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KAWS: TIME OFF
The Parrish Art Museum Presents this survey exhibition of Brooklyn-based artist KAWS. This is the first exhibition of KAWS on the East End of Long Island. It explores his dynamic range of visual vocabulary and diverse artistic output over the last decade. The exhibition highlights KAWS’ consistent engagement with American pop culture while exploring boundaries and overlaps between different genres and mediums.
LAST CHANCE
2. The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
On view until July 28
The groundbreaking exhibition explores the comprehensive and far-reaching ways in which Black artists portrayed everyday modern life. Through 160 works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, and ephemera, explore the new Black cities that took shape in the 1920s–40s in New York City’s Harlem and nationwide in the early decades of the Great Migration, when millions of African Americans began to move away from the segregated rural South. On view at the Metropolitan Museum of ARt, this is the first museum survey on the subject in New York City since 1987. the exhibition establishes the Harlem Renaissance and its radically new development of the modern Black subject as central to the development of international modern art.
Featured artists include Charles Alston, Aaron Douglas, Meta Warrick Fuller, William H. Johnson, Archibald Motley, Winold Reiss, Augusta Savage, James Van Der Zee, and Laura Wheeler Waring. These artists are shown in direct juxtaposition with portrayals of international African diasporan subjects by European counterparts ranging from Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch, and Pablo Picasso to Germaine Casse, Jacob Epstein, and Ronald Moody.
3. Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other
Highlighting thirty years of art-making dedicated to the Black experience in America, this is the first comprehensive survey of the communal art projects that form the heart of Sonya Clark’s pioneering creative practice. the Museum of Arts and Design presents a selection of Clark’s photographs, prints, and sculpture. the exhibition features five of Clark’s large-scale, collaborative projects, including her barrier-breaking The Hair Craft Project (2014) and the ongoing performance, Unraveling.
Working with a wide range of emotionally resonant materials and everyday objects—from cotton cloth and human hair to school desks and bricks— Clark encourages audiences to confront the country’s historical imbalances and racial injustices. The uses of traditional craft materials, her applied knowledge of global craft techniques, and the communal collaborations that are integral to the integrity of Clark's art are among the many ways Clark represents and honors the legacies of the African diaspora in Black life.
4. Cuerpo: Carlos Martiel
On view at El Museo del Barrio, this is the first solo exhibition in a New York City museum of Carlos Martiel, the inaugural recipient of the Maestro Dobel Latinx Art Prize.
This groundbreaking survey encapsulates Martiel’s performance-based practice of nearly two decades. Employing his body as a primary medium, Martiel utilizes endurance performances in both public and gallery spaces to delve into the complex legacies of colonialism on race, labor, and migration. The exhibition features a selection of the artist’s most significant projects to date, bringing together different spaces and temporalities through preparatory drawings, photographs, and videos, as well as the remains of past sculptural performances, in dialog with El Museo’s multidisciplinary project space, Room 110.
This exhibition is accompanied by a new fully illustrated, bilingual (Spanish/English) publication that will serve as the first comprehensive monograph of the artist, highlighting approximately 40 performances from across Martiel’s career.
5. Crafting the Ballets Russes: The Robert Owen Lehman Collection
Robert Owen Lehman’s extraordinary collection of music manuscripts has been an inspiration to scholars and visitors since it was placed on deposit at the Morgan Library & Museum. Among its many splendid works are deep holdings of early-twentieth-century ballet, including Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird (1910), Petrouchka (1911), and Les Noces (1923); Claude Debussy’s L’après-midi d’un Faune (1912); and Maurice Ravel’s Bolero (1928) and La Valse (1920).
The exhibition opens with the dramatic arrival of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes troupe in Paris in 1909 and goes on to trace its impact across the arts, highlighting the rise of women in leading creative roles. They include Bronislava Nijinska, who in 1921 became the Ballets Russes’ only female choreographer and whose groundbreaking choreography defined Les Noces, Bolero, and other ballets of the era; and Ida Rubinstein, whose riveting stage presence helped establish the Ballets Russes in its first seasons and who came to rival Diaghilev as a patron of music, commissioning Bolero in 1928. At the core of the exhibition is the creative process that brought these ballets to life.