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Your Concise New York Art Guide for October 2022
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month, including Xaviera Simmons, Cristina Iglesias, Mire Lee, and more. | Billy Anania
This month is all about the city’s many thrills and chills, and of course the casual reminders of our own mortality. Our October highlights include topographical studies of battlegrounds and cemeteries, ghosts of Manhattan’s geological past, and the terrors of theocratic rule.
SPONSORED
Hypnotic and raw, CROWD comes to BAM for only three performances!
Time ebbs and flows in this hypnotic work from acclaimed choreographer Gisèle Vienne, which captures moments of explosive synchronicity and dreamlike suspension. “In Vienne’s gestural choreography, both sensual and raw, emotions come into deeper focus through cinematic effects,” writes The New York Times. “And it’s all newly relevant.”
Photo by Mathilde Darel
OPENING THIS WEEKEND
General Idea, “Continental Poodle (Pink) Dexter” (1992) (private collection, courtesy The Drawing Center)
Ecce Homo: The Drawings of General Idea
The Drawing Center, opening October 7
General Idea was a collective guided by a radical queer politics and a performative orientation. Drawings executed in the spirit of mass reproduction between 1985 and 1993 spotlight motifs like poodles, stilettos, and masks.
Ibrahim El-Salahi: Pain Relief Drawings
The Drawing Center, opening October 7
92-year-old Sudanese-born artist Ibrahim El-Salahi, a founding member of the Khartoum School, presents 100 recent pen and ink drawings on the theme of pain, which he regularly experiences as a nonagenarian.
Visual Record: The Materiality of Sound in Print
Print Center New York, opening October 8
Print Center New York (formerly the International Print Center New York) will inaugurate its new Chelsea space with an exhibition teasing out the resonances between sound-recording and printmaking.
UPCOMING OPEN STUDIOS
Gowanus Open Studios
Gowanus, Brooklyn, October 15–16
EFA Open Studios
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, October 20–22
SPONSORED
What Does It Mean To Be a Native New Yorker?
The National Museum of the American Indian’s exhibition Native New York wants to change how visitors see Native people and New York State. Learn more.
LATEST REVIEWS
The Seductive Music of James Joyce’s Ulysses
Ultimately the legacy of the classic modernist novel may reside in how attentively and scrupulously it concentrates on the music of tentative, shambolic, open-ended urban lives. | Tim Keane
Alone in a Dirty, Sacred Space
Whatever else Mire Lee’s Carriers is about, it seems to me that has to do with sending you back into yourself, which is not necessarily a soothing place. | John Yau
Kapwani Kiwanga Uses Daylight to Expose Racial Surveillance
Kapwani Kiwanga invites viewers to look with only the quiet glow of natural light seeping in through the skylights, illuminating a nuanced way of seeing race. | Zoë Hopkins
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CLOSING SOON
Robert Colescott, “A Visit from Uncle Charlie” (1995) (image courtesy of The Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC Greensboro © 2022 The Robert H. Colescott Separate Property Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott
New Museum through October 9
Archeology of a Studio
A.I.R. Gallery through October 9
Nafas
Invisible Dog Art Center through October 15
Doreen Lynette Garner: REVOLTED
New Museum through October 16
Kapwani Kiwanga: Off-Grid
New Museum through October 16
Black Melancholia
CCS Bard Galleries through October 16
Eva Hesse: Expanded Expansion
Guggenheim Museum through October 16
ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS
Mire Lee: Carriers
Tina Kim Gallery through October 22
For the Birds
Brooklyn Botanic Garden through October 23
Selections from Australia’s Western Desert: From the Collection of Steve Martin and Anne Stringfield
National Arts Club through October 27
Domesticanx
El Museo del Barrio, October 27–March 26, 2023
Elissa Blount-Moorhead and Bradford Young: Back and Song
The Arts Center at Governors Island through October 30
Another Justice: US is Them
Parrish Art Museum through November 6
Dior + Balenciaga: The Kings of Couture and Their Legacies at The Museum at FIT through November 6
Wangechi Mutu
Storm King Art Center through November 7
Leilah Babirye, Hugh Hayden, Dozie Kanu, Tau Lewis, and Kiyan Williams: Black Atlantic
Brooklyn Bridge Park through November 27
Tomashi Jackson: SLOW JAMZ
Neuberger Museum of Art through November 27
