Opening February 17: Faith Ringgold | American People at The New Museum

Celebrating six decades of art by Harlem-born nonagenarian Faith Ringgold, this long overdue retrospective features a collection of figurative paintings, narrative textiles, and soft sculptures shaped by a belief in the power of women’s labor and Black visual traditions. Above: American People Series #18: The Flag Is Bleeding, 1967, courtesy of The New Museum

The exhibition b rings together over sixty years of work and highlights her role as an artist, author, educator, and organizer, which has made her a key figure whose work links the multi-disciplinary achievements of the Harlem Renaissance to the political art of young Black artists working today.

This exhibition will feature works from across Ringgold’s best-known series, tracking the development of her figurative style and thematic vision as they evolved and expanded to meet the urgency of the political and social changes taking place in America during her lifetime.

The show will also examine Ringgold’s embrace of non-Western and American craft traditions, including her performance objects and soft sculptures. A large selection of her early unstretched canvases adorned with sewn fabric borders, inspired by Tibetan thangkas, will also be displayed. A highlight is the entirety of the “The French Collection” (1991–1994), Ringgold’s 12-part series of experimental story quilts exploring the life of a Black American artist and model working in the modernist circles of 1920s Paris.

The New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY Info

Continuing through March 5: Kate Millet } Fantasy Furniture, at Salon 94

Fantasy Furniture, 1967, an exhibition of work by the late writer, activist, and Fluxus artist Kate Millett (b. 1934 – 2017). Widely known for her seminal feminist texts including Sexual Politics, 1970, Millett was also an accomplished artist and member of the downtown New York art scene – working alongside Fluxus artists like Yoko Ono and Pop artists such as Marisol Escobar.

Assembled together for the first time in 50 years, Millett’s Fantasy Furniture works are hand-carved of wood, upholstered in mattress ticking and combined with found objects into anthropomorphic sculptures resembling domestic furniture; Chair, 1965 stands on two feet; Blue Eyed Marble Box, 1965, a cabinet of curiosities, peers out from a head with two blue eyes; Bed, 1965 with two sets of legs and heads protruding, suggesting a scene of two resting partners.

Salon 94, 3 East 89th Street, NY, NY Info Info

Opening February 10: Andy Warhol at Skarstedt New York

Orbiting Warhol’s thematic curiosities, money, religion, portraits, death, and violence appear and reappear within his work, each time refreshed with incisive perspectives.

Following his seminal Death and Disasters ­series from the 1960s – wherein the electric chair was introduced as subject, repeated in assorted colors and scale – Warhol’s Knives from 1981-82 mark the return to his study on violence, as well as his dominant reinvestment in working on canvas. Below: Self Portrait (Pair), 1982; courtesy of Skarstedt Gallery

Following a decade of portraiture, whether commissioned or a celebration of marginalized subcultures, Warhol returned to Marilyn seventeen years after his inceptive and lionized silkscreens from 1962. Reversed and repeated four times, Marilyn is presented with a backlit vision – her face now dark while former shadows push through with electrifying colors. Concurrent to this Retrospective and Reversal series, a similar inversion takes place in Warhol’s Head (After Picasso) – the artist’s self-reflection simultaneous to broader art historical revisions, as if acknowledging his own position within the canon.

Skarstedt New York, 20 East 79th Street, NY, NY Info

Opening February 10: Carole Harris | The Past is Present at Sargent’s Daughters

The Past is Present is the first New York solo presentation of the work of Carole Harris, a Detroit-based artist whose career spans five decades. Harris blends techniques from quilting, embroidery, and paper-making, often combining found materials to produce abstract, wall mounted compositions. Right: Momento 2018, courtesy of Sargent’s Daughters

Often drawing inspiration from her native Detroit, Harris produces quilts that retain a rawness despite their polish, meandering like the city in unforeseen spurts and directions. Her compositions layer together textiles and techniques sourced from across the United States, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.  They extend beyond the typical boundaries placed on fiber arts and connect to music, sculpture, architecture, and other media

Sargent’;s Daughters, 179 East Broadway, New York, NY Info

Opening February 11: at Fotografiska; artist panel at 9:00

The naked figure is a fascination as old as history and as modern as the current moment. Get first-access to the NUDE exhibition and a conversation with exhibiting artists, Elinor Carucci, Julia SH, and Dana Scruggs, as they reflect on the treatment, trajectory, and influence of nudity in art, both as aesthetic and a layered artistic expression. Below: Image courtesy of Fotografiska, no credit on website

Hear exhibiting artists from NUDE, Elinor Carucci, Julia SH and Dana Scruggs, discuss the naked body in art, both as an aesthetic motif and a layered artistic expression, historically and now, at 9:00p Info
Fotografiska, 281 Park Avenue South, New York, NY

Closing party February 17, 8:00-1:00 pm: Andy Warhol | Photo Factory at Fotografiska

Join Fotografiska for one unforgettable night celebrating the closing of Andy Warhol: Photo Factory with VICE.

In a full museum takeover, VICE will resurrect the storied spirit of The Factory with live music, immersive theatrical talent, cocktails, and plenty of photo moments throughout the space. With over 120 images spanning Warhol’s career, including many rare and never-before-seen photographs, Andy Warhol: Photo Factory offers a distinctly intimate visual diary of the artist’s life and work. Tickets include museum admission and a glass of bubbly.

The exhibition continues through February 20th

Fotografiska, 281 Park Avenue South, New York, NY Tickets

Online February 9, 5:00-8:00 pm: This Must Be the Place | Anna Bel la Geiger on Instagram

Americas Society presents In the Studio, a live conversation with artists from the current exhibition, This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York 1965-1975. Above, an image by Geiger from 1974

Anna Bella Geiger (b. Rio de Janeiro, 1933) lived in New York from 1953 to 1955, when she studied at the New School. Her photographs of the urban environment, such as empty subway cars and buildings captured in distorted perspective, evoke a sense of menace and function as metaphors for the dictatorship in Brazil. By the late 1960s, she felt the need to respond to the sociopolitical climate of her country. She participated in a boycott of the 10th Bienal de São Paulo (1969) and employed collage and assemblage to explore Brazilian identity and notions of the periphery.
Follow the conversation on Instagram: #IntheStudioAS | @americassociety.visualarts
Check out the exhibition here

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