Frieze Week

The eighth edition of Frieze NY opens at Randalls Island  Park with a VIP preview on Thursday, from 11am to 7 pm, and runs through Sunday, May 5th. Info
New this year is a major exhibition of sculpture by 14 international artists at Rockefeller Center. Selected bycuratorBrett Littman (Director of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in Long Island City, New York), these works will be on view through June 28th. The participating artists are: Nick Cave, Aaron Curry, Jose Dávila, Walter De Maria, Rochelle Goldberg, Goshka Macuga, Ibrahim Mahama, Joan Miró, Paulo Nazareth, Jaume Plensa, Pedro Reyes, Kiki Smith, Sarah Sze, and Hank Willis Thomas. Info Above: Jaume Plensa, Behind the Walls; photo © Timothy Schenck, courtesy Frieze NY

Frieze New York 2019 features leading galleries from 26 countries, showcasing a cross-section of work from today’s most exciting emerging artists to seminal figures of the 20th century. Led by Victoria Siddall (Director, Frieze Fairs) and Loring Randolph (Artistic Director, Americas), Frieze New York introduces an unprecedented number of collaborations with leading museum directors from institutions in New York and across the US. Patrick Charpenel (Executive Director of El Museo del Barrio, New York) and Susanna V. Temkin (Curator) will curate Dialogos, a new themed section for Latino and Latin American art. Franklin Sirmans (Director of the Perez Art Museum Miami) also joins the fair to oversee this year’s tribute section celebrating the enduring legacy of Linda Goode Bryant and her pivotal New York gallery, Just Above Midtown (JAM). A new exhibition of Virtual Reality artwork will be curated by Daniel Birnbaum (renowned curator, Director of Acute Art and formerly Director of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm); and artist, Javier Tellez will curate an exhibition of self-taught artists in collaboration with the Outsider Art Fair. 

Frieze Talks:  Tom Eccles and Amy Zion (Bard College, New York) return to co- organize Frieze Talks, which pairs today’s most searching and innovative literary figures with artists, writers, and curators working in the contemporary art field. 

Taking place Friday through Sunday in the Talks Lounge, program highlights include: Simone Leigh (artist) in conversation with Saidiya Hartman (professor, Columbia University) (Friday, 12.30pm): Sheila Heti (artist) in conversation with Josephine Decker (performer, filmmaker) (Friday, 3.00pm); Aruna D’Souza (author) in conversation with Nico Wheadon (Director of Public Programs & Community Engagement, Studio Museum Harlem) and Sable Elyse Smith (artist) (Saturday, 12.30pm); Andrew Durbin (US. Senior Editor, frieze) in conversation with T.J. Wilcox (artist) (Saturday, 3pm); and Valeria Luiselli (author) with Terence Gower (artist) (Sunday 12:30pm). 

Works by Rachel Uffner Gallery artists will be on view at NADA House

NADA House

New Art Dealers Alliance's second off-site exhibition on Governors Island, features 45 artists from NADA Member galleries and non-profits across 34 rooms in three historic, turn-of-the-century Colonial Revival houses.
The exhibition will be free and open to the public, with monthly programmatic activations and performances. Responding to the unique context of Governors Island and the specific character of these houses, many participating artists will present work that speaks to the island’s changing identity over time – from its origins as Lenape land occupied by Native Americans of the Manhattan region to its role in the Revolutionary War, and later from its use by the US Army and Coast Guard to its current state as a site for artistic, scientific, and urban experimentation.
The exhibition will be on view every weekend, Friday through Sunday, 11am–5pm from May 2, 2019 to August 4, 2019, with a special opening preview held on Thursday, May 2nd from 1–5pm. Info

Around Town

Darrel Ellis, through June 28. Osmos, 50 East 1^stStr.eet, NY, NY Info

Louis Fratino | Come Softly to Me, through May 24. Sikkema Jenkins & Co, 530 West 22nd. NY, NY Info

Barbarta Ess | Someone To Watch Over Me,through May 12. Magenta Plains, 94 Allen Street, NY, NY Info

Vivian Suter, through June 8. Gladstone Gallery, 530 West 21^stStreet, NY, NY Info

Ser Serpas, through June 2. Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies, 38 Ludlow Street, NY, NY Info

Doreen Garner | She Is Risen, through May 26. JTT, 191 Chrystie Street, NY, NY Info

Jeff Wall, through June 22. Gagosian Gallery, 522 West 22^ndStreet, NY, NY Info

Meghann Riepenhoff, Littoral Drift #849 (Pleasant Beach Watershed, Bainbridge Island, WA, 2017; this week at Yossi Milo Gallery 

Openings

Wednesday, May 1, 19

Chris Ofili | Dangerous Liaisons, 6-8 pm. David Zwirner, 34 East 69^thStreet, NY, NY Info

Thursday, May 2

Zoya Cherkassky | Soviet Childhood, 6-8 pm. Fort Gansevoort, 5 Ninth Avenue, NY, NY Info

Meghann Riepenhoff | Ecotone, 6-8 pm. Yossi Milo Gallery, 245 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY Info

Chip Hooper | From the Edge, 6-8 pm. Robert Mann Gallery, 525 West 26^thStreet, NY, NY Info

Paul Villinski | Now, 6-8 pm. Presented by Morgan Lehman Gallery at High Line Nine, 507 West 27^thStreet, Gallery #4, ground floor. Info

Bruno Gironcoli | Works on Paper, 5-8 pm. Clearing, 43 East 78^thStreet, NY, NY Info

Bruce Davidson | Subject Contact, 6-8 pm. Howard Greenberg Gallery, 41 East 57^thStreet, NY, NY Info

No Modifiers | works by Jill Christian, Paul Leibow, Willy Bo Richardson, and Sarah Smelser, 5-7 pm. Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, 2500 Central Avenue SE, Albuquerque, NM. Info

Joan Mitchell in her Vétheuil studio, 1983. Photo by Robert Freson,  courtesy Joan Mitchell Foundation 

Friday,  May 3

Joan Mitchell | I carry my landscapes around with me, 6-8 pm. David Zwirner, 537 West 20^thStreet, NY, NY Info

Garry Winogrand | Color. Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY Info

Saturday, May 4

Castaways, 3-6 pm. The first of three cycles of SVA programming on the island will be "Castaways," a group exhibition featuring 11 SVA alumni working across digital media, sculpture, collage and performance, curated by MFA Fine Arts faculty member Mark Ramos (MFA 2010 Computer Art). The exhibition is free and open to the public on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, 11:00am – 5:00pm. Info

In other news

Giovanni Alberti | Barcola, 7pm. Cluster Art Fair, May 1-May 5, Ugly Duck, 47/49 Tanner Street, London, UK. InfoSee Gio’s Interview in tomorrow’s DART.