Week of October 21
Week of October 21
In memoriam of last week and other happenings
We begin this week with an ode to the last:
Oscar yi Hou’s The beat of life opened at James Fuentes on Thursday and is so great.
Samantha Joy Groff’s Prophecy of the End materialized at Nicodim the same night and is divine.
Shout out to last week’s best dinner: a Caesar and oysters split with one of the best people we know. Often, we need much less than we think we do.
Thanks be to Anohni (read to the end for a lil P.S. on her recent show at BAM)
And now, this week! There is so much.
Quick plug: Tribeca comes alive again with a slew of openings on Friday, including three from real-life characters featured in Bianca Bosker’s juicy and wise book on the art world, Get the Picture:
Artist Erin O’Keefe’s solo show, I saw the man with a telescope., opens at Sargent's Daughters
A block up the street, DIMIN opens Just on the Other Side, the New York solo debut of Baltimore-based artist Taj Poscé, plus Unsettling Beauty: A Case for the Feminine in Feminist Art group show curated by Leslie Weissman and Charlotte Hailstone in the Living Room up front
Jack Barrett opens Paul Rouphail’s Hammer
🆓 = costs $0, 🎨 = art, 🎼 = music, 🎬 = film, 📚= books, 🌳 = nature, 🎭 = performance, 🧠 = extra smart people, 🍸 = drinks available, 🦩 = party/friendly vibe
🔑 Click the venue link under each listing for full event details.
Tuesday, October 22
Journaling Classes and SABAI present a night of journaling
Tonight’s Conscious Comfort Journaling Workshop comes from Sweet Friend of the List Emily Chertow (the brains and heart behind Journaling Classes). Emily has a knack for curating nights that are friendly and restorative. Tonight, she’ll lead a group journaling session at the cute SABAI showroom. You may feel nervous going in but we bet you’ll feel miraculously lighter by the end. We can’t recommend Emily’s wisdom-filled, kind-vibed events highly enough (and they feel extra grounding with the approach of a new season).
SABAI, Williamsburg
Tues from 7-8:30p 🦩
Book launch party for John Wilson’s new Your Dream Home
John Wilson, creator of the great show How To with John Wilson, wrote a book about Zillow listings and you better believe it’ll be good. Tonight’s launch event at the wonderful Topos Too includes a Q&A and signing.
Topos Too, Ridgewood
Tues at 7p 🆓 📚
Other Tuesday events, briefly noted:
Heidi Zuckerman: “Why Art Matters” Book Launch at the Flag Art Foundation (Chelsea), 3-5p 🆓 📚 🎨
NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts presents the lecture Painted Words: Oral Culture in the Art of Goya, Manet, and Picasso from Janne Sirén at NYU IFA (Upper East Side or virtual), 6p 🆓 🧠 🎨
Political Advertisement 1952-2024 Screening and Panel at Cooper Union’s Great Hall (East Village), 6:30-8:30p 🆓 (with RSVP) 🧠
Wednesday, October 23
Release of the Fishes on Pier 40
What if it was a gift to sleep with the fishes? The WetLab aquarium on Pier 40 is hosting this event where volunteers can help dump fish (held captive this past season at the aquarium) back into the Hudson River. As proponents of freedom, we think that’s the right thing to do.
Pier 40, Greenwich Village
Wed from 3-6p 🆓 🌳
Other Wednesday events, briefly noted:
The World at Play: Naomi Clark and Mary Flanagan on Historical Gameboards at the American Folk Art Museum (Upper West Side), 1-2:30p 🆓 🎨
Sarah Margnetti’s Ombromanie opening reception at Margot Samel (Tribeca), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Thursday, October 24
Cecily Brown’s The 5 Senses opens at Paula Cooper Gallery
The great critic Roberta Smith taught us how to write about art when she published her change of heart on Cecily Brown’s work last year. We agree that Brown is pretty good, and her new blockbuster show opens at Paula Cooper today.
Paula Cooper Gallery, Chelsea
Thurs, probably an opening reception but we aren’t sure when 🆓 🎨
Danny Moynihan’s In Praise of Limestone opening reception at Nathalie Karg Gallery
We met Danny at Giorno Poetry Systems’ sublime 222 Tuesdays a while back and are very excited for this show at the gallery that newly represents him. They’re lucky to have him.
Nathalie Karg Gallery, Little Italy
Thurs from 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Other Thursday events, briefly noted:
Off the beaten track: the artistic meanderings of Sung Neung Kyung opens at Lehmann Maupin (Chelsea), 5-6 performance by the artist, 6-8p opening reception 🆓 🎨
Nicole Eisenman’s ‘Fixed Crane Public for Madison Square Park’ opens in Madison Square Park (Nomad), 5:30-7p 🆓 🎨
Daniel Um’s Apple Of My Eye opening reception at The Hole (Bowery), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Jessie Henson On the Line solo show opening reception at Broadway Gallery (Tribeca), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Niki Ford solo show opens in the Project Space at Broadway Gallery (Tribeca), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Dabin Ahn’s Good Things Take Time opening reception at Harper’s (Chelsea), 6-8p
Ann Leda Shapiro’s Diagnosing Disturbances opening reception at François Ghebaly (Lower East Side), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Danielle Roberts’ Phosphorescence and Gasoline opening reception at Fredericks & Freiser (Chelsea), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Ai WeiWei’s Child's Play opening at Vito Schnabel (Chelsea), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
In Conversation: William Kentridge, Martine Syms and one of the New Yorker’s great critics Vinson Cunningham chit chat, presented at Hauser & Wirth on 18th St (Chelsea), 7-9p 🆓 🎨 🧠
The Philosophy of Ethics free 3-part series kicks off presented by the New York Society for Ethical Culture (virtual), 7:30-8:30p 🆓 🧠
Friday, October 25
The New Yorker festival kicks off today
We love this annual fest when David Remnick reminds us that he has, always has, and always will have it. Catch the full lineup here.
Various locations
Various times 🧠 📚 🎼 (runs through Sunday)
Erin O’Keefe’s I saw the man with a telescope. opening reception Sargent’s Daughters
O’Keefe proves you can still push the bounds of photography with photos that look so much like abstract paintings that you’ll almost lose your mind.
Sargent's Daughters, Tribeca
Fri from 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Other Friday events, briefly noted:
Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy (an exhibition celebrating the Morgan’s inaugural director, Belle da Costa Greene) opens at The Morgan (Midtown), 🎨
Just on the Other Side, the New York solo debut of Baltimore-based artist Taj Poscé opening reception at DIMIN (Tribeca), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Unsettling Beauty: A Case for the Feminine in Feminist Art curated by Leslie Weissman and Charlotte Hailstone opening reception at the Living Room at DIMIN (Tribeca), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Paul Rouphail’s Hammer opening reception at Jack Barrett (Tribeca), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Alicia Adamerovich’s Rude Awakening opening reception at Timothy Taylor (Tribeca), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Keith Jackson’s The Provocateurs opening reception at Charles Moffet at 431 Washington St (Tribeca), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism book discussion at Salmagundi Club (Greenwich Village), 6p 🆓 📚
The Kitchen in Focus at 47 Canal: Conversation with Sheryl Sutton and Elliot Reed at 47 Canal (Tribeca), 6p doors, 7p program 🆓 (with RSVP) 🧠 🎨
Nate Lippens’ Ripcord (Semiotexte, 2024) book launch, in conversation with Kate Zambreno at Topos Too (Ridgewood), 7p 🆓 📚
Sound On: Composing While Black, Volume II at the MoMA (Midtown), 7-8:30p 🎼 🎨
BAM Next Wave Festival: André 3000 performs New Blue Sun live in concert at BAM’s Howard Gilman Opera House (Fort Greene), 7:30p 🎼🪈 (also Saturday)
Saturday, October 26
Myriad group exhibition opening reception at Swivel Gallery’s new space
This group show, starring our favorite junior high vocab word, features work from 16 cool artists at Swivel’s brand new space on Greenwich Street. The inaugural show will feel like a party because a lot of great people love Swivel’s founder, Graham Wilson. Be sure to stick around for the after-party at Beverly’s on the Lower East Side from 9:30p-late.
Swivel Gallery’s new space,Hudson Square
Sat from 6-9p 🆓 🎨 🦩
Plus an after-party at Beverly’s (Lower East Side), 9:30p-late 🆓 🍸 🦩 🎼
Other Saturday events, briefly noted:
Your Patience Is Appreciated: An Inaugural Show opening all day at Marian Goodman’s new gallery space (Tribeca), 10a-4p 🆓 🎨. Everybody’s moving! This is pretty big.
8ball Community presents a zine fair at Eldorado Auto Skooter (Coney Island), 1-7p 🆓 (with an afterparty—tickets here)
A Return to Civic Discourse—The Low-Wage Work Crisis: Three Ideas for a Better Future presented at Town Hall (Midtown), 2p 🆓 🧠
Special walkthrough of CYCLICALITIES with featured artist RAchel Mica Weiss and art historian Elizabeth Buhe at Carvalho Park (East Williamsbug), 4p 🆓 🎨
Ivan Seal’s Solo Exhibition opening reception at The Hole (Tribeca), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Opening night of Kenneth Branagh in King Lear at The Shed (Hudson Yards), 7p 🎭 (runs through Dec 15)
Last day to catch these art shows closing today:
The Kitchen in Focus at the Kitchen at 47 Canal (Soho), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Dike Blair’s show at Karma’s 22 East 2nd St location (East Village), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Paul Anthony Smith’s Antillean at Jack Shainman (Chelsea), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Paul de Flers’ Poisson - Scorpion at Almine Rech (Upper East Side), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Philip Guston’s Room, Sea & Sky at Hauser & Wirth on 18th St (Chelsea), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨 🍸🦩
Robin F. Williams’s Good Mourning at PPOW (Tribeca), 11a-6p 🆓 🎨
Slow Looking group show with Beverly Acha, Holly Coulis, Amie Cunat and Tracy Thomason at Dinner Gallery (Chelsea), 11a-6p 🆓 🎨
Peter Fischli David Weiss: Polyurethane Objects at Matthew Marks Gallery on 22nd St (Chelsea), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Jasper Johns: Drawings 1982–2021 at Matthew Marks Gallery on 24th St (Chelsea), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Sunday, October 27
The Sabbath, briefly noted:
Last day of NADA House 2024 at the historic Nolan Park House 17 (Governors Island), 🆓 🎨
The Literary Saloon at the Center for Fiction (Fort Greene), 5p 🆓 📚
Last performance of The Wind and the Rain: A story about Sunny’s Bar site-specific theatrical event at Waterfront Museum barge (Red Hook), 6p 🎭
Heavy Traffic #5: Launch Party at Earth (49 Orchard, Lower East Side), 7p 🆓 📚
PS. We saw Anohni play at BAM two nights ago. We cried with the strangers next to us as she performed tracks from her bonkers powerful oeuvre. (For color: our seatmates were two German kids sniffing coke and our seats were the nosebloodiest ones you can get, the center of the last row of the tip toppiest balcony.)
During the encore, as she played the piano and spoke into the mic to close out the show, she said something that made us and the sweet coked out boys cry again: “It’s all the angels that make up a life.” She said it while naming off all her (very chic, famous) friends in the audience (who are ultimately just who her friends are).
We wish that for us and we wish that for you: may your life be made by the angels you choose to love. We really needed a good night and wow, Anohni saved us.
Let her save you, too: Hopelessness (2016), My Back Was a Bridge for You To Cross (2023).
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