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But the shows this fallseason tell us otherwise-- especially the ones by greatBlack artists who remind us of art's necessity. 1 Barkley L. Hendricks:Portraits at the Frick The Frick Collection,opens 9/21 The Frick will devote anentire gallery in its temporarylocation at the Breuer toHendricks, who during hislife imbibed this magnificentcollection's painterly magicand formal mysteries. [Extracted from the article]

Amongthis summer's offerings is a young and intensestring quartet performing arrangements of Armenianfolk songs plus bits by Rhiannon Giddens,Beethoven, and Cécile Chaminade. j.d. The tenth studio album from singer-songwriterand alt-rock heroine PJ Harvey documents theexperience of rekindling her love of playing andwriting music in the lengthy stretch since her lastrelease in 2016. Once upon a time, the often transgressive films ofthe controversial Italian poet, novelist, and directorPier Paolo Pasolini were almost impossible totrack down on home video. Now, the CriterionCollection has released an amazing boxed set ofnine of his films. b.e. MUSIC 24. [Extracted from the article]

The text discusses two separate topics: the TV show Bridgerton and the artist Jenny Holzer. In regards to Bridgerton, the article mentions that while the show expands its storylines and deviates from the original books, it fails to fully develop the character of Colin Bridgerton, resulting in an imbalanced and unsatisfying plot. However, the article still finds the show enjoyable due to the engaging side characters and the promise of future seasons. As for Jenny Holzer, the article criticizes her recent exhibition at the Guggenheim, stating that her work lacks the power and profundity of her earlier pieces and comes off as a misuse of space. [Extracted from the article]

C.J. The Short List THE NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL The especially stacked Lincoln Center fest isapproaching. In the ramp-up to the release of Killers of theFlower Moon, Metrograph is running a series offilms made before the advent of the Hays Code--1931'sThe Squaw Man, 1933's Eskimo, and 1934'sLaughing Boy and Massacre--that provide a lookinto an audacious and largely forgotten era ofIndigenous depiction onscreen. Kaje, 74 15th Street, Brooklyn; through September 17.Simon Liu projects 16-mm. footage of his hometownof Hong Kong onto a series of mirrors thatmultiply and refract images of street life, tides,and contemplative locals to a low-hangingsoundtrack. The success of the John Wick franchise means it'stime for spinoffs, and the first arrives in the formof this three-part prequel series about the iconichotel that provides sanctuary for assassins. [Extracted from the article]

This show,curated by writer Alison M. Gingeras, re-createsher apartment and includes Berlin's letters, herown artwork, and much more. Fact: Billy Wilder wrote and directed some of thegreatest films of all time. Singer-songwriter and producer Archy Marshallmakes moonlit, amorphous indie rock and foreboding,atmospheric hip-hop beats, and his newalbum, Space Heavy, his fifth as King Krule, is atrove of keen observations you can watch himunpack in the flesh. Brigid Berlin came from an ultraprivileged home,as did much of Andy Warhol's entourage. [Extracted from the article]

The CULTURE PAGES ART IIU SUSIRAJA COMES FROM a long tradition of photographerswho stay at home, dress up, and take pictures of themselves. Claude Cahun, Catherine Opie, Patty Chang, Cindy Sherman--they arethere and not there in their images, playing cat and mouse with that elusiveanimal called identity, enacting dreams and surfacing subconsciousanxieties. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the current state of the Whitney Biennial, noting that it has shifted from being an event for insiders in the art world to an outward-facing exhibition for the public. The Biennial addresses various contemporary issues such as Gaza, climate change, abortion, and the pandemic. While some of the art is seen as familiar and safe, there are also works that convey new meaning and justify the recent push for less insularity in the art world. The article highlights specific artists and artworks that are worth seeing, as well as those that can be skipped. [Extracted from the article]

Tschabalala Self's art project, "Bodega Run," aims to recreate and evoke the atmosphere of the bodegas in underserved neighborhoods, particularly in New York City. Self, a Harlem-born artist, uses various materials to create sculptures and paintings that explore Black American identity and the complexities of urban life. The project features portraits, replicas of grocery items, and crates covered in scratch-off lottery tickets, reflecting both affection for these mom-and-pop stores and ambivalence about the issues of poverty and addiction they can perpetuate. The bodega has become a symbol of pre-gentrification New York, but Self's work reminds us that the reality was more complicated. [Extracted from the article]

This article provides a list of the best art shows of the year. The shows mentioned include Henry Taylor's retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Tracey Emin's exhibition at White Cube, Dana Schutz's exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery, Hilary Harkness's paintings at P.P.O.W., Myrlande Constant's tapestries at Fort Gansevoort, Xiyadie's cutouts at The Drawing Center, Miyoko Ito's surreal images at Matthew Marks Gallery, Agata Slowak's small paintings at Fortnight Institute, Matthew Barney's multimedia installation at his studio, and Félix González-Torres's exhibition at David Zwirner. The author provides brief descriptions and praises the artists' work, highlighting their unique styles and themes. [Extracted from the article]

The article provides a list of cultural events and recommendations for the period of April 22 to May 5, 2024 in New York. The recommendations include listening to Dua Lipa's new album, watching the TV show "The Veil," attending a performance of Bach's B-minor Mass, listening to the podcast "Life of the Record," visiting an art exhibition featuring Roz Chast's work, watching the TV show "Hacks," listening to Charley Crockett's new album, attending a theater production called "Three Houses," watching the film "GIFT," reading Geoffrey Mak's memoir "Mean Boys," and attending a dance performance called "Kinetic Grace." [Extracted from the article]

The CULTURE PAGESTo DoART3. See Alexis Rockman Ecocide-attentive paintings.Magenta, 149 Canal Street; through February 24.For decades, Alexis Rockman's hallucinogenic amalgams of ecology and life-forms have taken shots at the forces killing the environment. Here, he pulls back in a series of smaller, very beautiful naturalistic watercolors of flowers, reefs, treetops, kelp forests, even ants. Perhaps all is not well in this world, but it is rendered with such loving attention that we are brought in and swept away.By JERRY SALTZ [Extracted from the article]

JUST TEN DAYS BEFORE the LeoCastelli exhibition in 1984, in aPaula Cooper group show, I sawa single Johns painting thatchanged my life: Usuyuki (1982), a giantphosphorescent, abstract, layered atoll ofcascading siliceous marks of what looklike cave paintings or notations etched ona wall by a prisoner. Someone I know slightly toldme he once rang Johns's Connecticutbuzzer and asked "Is this Jasper Johns'shome? PaintedBronze (1960). gl The first Johns show I ever saw in theflesh was the 1984 Leo Castelli exhibition,where I witnessed an artist being reborn. [Extracted from the article]

The CULTURE PAGESTo DOART4. See Akea Brionne Surfaces that bloom.Lyles & King, 19 Henry Street; through February 10.Akea Brionne lost many of her family memories to the devil known as Katrina. In her first solo show in New York, the 28-year-old artist recreates and invents beautiful new ones, based on AI-generated images of Black families that she lovingly deploys through weaving and sensual, bumpy surfaces.By JERRY SALTZ [Extracted from the article]

The CULTURE PAGESTo DoART7. See Medieval Money, Merchants, and MoralityGlowing pages.The Morgan Library & Museum, through March 10. The Morgan is a New York destination for high-quality, small-scale exhibitions. Here's an amazing gathering of manuscripts, some illuminated. Culled from the Morgan collection, each work depicts a world of visionary brilliance focused on money in the Middle Ages.By JERRY SALTZ [Extracted from the article]

The CULTURE PAGETo DoART3. See Judy ChicagoBeyond The Dinner Party.New Museum, through March 3.In 1974, Judy Chicago shocked the world with her gigantic installation of a three-sided dinner table set with 39 gorgeous enfolded opening labial plates, each representing a different woman of history. Now, the rest of her storied and controversial career is finally on delicious view at the New Museum.By JERRY SALTZ [Extracted from the article]

This article provides a brief overview of three art shows happening in New York. The first show, "Come Close," features the work of 83-year-old artist Joan Snyder, whose paintings are described as loud, funky, and poetic. The second show, "The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism," showcases works from the 1920s to '40s that have had a lasting impact on American art. The third show, "LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity," presents the photographs of the MacArthur-winning artist, focusing on everyday people fighting against ecological poisoning. [Extracted from the article]

GLO:nyo/30aug21:100n1.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): . gl 2 Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror(Whitney Museumof American Art,opens September 29) The biggest solo show in mylifetime for the wildly influential,slow-burning fuse whose worklit the American art worldaflame in 1958 and helped changeits course from AbstractExpressionism to the optical airthat we breathe today. FALL PREVIEW 2021 ART Ten fall shows to train your eye 1 Labyrinth of Forms: Women andAbstraction, 1930-1950(Whitney Museum of American Art,opens October 9) In the early part of the 20th century, as European artistsbelched out manifestos calling for the end of paintingand museums, white America was just starting to feel greatabout itself. GLO:nyo/30aug21:102n1.jpg PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): . gl 7 2021 Triennial:Soft Water Hard Stone(New Museum,opens October 28) The New Museum is the NewYork institution most consistentlysupportive of new, experimental,younger, overlooked strange art. [Extracted from the article]

GLO:nyo/06jul20:70n1.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): Andrea delCastagno, The Last Supper (1445-50). gl GLO:nyo/06jul20:70n2.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): Leonardoda Vinci, The Last Supper (1490s). gl In this time, overwhelmed and dizzied, I find myself going backto Renaissance masterworks for reasons I don't entirely understand. The first is thesecond-most-famous painting in Western art history: Leonardo daVinci's The Last Supper, begun in Milan around 1495. The other isan almost unknown 1445-50 masterpiece by Andrea del Castagno inFlorence, a painting Leonardo probably knew, studied, and tried tomove beyond. Leonardo's painting shattered older artistic forms andembedded new ideas in material; Castagno's version, tremendous inits own right, can still surprise and imparts incredible spiritual power. [Extracted from the article]

An interview with art critic Jerry Saltz is presented. Topics include architecture and renovation of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; architect Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the demolition of the American Folk Art Museum and Saltz's love for the museum; the challenges regarding driving the Museum of Modern Art design including traffic engineering.

There, dominating a gallery, isa painting bigger than a barge by the late Popmaster. Any billionaire with a skyscraper lobby that needsone of the world's largest paintings, get thee toGagosian pronto. [Extracted from the article]

For more than two decades, Joe Fig has been creatinghomages to art and artists in his meticulousminiatures of Jackson Pollock or Chuck Close intheir studios or, as he is here, small paintings ofpeople looking at art. See Joe Fig Profound experiences of art. [Extracted from the article]

See Marc DennisMises en abyme. Marc Dennis's photo-realist renditions of Hasidicmen looking at and crowding out famous paintingsby artists such as Édouard Manet are soperfect and vexing that they may not even be art. [Extracted from the article]

So herelies another reading of the painting: It isalmost as if Manet were asking us to seethe courtesan, this modern Venus representingthe depths and peaks of Europeanculture, through another set of eyes, dimlyglimpsed in the background. Édouard Manet's 1863masterpiece Olympia, the star of theMetropolitan Museum of Art's gigantic newshow "Manet/Degas", in some respects fitsthis description. [Extracted from the article]

The cords similarly connect the seriesof bays that run along the sixth floor, eachof which hosts Sze's vertiginous paintingsand teeming sculptures. IT'S ALWAYS WONDROUS when an artist is allowed to play with the idiosyncrasiesof Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum, a spaceship laboratorywhose interior is all spiraling ramps, sloping floors, and secret stairwells, topped witha Cyclops-like oculus. [Extracted from the article]

Theresults are cool patterns that recall digitizedversions of van Gogh paintings morphinginto paintings that look like Monet's,which then turn into de Koonings orFrankenthalers or Rothkos, into sandstormsand mashed potatoes and other things thatsort of look like art. The CULTURE PAGES Refik Anadol's unsupervised is in MoMA's lobbythrough April 15 IN THE LOBBY of the Museum ofModern Art stands a 24-foot-tallscreen that emits a continuous flowof psychedelic slush and bacterialblobs. [Extracted from the article]

"Matisse:The Red Studio"Museumof Modern Art Matisse's The Red Studiois a one-painting rebellionagainst illusionisticperspectival space and agigantic shove off the cliffof the possibilities of color. Gallery cofounderand artist JamianJuliano-Villani said shewanted to "show art thatis not afraid of itself" andpromised this would be aspace that treats everyone"equally like shit.". [Extracted from the article]

INTELLIGENCER Mind the Art Climate activists havebeen celebrated for defacinggreat paintings. Lifemay be more valuable than art, but thatdoesn't mean that art--this repository ofideals and truths and beauty--must beneedlessly harmed for a cause that is onlytangentially related to art in the first place. Van Gogh, Klimt, Monet, Vermeer,Constable, and da Vinci--these are part ofthe holy canon of art, the trophy paintingsof the asset class. [Extracted from the article]

The article lists twenty five things to hear, watch and read for the week of March 20th through April 3, 2019 including seeing the theatrical production "The White Devil," watching the television series "Jane the Virgin," and reading the book "The Other Americans."

The article offers information on things to see, watch and read from February 6-20, 2019. Topics discussed include watching television program "PEN15" created by Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle; reading the book "On Being 40(ish)" by Lindsey Mead; and the play "Marys Seacole" directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz at the Lincoln Center Theater in New York City, from February 9-March 24, 2019.

The article discusses American artist Andy Warhol, calling him a revolutionary artist, and his art work between 1962 to 1964, who was reportedly shunned in the art world. It discusses his eight art works including 1948 Living Room painting of his working-class Pittsburgh home at 3252 Dawson, Pennsylvania, and the 1967-1968 Big Electric Chair, one of his last works which he completed before Monday, June 3, 1968, when he was shot.

The article offers information on several upcoming exhibitions, films, and television programs between October 31, 2018–November 14, 2018. Topics addressed include an exhibition "Natalie White: Someday" based on the equal rights amendments and details on the television program, "Homecoming" casting actress Julia Roberts.

The CULTURE PAGES Twenty-five things to see,hear, watch, and read GLO:nyo/04jan21:68n1.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): . gl JANUARY 6-20 TV 1. January is New York's festival season, and at leastUnder the Radar and the Exponential Festivalsoldier on. Country star Morgan Wallen makes music forparties. In his new set, with help by Diplo, ChrisStapleton, and Eric Church, Wallen successfullyexpands to blues, rock, folk, and trap. [Extracted from the article]

Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley; through August 19.See a walk-in reimagining of L.A.'s 110 Freeway, aharsh reminder of how construction projectsdisrupt neighborhoods and redraw whole ecospheres. Barefoot people move through this landscapelike ghosts. The CULTURE PAGES To Do ART 3. [Extracted from the article]

See Josh Kline Automation and climate change. Surveying over a decade ofthe artist's work, the exhibit is brilliantly illuminatingand hopeful about what artists are capableof if willing to go for it. 's show is part installation, part walkthroughfuture machine. [Extracted from the article]

"Africa Fashion"Brooklyn Museum(June 23-October 22) * A sizzling display ofgarments, hats, shoes,and other swag, "AfricaFashion" is the largest-evershow of its kind. Pepón Osorio:"My BeatingHeart/Mi corazónlatiente"New Museum(June 29-September 17) * A retrospective ofOsorio's large-scalemultimedia installations,which are parade floats ofstuff: tables, chairs, policetape, couches. Party will playoff this strange portrait,which depicts a dapperman--a dandy, anaristocrat, or an actor--wearinga flowered vest,a powdered wig, bluevelvet, and a tricorne hat,who looks at us throughhalf-closed eyes. [Extracted from the article]

Her crackling, nearabstractions are frozen in icy paint that meltsupon view. See Marilyn Minter Electric images. The glimmering works by Marilyn Minter ignitein flashes of color and lightning to form incrediblepictures of Lizzo, Roxane Gay, Monica Lewinsky,Lady Gaga, and others. [Extracted from the article]

The CULTURE PAGES Three revolutionary works still speakto us of doubt, inspiration, and grace AGAIN AND AGAIN during thispandemic, unable to actuallysee art in person, I have time-traveledwithin myself forsustenance--with the help of the internet,of course. Artists had spent theprevious 50 years revering Raphael, Leonardo,and Michelangelo, so much thatersatz Renaissance paintings had becomea cottage industry among worshipfulpainters and princes wanting to showthey had the same taste as popes andpotentates--much like current monkey-see-monkey-docollectors of contemporaryart. GLO:nyo/28sep20:57n1.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): The Calling ofSaint Matthew (1599--1600), The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew(1599--1600), and The Inspiration of Saint Matthew(1602). gl Caravaggio would be dead within tenyears, but he changed art history. [Extracted from the article]

David France, director of the seminal AIDS docHow to Survive a Plague, returns with anotherinfuriating and devastating film. In looking at thehorrific, government-approved brutalization ofLGBTQ people in Chechnya--where they areimprisoned, tortured, and killed--and the clandestinenetworks created to help persecuted peopleflee to safety, he delivers a movie that is both shockingand, in its own way, hopeful. J.C. MOVIES 24. In the early '70s, director Peter Medak wasapproached by his friend Peter Sellers to makepirate comedy Ghost in the Noonday Sun. Whatensued was one of the most catastrophic shootsever, as the unpredictable Sellers nearly broughtdown the production and alienated cast and crewalike. [Extracted from the article]

SANDRO BOTTICELLI'S SMALL, nearly unknown 15th-century masterpiece gives us a human being stripped of all hope. Botticelli made The Desperate One in Florence when he was approaching a life crisis. In 1482, when Botticelli was in his full powers as a painter, the preacher-prophet Girolamo Savonarola came to Florence. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents information on the play "Fire in Dreamland" directed by Marissa Wolf, to be held at the public theatre in New York from August 5, 2018, reviews the book "My Year of Rest and Relaxation," by Ottessa Moshfegh and reviews the television program "The Handmaid's Tale."