Thursday, October 12: Rirkrit Tiravanija | A Lot of People at MoMA PS1

For over four decades, Rirkrit Tiravanija has created artworks that aim to "make less things, but more useful relationships." This week the artist invites visitors to play ping-pong, eat pad thai, and record music when you experience some of Tiravanija's most iconic participatory works, presented on a rotating schedule. The exhibition, his first major survry, features over 100 artworks, from installation and film to works on paper, photographs, sculptures, and newly produced “plays” of key pieces.

MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, NY Info

Wednesday, October 11, 6-9 pm: Paula Abreu Pita Codominio Marbelle del Caribe at PS 109

graphs made from a rented apartment in Puerto Rico during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pool area was restricted and required a reservation which allowed bathers to stay for one hour. 

During the Pandemic, staying in a rented apartment in Puerto Rica, Paula Abreu Pita photographed people using the swimming pool—each allowed one hour of playtime. Adults sunbathing, kids playing, selfies, kissing, and dancing; it all happened around the wall dividing the shallow from the deep end. 

After months of photographing and watching people's behavior and social habits in this public space, I noticed specific patterns. Postures and gestures were replicated among my subjects, despite the community's diversity. Every circumstance was an opportunity to capture an instant in the hour of relaxation of my temporary neighbors. 

Paula will also launch her book of the same title at the opening. info

El Barrio’s Artspace PS109, 115 East 99^th Street, New York, NY 

Thursday, October 12, 6-8 pm: Matt Rota and Shiri Mordechay | Ecstacic Nature at Equity

Matt Rota (a longtime contributor to DART)  is a New York-based illustrator and fine artist specializing in narrative technique with watercolor and ink media. Rota’s works have been widely published and exhibited; he teaches graduates at the School of Visual Arts and has authored three books on illustration techniques.Above: Prophecy in the Beaver Swamp, 2023

Shiri Mordechay works primarily in ink on paper, creating often grotesque and sardonic images, with added materials such as wire or beads. Solo exhibitions have occurred in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Italy. Mordechay has been interviewed by Juxtapoz, Artillery and Art in America magazines and she was featured in the 2020 New American Paintings publication, juried by Jerry Saltz.

Equity Gallery, 245 Broome Street, New York, NY Info 

Thursday, October 12, 6-9pm: Nick Georgiou | Biblioscapes at Allouche

In Biblioscapes, literary narratives transcend the boundaries of their original medium, offering new transportive, utopic tableaus. We see how Nick Georgiou's fascination lies in the threads that bind together the countless lives that have traversed the pages of forgotten texts. 

Georgiou's innovative artistic process consists of collecting discarded pages sourced from dictionaries, gilded encyclopedias, textbooks, novels, journals, anthologies, and more. The materials are then reworked into pieces that evoke the timeless allure of classical mosaics and sculptural wall reliefs. In this setting, literary narratives transcend the boundaries of their original medium, offering new transportive, utopic tableaus.

Allouche Gallery, 77 Mercer Street, New York, NY Info

Friday, October 13 : Vertigo of Color | Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism at The Met

Over an intense nine weeks in the summer of 1905 in the modest fishing village of Collioure on the French Mediterranean, Henri Matisse and Andre Derain embarked on a partnership that led to a wholly new, radical artistic language later known as Fauvism. Their daring, energetic experiments with color, form, structure, and perspective changed the course of French painting; it marked an introduction to early modernism and introduced Matisse’s first important body of work in his long career. 

This exhibition of 65 works, including paintings, drawings, and watercolors, demonstrates a new direction in painting, in which Matisse and Derain manipulated color in radical ways. Through their inventive explorations, nature took on hues responding to the artists’ sensations rather than reality. At the Salon d’Automne in 1905, when Matisse and Derain unveiled their controversial canvases, a prominent French journalist labeled them “les Fauves,” or wild beasts.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY Info

Thursday, October 25, 5:30-7:00pm: Torn & Frayed | New Prints at NY Academy

New prints at the New York Academy of Art,  curated by Tom Hück and John Jacobsmeyer, showcases 16 printmaking artists representing a cross section of the Outlaw Printmakers’ expanding sphere of influence. These printmakers choose content as fearlessly as they hold to traditional modes of carving and drawing by hand, skills that are central to their ‘patron saints’, Jose Posada, and Albrecht Dürer.

Featured artists include Sue Coe, Bill Flick, John S Hancock, Rie Hasegawa, Carlos Hernandez, Tom Hück, Jake Ingram, Dennis McNett, Luján Pérez Hernández, Aliene de Souza Howell, Jacoub Reyes, Claire Roberts, David Sandlin, Justin Sanz, Russ Spitkovsky, and Sean Starwars, Above: David Sandlin (longtime contributor to DART), from 76 Manifestations of American Destiny Volume 6

New York Academy of Art, 11 Franklin Street, New York, NY Info

It’s Open Studios season in NYC, with hundreds of artists opening their doors for an intimate view of their work and process. Following are some of the upcoming events. Additional public art events are mixed in chronologically.

Thursday-Saturday, October 12-14:  EFA Open Studios 2023

This annual event that welcomes the public to visit the studios and galleries of the EFA building in Midtown Manhattan. It is an opportunity to see the most recent works by over 70 artists here, and to gain meaningful insight into their process of creation. The EFA Studio Program is a vibrant and diverse community of artists working in a wide range of media and artistic sensibilities. All are professional artists with established studio practices and career honors. The EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and EFA Project Space will be open for tours.

Thursday, October 12, 6 – 9 p.m. (opening night). Friday, October 13, 6 – 9 p.m. Saturday, October 14, 2 – 6 p.m.Free and open to the public; no rsvp

EFA Center, 323 West 39^th Street, New Yorl NY Info

Sunday, October 15, 12-5pm: Mana Contemporary Fall Open Studios

Mana Artist Community is looking forward to meeting you! More than 40 artists will have their studo doors open to engage and talk about their art.  Maps will be available on-site. Above: Photo by Joe Schildhorn

Several exhibitions are on view within the compound, including:

Serving Face: Collection of costumes worn by Machine Dazzle, Taylor Mac and the Dazzle Dancers. 2015 - Present; Machine Dazzle
Location:  1st Floor, Lobby Hallway

Inner Mirror; Linda Alpern presented by Monira Foundation
Explore personal narratives on identity, self-contemplation, and connection through photography. A collaboration with the AYN Foundation. Location:  2nd Floor.

Between Two Breaths; David Benarroch presented by Monira Foundation
Dive into sculptures and drawings that reveal traces of physical impact and explore the concept of displacement in migration.
Location: Studio #445.

Film Noir an installation by ROQ Initiative
Experience the classic film noir style from old Hollywood and a recreated detective's office. Location: BMST.

Mana Contemporary, 888. Newark Avenue, Jersey City, NJ Map Shuttle bus info

Saturday, October 14, 12-1pm: LoVid; 2-3pm: Bel Falleiros

Providing visitors with the chance to engage with artists whose work is inspired by Wave Hill’s site is signature to the arts program here. Over the next couple weeks, meet several artists in their exhibitions and learn about their respective practices, use of materials and the themes that inspire their work.

Wave Hill, 625 West 252^nd Street, Bronx, New York Info

Two Saturday, October 15 and 28, 1-4 pm: Bodily Book Forms in Sunset Park

Come to Sunset Park to create one-page books and zines inspired by Felipe Baeza’s Unruly Forms, an exhibition of eight paintings currently displayed in hundreds of bus shelters and street furniture across the United States and Mexico. 

In this series of free workshops facilitated by Booklyn, Inc., Sunset Park residents, visitors, and the Mixteca community will experiment with collage, pop-up structures, and binding techniques to explore the unruly relationship between the body and the book form. Both containers—bodies and books—hold stories, and the shapes they take will shift to accommodate and tell them. Each participant will create a project that can be easily photocopied and multiplied, echoing the format of Baeza’s Public Art Fund commission.

These outdoor workshops will be conducted in English and Spanish. All materials will be provided. No registration is needed; audiences of all ages are encouraged to drop in!

Sunset Park (near the playground at 44th Street and 6th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Map

Saturday-Sunday, October 21-22, 12-6pm: Gowanus Open Studios

Hosted by Arts Gowanus, Gowanus Open Studios is Brooklyn’s biggest celebration of local art and artists. For its 27^th edition more than 350 artists and 70+ venues in the greater Gowanus neighborhood will open their doors, giving the public a rare glimpse inside the former factories, warehouses, and studio buildings of this vibrant neighborhood. Artists will be on hand to discuss their work, share their processes, and showcase their latest projects. Partner businesses in the neighborhood will be offering discounts. 

Artists Directory Digital map is available on artsgowanus.org.