ART IN NEW YORK CITY
Aïda Muluneh, All in One, 2016, pigmented inkjet print, 31 1/2 × 31 1/2" (80 × 80 cm). Courtesy the artist and David Krut Projects. © 2017 Aïda Muluneh. On view at MoMA’s “Being: New Photography 2018” exhibition.
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he story begins with Joseph Cornell visiting a midtown gallery and finding a collage by the cubist master Juan Gris. The collage, The Man at the Café, inspired new work by Cornell, including 18 of his signature box sculptures, two collages and even a sand tray. Look for a recurring icon—a white-crested cockatoo—alighting throughout the exhibition “Birds of a Feather: Joseph Cornell’s Homage to Juan Gris,” on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until April 15, 2018. At MoMA, photographers can’t miss “Being: New Photography 2018,” on view March 18 – August 19, 2018. This update to MoMA’s “New Photography” series explores timely questions in contemporary photography, including “diverse lived experiences” and “photographic representations of personhood 14 • CONTINUED / SPRING 2018
today, when rights of representation are contested for many individuals.” Since Donald Trump’s election, you may have seen Zoe Leonard’s seminal text-based artwork, “I want a president,” either online or in person in places like the High Line Park in Manhattan. This spring, the Whitney Museum presents “Zoe Leonard: Survey,” the first large-scale overview of the artist’s work in an American museum. Look for the Whitney to highlight Leonard’s engagement with “histories of photography, embodiments of loss and mourning, institutional regulations of gender, migration and the urban landscape.” The exhibition will be on view March 2 – June 10, 2018. Art fair week is ruled by the Armory Show, but the place for artists is the SPRING/BREAK Art Show.
The Show ventures into underused, historic New York City exhibition spaces, like the former James A. Farley Post Office. It offers independent curators free space where they can try out “visionary perspectives” under a unifying theme (this year: “Stranger Comes to Town”). SPRING/BREAK Art Show is on view March 6 – 12, 2018. [Michael Bilsborough]
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