NYC art map and recs, 3/18/25 - 3/23/25
Hi folks! This past weekend was the first weekend that I didn’t do a gallery crawl since the beginning of the year! But don’t worry, there was no shortage of art — I spent the weekend in Chicago with friends, and we went to the major museums and did an abundance of Frank Lloyd Wright tours. It was my first visit to the Art Institute of Chicago, if you can believe it! I’m glad to be back and am gearing up for a busy week, and will probably do my once every six weeks or so uptown crawl the first half of Saturday…
Geography brief:
A few weeks ago, Artnews published a piece about Shanghai’s Bank Gallery opening a New York outpost. Galleries expanding to New York is of course pretty typical, but the nature of the expansion felt unconventional: they would be taking over Nathalie Karg’s space at 127 Elizabeth Street from March until August, with Nathalie Karg gallery going on hiatus during that time. Nathalie Karg’s website articulates it a little bit differently, with the language that “Nathalie Karg Gallery is hosting BANK NYC Residency at our space at 127 Elizabeth Street, New York, NY from March 15, 2025 – August 15, 2025” as well as an assurance that the program remains active and that they are reachable. This is an interesting move for both galleries at a moment of uncertainty in the art market — but perhaps one that makes sense. Nathalie Karg is presumably charging Bank rent, and they can reduce their overhead for a few months while Bank gets to test the waters in New York without committing to a long lease. Seems like a win for both? I’ll be tracking how this shakes out, and if Bank ends up staying in New York beyond August and how Nathalie Karg’s program continues. All of this is a long intro to say that Bank’s “residence” at Nathalie Karg starts on Friday, March 21st, with an Patty Chang: Touch Archive and a group show Braided Stream.
One of the things I have been fixated on in the gallery geography ecosystem is “quiet closures.” In other words, a gallery closes or closes one of its locations without any kind of formal announcement. These tend to be sort of hard to track since there’s no email, or article, or Instagram post, and make themselves evident to me either when I’m walking by a space and it has a “for rent” sign in the window, or an address mysteriously disappears form a gallery’s website. The latest one that I’ve stumbled on in that Sargent’s Daughters and Shrine appear to have closed their joint exhibition space in Los Angeles, only two years after opening in February 2022.
They join Anna Zorina, Harper’s, and Nino Mier as galleries that have consolidated their operations to New York following an expansion west (Nino Mier was open in L.A. first, and still has a space in Brussels, so that’s sort of a whole other saga). Have tips on other closures or more intel, or other thoughts? Send them my way at alexfeim@gmail.com!
Openings
Thursday, March 20th
Sarah Rothberg: FOREVER MEETINGS at bitforms
6pm - 8pm
Tracy Thomason: Venus at Miles McEnery
6pm - 8pm
Liz Nielsen at Miles McEnery
6pm - 8pm
Gordon Matta-Clark: NYC Graffiti Archive 1972/3 at White Columns
6pm - 8pm
Friday, March 21st
Maisie Luo: A Room Of Earth at d.d.d.d.
6pm - 8pm
Olivia Erlanger: Spinoff at Luhring Augustine
6pm - 8pm
Lyric Shen: There is an occlusion at Silke Lindner
6pm - 8pm
Events
Tuesday, March 18th
Karyn Olivier artist talk at SVA
3pm - 5pm
Jennifer Paige Cohen artist talk at the New York Studio School
6:30pm
New Crits Talk: Salome Asega in & Ajay Kurian at Water Street Association
RSVP via link
6:30pm
Paradoxical Utopias: The Agritopianists, a conversation with Ou Ning at e-flux screening room
RSVP via Eventbrite
7pm
An Evening with The Last Thing I Saw at Light Industry
7pm
$10 Suggested Donation
The Twilight of Bohemia: Westbeth and the Last Artists in New York Book Launch at Westbeth
7pm
Wednesday, March 19th
Women’s History Month Celebration at Pen + Brush
6pm - 8pm
Carla Forbes and Catherine Morris lecture on Nancy Elizabeth Prophet at the New York Studio School
6:30pm
Performance Talks Book Club on Anne Imhof’s DOOM at 99 Canal Street
7pm
RJ Messineo artist talk at Hunter College
7pm
MANIFESTO!: Twelve Theses Toward the Reformation of Criticism hosted by 4columns at KGB Bar
7pm - 9pm
Thursday, March 20th
Curator walkthrough with Elisa Carollo of Interspecies: New Scenarios Of Symbiotic Coexistence at Swivel Gallery
6pm
MOTORMOND Magazine Issue 1: Errant Black Girlhoods magazine launch at Printed Matter
6pm - 8pm
Marcelline Mandeng Nken: Rush Hour performance at The 8th Floor
6pm - 8pm
Your Grief is Welcome Here workshop with Katherine Thukhy at PS122
RSVP to director@ps122gallery.org
6pm - 8pm
MFA Fine Arts Open Studios at SVA
6pm - 9pm
Hello Eternal Loving Presence Hunter College MFA Thesis exhibition opening
6pm - 9pm
Humanities and Today’s World panel discussion at 1014
6:30pm - 8pm
Economies of Love. Part 1: Virtual Desires screening at e-flux screening room
$10 admission
7pm
Friday, March 21st
Paige Taul: I am film screening at Microscope
$10 admission
Saturday, March 22nd
Danielle Frankenthal: Playing with Light artist and curator talk at L’Space Gallery
3pm - 4pm
Artist talks with Ever Baldwin and Alessandro Keegan hosted by Show & Tell Arts at the New York Irish Center
3pm - 5:30pm
Panel discussion for On Education with Emanuel Almborg, Michaela Griffo, sgp, and Sable Elyse Smith, and Nina Geysat at Amant
RSVP via link
3:30pm - 5pm
Artist talks for A Second Body, Bodiness: skin, and Venus Figures and Equity Gallery
3PM - 5PM.
The Argentine International: A Dialogue, an interactive exploration of contemporary Argentine artistic practices at The Slip
4pm - 6pm
The Side of the Mountain film screening & discussion with Simon Leung and Yve-Alain Bois at the Emily Harvey Foundation
6:30pm
Sunday, March 23rd
Workshop: Intro to 16mm Filmmaking hosted by Millenium Film Workshop
$15 - $30 sliding scale admission
2pm - 5pm
John Adam Blum Fahey: NATURAL MATHEMATICS at Vorderzimmer
4pm - 7pm
Eros: Gates of Heaven erotica readings by SJ Alexander, Dahlia Bloomstone, Ryanaustin Dennis, David Lindsay, Alex Schmidt and Cecilia Stelzer at Blade Study
6pm - 8pm
Friday, March 21st - Saturday, March 22nd
Spitting Image Art Book Fair hosted by Vera List Center at The New School
1pm - 5pm Friday, 11am - 5pm Saturday
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