The Met anchors its own walk. White Cube surfaces the month’s strongest show. The page leaves Chelsea for the first time — and finds the city waiting.
Upper East Side walk is the one — six shows, five closing within the week, each asking a version of the same question: three stops, one question: what does the hand know that the mind can only approximate?
01 What the Hands Knew
Gothic draftsmen, a Renaissance painter, and two artists who insist material is argument — three ways of knowing through making.
A medieval architect draws a cathedral window at full scale on a plaster floor. Five centuries later, Raphael renders the human body as theological proof.
And in a townhouse four blocks from the Met’s steps, David Hammons and Jannis Kounellis argue that coal, hair, steel, and bottle caps carry more truth than any picture ever could.
Three stops, one question: what does the hand know that the mind can only approximate?
Read the full walk →- 01David Hammons and Jannis KounellisWhite Cube · 1002 Madison AvenueCloses Sat Jun 13
- 02Metropolitan Museum of Art1000 Fifth Avenue · 2 shows
- Gothic by Design
- Raphael
Lower East Side
SoHo / TriBeCa
02 Printing the
City
A lithography workshop, a painter of layered maps, a sculptor of inflatable bodegas, and the New York that made them all possible.
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03 The Weight of
the Mark
Five shows about what drawing carries — from slave manifests to bronze casts of breath, from ash landscapes to color that soaks through canvas.
Read →Chelsea
04 Three Kinds of
Withholding
A mystic who painted for the future, two artists who made marriage into a manifesto, and a collection built in deliberate obscurity.
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