Elliot Jerome Brown Jr. Lecture, MoMA Photography Panel, Lola Flash Book Release, Photographer's Green Book Event, + more!
A variety of talks, releases, closing receptions, and more this week-- also a list of current and upcoming shows on my mind.
Materials Acknowledgement Project (MAP) Screening: Archives and Storage at Pratt Institute (200 Willoughby Ave, ARC Building, Lower Level, E-02)
Today, 12:30pm
The last screening of the MAP series will be accompanied with a bagel lunch and include Hito Steryl’s Lovely Andrea (2007) and Arthur Ou’s The Invisible Photograph Part 1: (Underground) (2014)
ICP Talks: Elliot Jerome Brown Jr. at the International Center of Photography (79 Essex St. & Online)
Tonight, 7-8pm EST
Being offered in-person and online (tickets for both are $5, but in-person ticket will allow you admission to the gallery), this is the third talk of the Spring lecture series. The event will be moderated by artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed. Something of importance seems the note in the press release that MATTE Editions will be publishing a book of Brown Jr.'s work later this Spring.
Book Event, Lola Flash's “Believable: Traveling with My Ancestors” at the International Center of Photography (79 Essex St. & Online)
Thursday, 4/20 6:30-7:30pm
I began following Flash’s work when my friend and the talented filmmaker Sara Varde began their senior thesis on Clit Club, a since-closed lesbian bar and club in New York City that ran through the 90s. Flash has produced a photography series bearing the same title as the club. This’ll be an exciting opportunity to look at Flash’s work, while celebrating her new book release. The event is “free” with $5 museum ticket purchase.
During Late Night ICP, Lola Flash joins journalist Jenna Wortham for a conversation celebrating the release of Flash’s book Believable: Traveling With My Ancestors (New Press) which acts as a survey of Flash’s decades-long career as a pioneering queer artist.
Forums on Contemporary Photography: Decentering the Document at the Museum of Modern Art (Online)
Tomorrow, 4/19 1:30-3:30pm
The group panel accompanies the upcoming exhibition New Photography 2023 (on view 5/28) which will focus on photographers and artists with ties to Lagos (Èkó), Nigeria. Among the speakers are museum curators, writers, art historians, as well as some of the artists included in the exhibition. More information on the speakers can be found here, as well as the Zoom webinar link.
Closing reception: no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria at the Whitney Museum of American Art (99 Gansevoort St.)
Thursday, 4/20 7:30-10pm
Thanks to good friend and artist Johan Orellana for sharing this the other day! This is an important exhibit of artists responding to disaster in ways that grapple with trauma and loss, as well as all the emotion and love within it. Elle Pérez’s short film in the exhibit will absorb you, just as all the other multidimensional and disciplinary work in the exhibit including photographs weaved in connection, destroyed and transported telephone poles with political implications and value, among so much more.
2023 Spring Open Studios, Opening Reception at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (1040 Metropolitan Ave.)
Friday, 4/21 6-9pm
Friend and artist Dana Robinson will be one of the many talented artists offering up their studios for folks to stop by. An exciting opportunity to learn about current, contemporary artists and emerging work— while befriending some cool people.
Useless Machines: a curated group show at TheBlanc Gallery (15 E. 40th St., 2nd Fl.)
Closes Friday, 4/21
Friend and artist shuang cai is the exhibit’s co-curator, as well as a participating artist. If you’re in the Midtown area, you’ll want to be there.
Pratt 2023 Photography MFA Thesis Shows, Curated by Anika Sabin at Pratt Photography Gallery (200 Willoughby Ave., ARC Building, Lower Level)
Baillie Vensel / Shengqi Ming show closing Friday, 4/21
See below for additional shows
Third World Mixtapes closing reception: Block Party at P.P.O.W. Gallery (390 Broadway, 2nd Floor) Featuring DJ Uptown Vinyl Supreme
Saturday, 4/22 4-6pm
With the closing of Shellyne Rodriguez’s solo exhibition, Bronx based DJ group Uptown Vinyl Supreme will be bringing the tunes. As the flier says, “Come early and see the show.”
The Photographer’s Green Book: Community Syllabus & Limited Release Launch, Hosted by Alanna Styer & Zora J Murff, with Special Guests Work/Play & Tay Butler at the Photographer’s Green Book (Instagram Live)
Sunday, 4/23 2pm EST
Limited Release is a community-funded project including an accessible art market for private collectors and residency program for scholars interested in making tools for educators. We’re pleased to announce the second iteration of the project, Liberation Studies.
Liberation Studies artworks were inspired by the story of Percy Lee Atkins, a Black man who lived in Clarksdale, MS. In 1963, Atkins was jailed for walking down the street wearing a March On Washington t-shirt with “Freedom Now” written across the back.
All sales will go to supporting the contributing artists and Alanna’s research for the Community Syllabus, an open-source syllabus meant to aid in the teaching of the history of photography outside of the white, western, and patriarchal canon.
The PGB Shop will open on 4/23 and be open until 5/31. In addition to the artworks, we have a small inventory of The Photographer’s Green Book Vol. 1 (2nd printing) and signed copies of True Colors (or, Affirmations in a Crisis)! Don’t sleep on this one!
Exhibitions currently on view—
Ann Treer: A Moment in New York at Robert Mann Gallery (14 E. 80th St.)
On view through 4/28
Robert Giard: Nudes, Artists and Gay Sites at Daniel Cooney Fine Art (508-526 W. 26th St.)
On view through 4/29
John Ahearn & Rigoberto Torres: Swagger and Tenderness, The South Bronx Portraits at the Bronx Museum of the Arts
On view until 4/30
Ukranian Perspectives: Photography from the 1940's - Now at ChaShaMa
On view through 5/5
Michal Chelbin: Sailboats and Swans at CLAMP (247 W. 29th St.)
On view through 5/6
Kunié Sugiura at Alison Bradley Projects (526 W. 26th St. #814)
On view through 5/6
War Bonds: Yuichi Idaka and László Moholy-Nagy, photographs from 1925 to 1946 at Higher Pictures Generation
On view through 5/6
Hip-Hop: Conscious, Unconscious at Fotografiska New York (281 Park Ave. South)
On view through 5/20
Barkley L. Hendricks: Myself When I Am Real at Jack Shainman Gallery
On view through 5/26
The Third Triennial of Staten Island Photography at the Alice Austen House (Staten Island)
On view through 5/27
New York Now: Home, A Photography Triennial at the Museum of the City of New York
On view through 8/27
Berneice Abbott’s New York Album, 1929 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
On view through 9/4
Justine Kurland: Girl Pictures at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Connecticut)
On view through 9/10
Exhibitions (and 1 film!) that I’m currently anticipating—
Judd Tully and Harold Crooks’ “The Melt Goes on Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons” at the Film Forum
Opens Friday, 5/5
Lee Friedlander Framed by Joel Coen at Luhring Augustine Chelsea
On view 5/13
New Photography 2023: Kelani Abass, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Yagazie Emezi, Amanda Iheme, Abraham Oghobase, Karl Ohiri, Logo Oluwamuyiwa at the Museum of Modern Art
On view 5/28
Darrel Ellis: Regeneration at the Bronx Museum of the Arts
On view 5/?
Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy at the International Center of Photography featuring Nan Goldin, Herve Guivert, Clifford Prince King, Sally Man, RongRong & inri, Collier Schorr, among many others
On view 6/2
Inheritance at the Whitney Museum of American Art featuring John Edmonds, Ana Mendeita, Kara Walker, + more
On view 6/28
Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection at the Smithsonian featuring Niki de Saint Phalle, Guerrila Girls, Deana Lawson, Ana Mendieta, Sondra Perry, Nancy Spero, plus many more
On view 8/2
Trust Me at the Whitney Museum of American Art featuring Alvin Baltrop, Moyra Davey, Lola Flash, Barbara Hammer, D’Angelo Lovell Williams, among others.
On view 8/19
Henry Taylor: B Side at the Whitney Museum of American Art
On view 10/4
Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines at the Brooklyn Museum
On view 10/17
And with that—
See you soon,
Rainer
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