The DART Board: 11.05.2025
Thursday, November 6, 6-8pm: Louise Bourgeois | Gathering Wool at Hauser & Wirth
The exhibition takes its title from an enigmatic work Bourgeois created in 1990. Gathering wool is an expression signifying rumination, daydreaming, letting the mind wander—a break from conscious, purposive thinking. This was the mental state in which Bourgeois worked as she experimented with forms and processes in her studio. She trusted the process by which these thought traces, fragments of dreams, idle speculations, hunches, fancies and intuitions coalesced into a form, but it remained mysterious even to her. The piece itself consists of seven wooden spheres arranged in a circle in front of a tall semicircular screen made up of four panels. Above: Gathering Wool, 1990
Over the course of her seven-decade career, Louise Bourgeois never privileged figuration over abstraction, any more than she favored one material over another, and yet her relationship to abstraction has been less well defined and understood, less easily situated within the main currents of postwar art. Above: ‘Louise Bourgeois, 1988; Photo: Arthur Mones.
‘Gathering Wool’ explores the artist‘s complex relationship to abstraction through a series of late sculptures, reliefs and works on paper, many of which have never been exhibited before. These will be installed alongside a selection of earlier works to illuminate the consistency of Bourgeois’s themes and her development of a ]
Save the date, Saturday, November 15, 3pm: US Premiere of ‘Louise Bourgeois: The Rage to Understand’. Register
Hauser & Wirth, 542 West 22nd Street, New York, NY Info
Thursday, November 6-Sunday, November 8: The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn
Bringing together a curated selection of 130 independent artists from around the world, The Other Art Fair continues its mission of highlighting emerging art, starting at $100. Known as the antidote to gallery-centric art fairs, this unique event offers accessibility for both artists and collectors on all levels, subverting the traditional art-buying experience by valuing inclusiveness through transparent pricing and direct connections between collectors and artists.
The centerpiece, Splendour, transforms ZeroSpace with a show-stopping “art-chitecture” installation from Sydney’s Atelier Sisu. Visitors can also experience Hypersonic’s mesmerizing kinetic sculptures and sip at a Met Cloisters–inspired bar installation where you can sit for an interactive portrait. New this fall, the Artisan Section presents work from three local Brooklyn creative hubs: Clay Space, Dirtbag ArtHaus, and Textile Arts Center—showcasing collectible ceramics and textiles.
Debuting at the Brooklyn edition, the Artisan Section will showcase three local creative hubs specializing in collectible decorative fine artworks.. This new program highlights the intersection of fine art and design, allowing visitors to explore one-of-a-kind, handmade works that reflect Brooklyn’s vibrant maker culture. Inaugural exhibitors include Clay Space, Dirtbag ArtHaus, and Textile Arts Center.
The Fair also welcomes Arts Gowanus as an exhibiting partner, spotlighting Brooklyn’s creative community with a pop-up space where attendees can design their own tote bag based on the concept of creating a monster from the Gowanus Canal. It will then be heat-pressed for them and ready to take home. The full list of exhibitors HERE Info
The faor takes place at ZeroSpace, 337-345 Butler St, Brooklyn, NY
Friday, November 7, 6-8 pm: Rodney Smith | Between Real and Surreal launch at Rizzoli
Come hear journalist Arthur Lubow moderate a conversation with models Reed Kelly, Zoe Friedman, and Staley-Wise Gallery director George Kocis to talk about the new book, Rodney Smith: Photography between Real and Surreal, working with Rodney, and art as an act of faith. The conversation will be followed by a signing.
Immersing yourself in Rodney Smith’s universe means entering a world where time stands still and lightness becomes form. Rodney Smith observes reality to transform it: he plays with gravity, reflects on spaces, goes beyond symbolic and temporal canons. Each shot by Rodney Smith is an invitation to cross a threshold: that between the real and the imaginary, between rigor and levity, between concreteness and lyricism. His images move between the nostalgia of black and white and the discovery of chromaticism, providing an intimate but at the same time universal vision.
Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway at 26thStreet, New York, NY Info
Saturday, November 8, 6-8 pm: Richard Diebenkorn at Gagosian
The exhibition features six decades of Richard Diebenkorn’s works on paper along with paintings from every period, emphasizing continuity and variation. The works on view include a striking range of examples from across Diebenkorn’s career, including a 1943 watercolor that reflects the influence of Edward Hopper and Paul Cezanne, paintings from his Abstract Expressionist years, a rarely seen monumental 1960 canvas of nudes that exemplifies his long-term engagement with Henri Matisse and anticipates the scale of the epic Ocean Park cycle, and selections from his final decade that provide insights into his working practice.
Working for almost all his life in California, Diebenkorn pursued a distinctive career, beginning as an Abstract Expressionist, developing a unique approach to figuration in the mid-1950s, and a decade later returning to abstraction with the masterful Ocean Park series (1967–88). The interchange between abstraction and figuration that took place over the course of his career is an essential aspect of his achievement. In an era when a single direction defined many artists’ production, Diebenkorn moved fluidly across modalities and embraced an active approach to composition and revision, often retaining traces of a work’s process and creation—what the artist referred to as a picture “sitting right.” Above: The artist in his studio. Photo: Chris Felver/Getty Images
980 Madison Avenue, New York, NY Info
Saturday, November 8, 12-5 pm: ADAA Upper East Side Gallery Walk
Free and open to all, the afternoon aligns with two major uptown fall events—Salon Art + Design at the Park Avenue Armory and the debut of Sotheby’s new headquarters in the Breuer building—inviting audiences uptown to discover a vibrant corner of the city’s cultural landscape.
Additionally, The Drawing Foundation is offering two full days of events around the city on November 6 and 7, including conversations among curators, collectors, conservators, and artists focused on historical, modern, and contemporary drawings.More than 25 ADAA member galleries will open their doors to the public during the Gallery Walk, offering special programming throughout the afternoon. Info
Instagram Photo Contest Gallery Walk participants can also win a tote bag full of art books and exhibition catalogues by posting photos of their experience on Instagram, and using #ADAAGalleryWalk in the caption. A winner will be selected from those who visit and tag the most ADAA galleries during the event. To be eligible, you must follow @The_ADAA and post all photos by Saturday, November 15.
Continuing: Painter/Model at Skarstedt
Painter/Model, an exhibition devoted to one of art history’s most enduring subjects: the charged encounter between the artist and their sitter. With a genealogy that stretches back to Vermeer’s The Art of Painting (circa 1666-1668) and Velázquez’s Las Meninas (1656), the subject of the painter and model has over time developed into a distinct genre within the history of art. As a pairing that dramatizes intimacy and distance, invention and observation, power and vulnerability, the theme of the painter and model has become a site for artists not only to rethink the act of painting but also to probe the structures of power embedded in the act of representation itself. Above: Pablo Picasso, Le peintre et son modèle dans un paysage,1963. Below: Paula Rego, The Balzac Story, 2011
The exhibition revolves around Picasso’s extensive engagement with the subject in 1963. For Picasso, who was over 80 years old at the time, his obsession with the scene of creation suggests a certain anxiety about both his virtuosity and his virility at this late stage of his life. As Marie-Laure Bernadac writes, “Through all these manifold scenes, Picasso is asking himself the question, ‘What is a painter? A man who works with brushes, a dauber, an unrecognized genius, or a demiurge, a creator who mistakes himself for God?’” Through these frantic, urgent compositions, Picasso strips painting down to its barest elements, interrogating the very essence of painting as manifested in the primal confrontation between man and woman. Artists represented in this show include Cristina BanBan, Eric Fischl, Jameson Green, Chantal Joffe, KAWS, Danielle Orchard, Pablo Picasso,
Paula Rego, Dana Schutz.
Skarstedt Chelsea, 547 West 25th Street, New York, NY Info