It seems like time is on the mind this week — though maybe that’s just the collective anxiety of the looming tax deadline talking.
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New York • April 15, 2025

It seems like time is on the mind this week — though maybe that’s just the collective anxiety of the looming tax deadline talking. (That’s today, by the way — and please don’t shoot the messenger.) Speaking of things costing a whole bunch of money, the nearly century-old Frick Collection is reopening this Thursday! It’s sumptuous, gilded, stuffed to the gills with paintings straight out of any Western art history textbook … and the same old attempt to rewrite the deeply exploitative actions of one of our country’s most infamous robber barons, as Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian writes. 

Aaron Gilbert’s show at Gladstone Gallery, which Vartanian also reviews this week, also focuses on time: How do we break free of it, and of capitalism’s perpetual obsession with growth? Reinvent yourself constantly, maybe, like Weegee does at the International Center of Photography, as Julia Curl writes. Dream it, like Vladimir Tatlin did, as seen at the Ukrainian Museum and reviewed by yours truly — don’t miss your last chance to see that, by the way. Or, as Reviews Editor Natalie Haddad puts it in her piece on a show of giant women artists, put your foot through the whole damn thing.

— Lisa Yin Zhang, Associate Editor

 

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Is the New Frick Collection Just the Same Old Thing?

The newly renovated Fifth Avenue institution, which houses a treasure trove by any calculation, is a time capsule with a lot to teach us about our own historical moment. | Hrag Vartanian

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FROM OUR CRITICS

Hrag Vartanian

Aaron Gilbert: World Without End at Gladstone Gallery

“The painting has shades of Édouard Manet’s ‘A Bar at the Folies-Bergère’ (1882) — its love of reflections is both disorienting and deliciously modern.”

Faye Hirsch

Judith Linhares: The river is moving, The blackbird must be flying at PPOW Gallery

“Linhares’s paintings, comprising just a few elements yet bodied forth in endless permutations of the paint and marks that constitute them, might at first seem an easy read.” 

Natalie Haddad

Giant Women on New York at James Fuentes Gallery

“Here, she adopts a different attitude toward women’s exclusion in the art world, and beyond: Because no one is interested in her, she can do what she wants, so she takes over the whole beach.”


Julia Curl

Weegee: Society of the Spectacle at the International Center of Photography

“By embracing the spectacle of horror through the hyperbolic, larger-than-life persona that Weegee constructed for himself, does the photographer not occupy an odd middle ground between the news media and its parody?”

CLOSING SOON

Alexandra M. Thomas

Deborah-Joyce Holman: Close Up at the Swiss Institute through Apr 20

“Given the opportunity to pay such close attention to the minutiae of the everyday, a subtle, easily overlooked beauty in each visual element begins to emerge.”

Lisa Yin Zhang

Tatlin: Kyiv at the Ukrainian Museum through Apr 27

Tatlin: Kyiv is haunted by what could have been, if history had shaken out differently — and by extension, by the urgency of what could be, depending on how we conduct ourselves right now.”

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  • Danielle Jackson will moderate a conversation between Shahzia Sikander and Tom Finkelpearl about public art on screens. (Wed Apr 16) [eventbrite.com]

  • Kevin Quiles Bonilla presents his lecture-performance Study of Piles, about Puerto Rican political history, followed by a discussion at the 8th Floor. (Thurs Apr 17) [the8thfloor.org]

  • Little Nights is hosting “Drawn Together,” an all-levels-welcome visual art exercise at Interference Archive. (Thurs Apr 17) [eventbrite.com]

  • Anonymous gallery will be screening Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s film “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” (2011), selected and discussed by artist Jesse Gouveia. (Thurs Apr 17) [instagram.com]

  • The Kitchen’s throwing a launch party for their Ulrike Rosenbach catalog, featuring a lecture and discussion. (Fri Apr 18) [thekitchen.org]

  • Artist-run performance space Pageant is hosting its 3rd anniversary variety-show/gala — expect a talent competition and an afterparty. (Sat Apr 19) [eventbrite.com]

  • The New York Public Libary’s hosting “Latinx Artists Speak: Storytelling, Making, and Belonging,” a panel discussion part of its World Literature and Arts Festival. (Tues Apr 22) [nypl.org]

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