June 27- October 19, 2014
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Things to do in NYC by Alara Karakas
Category Archives: Arts
Kara Walker: A Subtlety | Domino Sugar Factory
through July 6, 2014.
Fridays 4-8pm,
Saturdays & Sundays 12-6pm
free. no tickets needed.
Address: South 1st st & Kent Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Giant sugar sculpture in the factory that’s about to be demolished to remind us “the horror-riddled Caribbean slave trade that helped fuel the industrial gains of the 18th and 19th centuries; a slave trade built to profit from an insatiable Western market for refined sugar treats and rum.
‘Basically, it was blood sugar,’ Walker says. ‘Like we talk about blood diamonds today, there were pamphlets saying this sugar has blood on its hands.’
She explains that to make the sugar, the cane had to be fed into large mills by hand. It was a dangerous process: Slaves lost hands, arms, limbs and lives.” -Soraya Nadia McDonald, Washington Post
Lucien Smith: Tigris | Skarstedt Gallery
May 15- June 27, 2014
Named after an ancient body of water, the works in Tigris convey an organic sensibility. Smith’s process of pouring paint onto the canvas is reminiscent of pouring water, evoking the movement of rivers and rain. Smith often takes inspiration from nature, as represented in the fluid, flowing style of his latest paintings. His layered washes of paint and loose brushstrokes possess a particularly painterly feel. Also referencing the “Tiger Stripe” camouflage patterns developed by the South Vietnamese for their soldiers in the 1960s, Smith utilizes multilayered die-cut stencils scanned from a United States military sourcebook, recreating authentic military patterns through color-field painting techniques.
Address: 20 E. 79th St. (& Madison)
Harmony Korine: Shooters | Gagosian Gallery
May 12- June 21, 2014
From Kids (1995), a meditation on New York City youth, to Spring Breakers (2012), a contemporary film noir in which four college freshwomen are drawn into a murderous labyrinth of events, Korine’s films of the past twenty years merge reality with fiction and shaky “footage” with precise editing, holding viewers’ attention to the split second and thereby suspending disbelief. His heady mix of the unplanned, the seductive, and the outlandish crystallizes in his lesser-known paintings.
Address: Park & 75
Sigmar Polke: Alibis 1963–2010
April 19–August 3, 2014
“This playful and political retrospective of the prolific German artist, which takes on everything from champagne and swastikas to magic mushrooms, is one of the best shows MoMA has ever done.” –The Guardian
Sophie Calle: Rachel, Monique | Church of the Heavenly Rest
May 9 – June 25, 2014
The Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest
2 East 90th Street & Fifth Avenue, New York
“Paula Cooper Gallery and Galerie Perrotin are pleased to present “Rachel, Monique,” an exhibition by Sophie Calle at the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York. This exhibition, a sequel to Calle’s one-person show at the Paula Cooper Gallery last October, is inspired by the loss of Calle’s mother Monique Sindler, who died in 2006.
Installed in the church’s chapel, the exhibition presents a selection of artworks, including Couldn’t Capture Death, the artist’s film of her mother’s dying, which premiered at the 2007 Venice Biennale. Accompanying the works on view is a soundtrack composed of selected excerpts from Monique’s diaries, which she kept from the early 1980s through 2000.”
Julian Schnabel: View of Dawn in the Tropics: Paintings, 1989–1990 | Gagosian
April 17 – May 31, 2014
W 24th street btw 10th & 11th ave
Gagosian is pleased to present “View of Dawn in the Tropics: Paintings, 1989–1990,” an exhibition of paintings by Julian Schnabel that are being shown in New York for the first time, twenty-five years after they were made.
Halil Altindere: Wonderland | MoMA PS1
March 23–May 11, 2014
Since the mid-1990s, Halil Altindere (Turkish, b. 1971) has emerged as one of the most prominent contemporary artists in Turkey with a multifaceted practice that ranges from video, sculpture, photography, installation, and performance to collaborative editorial and curatorial projects. His work examines the systems of power deeply embedded in Turkish culture with poignant reflections on broader questions of belief, belonging, alienation, and resistance.
Wonderland (2013) documents the anger and frustration of a group of youths from the Sulukule neighborhood of Istanbul, a historic area home to Romani communities since the Byzantine Empire that has been increasingly demolished since 2006 as part of an “urban renewal” development project. Presented in the style of music video, Wonderland captures the young men of the hip-hop group Tahribad-ı isyan, rapping about inequality and gentrification as they are simultaneously confronted by the police.
Korakrit Arunanondchai | MoMA PS1
March 9 – May 25, 2014
Here is an interview with the Bangkok-raised artist.
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