New York: Caspar David Friedrich, Deborah Kass, Christo and Jeanne-Claude

It’s 60 degrees and sunny, and the birds are chirping, and even the patch of sad, fenced-off soil I walk by every morning seems to have erupted overnight with tiny grass sproutlings. Yes, I know how seasons work — yet every year, during the slow thaw this time of year, I’m newly moved by tiny mercies, like a warm breeze.

Speaking of cycles around the sun, the Brooklyn galleries Tiger Strikes Asteroid and Transmitter are celebrating 10 years together — Aaron Short takes a look back in our featured piece this week. Barbie just turned 65, and she’s partying in style at the Museum of Arts and Design, at an exhibition reviewed by Carol Ockman. (Don’t miss an iconic shot of her and some friends in a hot-pink Corvette on the fourth floor.) And I nearly break down near a bunch of iPads at an augmented reality station at the Shed, of all godforsaken places, in an exhibition marking 20 years since Christo and Jeanne-Claude installed 7,500+ bright orange gates throughout Central Park. Hey, I got nostalgic, and you know what they say: You’re not a New Yorker until you cry in public (or, apparently, a Privately Owned Public Space (POPS)).

But the cycling of time isn’t always celebratory. The Romantics, Senior Editor Hakim Bishara points out, lived through painful sociopolitical transitions and revolted against the tyranny of reason and technology. “Just like them,” he writes, “our weary hearts and alienated souls hunger for a touch of the sublime.”

There’s much more, including Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian on Deborah Kass’s art history paintings, John Yau on Norman Bluhm’s inventive abstractions, and Reviews Editor Natalie Haddad on the luminous magnetism of the transformistas, a group of trans sex workers in Caracas, Venezuela, captured in a rarely seen 1982 film.

— Lisa Yin Zhang, Associate Editor

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After weeks of protests, the Brooklyn Museum will offer buyouts to workers.

The Buffalo AKG Art Museum has come under scrutiny for laying off 13 employees and reorganizing staff to effectively remove union positions.

Regular contributor Sarah Bond is giving a talk on her new book about Ancient Roman labor resistance at NYU. (Wed Mar 12) [isaw.nyu.edu]

The third convening of the Black Earth Study Club — Sónia Vaz Borges on militant education — is happening at the Swiss Institute. (Wed Mar 12) [instagram.com]

Christine Sun Kim’s delivering “Deaf-Death,” a lecture-performance at the Whitney Museum. (Thurs Mar 13) [whitney.org]

Curator May Makki will be conducting a tour of Screen Memories, and artist Nadia Misir will lead a writing workshop. (Thur Mar 13) [abronsartscenter.org]

Metrograph’s also screening Mona Benyamin’s film Trouble in Paradise (2018), accompanied by a cello improvisation and a conversation between she and Makki. (Sun Mar 16) [metrograph.com]

American Artist, Martine Syms, and Zainab Aliyu will be in conversation for a book launch for Artist’s Shaper of God at Pioneer Works. (Fri Mar 14) [eventbrite.com]

Lubov gallery’s becoming a hair salon — plus drinks, readings, tattoos, flowers, and more — this weekend. [instagram.com]

Society of Illustrators is hosting Manhattan’s largest indie comics and cartoon festival this weekend. (Sat Mar 15–Sun Mar 16) [eventbrite.com]

There will be a mutual aid flea market benefitting Palestine and local groups at Collective Focus Resource Hub in Brooklyn. (Sat Mar 15) [instagram.com]

The first in Triple Canopy’s Living Equipment series of conversations and listening sessions, hosted by Ran C. Clarke, takes place this weekend. (Sun Mar 16–Sat Mar 29) [canopycanopycanopy.com]

Don’t miss the print fair extravaganza at the end of this month! Hyperallergic Members get free tickets to the IFPDA Print Fair and the very first Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair (Mar 27–30).

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