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New YorkMarch 23, 2022 • View in browserSurrounded by Wealth, an Artist’s Comment on Education Loses Its EdgeWithin the well-patrolled boundaries of Madison Square Park, it’s hard not to see Hugh Hayden’s Brier Patch as just another amenity, offering a pleasant opportunity for virtue signaling. | Erin L. Thompson NEWS THIS WEEK Marina Abramović will restage "The Artist is Present" to raise funds for war relief in Ukraine. Mayor Eric Adams plans to cut the city’s culture budget by $72 million. Laurie Cumbo, who’s been criticized for her anti-immigrant stance, is appointed the next commissioner of NYC’s Department of Cultural Affairs. The MoMA ramps up police presence, renewing a contract it had with the NYPD before the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020. With the world on fire, the Met Gala returns on the first Monday of May, announcing this year's new theme. SPONSORED LATEST REVIEWS Robert Ryman’s Joyful Last PaintingsThe pleasure Ryman took in seeing and sensing the world of things so closely is what viewers who are open to his work will take away. | John Yau SPONSORED The Morgan Library & Museum Presents Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet’s Work In CommunityNow on view in New York City, this exhibition celebrates the life and work of American poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black author to win a Pulitzer Prize. Learn more. Street Photography That Highlights the Female GazeTwelve women photographers demonstrate their creative ingenuity and raw technical skill. | Julia Curl Losing Ourselves in Liz Larner’s Shapeshifting SculptureBy approaching sculpture as an open-ended experience of embodiment, Larner provokes us to repeatedly lose and locate ourselves in her work. | Cassie Packard Become a member today to support our independent journalism. The Deeply Satisfying Pleasures of Harriet Korman’s PaintingsWalter Pater famously said, “All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.” Korman’s paintings exist in a musical state. | John Yau Art as an Exercise in Moving Through GriefWhat’s clear in These Conditions is artist Adelita Husni Bey’s ambition to push art to be more than an exercise in spectatorship. | Ela Bittencourt David Byrne’s Hopeful DrawingsByrne’s drawings makes me wonder what else art is for, but to remind us that what we call “being reasonable” is too often our expedient alibi for not using our imagination. | Tim Keane CLOSING SOON Diedrick Brackens, “survival is a shrine, not the small space near the limit of life” (2021), cotton and acrylic yarn, 92 x 98 inches, on view in The New Bend Robert Ryman: The Last Paintings Liz Larner: Don’t put it back like it was The New Bend A Female Gaze: Seven Decades of Women Street Photographers ON VIEW Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks Adelita Husni Bey: These Conditions Harriet Korman: New Work Scraps Mimi Park: Dawning: dust, seeds, Coplees Jule Korneffel: Here comes the night Greater New York 2021
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