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Summer’s officially here, and with it, a bevy of must-see exhibitions and art events. Check out our top ten below.

Elections are also coming up, including the much-contested Mayoral primary on June 22. Staff writers Valentina Di Liscia and Hakim Bishara report on where some of the leading candidates stand on the arts.

In the galleries, Marisa Crawford ruminates on Erin M. Riley’s beguiling tapestries, which center the traumas and everyday experiences of women often swept aside. Don’t miss its final few days!

— Dessane Lopez Cassell, Editor, Reviews

Must-see Exhibitions and More

Your Concise New York Art Guide for June 2021

Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month.

Dessane Lopez Cassell

Art News Around Town

Where Do the NYC Mayoral Candidates Stand on the Arts?

The recovery challenges facing New York’s next mayor are immense.

Valentina Di Liscia and Hakim Bishara

Art-making Kits Inspired by the Met Museum Delivered Monthly to NYC’s Seniors

The monthly delivery service supplies over 1,000 seniors with activities and artworks.

Valentina Di Liscia

A Program Will Map POC-led NYC Arts Organizations to Encourage Equity

The online platform will include a user-friendly map, searchable online directory, and field report spotlighting NYC arts organizations created by and centering POC.

Hakim Bishara

ICYMI

#StrikeMoMA activists turned their attention to a MoMA trustee’s Dominican Republic gold mine.
HueArts NYC aims to create a new online resource mapping all arts entities founded by and focused on POC in New York City.

In the Galleries

With Astonishing Tapestries, Erin M. Riley Claims Space for Healing

Riley’s work positions front and center everyday images of women’s lived experiences, unapologetically centering traumas often swept out of sight.

Marisa Crawford

The Journey Behind Liza Lou’s Behemoth Beaded Kitchen

Today, “Kitchen” and its themes of women’s work and thankless labor are as sharp and fresh as ever.

Julie Schneider

A Plant Concert Blooms in an Abandoned Building

Martin Roth’s electronic soundscape shifts as plants grow and sway in a Victorian house in upstate New York.

Valentina Di Liscia

Cinque Gallery, Another Chapter of Black Art History

The legacy of Cinque Gallery demonstrates that the work of Black artists between 1969 and 2004 was as diverse as its mainstream counterpart.

John Yau

On Grieving and Mourning With Art

Confronted with a new national consciousness around racial inequity, two New York City art exhibitions focus on mourning with varying degrees of success.

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Ecological Art Infused by Memoir and Identity

Gyun Hur’s and Shoshanna Weinberger’s installations emphasize poetic innuendo rather than overt autobiography.

Louis Bury

Closing Soon

Installation view of "Maren Hassinger: We Are All Vessels" (photo by Adam Reich)

Deborah Remington: Five Decades at Bortolami through June 12
Disturbing the View outside the Whitney Museum (Fridays & Saturdays at 1pm) 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
Eva Hesse | Hannah Wilke: Erotic Abstraction at Acquavella Galleries through June 18
Michael Rakowitz: Nimrud at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College through June 18

Now on View in New York

Christian Nyampeta: Sometimes It Was Beautiful at the Guggenheim Museum through June 21
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
Born in Flames: Feminist Futures at the Bronx Museum of the Arts through September 12
Estamos Bien — La Trienal 20/21 at El Museo del Barrio through September 26
Off the Record at the Guggenheim Museum through September 27
Deana Lawson, Centropy at the Guggenheim Museum through October 11
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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