NYC art map and recs, 2/18/25 - 2/23/25
Hi folks! It is decidedly a light week for openings — the smallest number yet this year — which I would guess largely because Frieze Los Angeles takes place this week, and many galleries are focusing on their attention on that. I’m personally glad to have a little time to catch my breath after an inexplicably busy week last week. To make up for the relatively slim number of openings, there are a lot of events this week, particularly artist talks.
Openings
Wednesday, February 19th
Carl D’Alvia: Paper Trail at Dashwood Projects
6pm - 8pm
Thursday, February 20th
Sarah Charlesworth: Desire and Seduction at Paula Cooper
6pm - 8pm
Friday, February 21st
Surrealism Now group show at Elza Kayal
6pm - 8pm
Damien H. Ding: Precious Mirror at Island
6pm - 8pm
Erik Nilson and Seohyun Oh: Of the Echoes at Jack Barrett
6pm - 8pm
Events
Tuesday, February 18th
Open Session #16: Hosted by Simon Shim-Sutcliffe at Storefront for Art & Architecture featuring a screening of Shim-Sutcliffe’s film Zone followed by a reading and a conversation between Shim-Sutcliffe and filmmaker Shobun Baile
6:30pm - 8pm
Wednesday, February 19th
Black Earth Study Club: Cosmo-Computation with Bogosi Sekhukhuni and Ezekiel Dixon-Romàn on the occasion of Nolan Oswald Dennis’s exhibition, overturns at Swiss Institute
RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net
7pm
Thursday, February 20th
Patti Smith book and record signing on the occasion of the closure of the exhibition Soundwalk Collective & Patti Smith: CORRESPONDENCES at kurimanzutto
4pm - 6pm
Friday, February 21st
Book launch for Sun You: This One is For You featuring Sun You in conversation with Yoonjai Choi and William Corwin at 41 Orchard Street
6pm
Allison Janae Hamilton in Conversation with Joan Jonas in conjunction with Hamilton’s current exhibition Celestine at Marianne Boesky Gallery
6pm
Marisol Martinez, Prema Murthy, Kim Uchiyama, and Karin Waskiewicz in conversation on the occasion of the current exhibition Loved In Time at FORMah
6pm - 8pm
Banshees x Noise For Now benefit exhibition auction and closing party at GRIMM Gallery
6pm - 8pm
Saturday, February 22nd
Arda Asena and Rosed Serrano in Conversation on the occasion of Asena’s exhibition Interstitial at Baxter Street Camera Club
2pm
Catherine Howe in conversation with Natasha Schlesinger on the occasion of Howe’s current exhibition Mineral Spirits at Winston Wachter Fine Art
2pm
Jannick Deslauriers and Floria González in conversation with Jenna Ferrey on the occasion of the exhibition Chimera at Trotter&Sholer
3pm
Nicola Tyson in conversation with A.L. Steiner on the occasion of Tyson’s current exhibition I am a teapot at Petzel Gallery
RSVP to press@petzel.com
4pm
A Poet’s Cypher performance hosted by BlackMass Publishing at Canal Projects
RSVP Required
5pm - 7pm
Who Dares: a concert scored and performed by Kiowa Hammons and Kara Ejderha, and a performance of puppet theater inspired by the prose of Polish author Bruno Schulz's Treatise on Tailor's Dummies by Duygu Bayar Ekren at FiveMyles
6pm
Closing party for Aaron Michael Skolnick: The Entertainer with a performance followed by a Q&A with the artist at March
RSVP to info@marchgallery.org
6pm - 8pm
REFLECT WHAT YOU ARE, a seasonal night of new poetry, music and film organized by Kate Mohanty and Carolyn Heater at Millennium Film Workshop
$10 suggested donation
8pm
February 21 - March 2
Onassis ONX Winter Exhibition featuring work by Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou, Kyriaki Goni, Lisa Jamhoury, Matthew Gantt, Nouf Aljowaysir, Sarah Rothberg at Onassis ONX
RSVP Required
1pm - 7pm each day
Disclaimer: I try to be as accurate as possible with dates and times that things are happening, but things are subject to change and I am subject to human error so please always check links before venturing out