New York: Betsy Kaufman, Jonas Mekas, Mungo Thompson

New York

April 6, 2022 • View in browser

Betsy Kaufman Puts Pressure on Geometric Abstraction

Kaufman’s sculptures can go from orderly to helter-skelter, making them seem like willful renegades from an industrial assembly line. | Ela Bittencourt

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There’s Something Special About Jim Osman’s Sculpture

Osman’s care for and attention to his modest materials, the particularities of their identity, is rare in a society where excess is celebrated daily. | John Yau

Mungo Thomson’s Elegies to an Analogue World

Thomson’s videos conjure up the weird sublimity of internet wormholes, the familiar, swaddling mindlessness of allowing oneself to be swept up in a deluge of content and carried — where? | Cassie Packard

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Afro-Canadian Artist Sharon Norwood’s Drawing Room Opens at ISCP

Norwood’s first solo exhibition in New York explores decoration, Black craft histories, and the politics of beauty, labor, and race. Learn more.

The Films of Jonas Mekas Are More Often Discussed Than Seen

A vigorous advocate for the avant-garde, the filmmaker often neglected to promote himself. | Nolan Kelly

New York’s Best Documentary Festival Makes Its Return

After 2020’s virtual festival and 2021’s severely abridged edition, Art of the Real is back with a full slate of exciting experimental nonfiction. | Dan Schindel

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CLOSING SOON

Harriet Korman, "Untitled" (2021), oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches (all images courtesy Thomas Erben Gallery, photos by Andreas Vesterlund)

Adelita Husni Bey: These Conditions
The Annex at the Brooklyn Army Terminal through April 8

Harriet Korman: New Work
Thomas Erben Gallery through April 9

Vik Muniz: Scraps
Sikkema Jenkins & Co. through April 9

The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time
Brooklyn Museum through April 10

ON VIEW

Betsy Kaufman: 14 Sculptures, 1 Painting
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks and Projects through April 15

Mungo Thomson: Time Life
Karma through April 16

Julia Fish: Threshold/s with Hearth: recent paintings and a site intervention
David Nolan Gallery through April 16

Mimi Park: Dawning: dust, seeds, Coplees
Lubov through April 16

Jule Korneffel: Here comes the night
Spencer Brownstone Gallery through April 16