-3,100 BC), unfired clay. Musée du Louvre, Middle East Department, Paris. Photo by Franck Raux, © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, New York.
2. “From Laundry Lists to Liturgies: The Origins of Writing in Ancient Mesopotamia” at the Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, California
In the last days of the exhibition “Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins” at the Getty Villa (to be seen up to the 16th script, the oldest writing system in the world.
Price: Free of charge with registration
Time: 11 a.m. PT
AnNan Stewert
Until Friday, August 13th
3. “Corita Kent: Heroes and Sheroes” at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
For her second solo exhibition for Corita Kent, who became famous in the 1960s as a so-called Pop Art nun, the Andrew Kreps Gallery is focusing on a crossroads in the life and career of the artist. An outspoken advocate of social justice, Kent came increasingly into conflict with the conservative Catholic Church and left her order in 1968 at the age of 50. The exhibition, organized with the Corita Art Center in Los Angeles, features 29 prints from the Heroes and Sheroes series, politically charged works inspired by the pressing concerns of the time, including the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement and political assassinations – Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were both killed in 1968.
Location: Andrew Kreps Gallery, 22 Cortland Avenue, New York
Price: Free
Time: Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
—Sarah Cascone
Until Saturday, August 14th
Lauren’s window frame, When a second sun. Photo courtesy Claire Oliver Gallery, New York.
4. “Lauren Fensterstock: Impermanent Condition” in the Claire Oliver Gallery, New York
Lauren Fensterstock used glittering materials – glass, vintage crystal, and semi-precious stones such as quartz, obsidian, onyx and hematite – to create her “Seven Suns” series, which her large-scale installation in Forces of Nature. consists: Renwick Invitational 2020 “in Washington, DC (on view until August 16). The wall mosaics by Claire Oliver are inspired by the “Sermon of the Seven Suns”, in which the Buddha describes how the appearances of seven suns one after the other trigger the end of the world.
Location: Claire Oliver Gallery, 2288 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, New York
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
—Sarah Cascone
Priscila De Carvalho NYC logo for Summer Streets. Photo courtesy NYC DOT Arts and Culture.
5. “Summer Streets” on Park Avenue, New York
One of the most important summer events in New York City is returning in 2021. Several art installations and activities along nearly seven miles of open city streets between Brooklyn Bridge and Central Park include interactive art workshops for children (e.g. a model making class at the Noguchi Museum). in Queens) and a color theory lesson (from Urban Studio Unbound). The Department of Sanitation has partnered with volunteer artists to turn garbage trucks into canvases, and the transformed Trucks of Art will be on display downtown on Pearl and Duane Streets. At four rest stops along the way, Priscila De Carvalho has adorned 4.5 meter wide NYC logos from NYC DOT Arts and Culture with works of art inspired by the architecture of the city and the natural flora and fauna of her native Brazil.
Location: Park Avenue between East 72nd Street and Astor Place and Lafayette between Astor Place and the Brooklyn Bridge, New York
Price: Free
Time: 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
—Sarah Cascone
West Dakota, Venus as a boy. Photo by Nir Arieli, courtesy of BOFFO.
6. “BOFFO Performance Festival Island of Fire“On Fire Island, New York
The BOFFO Performance Festival Fire Island has returned in its sixth year with experimental music, performance and dance and is curated in collaboration with OCDChinatown. Featured artists include Hannah Black and Ryan McNamara, who will host a counseling bar and flag installation by Joseph McShea and Edgar Mosa, and performances by Papi Juice, Kiyan Williams and Dangerous Rose and Raven Delilah Valentine.
Location: Fire Island Pines Beach on Fishermans Path, Fire Island Pines, New York
Price: General admission is free, suggested donation $ 30
Time: 12pm – 7pm
—Sarah Cascone
Until Friday, August 20
Robert Smithson, Shift, 1967. Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery.
7. “Robert Smithson: Abstract Cartography” at the Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Marian Goodman’s New York office is hosting its first exhibition of works by Land Art artist Robert Smithson. With a selection of works from 1966 to 1971 from the collections of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Holt-Smithson Foundation and the artist’s widow, Nancy Holt, the exhibition shows “a crucial five-year period in Robert Smithson’s development” as his ” ‘Hints of earthworks’ began, “the gallery said.
Location: Marian Goodman Gallery, 24 West 57th Street, New York
Price: Free
Time: Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
—Cristina Cruz
Until Saturday, August 28th
Man Ray, Optic Topic Mask (conceived 1974, executed 1978). Courtesy Louisa Guinness Gallery and Sotheby’s.
8. “Wearable Sculpture” at Sotheby’s East Hampton
Any art and jewelry lover in the Hamptons on those late summer days should make sure to head to the Sotheby’s East Hamptons outpost to see the Sculpture to Wear exhibition. The playful and historically informative show, which is organized in collaboration with the Louisa Guinness Gallery in London, includes 80 rare pieces of jewelery by leading artists of the 20th century such as Man Ray, Max Ernst, Alexander Calder and Niki de Saint Phalle. Contemporary artists also get their money’s worth, with works by Anish Kapoor, Jeff Koons and Les Lalanne, among others. The exhibition provides insights into the way artists have understood their practices in relation to the body itself and sheds light on the importance of the craft for the featured artists. Two personal favorites from the exhibition are a metal carnival mask by Ernst and a purple ring by Cora Sheibani that resembles a jelly cake from the 1960s.
Location: Sotheby’s East Hampton, 66 Newton Lane, East Hampton, New York
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. and by appointment.
—Katie White
Until Tuesday, August 31st
Jennifer West, Painted Cat Hacker Film. Courtesy Times Square Arts,
9. “Jennifer West: Painted Cat Hacker Film” at Times Square Arts, New York
For this edition of Times Square Arts’ monthly “Midnight Moment” series, Jennifer West picks up on the internet’s love of everything feline with an artistic take on the cat video. The artist captured footage of cats being filmed on a green screen by adding colored dye to the celluloid before converting the filmstrips into high definition video to create handmade digitized GIFs. West was interested in working with cats because of their online popularity, but also because of research suggesting that internet cat content can serve as a form of stress reliever.
Location: Times Square, New York
Price: Free
Time: 11:57 pm – 12 noon
—Sarah Cascone
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