Editors Picks: 19 Things Not to Miss in New Yorks Art World This Week – artnet News

Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. See them below.

Annemarie Ryan, Crazy Sweet Love (2019). Courtesy of the artist.

1. A Changing Landscape: The Female I at Van Der Plas Gallery

A group show featuring 98 paintings by 48 international women artists, this exhibition couldnt be more timely as it presents varied perspectives from across demographics and generations. One highlight of the exhibition is the work of Annemarie Ryan, a Washington, DC-based painter whose lyrical compositions harken back to the female abstract expressionists like Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler, with contemporary sentiments imbued with societal and cultural sensitivities.

Location: Van Der Plas Gallery, 156 Orchard StreetPrice: FreeTime: Opening reception, Wednesday, March 4, 6 p.m.8 p.m.; MondaySunday, 12 p.m.6 p.m.

Caroline Goldstein

Daria Price, director of Driven To Abstraction with the fake Mark Rothko at the heart of the Knoedler forgery scandal. Photo courtesy of Daria Price.

2. Film Screening & Conversation: Driven to Abstraction at the Art Students League

The infamous Knoedler forgery scandal that saw collectors buy some $80 million of fake Abstract Expressionist art over a period of 15 years, is one of the most fascinating art stories of the current century. Director Daria Price is screening her 2019 documentaryDriven to Abstractionat the Art Students League, followed by a discussion withNew York Timesjournalist Patricia Cohen, who wrote extensively about the story as it developedas did many staff members at Artnet News, including senior market editor Eileen Kinsella, who is one of the experts featured in the film.

Location: Art Students League, the Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, 215 West 57th StreetPrice:Free with RSVPTime:6 p.m.8 p.m.

Sarah Cascone

Barbara Londons Video/Art: The First 50 Years, published by Phaidon Press.

3. Barbara London in Conversation with Paul Pfeiffer at 192 Books

In conjunction with the release of her new book Video/Art: The First 50 Years, Barbara London, the founding curator of MoMAs video collection and exhibition program, will embark on a wide-ranging discussion with pioneering multimedia artist Paul Pfeiffer, the man responsible for the first video piece that ever stopped me in my tracks. Together, the duo will address topics that loom large in Londons text and Pfeiffers practice, such as how technological advancement impacts artworks made using video, and how mass-media images impact our thinking about both ourselves and each other.

Location: 192 Tenth AvenuePrice: FreeTime: 7 p.m.

Tim Schneider

The Museum of Modern Art Armory party. Photo by Alycia Kravitz, courtesy of MoMA.

4.Armory Show Partyat the Museum of Modern Art

If you want to party during Armory Week, look no further than MoMA. This years fete will have a live performance by Orville Peckits his only New York stop on his current tourplus DJ sets by Kitty Cash, Hank, and Mona. Theres an open bar, and tickets include fair admission plus a chance to see some MoMA exhibitions after hours.

Location:The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd StreetPrice:General admission $125Time:VIP hour 8 p.m.9 p.m.; 9 p.m.12:30 a.m.

Sarah Cascone

Mamma Andersson, Holiday (2020). Mamma Andersson/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Bildupphovsrtt, Sweden. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.

5. Mamma Andersson at David Zwirner

Opening this Wednesday at David Zwirners 19th Street location is an exhibition of new works by contemporary Swedish painter Mamma Andersson. Made between 2018 and 2020, these works revisit motifs common in Anderssons works including domestic interiors, women, horses, and foliage. In Holiday, figures on horseback float up a deep plum road lined with teal grass. A mountain range sits at the horizon below an open, burnt orange sky. The photo-realistic lighting on the figures and horses backs provide a stark contrast against the tie-dye effect of the background. I paint slowly, gently, thin, beautiful, ugly, thick, hard. I love it, its my life. But I hate it too, Andersson has said. It is a quiet, messy, illogical confusing disorder. In 2003, Andersson represented Norway in the 50th Venice Biennale. Three years later, in 2006, she was the recipient of the Carnegie Art Award. This will be the artists fourth exhibition with the gallery.

Location:David Zwirner, 533 West 19th StreetPrice:FreeTime: Opening reception, 6 p.m.8 p.m.; TuesdaySaturday, 10 a.m.6 p.m.

Cristina Cruz

Claudia Bitran, Lauren Carly Shaw, Lauren Powell, and Gracelee Lawrence. Photo courtesy of Postmasters Gallery.

6. at Postmasters Gallery

As Postmasterss current group show, Vicious Frames: Claudia Bitran, Lauren Carly Shaw, & Gracelee Lawrence (on view through March 7), draws to a close, the artists and exhibition curator Lauren Powell will speak with gallery director Manan Ter-Grigoryan about the unique anxieties of the modern world and how the internet and social media inspire the show.

Location:Postmasters Gallery, 54 Franklin StreetPrice:FreeTime: 7:30 p.m.

Sarah Cascone

Matisse Picasso. Image courtesy of Honey & Wax Booksellers

7.New York International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory

Universally referred to as one of the worlds best antiquarian book fairs,the show is the highlight of the spring calendar for bibliophiles, collectors of the curious and quirky, scholars, connoisseurs, and enthusiastic laymen alike. More than 200 exhibitors will present a vast trove of material: rare books, maps, illuminated manuscripts, incunabula, fine bindings, illustrations, historical documents, rare prints and print ephemera. In addition to regular hours (below), Sunday includes Discovery Day from 1 to 3 p.m., where guests can bring up to five treasures to be evaluated by the fairs experts.

Location:The Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park AvenuePrice: Preview night $60; general admission $25Time:Thursday preview 5 p.m.9 p.m.; Friday, 12 p.m.8 p.m.; Saturday 12 p.m.7 p.m.; Sunday 12 p.m.5 p.m.

Eileen Kinsella

Emily Kama Kngwarreye, Untitled (1990). Courtesy of DLan Davidson.

8. EMILY at DLan Davidson Gallery

Australias DLan Davidson Gallery touches down stateside at the High Line Nine with the first-ever US survey of celebrated Indigenous Australian painter Emily Kame Kngwarreye, who began painting in 1988 at age 78. She quickly became the leading light of the remote desert community of women painters in Utopia, outside Alice Springs, painting some 3,000 works before her death in 1996 at age 86. Among the expected highlights will be Kngwarreyes first large-scale work, My Country (1990), which is being shown publicly for the first time since its creation.

Location: DLan Davidson Gallery, High Line Nine, 507 West 27th StreetPrice:FreeTime: Opening reception, 6 p.m.8 p.m.; TuesdaySaturday, 10 a.m.6 p.m.

Sarah Cascone

TOP ROW: Janiva Ellis, Keeblers Revenge, (2018); Jessica Jackson Hutchins, My Friend the Poet (2019); Trenton Doyle Hancock, Ferroneous & The Monk (1999); Nicholas Galanin, Everything Weve Ever Been, Everything We Are Right Now Untitled (Black Figure), 2019; Mike Cloud, F of J (2016). BOTTOM ROW: Lonnie Holley, Busted Without Arms II (2016); Rona Pondick, Magenta Swimming in Yellow (201517); Sheila Hicks, Caid Nejjai (1977); Henry Taylor, Portrait of Deana Lawson (2014).

9. 2020 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the American Academy of Arts and Letters

This year, more than 150artists were nominated by members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, anhonorary society of architects, artists, composers, and writers, for the organizations annual show. There are some impressive namesboth emerging and establishedamong the 28 who made the final cut, including Henry Taylor, Janiva Ellis, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Betye Saar, Sheila Hicks, Diana Al-Hadid, and Arthur Jafa. If youve never visited the academy, its worth the trip uptown.

Location:The American Academy of Arts and Letters, 633 West 155th Street, entrance on Audubon Terrace at Broadway between West 155th and 156th StreetsPrice:FreeTime:ThursdaySunday, 1 p.m.4 p.m.

Sarah Cascone

Adrienne Elise Tarver, The Dreamers (2019). Courtesy of Hollis Taggart.

10. History Reclaimed: Suchitra Mattai and Adrienne Elise Tarver at Hollis Taggart

Suchitra Mattai and Adrienne Elise Tarver both make undeniably beautiful work that is unafraid to address a challenging history of colonialism and racial oppression. Mattai has created anew site-specific large-scale installation for the exhibition using hundreds of vintage saris. Tarver is showcasing two paintings series, one of portraits of black women, both archetypal and historical, and of tropical foliage that spills off the canvas, disrupting the white cube of the gallery. (Its something of a moment for Tarver, who also has a solo show, Escape, at Victori + Mo , also in Chelsea, through March 14, and work in the new, hands-on Inside Art exhibition at the Childrens Museum of Manhattan.)

Location:Hollis Taggart, 514 West 25th StreetPrice:FreeTime: Opening reception, 6 p.m.8 p.m.; MondayFriday, 10 a.m.5:30 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m.5:30 p.m.

Sarah Cascone

Mr Srebriansky, Watermelon (2019.) Courtesy of 81 Leonard Gallery.

11. Mr Srebriansky: Age of Resin at 81 Leonard Gallery

French-born New York-based artist Mr Srebriansky gets his first solo show in the city, featuring new resin paintings that he made following a sabbatical from painting after his studio burned down, destroying all his work.

Location: 81 Leonard Gallery, 81 Leonard StreetPrice:FreeTime: Opening reception, 6 p.m.9 p.m.; MondayFriday, 12 p.m.6 p.m.

Tanner West

Julie Blackmon, Bathers (2019). Photo Julie Blackmon, courtesy of the artist and Robert Mann Gallery.

12. Julie Blackmon Fever Dreams at Fotografiska New York

Julie Blackmons photographs hinting at the dark side of otherwise innocuous domestic scenes are inspired by growing up in a big family in her hometown of Springfield, Missouria place she describes as the generic American town.

Location: Fotografiska New York, 5 Wooster StreetPrice: General admission $28Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.8 p.m.; TuesdaySaturday, 10 a.m.6 p.m.

Sarah Cascone

Photo AMUSE INC., courtesy of Amuse Museum/Chuzaburo Tanaka Collection.

13. Boro Textiles: Sustainable Aesthetics at the Japan Society

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, northern Japanese peasants unable to grow their own cotton became, by necessity, experts of hand-piecedboromeaning rags or tatterstextiles. Using patchwork techniques to create utilitarian garments from used scraps of cloth, these artisans eschewed wastefulness while imbuing their handiwork with traditional Japanese aesthetics. The Japan Society will highlight boro pieces from the collection of cultural anthropologist Chuzaburo Tanaka (19332016), showcasing the imperfect beauty of such garments. Pairing the work of avant-garde Japanese fashion greats such as Rei Kawakubo and Issey Miyake with contemporary textile artists such as Susan Cianciolo and Christina Kim, the exhibition will also illustrate the legacy of this little-known yet influential craft.

Location:Japan Society, 333 East 47th StreetPrice:General admission $12Time: TuesdayThursday,12 p.m.7 p.m.; Friday, 12 p.m.9 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.5 p.m.

Sarah Cascone

Suzan Frecon, Study for Blue God Verona (2016/2019). Photo courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner Gallery.

14. EFAbstract Closing Reception & Publication Release at theElizabeth Foundation for the Arts

The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts is closing out both Armory Week and its current exhibition, EFAbstract, curated by Bill Carroll (through March 8), with a release party for a new edition ofend_notes about the show.

Location:Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, 323 West 39th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues, 3rd FloorPrice:FreeTime:2 p.m.4 p.m.

Nan Stewert

A participant at the Wikipedia Asian Month: Edit-a-thon on Exhibition Histories, A Space, AAA, November 2019. Photo by Winnie Yeung @iMAGE28, courtesy of M+.

15. Art+Feminism: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2020at the New York Public Library

Each March, for Womens History Month,Art+Feminismencourages groups around the world to hold Wikipedia Edit-a-thon events to help close the gender gap on the free online reference source.(The initiative was founded in response to a 2011 survey that sound that only 11 percent of Wikipedia editors were women.) One of those Edit-a-thons is being organized by the Asia Art Archive in America and the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs of the New York Public Library and in collaboration with Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong. Stop by the librarys main reference branch to help add information about women artists Wikipedia, with the aid of provided books and research materials. The event will also include a talk with Brooklyn-based artists Jaishri Abichandani and Jean Shin.

Location:The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 476 Fifth Avenue at 42nd StreetPrice:Free with RSVPTime: 11:30 a.m.5 p.m.

Sarah Cascone

Photo courtesy of the Times Square Edition.

16. WOMEN DRIVING CHANGE: Todays Female Leaders Across Creative Industries at the Times Square Edition

This art-adjacent panel discussion and afternoon tea is being thrown for International Womens Day, with women creatives asdesigner and activist Julia Watson andBrazilian-Italian journalist and artist Tansy Kaschak speaking with moderator Lauren DeCarlo ofCond Nast Traveler. The tea party portion comes courtesy of actor and art world regular WarisAhluwalia, who was recently spotted selling his $27 House of Waris tea at Frieze Los Angeles.

Location:The Terrace Restaurant, the Times Square EDITION, 701 7th Avenue, 9th FloorPrice:Free with RSVPTime: 4:30 p.m.6:30 p.m.

Sarah Cascone

17. JEF by Jeremy Couillard Presented by TSS x Daata at Times Square Space

Collector Tiffany Zabludowicz is back with her first new show at Times Square Space in over a year. As usual, shes taking over an empty office space in the building, this time with a sci-fi flavored animation and video game work from Jeremy Couillard. The show opened over the weekend and has expanded hours for Armory Week.

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Editors Picks: 19 Things Not to Miss in New Yorks Art World This Week - artnet News