Wednesday, August 7, 6-7 pm: Argentine Folk Dance Workshop at Socrates

Queensboro Dance Festival presents Dancing Around the World’s Boro class series. Family friendly and taught by diverse Queens-based dance groups, this class on Soca is taught by carNYval dancers. If you miss this round at Socrates, check out the full summer schedule here

Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, NY Info

Osgemeos Murals, West 14^th Street/6^th-7^th Avenues

On West 14th Street in New York City, find facing murals by the Brazilian duo. At a height of five stories, this towering work pays homage to the city’s rich hip hop culture of the 1980s. Os Gemeos, Portuguese for The Twins, are graffiti and street artists who are identical twin brothers Otavio Pandolfo and Gustavo Pandolfo. The brothers have painted all over the world and are considered two of the most influential street artists within the genre.

You can also catch the artists’ first gallery exhibition in NYC, Cultivating Dreams, which is at the nearby Lehman Maupin, through August 16. Each painting in Cultivating Dreams is marked by intricate, technicolor patterns that emulate the contours of the vivid dreams the artists have said that they often share as twins. Drawing on subject matter from the fields of astronomy, art history, and music, the works feature a range of characters, including a dream traveler, a rocket man, a moon goddess, and a venus. Osgemos’ first United States museum exhibition, Endless Story, opens on September 29 at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC.

Lehman Maupin, 501 West 24 th Street, New York, NY Info

DART’s street-wise summer gallery hop continues this week on West 20^th Street, with the following shows listed “Must See” in Artforum’s artguide:

Keith Sonnier | Inside Light at David Kordansky Gallery

Inside Light focuses on a three-year period between 1968 and 1970 in which Sonnier first began working with neon and argon and made many of the breakthroughs that would define his career.

Through August 9 at David Kordansky Gallery, 520 West 20^th Street, New York, NY Info

Fritz Scholder | Paintings 1968-1980 at Garth Greenan

The exhibition is Fritz Scholder’s first with the gallery, and is also the most significant solo presentation of the artist’s work in New York City since his 2008–2009 retrospective Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian at the National Museum of the American Indian. Opening Thursday, June 27, 2024, the current exhibition will feature the controversial series of paintings that the artist began in the late 1960s—groundbreaking depictions of alcoholism, poverty, and the cultural subjugation of Native Americans that brought the artist both lifelong notoriety and fame.

Through August 9 at Garth Greenan Gallery, 545 West 20^th Street, New York, NY Info

Scantily | Nudity in Vernacular Art at Ricco/Maresca

Ricco/Maresca’s summer show, Scantily, presents depictions of the nude or partially nude form, as conceived mostly by vernacular, self-taught artists, both known and anonymous. In the art created on the margins of the academy, the human body stands unfiltered by the lens of academia and is insMistead the full product of the artist’s experience. 

Ricco/Maresca Gallery, 529 West 20^th Street, New York, NY Info

Misshapes at Praxis NY

Misshapes (below) brings together five contemporary Argentine artists who deform what we conceive as real. What we consider figurative, each of them approaches in an intimate and personal way. Their collective works encourage viewers to look beyond surface appearances, training our gaze to seek authenticity through these transformative distortions. Through these deformations, we learn about our own existence.

Praxis Gallery, 501 West 20^th Street, New York, NY Info

If you’d rather squirrel in with the AC blasting, a handful of books and a good YouTube watch might be up your alley. Just in from New York Studio School: Vuillard, the Painter as Photographer, (below)  with Elizabeth Easton, now available on YouTube

If environmental justice and climate change are among your priorities, you won’t want to miss the 2024 Creative Time Summit. Tickets are now on sale for States of Emergence: Land After Property and Catastrophe, Friday through Sunday, September 2022, at BAM. Info. Tickets Students, $40; Artists, $65; Individuals, $150