Ming Smith, Wangechi Mutu, Richard Avedon, and More Must-See Shows in New York

While you’re in New York for the happening this week and next, don’t forget to save time to visit the exhibitions taking place across the city. Here, we’re sharing details on shows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gagosian, Perrotin, the Museum of Modern Art, and the New Museum.

 

The Museum of Modern Art

February 4—May 29

 

The Museum of Modern Art is shining a spotlight on the photographer Ming Smith in the fourth iteration of its “Projects” exhibition series, presented in collaboration with Harlem’s The Studio Museum. Inviting viewers on a deep dive into Smith’s work, the selection of images represents her significant focus on movement, light, rhythm, and shadow in capturing emotion. Encompassing images captured from the 1970s onward—including subjects like Black avant-garde performers and residents of Harlem going about their daily lives—the exhibition has been organized by Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Associate Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, with the assistance of Kaitlin Booher, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, and Habiba Hopson, Curatorial Assistant, Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem.

 

 

Perrotin

April 26—June 10

 

Rina Banerjee’s first exhibition with Perrotin, “Black Noodles” is a survey of new and archival works representing the oeuvre of the Indian-American artist. Employing her practice to look at topics like colonization, gender and race, commerce, migration, and economics, visitors will find the show presenting an adventurous narrative of fantastical encounters with humans and beasts alike, imagined in a multitude of colors, textures, and materials—ranging from metal and sequins to cotton, carpet threads, and electrical casings. With descriptive first-person titles like I am not afraid of you said the Elephant to the Rodent (2022), visitors at Perrotin’s Orchard Street gallery will find Banerjee’s multifaceted approach inciting feelings of curiosity and excitement, whilst touching on deep and impactful subject matter. 

 

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