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New YorkApril 20, 2022 • View in browserIs It an Artificial Paradise or an Artificial Hell or Both?Elliott Green seems to be espousing that landscapes are living forms governed by rules we cannot fathom — they appear to be welcoming us, but we might be wrong. | John Yau Landscape painting generally transports the viewer to the place the artist has created; we are brought to the world that the artist shows us. Instead, Green makes us conscious of ourselves looking at this different reality. LATEST NEWS The MoMA and the Whitney Museum in NYC will no longer require visitors and staff to wear masks or show proof of vaccination for COVID-19. Former Japanese princess Mako Komuro is volunteering at the Met Museum and is working on a show of hanging-scroll paintings. The New York Public Library will make four banned books available to anyone in the country with its new “Books for All” program. SPONSORED Pratt’s 2022 Fine Arts and Photography MFA Thesis Exhibition Is on View in BrooklynThrough May 6, 32 graduating artists present work across disciplines including painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, and integrated practices. Learn more. Kia LaBeija’s Photographs Tell a Story as Multifaceted as the Artist HerselfThe photographer chronicles her life as a queer woman of color born with HIV. | Julia Curl Antiquity With a Side of MischiefIn Plato’s Closet, artist Timothy Hull gestures to the opportunities for creative play and repurposing that looking backward can pose. | Cassie Packard SPONSORED Raphael Montañez Ortiz: A Contextual Retrospective Opens at El Museo del BarrioThis is the largest exhibition to date on the artist, activist, educator, and founder of New York City’s El Museo del Barrio. Learn more. The Eastern European Artists Who Moved Forward by Starting From ScratchFor the five artists in From Scratch, starting from the elemental meant raising existential questions on the use of language and humor or irony in art. | Silvia Benedetti Sustainability as a Form of Resistance in ArtAt NYU’s Latinx Project, a group exhibition explores how Latin, African, and Asian diaspora artists promote sustainability beyond borders. | Billy Anania SPONSORED Columbia’s MFA Thesis Exhibition Opens This Weekend in NYCFor these 33 visual and sound artists, this show marks the threshold between their lives as students and the future that lies ahead. Learn more. An Artist’s Monument to the Monotony of ImagesBayrle creates an art gallery version of computer reproductions of unreality. His art inhabits a world composed of repeated ready-made images. | David Carrier Abstractions That Record the Scars of TraumaKwon Young-Woo presents the viewer with a deeper sense of the reality that nature goes on, no matter what humans are doing to each other. | John Yau Become a member today to support our independent journalism. CLOSING SOON Dora García, If I Could Wish for Something, 2021 (Video still), video, color, 16:9, Spanish & Purépecha spoken, BE/FR/MX/NO, 68’. Produced by Auguste Orts. Thomas Bayrle: Monotony in a Hurry Elliott Green Timothy Hull: Plato’s Closet Dora García: Revolution, fulfill your promise! Kwon Young-Woo: Gestures in Hanji ON VIEW Hugh Hayden: Brier Patch Kia LaBeija: prepare my heart Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians—The Mohammed Afkhami Collection This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965-1975 Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet’s Work in Community Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running
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