New York: Hannah Wilke & Eva Hesse's Experiments in Abstraction

This week, two New York City museums are in the spotlight as the Strike MoMA protesters focused on th

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This week, two New York City museums are in the spotlight as the Strike MoMA protesters focused on the uprising in Colombia and the Whitney Museum voluntarily recognizes a new staff union.If you’re itching to go out and look at art, check out Ella Bittencourt’s review of the Eva Hesse and Hannah Wilke two-person exhibition that she explains, turns out “attention to the subversive absurdity shared by both artists.”Or read John Yau review of Liat Yossifor’s art, which he says, “invite viewers to see figural presences that never become pictorially apparent but are sensed throughout her work, in both their texture and the sensuous, linear shapes defined by swirling swaths of paint, the result of what the gallery press release calls ‘surrealist automatic drawing techniques.’”There are also reviews of Alvin Armstrong and Christian Nyampeta.— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

Hannah Wilke's and Eva Hesse’s Irreverent Experiments in Abstraction Erotic Abstraction revels in the subversive absurdity shared by both artists. Ela Bittencourt

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Clarissa Hernandez of Workers Assembly Against Racism at the May 28 Strike MoMA action

Last Friday’s Strike MoMA protest centered Colombia’s uprising and focused on the theme of “interconnected struggles.” The Whitney Museum of American Art voluntarily recognized its workers’ new union, bypassing the need for a union election.

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The Tension in Liat Yossifor’s Paintings In Yossifor’s work, connections between the imagination and the ordinary world are made not through the pictorial, but through the paint itself. John Yau

Christian Nyampeta Transforms the Guggenheim Into a Anti-Colonial Night School Though exceptionally accessible, Nyampeta’s exhibition occasionally strikes as too safe, particularly given the context of its installation. Aaron Hunt

Alvin Armstrong's Black Bodies in Motion Armstrong’s paintings explore the role of Black athletes as agents of social change even as white fans push back. Taylor Michael

Closing Soon

Exhibition view of ​"Goodnight House"​ at Fort Makers (photo by Joe Kramm)

Goodnight House at Fort Makers through June 10 Deborah Remington: Five Decades at Bortolami through June 12 Maren Hassinger: We Are All Vessels at Susan Inglett Gallery through June 12 Nan Goldin: Memory Lost at Marian Goodman Gallery through June 12 Hearts and Minds at Carriage Trade through June 13

On View in NY Museums

Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America at the New Museum through June 6 Disturbing the View outside the Whitney Museum (Fridays & Saturdays at 1pm) through June 12 Michael Rakowitz: Nimrud at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College through June 18 Kenneth Tam: Silent Spikes at the Queens Museum through June 23 Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art through June 27 Lorraine O'Grady: Both/And at the Brooklyn Museum through July 18 Alice Neel: People Come First at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through August 1 Julie Mehretu at the Whitney Museum through August 8 Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life at MoMA PS1 through September 6 Estamos Bien — La Trienal 20/21 at El Museo del Barrio through September 26 Off the Record at the Guggenheim Museum through September 27 Kusama: Cosmic Nature at the New York Botanical Gardens through October 31 Melvin Edwards: Brighter Days at City Hall Park through November 28

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