Weekly Art Rx

This week, the doctor’s concerned about your diet. She wants to make sure it’s well-balanced, so she’s recommending a little bit of everything: the alternative, the institutional and the up-and-coming, plus a healthy dose of the digital.

This week, the doctor wants you to travel. From the Upper East Side to the art-borhood of Ridgewood, Queens, you have a long way to go before you get over whatever it is you have.

The weather in nice in New York and there’s lots to see. From MFA shows at Hunter & Columbia to a new solo show by Cindy Sherman and an exhibition that responds to the murder of Trayvon Martin so get out of your house or apartment and see art.

From Bushwick to Chelsea, from the Upper to Lower East Side, we have a list of shows you need to see.

This week, go see performance in Bushwick, help the homeless of Greenpoint, learn about a new wave of feminist art, check out video art from Berlin, listen to Rhizome’s major tech art meeting of the minds and explore the remains of a secret performance … and that’s not all.

This week, the doctor recommends the cinematic influences of Cindy Sherman, two Bushwick shows in quirky spaces, some heady stuff about objects as commodity and more. An art show a day keeps the doctor away.

This week, a major photo show lands on Park Ave, a show explores post-Stonewall gay and lesbian art, Atget is in its final week at the Modern, a show about Modernist Indian art is worth a look and more …

Spring has sprung in New York and even though there’s fog all around we’re all very clear that it’s time to forget about the winter and feel the warmth of what lies ahead.

This week, we’re all in recovery and laying low but the doctor says you need to get out of the house. We’re cleansing our systems of the New York art fairs and moving onto something new. The doctor has written you a prescription that involves lots of crocheting, timelines galore, artful dinner conversation, an update on Latin American art, a chat about memes and some heavy-duty critical theory.

This week, it’s time to prepare for the New York art fairs! Well, not quite yet. Until that frenzy begins we suggest you sit down, read this list and consider doing something more cerebral, like two art tours in Brooklyn, a quirky -nnial known as the Brucennial, retrospectives by Dr. Seuss and Edward Gorey …