Editors Picks: 10 Things Not to Miss in the Virtual Art World This Week – artnet News

Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting, and thought-provoking, shows, screenings, and events. In light of the global health situation, we are currently highlighting events and exhibitions available digitally. See our picks from around the world below. (Times are all EST unless otherwise noted.)

Barbara Hammer, Still from Schizy (1968). Courtesy of Company.

1. In Company With: Barbara Hammer Streaming Videos at Vimeo

As part of a new virtual viewing initiative, Company Gallery is launching a series called In Company With, where digital performances, readings, and screenings are available on Instagram live with gallery artists. Kicking off the project is an archive of the late, great queer artist Barbara Hammers films, ready for your viewing pleasure on Vimeo.

Price: Free; those so moved are asked to donate to Queer I Art, which helps to fund the Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Film Grant.Time: Open daily, at all times

Caroline Goldstein

Staying With the Trouble: Prompts for Practice at A.I.R. Gallery. Image courtesy of A.I.R. Gallery.

2. Staying With the Trouble: Prompts for Practice at A.I.R. Gallery

Brookylns A.I.R. Gallery, which has championed women artists since 1972, has devised a raft of new online programming in the spirit of intimacy without proximity. That kicks off tonight with Staying With the Trouble, a six-week prompt-based art project led by artistAlison Owen, a former A.I.R. fellow. Shell share prompts every other night in the hopes of inspiring new works of art, literature, or music. Interested parties are encouraged to spend the evening ruminating on the prompt, and to use it as a jumping-off point for the next days studio practicehowever they see fit, be it for new projects or for a new direction for existing work. Share the results on social media under #stayingwiththetrouble or #AIRpromptsforpractice2020 to be included in the official project archive.

Price: FreeTime:Prompts will be posted 6 p.m. every other day

Sarah Cascone

Yali Romagoza, The Mistress of Loneliness (Chapter 1: The Departure)(2019), video still. Courtesy of the Immigrant Artist Biennial.

3. Apart, Together: The Immigrant Artist Biennial Zoom Series 1. The Emergency Exposes Your Status and Our Shared Vulnerability from the EFA Project Space

New Yorks Immigrant Artist Biennialis meant to be a response to intensifying anti-immigrant sentiment, offering a platform of cultural exchange. The central exhibition, Here, Together!, was supposed to open March 18 at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts project space on West 39th Street. Instead, the NYFA-sponsored event is staging a roundtable discussion on Zoom, moderated by curator Katya Grokhovsky and Dylan Gauthier and featuring artists Esperanza Corts,Bahareh Khoshooee,Daniela Kostova,Levan Mindiashvili,Qinza Najm,Anna Parisi,daaPo reo, andYali Romagoza.The meeting ID is 378 427 830, and you can call in at +1 646-876-9923. The multi-venue exhibition is being postponed in lieu of a series of online talks, workshops, and other programming that will allow immigrant artists to share their thoughts on identity, the meaning of home, and the challenges of being an immigrant cultural worker today.

Price: FreeTime: 7 p.m.9 p.m.

Sarah Cascone

Louise Bourgeois in her home on West 20th Street, New York, 2000. Photo Jean-Franois Jaussaud.

4. Louise Bourgeois: Drawings 19472007 at Hauser & Wirth

After decades of staging museum-scale exhibitions across three continents, the mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth will mark another milestone this week: On Wednesday, it will open its first online-only exhibition, a survey of drawings by Louise Bourgeois, spanning 1947 to 2007, three years before the artists death. Thats a pretty ambitious topic to take up for a show thats only on computer screens and smart phones, and it promises to be a large-scale investigation into an overlooked part of the artists practice. Though shes best known as a sculptor and installation artist, the gallery points out that, for Bourgeois, drawing was a necessary tool to record and exorcise her memories and emotions. Put together by longtime Bourgeois assistant Jerry Gorovoywho is now the head of the late artists estate, the Easton Foundationthe exhibition is part of Dispatches, the cyberspace-based slate of programming the gallery is putting together while the world is quarantined. Look for more Hauser & Wirth programming to be rolled out on the information superhighway in the coming weeks.

Price:FreeTime:Open daily, at all times

Nate Freeman

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INTRODUCING GWA LIVE! Due to the current situation, I want to do more than just #StillOnShow and bring you live interviews with some of the most exciting artists around the world, starting with Jordan Casteel (@JordanMCasteel) On Wednesday 25 March at 6pm GMT / 7pm Paris / 2pm EST, I will be going LIVE with Jordan on @thegreatwomenartists for the first installment of GWA LIVES, and I want to hear YOUR questions for the brilliant painter Based in New York, and born in Denver, Colorado, Jordan Casteel is a figurative painter whose focus centres in community engagement, painting from her own photographs of those she encounters. Posing her subjects within their natural environments, her nearly life-size portraits and cropped subway compositions chronicle personal observations of the human experience To honour Jordan's temporarily closed exhibition "Within Reach" at @NewMuseum, we are going to be talking about the show as well as her interest in portraiture. BUT we also want to hear from you, so please write your questions below and we can ask Jordan on Wednesday! SEE YOU THEN

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5. GWA Live: Jordan Casteel hosted by the Great Women Artists

Art historian Katy Hessels Instagram account @thegreatwomenartistscelebrates the work of female visual artists. Her latest feature, launching this week as a digital alternative to shuttered galleries and museums, is a series of live artist interviews. Shes starting with Jordan Casteel, who currently has a show at New Yorks New Museum of her nearly life-size portraits of African American subjects. Hessel is inviting her followers to submit questions for the painter ahead of the interview on Wednesday.

Price:FreeTime: 6 p.m. GMT

Sarah Cascone

Film still from Josephine Meckseper, PELLEA[S] (2017). Josephine Meckseper. Courtesy of the artist and Timothy Taylor, London/New York.

After Timothy Taylor Gallery in London closed to the public, putting a premature end to its exhibition ofJosephine Mecksepers videoPELLEA[S], the gallery decided to put the full 42-minute film online for free. For a limited time, you can watch the videowhich debuted at the Whitney Museum in 2018 and was screened last year at the Kitchenfrom the comfort of your couch. An adaptation of Maurice Maeterlincks surreal play Pellas et Mlisande, the film tells the story of a doomed love triangle set in a largely abandoned Washington, DCsound familiar?featuring real footage from Donald Trumps inauguration and the 2017 Womens March.

Price:FreeTime: Open daily, at all times

Julia Halperin

Faustin Linyekula: My Body, My Archive. Performance view. Courtesy of the Tate. Photograph by Oliver Cowling.

7. Faustin Linyekula: My Body, My Archive at Tate Modern

Congolese choreographer and artist Faustin Linyekula was one of the artists scheduled to perform as part of this years recently canceled BMW Tate Live Exhibition. Instead, Linyekula and his performers collaborated with the museum to present a one-off site-specific work performed to a camera in the Tanks, the museums devoted performance space which was formerly used to hold oil when the gallery was a power station. The performance My Body, My Archive is an autobiographical exploration of the millennias of knowledge held within the body as opposed to the relatively brief accounts of written histories. Musicians, performers, and actors join Linyekula to poignantly activate personal and collective memories.

Price: FreeTime: Open daily at all times

Katie White

Nicholas Galanin, The Imaginary Indian (Totem) (2016), Courtesy of Peter Blum Gallery.

8. Nicholas Galanin: Carry a Song / Disrupt an Anthem at Peter Blum Gallery

Available for online viewing is Peter Blums exhibition of Native American artist Nicholas Galanin. Having just shown at the 2019 Whitney Biennale, Galanin is making his solo exhibition debut in cyberspace (although it was intended for Peter Blums New York gallery). To carry the songs of Indigenous people, to carry the songs of the land, is inherently disruptive of the national anthem, the artist says of the exhibition title. In The Imaginary Indian (Totem), a totem is covered in the same floral wallpaper as the wall it hangs on, a metaphor for attempted and forced assimilation between European and Native American cultures.

Price:FreeTime: Open daily, at all times

Cristina Cruz

Jansson Stegner installation view. Courtesy of Almine Rech.

9. Jansson Stegner at Almine Rech

What can I say? Im totally in awe of Jansson Stegners genuinely weird approach to figuration. The people that populate his world come from the uncanny valley of just-distorted-enough to tickle my brain, full of muscular huntresses captured in gloriously active poses. I wish I could stand in front of these in person to fully appreciate Stegners masterful approach to remixing Western painting tropes, but Im very happy to share my computer monitor with these in the meantime.

Price:FreeTime: Open online or by appointment through April 18

Tatiana Berg

Addie Wagenknecht, There Are No Girls on the Internet, 2020. Courtesy of the artist.

10. Addie Wagenknecht: There Are No Girls on the Internet at the Museum of the Moving Image

In November 2019, the Museum of the Moving Image began installing quartets of animated GIFs inside its main elevatorone GIF on each wall, another on the ceilingas part of a series dubbed The Situation Room. Each foursome of GIFS was commissioned from a different artist and set to run for two months, with the GIFs simultaneously being released on GIPHY.

The piece installed just before the museum was forced to temporarily close comes from self-described anti-disciplinary artist Addie Wagenknecht, and it investigates the meme holding that the internet is strictly a mans world. Wagenknecht recorded her search through hundreds of video chats looking for another woman, moving on as soon as her next potential conversation partner was revealed as anyone but. In just a few seconds, each of her four GIFs reinforces the disturbing gender imbalance and fundamental weirdness of the online experience, as the artist is served up a steady stream of dudes lying in bed, dudes wearing only a towel, even dudes serving active military dutyand nothing else except the occasional empty room.

Price:FreeTime:Open daily, at all times

Tim Schneider

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