November Gallery Guide
November Gallery Guide
After what was no doubt a tense election cycle, Artmuse Selects invites you to celebrate life with art! Here are our top picks for shows in New York right now.
And remember, you can still sign up for Artmuse’s virtual presentations to tour museums from home! November’s topics are Jordan Casteel at the New Museum, David Hockney at the Morgan Library, Jeffrey Gibson at the Brooklyn Museum, and Peter Saul at the New Museum. Email ns@artmuseny.com to sign up!
1. Anastasiya Tarasenko: The Hand that Feeds at Monya Rowe Gallery
Selected as one of Artnet’s Editor’s Picks, The Hand that Feeds is Ukranian-born artist Anastasiya Tarasenko first solo gallery show! These works—oil and resin clay on copper—are dark yet hilarious in their comments on American politics and life in general. The artist was inspired by her sense of impending doom during the 2020 election, a feeling that was no doubt compounded by the Coronavirus pandemic.
224 West 30th Street, No. 1005
Through January 9
Pictured: The Disaster Artist, 2020 | courtesy of Monya Rowe Gallery
2. Otani Workshop at PERROTIN
Narubekunaranare Narazarumonarubekenya Narareccho (Be if you can, even if you don’t have to be, let it be) is Japanese artist Otani Workshop’s first exhibition in New York! This triumphant show presents a diverse body of work that includes bronze sculpture, paintings, and 150 ceramics. The exhibition can be considered your introduction to Otani Workshop, and it is clear Otani Workshop works deftly in a variety of media to create a succinct body of work that follows a child protagonist and is imbued with playfulness, joy and wonder.
Through December 24
130 Orchard
Pictured: installation views| courtesy of PERROTIN
3. Church & Rothko: Sublime at Mnuchin Gallery
The paintings of Mark Rothko and Frederic Edwin Church come together in a spectacular show at Mnuchin Gallery. Sublime, curated in part by Michael N. Altman and Christopher Rothko, highlights painting’s lineage from the Hudson River School of painting to American abstraction. Presented beautifully at Mnuchin Gallery’s townhouse space, the exhibition is an almost religious experiences and displays the outstanding achievements in color American painters have made in both the 19th and 20th centuries.
Through December 12, online and by appointment
45 East 78th Street
Pictured: installation view | courtesy of Mnuchin Gallery
4. Michelangelo Pistoletto at Lévy Gorvy
The exhibition of works by the iconic Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto invites you into a world of wonder! A major exhibition of works by Pistoletto, the exhibition at Lévy Gorvy is the first U.S. presentation in over ten years to feature multiple installations by the artist. The exhibition is a survey show and takes you through the artist’s immersive practice that implicates the viewer in their own space and time.
Through January 9, by appointment
Pictured: images courtesy of Natasha Schlesinger / @artmuseny
5. Fred Tomaselli at James Cohan
Fred Tomaselli’s paintings marry text with pattern, shape, and form to produce psychedelic effects, which he calls “reality modification devices.” Working since the early 90s, Tomaselli collages newsprint and hand-painted ornamentations onto a resin surface. The exhibition at James Cohan features eight new works that are part of his ongoing New York Times series of collages.
Through November 21, by appointment
Pictured: Untitled, 2020 | courtesy of James Cohan Gallery
6. Raffi Kalenderian at Miles McEnery
Raffi Kalenderian’s exhibition of new paintings at Miles McEnery is a must-see show. His beautiful portraits and cinematic scenes exude with coolness and intimacy. His works are expressive yet highly-stylized, resulting in detached portraits that still reveal warm inner-lives.
November 19 - December 19
Pictured: Shanti, 2020 | courtesy of Miles McEnery
7. Talia Chetrit: Joke at kaufmann repetto
Touted today as a leading figure in conceptual feminist art, Talia Chetrit’s work often explores her own family’s biography through the artist’s 21st century lens. With Joke, her latest show at kaufmann repetto, Chetrit invites us into her own life with intimate portraits of parenthood and city living. These playful yet deep works undermine any obvious thematic tie; the exhibition includes urban photography, travel photography, studio portraits, and family snapshots.
Through November 21
55 Walker
Pictured: boot/baby, 2020
8. George Condo: Internal Riot at Hauser & Wirth
You know George Condo’s dis-figured and charged paintings that display dissonance and charged-psychology. These new works, now on view at Hauser & Wirth, display an intense shift in the iconic artist’s oeuvre. Made all during quarantine, these new works meditate upon the experience of being apart from mankind. In his new portraits, Condo invents a wholly-original cast of characters who display the state of humanity over these last few months.
Through January 23
Pictured: Up Against the Wall, 2020 | courtesy of Hauser & Wirth
9. Donald Judd: Artworks: 1970–1994 at David Zwirner
Judd mania has officially hit New York! Running concurrently with the historic retrospective at MoMA, the current Donald Judd exhibition at David Zwirner’s 19th Street location displays an incredible assemblage of works from 1970 until the artist’s death in 1994 that were pulled from both public and private collections. Standing in front of Judd’s works inspires feelings of meditation and concentration like none other! After a hectic election cycle, the Judd exhibition at Zwirner is like chicken soup for the soul.
Through December 12, by appointment
519, 525, & 533 West 19th Street
Pictured: Untitled, 1986 | courtesy of David Zwirner Gallery
10. Jordan Nasser: I cut the sky in two at James Cohan
“Growing up in the diaspora, much of Palestinian culture was experienced materially,” the artist Jordan Nassar said.
A beautiful and painstaking exploration of craft, history, heritage, and homeland, Jordan Nassar hand-embroidered works plot memory and place onto a two-dimensional plane. With his chief motif being characteristic of Palestinian “tatreez”, a Palestinian embroidery pattern that has been passed down through generations for centuries, Nassar produces beautiful material works that are serene yet exhibit an undeniable strength. Nassar’s works are beautiful as they are intellectual and will have you meditating upon them even after you leave the gallery.
Through November 21
Pictured: A Stream Is Singing Under The Youthful Grass, 2020
MUSEUM SPOTLIGHT
David Hockney: Drawing from Life at the Morgan Library
David Hockney is without a doubt one of the greatest artists of his generation. Now on view at the Morgan Library, David Hockney: Drawing from Life is one of the first exhibitions to focus on his works on paper! Presenting around 100 works, the exhibition tracks the evolution of Hockney’s drawing practice and brings to light how his singular vision developed. The exhibition will alter your perception of Hockney and display his ability to master drawings of all forms—from life-like works in pencil to expressive works rendered on an iPad!
Through May 30, by appointmnet
Images courtesy of Natasha Schlesinger