The Jewish Museum’s public art installation of a building-wide banner by artist Lawrence Weiner went on view yesterday on the building’s façade at Fifth Avenue and 92^nd Street. Weiner’s ALL THE STARS IN THE SKY HAVE THE SAME FACE (2011/20) is a two-story graphic that stretches across the Museum’s Fifth Avenue-facing façade at 92nd Street. Celebrating our shared humanity along New York City’s Museum Mile, the banner remains on view through the end of January 2021. Info Image above courtesy of The Jewish Museum

This just in from Equity Gallery

This upcoming Thursday, Equity Gallery and over 40 other galleries on the Lower East Side will be extending our hours to celebrate current exhibitions throughout the neighborhood.

The most recent show at Equity is With the Grain, a group exhibition curated by NYAE Member Patricia Fabricant. Equity encourages you to put on a mask, socially distance, and visit our 245 Broome Street location this Thursday, November 19th, 4-8 pm! 
Click here to see a map of all participating galleries. 

Highlights from LES Third Thursday Gallery Night

Betty Cuningham Gallery will be extending regular hours until 8 P.M. tonight. On view is Clytie Alexander | Edge. Continuing her investigation of space in and around the picture plane, Alexander moves from her previous exhibitions of paper collages and perforated aluminum to probe the same issues on canvas. As the painted line involves the space around the canvas itself, the natural outcome is to see the work in series.

Info Above: Color/No color, 2020.

Jordan Nassar  | I Cut the Sky in Two, at James Cohan
Jordan Nassar’s hand-embroidered works address intersecting fields of craft, ethnicity and the embedded notions of heritage and homeland. Nassar uses geometric patterns characteristic of Palestinian tatreez—most often found on pillows, clothing, and other domestic textiles. The artist grew up in a home decorated with such objects. As he notes, “Growing up in the diaspora, much of Palestinian culture was experienced materially.”
Jordan Nassar  | I Cut the Sky in Two, through November 21. James Cohan, 291 Grand Street, NY, NY Info Above: Bab Al Zuhur (Gate of Flowers), 2020

Zürcher Gallery presents All Figured Out: The Presence of the Figure
featuring works by French and US painters Matt Bollinger, Marc Desgrandchamps, Lois Dodd, Charles Garabedian, and Kyle Staver focusing on the presence of the figure. 
When asked about the absence of figures in her scenes, Lois Dodd replied : "Certainly the buildings involve people… the laundry involves people… You would not see any of that without people. It’s not like it’s a truly unhumanized nature." Seated Nude and Clothesline, 2000 (above) combines the figure with an image of laundry on clothesline, an ongoing theme from 1977. The rather bizarre scene of a seated nude figure lifting her legs on a blue plastic seat shows how Dodd is more concerned with structure, shape and pattern than flesh– the block-y body contrasts with the dynamic movement of the laundry drying in the wind and the overall effect of sheer translucency in the yellow landscape.
All Figured Out: The Presence of the Figure continues at Zürcher Gallery through December 18th. Info

Safer at Home: Pandemic Paintings by Esther Pearl Watson at Vielmetter Los Angeles
Begun in March at the onset of the shelter in place orders in Los Angeles the 100 paintings chronicle her and her family’s experience of the pandemic and subsequent events,offering an opportunity to reflect upon this year of upheaval and change. 
Watson documents the daily anxieties and absurdities of quarantine in and around the city and suburbs of Los Angeles. The paintings show recurring images of local businesses struggling to stay open, Watson’s attempts to form a pandemic pod, and nervous neighbors adjusting to normalcy-in-flux as various pressures create perpetual daily uncertainty. 
Vielmetter Los Angeles, November 21, 2020 - January 16, 2021,1700 S Santa Fe Ave #101, Los Angeles, CA by appointment /Tues-Sat.

In SoHo
Kurt Markus: A Life in Photography opens tonight at Staley-Wise Gallery.
Born in Montana, Markus is known for his fashion photographs, landscapes, and portraiture, publishing in magazine such as Vanity Fair, GQ, Rolling Stone, and Vogue, among others. He has produced several books, including Buckaroo, Cowpuncher, and After Barbed Wire, and his film projects include It's About You, a documentary about John Mellencamp that he worked on with his son Ian. 
Staley-Wise Gallery, 100 Crosby Street, NY, NY Info Above: Vogue Hommes, Havana, Cuba, 1993.