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YOKO ONO — RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL

Yoko Ono’s River to River Festival installations—THE REFLECTION PROJECT and ADD COLOR (REFUGEE BOAT) (1960/2019)—comprise the largest public exhibition of the artist’s work in Lower Manhattan to date.

THE REFLECTION PROJECT is a visual and mnemonic counterpoint to the relentless pace of the everyday, an invitation to connect passersby to moments of personal, meditative pause through the placement of art in non-traditional spaces. Featuring Yoko Ono as the inaugural artist, THE REFLECTION PROJECT seeks to perform urban acupuncture with large-scale art, stimulating the city’s vast nerve network… Each piece is a prompt wherein Ono speaks directly to New Yorkers, rallying the collective consciousness towards heightened awareness, hope and action.”*

THE REFLECTION PROJECT—YOKO ONO*

Through June 29.

28 Liberty
Fulton Transit Center
Oculus at the WTC Transportation Hub
Seaport District, and other locations in Lower Manhattan.

YOKO ONO—ADD COLOR (REFUGEE BOAT)

Through June 29.

Seaport District

203 Front Street, New York City.

Yoko Ono, from top: The Reflection Project; Add Color (Refugee Boat), photograph by Ian Douglas; Add Color (Refugee Boat), photograph by Brian J. Green; The Reflection Project. Images courtesy and © Yoko Ono, the photographers, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

WARHOL WOMEN AT LÉVY GORVY

Forty-two paintings of women by Andy Warhol—including portraits of Gertrude Stein, Ethel Scull, Liza Minnelli, Dolly Parton, Golda Meir, Debbie Harry, Marilyn Monroe, and the artist’s mother Julia Warhola—are now on view at Lévy Gorvy in Manhattan.

In a silver-tin-foil-covered room in the gallery, a selection of Warhol’s 1964–1966 Screen Test shorts will play on a loop. Among the artist’s subjects for these 3-minute films were Yoko Ono, Edie Sedgwick, Marisa Berenson, Barbara Rubin, Amy Taubin, Susan Sontag, Niki de Saint Phalle, Cass Elliott, Donyale Luna, Holly Solomon, Maureen Tucker, and Nico.

“I don’t think I’ve ever met a collector today who is in between, let’s say, 25 to 65 [years old] who will tell me, ‘I won’t collect Warhol,’ and I don’t know that about any other artist… Our great-grandchildren will still be collecting Warhol more than many of the artists that are more pricey today.” — Dominique Lévy

WARHOL WOMEN

Through June 15.

Lévy Gorvy

909 Madison Avenue (at 73rd Street), New York City.

Andy Warhol, from top: Judy Garland (Multicolor), 1978, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas; Wilhelmina Ross, from the series Ladies and Gentlemen, circa 1974–1975; Triple Mona Lisa, 1964, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas; Kimiko Powers, 1972, acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas; Aretha Franklin, 1986, synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas; Red Jackie, 1964, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, photograph courtesy Froehlich Collection, Stuttgart. Images © 2019 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Paintings photographed by Tim Nighswander, courtesy Lévy Gorvy.

MCGINLEY’S MIRROR

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Inspired by instructional artworks by Miranda July, Sol LeWitt, Rob Pruitt, and Yoko Ono, photographer Ryan McGinley delivered cameras, rolls of film, mirrors, and sets of instruction to his subjects—who range in age from 19 to 87—and waited for the undeveloped film to be sent back to him.

McGinley’s edition of these selfies constitute the new show MIRROR, MIRROR, now on view.

Ryan McGinley, ‘Desmond’, 2018, Team Gallery

Rizzoli’s exhibition catalogue includes an essay by longtime PARIS LA contributor Ariana Reines:

“It is a peculiar gift to be trapped in something so recursive as the present, on a planet reflecting the circuits of the stars, in a society that would kill itself to become a star… If we could see and believe how lovely we are, I want to say, as the people in this book seem to do, we might not slide so endlessly down the back of the real the way it keeps happening, down the glass fronted skyscrapers, down the touchscreens our slaves made for us, scrolling down the long length of the think piece, and down the waxed anus of somebody else’s body…”*

Ryan McGinley, ‘Eric’, 2018, Team Gallery

RYAN MCGINLEY—MIRROR, MIRROR, through September 29.

TEAM GALLERY, 83 Grand Street, New York City.

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Exhibition catalogue: rizzoliusa.com/book

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From top: Jade, Eric, and Shane, all 2018. From the exhibition Ryan McGinley—Mirror, Mirror.

Images courtesy of the artists and Team Gallery.

Ryan McGinley, ‘Shane’, 2018, Team Gallery
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FLUXUS AT THE BROAD

Japan’s influence on Jasper Johns and John Cage is brought to light in a music and performance program at The Broad featuring Yoko Ono’s FLUXUS works “Lighting Piece” and “Wall Pice for Orchestra to Yoko Ono.”

Pianist Adam Tendler will play “Seven Haiku,” “Electronic Music for Piano,” and “Cheap Imitation” all by John Cage; and “Music for Piano,” “Piano Distance,” and “Corona,” by Toru Takemitsu.

 

USUYUKIJOHNS IN JAPAN

ADAM TENDLER

COMPOSITIONS and FLUXUS PERFORMANCE PIECES

Wednesday, March 14, at 8 pm.

JASPER JOHNS

SOMETHING RESEMBLING THE TRUTH

Through May 13.

The Broad

221 South Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

Above: Toru Takemitsu.

Below: Yoko Ono.