It is a week of major declarations by artists and the possibilities extended by conservatives and gallery owners, past and present. If you have not already made the trip to Pioneer Works in the Red district of Brooklyn to see the exploration of the American artist of the author Octavia E. Butler, we highly recommend it. The new work of the multimedia artist Nick Cave also makes fairly large statements, while an investigation into the art acts of the gallery belonging to the blacks and targeted from the 1960s and a guaranteed show by Hilton Als on the limits of language and silence offers a lot of material for reflection. And the solo presentation of filmmaker Ericka Beckman at the drawing center is perhaps the most surrealist “image generation” show you will ever see. –Natalie Haddad, editor -in -chief
Acts of art in Greenwich Village
Gallery Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf at Hunter College132 East 68th Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Until March 29
“(Acts of art) only worked for six years, but illustrated the spirit of a subversive and substantial period of the history of black art.” –Jasmine Weber
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Nick Cave: Amalgams and graphics
Jack Main Gallery46 Lafayette Street, Civic Center, Manhattan
Until March 29
“Cave is visualized not as sure and separated from the powerful, as his previous work appeared it, but as perpetually open to the interpretation of his audience.” –HRAG VARTANIAN
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The writing is on the wall: tongue and silence in the visual arts
Hill Art Foundation239 tenth avenue, 3rd floor, Chelsea, Manhattan
Until March 29
“The exhibition is relatively simple – although no less rich and evocative for that – asking and suggesting answers to the question: what is the relationship of language and silence with visual art?” –Lisa Yin Zhang
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American artist: Shaper of God
Pioneer works159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
Until April 13
“What would this mean for the survival of the planet if we had to take black feminist visions of climate justice in which coexistence with nature is priority on environmental looting?” –Alexandra Mr. Thomas
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Ericka Beckman: Power of the Spin
Drawing center35 Wooster Street, Soho, Manhattan
Until May 11
“Visually, schematic images (of Beckman) are closer to Russian constructivism and even some of the metaphysical paintings of Giorgio de Chirico than from New York of the 80s.” –NH
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