Notes related to New York
ARCHITECTURE NOW: NEW YORK, NEW PUBLICS
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) presents a new exhibition series Architecture Now: New York, New Publics to highlight emerging talent and foreground groundbreaking projects in contemporary architecture.
TELAS Y TEXTOS. FELICIANO CENTURIÓN IN NEW YORK’S UNIVERSITY OF FINE ARTS
Centurión’s textiles reflect his upbringing in a matriarchal Paraguayan household, and his experiences as a queer artist in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he lived for most of his life. He often incorporated historically feminized crafts such as knitting, crocheting, and embroidering.
PHOTOGRAPHY IN INK: A LOOK AT CONTEMPORARY COPPER-PLATE PHOTOGRAVURE
Penumbra Foundation’s new exhibition: Photography in Ink: A Look at Contemporary Copper-Plate Photogravure, displays a group of photogravure prints, which offers viewers the rare opportunity to expand their understanding of material photography.
JUAN FRANCISCO ELSO: POR AMÉRICA
El Museo del Barrio presents Juan Francisco Elso’s exhibition Por América, offering a new, contemporary revisions on canonical figures and figures and theories from Latinx, Caribbean, and Latin American art history.
BROOKLYN MUSEUM AND INSTAGRAM ANNOUNCE RECIPIENTS OF THE 2022 BLACK VISIONARIES’ GRANTS
The Brooklyn Museum and Instagram, in collaboration with #BlackVisionaries Creative Chair Antwaun Sargent announced the ten recipients of the 2022 grant program.
BREAKING REALITY BARRIERS AT UNSUPERVISED, REFIK ANADOL’S EXHIBITION AT MOMA
The Museum of Modern Art presents Refik Anadol: Unsupervised. This major installation will feature three new digital artworks by the artist using artificial intelligence to interpret and transform more than 200 years of art from MoMA’s collection.
OPEN CALL FOR CURATORIAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
Independent Curators International (ICI) is accepting applications for the 2023 Curatorial Research Fellowships. Application deadline is January 15, 2023.
NO EXISTE UN MUNDO POSHURACÁN: PUERTO-RICAN ART IN WHITNEY MUSEUM
The exhibition explores how artists have responded to the transformative years since the hurricane by bringing together more than fifty artworks made over the last five years by an intergenerational group of more than fifteen artists from Puerto Rico and the diaspora.
DOMESTICANX ON VIEW IN EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
Curated by El Museo curator Susanna V. Temkin, DOMESTICANX brings together seven intergenerational artists whose practices address the private sphere through works related to healing, spirituality, decoration, and the home.
MoMA ANNOUNCES MAJOR EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS, TO OPEN IN SPRING 2023
The exhibition will feature works donated to the museum by the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, as well as news acquisitions, loans and commissions from the late 1980s to the present.
OPEN CALL FOR EXHIBITION INITIATIVES AT APEXART NEW YORK
apexart invites curators, artists, writers, and creative individuals –regardless of experience or location– to apply to its NYC Open Call from October 1-31, 2022. It is an opportunity to turn a curatorial idea into an exhibition, receiving funding and support to be part of the organization's exhibition programming.
STUDIO & RESEARCH RESIDENCY PROGRAM CALL IN AMANT
Amant, the art organization that fosters innovation and dialogue across international location, announces the annual call for applications for its Studio & Reaserch Residency Program in New York City. The application deadline is November 15th, 2022.
KAREN LAMASSONNE’S DESIRING LANDSCAPES IN RUIDO / NOISE, THE EXHIBITION AT SWISS INSTITUE
Ruido / Noise is the first international survey of the work of Colombian American artist Karen Lamassone. Spanning from her early years to today, the exhibit at Swiss Institute shows the artist’s commitment to portraying women as desiring subjects.
PENUMBRA FOUNDATION OPEN CALL FOR PHOTOBOOK PROGRAM
Penumbra Foundation, the non-profit organization dedicated to providing comprehensive resources to photographers of all levels, is offering a new call for applications for an intensive program where the artist will be guided through each step of the creation of a photobook. The deadline for registration is October 15, 2022.
ISLAA PRESENTS “EROS RISING: VISIONS OF THE EROTIC IN LATIN AMERICAN ART”
Exhibited by The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) and curated by Mariano López Seoane and Bernardo Mosqueira, Eros Rising presents drawings, paintings, and photographs by Artur Barrio, Oscar Bony, Carmelo Carrá, Feliciano Centurión, David Lamelas, Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, Carlos Motta, Wynnie Mynerva, La Chola Poblete, and Tadáskía that seek to give form to the intangible experience of eroticism.
THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM PRESENTS “DEATH TO THE LIVING, LONG LIVE TRASH” BY DUKE RILEY
The artist has created a full-fledged maritime museum within the walls of the Brooklyn Museum, debuting approximately 250 new and recent works made entirely out of discarded plastic found in New York waterways. DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash, a critical, provocative look at the ecological impact of capitalism across centuries, connects the history of American maritime art to current themes of environmental justice.
AMERICAS SOCIETY EXHIBITS SCULPTURES BY MEXICAN ARTIST GELES CABRERA
This is the first solo exhibition in the United States dedicated to Geles Cabrera, who is one of the most prominent female sculptors of her country. Geles Cabrera: Museo Escultórico will feature artwork created over 40 years of her career and will be on view from June 8 through July 30, 2022.
PLASTIC PRINTS IN ‘OCÉANOS’ – PENUMBRA FOUNDATION
The New York based photography foundation Penumbra exhibits OCÉANOS by Roberto Huarcaya (Lima, Perú, 1959) until July 22nd. The show presents the first-ever exhibition of this Peruvian artist’ large-scale photograms of the Pacific Ocean. In what could be described as a "photogrammatic performance," Huarcaya immerses himself into the waters of the sea to record its virulent nature and traces of contamination.
HÉLIO OITICICA’S INSTALLATION IN NEW YORK
Exhibited at the Spcrates Sculpture Park, in collaboration with Projeto Hélio Oiticica and Americas Society. Titled Subterranean Tropicália Projects: PN15 1971/2022, this immersive environment is the first realization of a never-before-executed idea by the late Brazilian artist.
ELSEWHERE(S): OTHER WORLDS, OTHER TIMES, OTHER TERRITORIES
Another Space announces Elsewhere(s), an exploration of otherworldliness. Cocurated by Estrellita B. Brodsky and José Falconi, the exhibition brings together works by over 25 artists from Latin America and its diaspora, from the 9th Century BCE to the present. Grouped around themes of cosmology, magic, and non-Western forms of knowledge, Elsewhere(s) seeks to reflect on the traditional role of artists and their potential to envision alternative societies as utopian or reclaimed territories.
BORN OF INFORMALISMO: MARTA MINUJÍN AND THE NASCENT BODY OF PERFORMANCE
The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) announced the opening of Born of Informalismo: Marta Minujín and the Nascent Body of Performance, curated by Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann. The third in a series of exhibitions on Latin American modernism and its legacies, this show examines the early work of trailblazing Argentine artist Marta Minujín (b. 1943), tracing her trajectory from informalist painting and sculpture to performance.
NEW YORK - EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO EXHIBITS POPULAR PAINTERS & OTHER VISIONARIES
Popular Painters and Other Visionaries examines the practices of 35 artists working on the margins of modernism and the mainstream art world throughout the Americas around the mid-20th century.
GUADALUPE MARAVILLA EXHIBITS IN MoMA AND OFFERS HEALING SESSIONS
Guadalupe Maravilla: Luz y Fuerza exhibits sculptures and other pieces by the Salvadoran artist while also hosting Healing Sound Baths for the public. “I create new mythologies that take the form of real and fictionalized rituals based on my own lived experiences,” says Guadalupe Maravilla.
ALEXANDER GRAY ASSOCIATES REPRESENTATION OF RONNY QUEVEDO
The New York-based gallery will present Quevedo's first solo exhibition with the Gallery in fall 2022.
PART II: LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS IN NEW YORK – AMERICAS SOCIETY’S EXHIBITION
Americas Society presents the second part of This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975, a group exhibition that explores the artworks, performances, and experimental practices of this generation of artists who lived in New York City in the 1960s and 1970s. Diversifying the city’s artistic life, these artists helped shape New York into the global art center it is today.
CATHOLIC, BOUNDARY-BREAKING ANDY WARHOL
Presenting more than one hundred works—from iconic paintings such as The Last Supper to archival materials, drawings, prints, film, and rarely seen and newly discovered items—Andy Warhol: Revelation brings a fresh perspective to the canonical artist, exploring his career-long engagement with Catholic themes, as well as the tension between Warhol’s spiritual upbringing and his life as an out gay man.
MoMA’S COLLECTION GALLERY EXHIBITS MARTA MINUJÍN’S “MINUCODE”
The exhibition includes this piece by Argentine artist Minujín which exposes a meta-narrative of the art world and other spheres, their different agents and interrelations.
FROM TRAGIC ARCHIVES, CONTEMPORARY ART
Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani de Palma exhibits “The Archive of Dust: An Ongoing Project”, an exhaustive overview of the fundamental lines that characterize Elena del Rivero’s (Valencia, 1949) work gravitating around the attacks of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, in New York. The project deals with loss, the collective memory and pain, as well as with the construction of the existential pillars that make up the beliefs and values of society to rethink the future.
LYDIA RUBIO: THE ARTIST IN ARCADIA
Lydia Rubio was born in Havana, Cuba, with art in her bones. She comes from three generations of women painters, to be precise. "My grandmother painted every day, whenever she could," Lydia recalls. "She worked at an office but painted in the living room. The whole family lived together, so I used to see her painting there and was trained visually. My cousin, everybody was drawing and painting, but I was the only one that took it to another level of development and commitment."
RAQUEL RABINOVICH EXHIBITS “PORTALS” IN NEW YORK
Presented by Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary, the exhibition features a selection of the artist’s work from the 1960s to the present. Over the course of a seventy-year-long career, New York-based Argentinian-American artist Raquel Rabinovich (b. 1929, Buenos Aires) has been concerned with the paradox of making the invisible visible. Her interest in mythology, existence, poetry, nature, and transcendence is reflected in her monochromatic paintings and drawings, as well as in her sculptural practice that encompasses large-scale glass environments and site-specific stone installations along the shores of the Hudson River.