Exhibition: Motions

Ludlow 38 38 Ludlow Street, New York, United States

Opening performance "For Now" 11/29/2018, 7:00pm Motions is a program on the traumatic effects of immigration law, transforming the exhibition venue into an event space with an ad hoc cinema room screening works on rotation by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Edgardo Aragón, Kader Attia, Ursula Biemann, Ewa Einhorn and Jeuno JE Kim, Harun Farocki, Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani – Forensic Oceanography, Daryl Celeste Meador, and Yoshua Okón. The lobby of Motions features a…

Czech Jewelry Designers Meet NYC

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York, NY, United States

An opening of the exhibition of jewerly created specifically for the CCNY Gallery. The connecting motto of the exhibition is "Communication". Whether it's a conversation between partners, a personal interaction with the outside world or a contact between the Czech and American cultural scene, communication is a basic human need and desire. In addition, the jewelry is an interesting and…

Figurative Sculpture in Social Critique: Curating the Straus Family Collection

Hudson Valley MOCA 1701 Main Street, Peekskill, NY, United States

The panel discussion is organized in collaboration with the Polish Cultural Institute New York, and supported by Arts Westchester and Westchester County Government. Panel discussion on Death is Irrelevant: Selections from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection, 1975–2018 This panel discussion will respond to “Death Is Irrelevant,” an exhibition currently on display at Hudson Valley MOCA, which features spectacular figurative…

Exhibit Opening. Listen to Silence and Speak: The Leningrad Underground and Joseph Brodsky

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City, NY, United States

Exhibit runs March 26 – May 10, 2019. Exhibit hours are Monday–Friday, 9:30AM – 5:00PM excluding university holidays. Please join us for a reception in celebration of the opening of the exhibit Listen to Silence and Speak: The Leningrad Underground and Joseph Brodsky, a photography exhibit curated by Natasha Sharymova. “In the late 1950s I met and befriended a group of young artists and poets. I devoted all my…

Dominique Robin: Stone Puzzles from the Valdarno and the Hudson Valley

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

In the exhibition “Stone Puzzles,” Dominique Robin explores the projections of humankind on landscape and more generally on nature. At the opening reception on Thursday, March 28, guests will be invited to write a one-sentence “secret” on paper, which they will then cross out with pencil, revealing only a single word. Selected drawings will be displayed in the gallery space.…

Bouzbir and Résistants by Fatima Mazmouz – Photo Exhibit

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

In Bouzbir, Fatima Mazmouz reappropriates colonial postcards featuring young Moroccan prostitutes in Bousbir, a military district in Casablanca. Exploring how the sexual exploitation of these women was integral to French domination, Mazmouz overlays a digital mosaic of tiny images of vulvas and uteruses. The uteruses symbolize the obscene matrix of colonialism, while the vulvas reflect the articulation of the political and the intimate, at…

Magnifico in New York Corrado Cagli, Migrating Artists, and the Mirage of Italy

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY, United States

As part of the Carnegie Hall Migrations Festival, Centro Primo Levi and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts present an evening with art historian Raffaele Bedarida dedicated to the experience of Italian artist and cultural organizer Corrado Cagli. The Cantori New York directed by Mark Shapiro will perform excerpts of Vittorio Rieti’s music for the Magnifico. Free (registration required)…

Exhibit: Ser Serpas: Against Attachment

Ludlow 38 38 Ludlow Street, New York, United States

Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38 is pleased to present Against Attachment, the first institutional solo exhibition of the New York- and Zurich-based artist Ser Serpas in the United States. This installation stages a scene from the artist’s windowless apartment studio in New York, where Serpas lived, studied, and worked during her last year at Columbia University. The four newly commissioned sculptures…

Renato Leotta

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

A Solo Exhibition at Casa Italiana and Magazzino Italian Art Foundation Renato Leotta April 30 - June 12, 2019 Mondays-Fridays 10-6 Magazzino Italian Art Foundation (2700 U.S. 9, Cold Spring, NY) NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (24 West 12th Street, New York, NY) Curated by Vittorio Calabrese, Director, Magazzino Italian Art Foundation Magazzino Italian Art Foundation and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at…

Lokal_30 at Frieze New York

Randall's Island Park New York City, NY, United States

Maria Anto, Magda Moskwa, and Ewa Juszkiewicz Through the presentation of works by Maria Anto (1936-2007), Magda Moskwa (1967) and Ewa Juszkiewicz (1984) at Frieze Art Fair 2019, local_30 gallery from Warsaw aims to highlight Surrealist motifs in the work of these artists, and refute the claim about the absence of Surrealism in Polish art. Maria Anto’s work represents the…