Special Events

Frieze Week 2017

Frieze New York: May 5-7 | VIP Preview May 4

Randall’s Island, NY, NY Info Frieze Projects 2017 includes a “secret  theater” screening videos by Jon Rafman that combines amateur 3-D animation and computer-generated erotica, with the audience becoming part of the performance. Photo: © Peggy Roalf for DART

TEFAF New York: May 4-8 | VIP Preview May 3

Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue at 67^th Street, NY, NY Info Contemporary and Modern art and design, with Di Donna Galleries presenting a “Surrealist Banquet,” featuring gastronomy-themed works by Salvador DalÍ, René Magritte, Jean Arp, Alexander Calder, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Wayne Thiebaud, and Claes Oldenburg.

Art New York: May 3-7

Pier 94, 12^th Avenue at 55^th Street, NY, NY Info Politically engaged work includes The 99%: United We Stand by Jason Myers, tiny portraits depicting the masses that constitute the bulk of the population; and Welcome, a project by Amarist Studio that takes inspiration from border fences in Europe.

Context New York: May 3-8

Pier 94, 12^th Avenue at 55^th Street, NY, NY Info International contemporary art including Marie Watt’s Seneca Nation sewing circles an paintings from Malaysian artist Hasanul Isyraf Idris.

Collective Design: May 3-7

Skylight Clarkson Square, 550 Washington Street, NY, NY Info Special projects include an installation of works by Isamu Noguci and Robert Stadler by the Noguchi Museum.

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair: May 5-7 | VIP Preview May 4

Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY The 54 original galleries are joined by 19 more international galleries;  the 1:54 Forum programming features art  as activism and resistance.

Spring/Break Art Show: May 7-14 |Opening Party May 6

City Point, 300 Flatbush Avenue Extension between Willoughby Street and Fleet Street, Brooklyn, NY Info Site-specific installations and environments installed in a new residential/retail/office complex in Downtown Brooklyn

Portal: May 3-8

345 Broome Street Gallery, between Broadway and Crosby, NY, NY Info This chaotic “anti-Anti Art Fair” is a free for all presented by 4heads, organizers of the Governors Island Art Fair. 30 international artists selected through a combined open call and invitational.

Superfine!: May 4-7

459 West 14^th Street, NY, NY Info Affordable artworks presented 45 international exhibitors with a focus on queer, female and artist-run presenters. DJ sets and a Young Collectors Ice Cream Social on May 5

Fridge: May 3-6

Branded Saloon, 603 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn, NY with pop-up at Nu Hotel, 85 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY Info The 2017 theme is “Art and Kink for the Age of Revolution – Love and Torture” and plays out during offbeat hours, often starting at midnight

Salon Zürcher: May 2-7

Zürcher Gallery, 33 Bleecker Street, NY, NY Info The Paris gallery invites galleries from Paris, Ethiopia and Kenya to present contemporary works in an intimate setting.

Asia Week NY Contemporary: May 2-10

Various locations in Manhattan Info Seven galleries, most on the Upper East Side, present works by artists from China, Japan, Korea, and India in the first contemporary art iteration of this blue-chip favorite.

Conception Art Fair: May 4-7

80 Wooster Street, NY, NY Info Contemporary art by “pioneering artists, collectives, and galleries with a strong focus on art for social and political change as well as work by women and other under-represented minorities” from nine participating exhibitors in this art fair which is the “first art fair owned and produced exclusively by women.”

Antique Garden Furniture Fair: May 3-31

New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY Info Billed as “the country’s most renowned stage for authentic garden antiques and rarities… for the home and garden,” this show runs concurrently with the newly opened Dale Chihuly spectacular.

Bklyn Designs: May 5-7

Brooklyn Expo Center, 72 Noble Street, [downtowb] Brooklyn, NY Info Design, Architecture, Art from Brooklyn’s neighborhood, with markets, panels, interactive installations, cafes and bars.

 

Talks / Book Events / Screenings / And Beyond

Wednesday, May 3

Meme Factory | Is My Truth Your Truth, 7:30 pm. ICP Museum, 250 Bowery, NY, NY Info

Anish Kapoor, Public Art Fund talk, 6:30 pm. The New School Auditorium, 66 West 12^th Street, NY, NY Info

Friday, May 5

Workspace Artists in Residence, talk, 6:30 pm. The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27^th Street, NY, NY Info

Adam McEwen | I Think I’m In Love, reading/book signing, 4-6 pm. Petzel Gallery, 35 East 67^th Street, NY, NY Info

Saturday, May 6

Walkthrough | Exploratory Works with curators Mark Dion, Katherine McLeod and Madeleine Thompson, 6:30 pm. The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, NY, NY Info

Chelsea Night/Frieze New York: Many galleries extend their hours until 8 pm for this annual post-Frieze fest. Check individual galleries.

Guided tour of Llyn Foulkes with curator Margot Norton, 4-5 pm. David Zwirner, 533 West 19^th Street, NY, NY Info

Protest: Open Call & Zine Release Party | Posters, T-shirts, Signs, Ephemera, noon-6 pm. Black Ball Projects, 374 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Info  [Williamsburg]

Sunday, May 7

Cultural Traffic Book and Zine Fair | Hester Street Fair, 11 am-8 pm. Hester and Essex Streets, NY, NY Info

In Response | The Arcades, panel, 6 pm with Ivan Forde, Davey Hawkins, Cary Hulbert, Daria Irincheeva, Emily Kloppenburg, Leah Moskowitz, Ana Rivera, Rocio Olivares, Emily Shaffer, Jacqueline Silberbush, Sara Stern, on Walter Benjamin, Contemporary Art and The Arcades. The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92^nd Street, NY, NY Info

 

© Mark Ruwedel, from Hell and Home, this week at Yossi Milo

In Galleries / Lens-based Art

Tuesday, May 2

Diane Arbus | In the Park. Levy Gorvy Gallery, 909 Madison Avenue, NY, NY Info

Wednesday, May 3

Lisa Fairstein | Deep Shade, 6-8 pm. Baxter St at The Camera Club of New York, 126 Baxter Street, NY, NY Info

Irving Penn: 1950, 5:30-7:30 pm. Pace/MacGill Gallery, 32 East 57^th Street, NY, NY Info

Thursday, May 4

Tabor Robak | Quantaspectra, 6-8 pm. Team Gallery, 83 Grand Street, NY, NY Info

Mark Ruwedel | Hell and Home, 6-8 pm. Yossi Milo Gallery, 245 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY Info

Vanias | Jeanette May & Kimberly Witham, 6-8 pm. Klompching Gallery, 89 Water Street, Brooklyn, NY Info [Dumbo]

Friday, May 5

Barbara Bloom | A Picture, A Thousand Words, 6-9 pm. David Lewis, 88 Eldridge Street, NY, NY Info

Friday, May 5-Monday, May 8

Dusty Film & Animation Festival, SVA Theatre. 333 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY Info

 

Ridley Howard, Passeggiata, Rome, 2017, this week at Mariano

In Galleries

Tuesday, May 2

Timothée Calame | Curriculum, 6-8 pm. Swiss Institute, 102 Franklin Street, NY, NY Info

Mark Flood | Google Murder-Suicide, 6-8 pm. Maccarone, 630 Greenwich Street, NY, NY Info

Eric Fischl | Late America, 6-8 pm. Skarstedt Gallery, 550 West 21^st Street, NY, NY Info

Carmen Herrera | Works on Paper, 6-8 pm. Lisson Gallery, 136 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY Info

In Absence of Color | Artists working in black and white, 6-8 pm. Hollis Taggart Galleries, 521 West 26^th Street, NY, NY Info

MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Thesis Exhibition, 6-8pm. SVA Chelsea Gallery, 601 West 26^th Street, NY, NY Info

Johanna Jackson and Chris Johanson | The Middle Riddle, 6-9 pm. Journal Gallery, 106 North 1^st Street, Brooklyn, NY Info [Williamsburg]

Wednesday, May 3

Lonnie Holley | Which Do We Drop First, the Baby or the Bomb?, 6-8 pm. James Fuentes, 55 Delancey Street, NY, NY Info

Chris Burden | Hobby Shop, 6-8 pm. Shin Gallery, 322 Grand Street, NY, NY Info

Verne Dawson | Tinnitus, 6-8 pm. Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, 291 Grand Street, NY, NY Info

Ridley Howard | Travel Pictures, 6-8 pm. Mariano, 319 Grand Street, NY, NY Info

Peter Howson | Prophesy, 6-8 pm. Flowers Gallery, 529 West 20^th Street, NY, NY Info

Midtown | Art & Design, 6-8 pm. Presented by Maccarone, Salon 94 Design and Salon 94 at Lever House, 390Park Avenue at 53^rd Street, NY, NY Info

Thursday, May 4

Juliana Huxtable | A Split During Laughter at the Rally, 6-8 pm. Reena Spaulings Fine Art, 165 East Broadway, FL 2, NY, NY Info

Whitfield Lovell | What’s Past is Prologue, 1987-1998, 6-8 pm. 535 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY Info

Dumbo First Thursday Gallery Walk, 5-8 pm. Start at The Stable Building, 16 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY Info

Drew Friedman | Heroes of the Comics, 6-? pm. Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63^rd Street, NY, NY Info

Saturday, May 6

Spaces | Liz Ainslie, Theresa Daddezio, Alison Fox, Ilse Sørensen Murdock, Kristina Lee, Erika Ranee, 6-8 pm. Station Independent Projects, 138 Eldridge Street, NY, NY Info

Monday, May 8

Exhibition Launch and Reception | Venture 17: Design Entrepreneurs, 6-8 pm. SVA Gramercy Gallery, 333 East 23^rd Street, NY, NY Info

 

Photo: Paolo Roversi; Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In Museums

Tuesday, May 2

Kaari Upson | Good thing you are not alone; Lyneette Yiadom-Boakye | Under-Song For A Cipher; Elaine Cameron-Weir | viscera has questions about itself. New Museum, 235 Bowery, NY, NY Info

Thursday, May 4

Rei Kawakubo | Comme des Garcons: Art of the In Between. The Met, Costume Institute, 1000 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY Info

Continuing

Where We Are | Selection from the Whitney’s Collection, 1900-1960. Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, NY, NY Info