A short list of the can’t-miss new exhibition openings (and closings) this week, by city. See last week’s list for other recent openings, and for a more comprehensive guide, see our Itinerary.
NEW YORK
“Nick Mauss: Transitions”
Whitney Museum of American Art
OPENS: March 16
For his first solo museum show in the United States, the artist explores the relationship between modernist ballet and the avant-garde in New York from the 1930s through the 1950s. Conceived specially for the Whitney, features daily dance performances in the institution’s eighth-floor Hurst Family Galleries.
“Hugo McCloud: Metal Paintings”
Sean Kelly BK (420b Troutman Street)
CLOSES: March 18
The artist and the gallery have transformed an industrial space in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood into the temporary Sean Kelly BK to host this special exhibition (on view March 17 and 18 from 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.). In creating this new body of work, the artist puts aside the more colorful approach for which he’s known in order to incorporate the techniques and materials—scrap metal, solder, chemical patinas, and welding—that he experimented with earlier in his career. The series is at once an exciting return, and departure, for the artist.
(Opening image: Hugo McCloud, “watered down,” 2017. Courtesy Sean Kelly, New York.)
“Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture”
Parrish Art Museum
OPENS: March 18
Therese Lichtenstein guest curates this exhibition focused on the many stories one building can tell. Through 57 photographs by artists including Iwan Baan and Julius Sherman, the show suggests that by preserving and perceiving architecture, great photographers can play a role in the construction of an icon.
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“Being: New Photography”
Museum of Modern Art
OPENS: March 18
In the latest installment of the museum’s New Photography series, works by 17 international contemporary artists interrogate subjects of personhood, subjectivity, and agency.
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