A short list of new exhibition openings (and closings) this week, by city. For a more comprehensive guide, see our Itinerary.
NEW YORK
“Songs for Sabotage”
New Museum
OPENS: Feb. 13
The contemporary art museum’s fourth triennial deconstructs the relationships among images, culture, and entrenched power structures and proposes reality-disrupting interventions into our built systems with works by 30 artists.
Read more »
(Opening Image: Janiva Ellis, “The Okiest Doke,” 2017. Courtesy the artist and 47 Canal, New York. Photo: Joerg Lohse)
David Zwirner 25th Anniversary Show
David Zwirner
CLOSES: Feb. 17
The SoHo gallery commemorates 25 years of ambitious shows with significant and never-before-seen works by the talents it represents, exhibited across its three Chelsea spaces.
Read more »
“Inside the Walls: Architects Design”
Friedman Benda
CLOSES: Feb. 17
Guest-curated by Mark McDonald, this exhibition of furniture and furnishings (from Charles and Ray Eames, Frank Lloyd Wright, and more) surveys how architects reconcile interior and exterior spaces.
Read more »
“Josef Albers in Mexico”
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
CLOSES: Feb. 18.
This exhibition, covering Albers’s rarely shown early paintings, photo collages, and works on paper, documents how pre-Columbian geometry and imagery subtly shaped his abstract canvases.
Read more »
LOS ANGELES
“Mark Bradford. New Works”
Hauser & Wirth
OPENS: Feb. 17
The L.A. artist presents new large-scale, abstract murals and installations crafted from found and scavenged materials in his first solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth gallery.
Read more »
Catherine Opie’s “The Modernist”
Regen Projects
CLOSES: Feb. 17.
The fine-art photographer Catherine Opie debuts her first film, a 22-minute work composed of more than 800 still images—a form in dialogue with Chris Marker’s 1963 science fiction feature La Jetée.
Read more »
