Happy December! New York may be brimming with museums, but innumerable galleries and artist-run spaces across the five boroughs are havens of community outside institutional walls.
Happy December! New York may be brimming with museums, but innumerable galleries and artist-run spaces across the five boroughs are havens of community outside institutional walls. News Editor Valentina Di Liscia and Staff Writers Rhea Nayyar and Maya Pontone visited a few new spaces to watch, including an exhibition space focused on Asian-American artists and a garden-gallery in Williamsburg. Reporter Aaron Short visited another of the Brooklyn neighborhood’s longtime art spaces, Pierogi Gallery, for its 30th anniversary celebration last week. Check out his dispatch and more pieces below, from The Met Museum’s Great Hall calligraphic work by Tong Yang-Tze and our guide to art shows in Los Angeles this month to Ralph Lemon’s luminous practice, comprising dance, visual art, and the written word. — Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor | |
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| | | Blending and blurring his roles as an artist, choreographer, and writer, a survey of Lemon’s art centers his luminous legacy of storytelling, memory, and transformation. | Rebecca Schiffman |
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HAPPENING IN NYC | | | | An artist-run exhibition program, a Lower East Side gallery’s Chelsea outpost, and other recently opened stops to add to your art itinerary. | Valentina Di Liscia, Rhea Nayyar, and Maya Pontone |
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| | | | Tong Yang-Tze’s “Dialogue” (2024) in the museum’s Great Hall engages with the ancient art form on a monumental level. | Rhea Nayyar |
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SPONSORED | | | | MCA Chicago’s new exhibition delves into the persistence of painting, challenging its longstanding traditions and mythologies to show a medium in constant reinvention. Learn more |
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| | | More than 80 artists spanning the gallery’s history contributed work — and some were present for the celebration. | Aaron Short |
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REVIEWS & MORE | | | | Shiva Ahmadi’s aqueous visions, Dave Smith’s oxymoronic LA, Miller Robinson’s cosmology of survival, the Guerrilla Girls’ first West Coast show, and more. | Matt Stromberg |
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| | | His paintings invite us into a layered world we can move around and get lost in, without a destination. | John Yau |
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| | | | The artist’s imaginative, iterative artworks emphasize the loss that accompanies perpetual displacement — even the kind created by art world success. | Claudia Ross |
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