Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month.
Author Archives: Dessane Lopez Cassell
Dessane Lopez Cassell is Hyperallergic's reviews editor. Outside of the office, she also works as a curator, writer, and film programmer. You can follow her work here.
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A New Lunchtime Screening Series Delves Into Our Environmental Crisis
Throughout April, Mishkin Gallery’s Critical Ecology on Film will gather artists, academics, and filmmakers for urgent screenings and conversations.
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Learn About the Under-Sung Women of Arte Povera in a New Lecture Series
“I hope that through the series, a different picture might emerge of a movement,” explains curator Teresa Kittler.
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Your Concise New York Art Guide for March 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month.
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Black Visionaries Challenge the Exclusionary History of Architecture In This Online MoMA Class
In conjunction with the new exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, the free course creates further space to hear directly from Black designers, scholars, and artists.
Posted inBooks
Printed Matter’s Art Book Fair Is Back, Sans the Long Lines
With its first-ever virtual edition, the fan favorite offers a robust slate of exhibitors, performances, and a conference on contemporary artists’ books.
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Your Concise New York Art Guide for February 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month.
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Alvin Ailey, the Icon and Enigma
Much as the documentary Ailey delights and inspires, it also evokes a sense of wistfulness by privileging the choreographer’s public persona at the expense of Alvin the man.
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Rashaad Newsome and Kiyan Williams Talk Art, Inspiration, and Black Magic
As part of Newsome’s new multi-part project with Leslie-Lohman Museum, the pair will discuss their “relationships to soil and earth, WEB Du Bois, and the lie of the American experiment.”
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Films That Center and Celebrate the Might of Black Women
On the eve of Kamala Harris’s historic inauguration, Protect Black Women highlights the lives and interiority of those who have “historically been the most vulnerable.”
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Your Concise New York Art Guide for January 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month.
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2020: A Year in New York Exhibitions and More
From exhibitions to online projects, here’s a rundown of work that has sparked joy, challenged, moved, or otherwise stuck with me through this hell of a year.