Short Takes
Join less than half on a ramble through the Lower East Side gallery scene, on the lookout for female artists.
Required Reading
Reigning monarch of Brazilian Modernism Tarsila do Amaral arrives at MoMA to much fanfare. But does the Museum do her justice? less than half sees what the hype is all about.
*, a museological study
Toyin Ojih Odutola's To Wander Determined at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Helen Johnson's Ends at the New Museum in New York City
Laura Owens is not an -ism
Laura Owens Mid-career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Unmasking Sikán
Cuban printmaker Belkis Ayon's retrospective at el Museo del Barrio in Manhattan
Talking Politics at the Dinner Table
A new look at the iconic feminist work the Dinner Party by Judy Chicago at the Brooklyn Museum
The Bourgeois Century
Louise Bourgeois, an Unfolding Portrait at the Museum of Modern Art presents the artist's seemingly endless oeuvre
Tracing A Line
Japanese-American artist Ruth Asawa makes an impression at David Zwirner gallery in Chelsea in this subtle but impactful show of wire sculpture