This week zingrecsNY: You Probably Still Can't Get into The Odyssey on 70mm IMAX (Aug 12-18)

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45th Annual Battery Dance Festival now thru Aug 16

Photo credit: Steven Pisano / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0

Openings / Events
Salome Yichi Zhang: The Blue Left Spinning at Flouhaus (Midtown), Aug 14 6-8pm, thru Aug 15
Aruni Dharmakirthi: The World Is A Kiss, Not A Stone at Tempest (Ridgewood), Aug 15 6-8pm, thru Sep 5
amuse-bouche: group exhibit at Hashimoto (LES), Aug 15 6-8pm, thru Sep 5

Closing Soon
Five Below: group exhibit at MARINARO, Tribeca, thru Aug 14
Under the Skin: group exhibit at Asya Geisberg, Tribeca, thru Aug 14
Bix Archer and Mason Owens at Hesse Flatow, Tribeca, thru Aug 14
Immensity of Blue: group exhibit at Jane Lombard, Tribeca, thru Aug 14
Before We Know What to Call It: juried show curated by Hanitian Zhang at A Space Gallery, Bushwick, thru Aug 14
Poppy DeltaDawn: The Trial of Socrates at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Bushwick, thru Aug 16
Do I know you from somewhere?: group exhibit at Transmitter, Bushwick, thru Aug 16
For it is our battle: group exhibit at Galerie Lelong, Chelsea, thru Aug 14
Frank Paulin: Unseen Color 1956-2008 at Bruce Silverstein, Chelsea, thru Aug 15
Circle of Stones: group exhibit at Field Projects, Chelsea, thru Aug 15
CJ Hendry: Pastel at Salon 94 Design, UES, thru Aug 16—interactive make your own charm bracelet!
Non-Zero Target: group exhibit at Half Gallery, LES, thru Aug 13
Midsummer: group exhibit at McBride / Dillman, LES, thru Aug 14
Moira Dryer, Karin Davie, Martha Diamond at Magenta Plains, LES, thru Aug 14
Good Bunny: group exhibit at Frosch & Co, LES, thru Aug 15
Nabilah Nordin: Deadweight at Island 83, LES, thru Aug 15
A View All Their Own: group exhibit at Hollis Taggart, LES, thru Aug 15
Memento: group exhibit at Scroll, LES, thru Aug 15
Sheyla Baykal: Horizontal Thinking at Participant Inc, Chinatown, thru Aug 16
The Clowns: group exhibit at Hyacinth, LES, thru Aug 16
Sara Flores: Akinananti at White Cube, UES, thru Aug 14
New Humans at New Museum—Partial View thru Aug 30

My first encounter with Harry Smith’s artwork was during my last semester of college in 2008, taking a graduate-level art history seminar that was beyond my level of interest at the time. The day of final projects came, and an aloof yet enigmatic girl gave a presentation about this artist and his engagement in the occult sciences. She spoke slowly, quietly, I can’t remember what was said. All I can say is that the name Harry Smith is the only thing that stuck with me from that final class, and he has made a racket in my brain ever since.

Hayley Richardson
Curator, Issue #24

Image: “A Strange Dream”—Harry Smith, curated by Hayley Richardson, Issue #24
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What’s On—check galleries for summer hours

Tribeca
Blair Saxon-Hill: Peace Peace at Shrine, thru Aug 21
No Neutral: group exhibit at YveYANG, thru Aug 21
Richard Estes: My Camera is My Sketchbook at Schoelkopf, thru Aug 21
Curtis Kulig: Studio Visit at The Hole, thru Aug 22
Interstitial (group exhibit) at Deanna Evans, thru Aug 27
Sarah Gamble: Trip the Light Fantastic at Derek Eller, thru Aug 28
Jimena Velarde-Alvarez: La sombra del tiempo at Margot Samel, thru Aug 28
Blizzard: group exhibit at DIMIN, thru Aug 28
Anna Leonhardt: Resonance at Marc Straus, thru Aug 29
Shirin Mirjamali and Lily Sage at Anita Rogers, thru Aug 29
Becoming Material: group exhibit at Sofia Sominski, thru Sep 3
Meanwhile, the Mise-en-scène: group exhibit at LATITUDE Gallery, thru Sep 5
Oren Fischer: Hallel in collaboration with Havurah at 81 Leonard Gallery, thru Sep 5
Wilson Miller and Sebastian Maseri: Laurentia by Morning at Turquoise, thru Sep 8
Certainly an Act: Works on Paper by Pope.L at The Drawing Center, thru Sep 27

Chelsea
Navot Miller: Sweet Liberty at Yossi Milo, thru Aug 21
Niu Systems: group exhibit at Ryan Lee, thru Aug 21
Spell It Out: group exhibit at Pace Prints, thru Aug 28
Peter Bradley: Burning On at Karma, thru Aug 28
No Place: group exhibit at Silverlens, thru Aug 29
Chang Yuchen: a dictionary, a loom, a manifesto . . . at Printed Matter, Inc., thru Aug 30
Endangered Spirits: Art from Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, Iran and the Southern United States at Cavin-Morris, thru Sep 4
Beyond Digital: Living Systems & Distributed Intelligence: group exhibit at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, thru Sep 5
Caroline Burdett: Quiet Truth at Benrubi, thru Sep 12
Bev Grant: Photographs from CUBA in 1969 at Osmos, thru Sep 12
Mari Nagem: The Tropics The Moon and Mars at Cue, thru Sep 26

Midtown
Baoying Huang, Alexandria Mento, Nina Molloy, Cate Pasquarelli at Alexander Berggruen, thru Aug 20
Marcel Duchamp at MoMA, thru Aug 22
D Dominick Lombardi: The (Il)Logic of Things at Whitebox Portable, 42 St-8 Av Subway Station, thru Sep 9
Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions at The Morgan, thru Oct 4

UES
Natural Responsibility: group exhibit at Van Doren Waxter, thru Aug 21
Fernando Botero at Sotheby’s, thru Sep 7
Roger Brown: Weathervane at GRAY, thru Sep 12
The Shape of Things—American Abstract Art: group exhibit at Rosenberg & Co, thru Sep 30
Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte at Jewish Museum, thru Nov 15
Guggenheim Pop: 1960-Present (Part I 1960-1990s) at Guggenheim, thru Jan 10

Brooklyn
Total Eclipse: group exhibit at Interrobang, Greenwood Heights, thru Aug 29—open by appt
Shuyao Huang: Still Becoming at Art Cake, Sunset Park, thru Aug 30
TRASH: A Special Summer Exhibition at 440 Gallery, Park Slope, thru Aug 30
Frédérique Q.R. Zacharia: (Im)perfect rhythm, Susanne Kessler: Between Continents, Across the Seas, and Julia Roshkow: Keep Me in The Loop at A.I.R., DUMBO, thru Aug 30
Space Shifters: group exhibit at Tappeto Volante, Park Slope, thru Sep 12
Killers Part I: Memento Mori at “B” Dry Goods, Crown Heights, thru Sep 26
Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses at Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, thru Dec 6LIC
502 Bad Gateway: Error is Shadow at Flux IV, LIC, thru Aug 30
Precious Okoyomon: Among the Flowers I Learned to Love: A Garden of Decreation at MoMA PS1 Courtyard, LIC, thru 2028

Parks
Camp at W 106th & Central Park, Aug 14

Film
CatVideoFest 2026 at MoMI, Astoria, thru Aug 16
Doug Aitken: Lightscape at The Shed, Hudson Yards, thru Sep 13
The Odyssey (2026) 70mm IMAX only at AMC Lincoln Sq 13, extended thru Sep 16—competition for tix fierce but Gothamist has some advice

Performance
45th Annual Battery Dance Festival, thru Aug 16, 7pm
Shakespeare in the Park: The Winter’s Tale at Delacorte Theater, Central Park, thru Aug 23
Warm Up: outdoor music series featuring underground artists at MoMA PS1, LIC, thru Aug 28

Summer
Restaurant Week, thru Aug 16
Summer Streets, thru Aug 22

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