Editors’ Picks: 19 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week
From the Armory Party at MoMA to the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, there’s something for everyone this week.
Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. See them below.
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A participant at the Wikipedia Asian Month: Edit-a-thon on Exhibition Histories, A Space, AAA, November 2019. Photo by Winnie Yeung @iMAGE28, courtesy of M+.
15. Art+Feminism: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2020 at the New York Public Library
Each March, for Women’s History Month, Art+Feminism encourages groups around the world to hold Wikipedia Edit-a-thon events to help close the gender gap on the free online reference source. (The initiative was founded in response to a 2011 survey that sound that only 11 percent of Wikipedia editors were women.) One of those Edit-a-thons is being organized by the Asia Art Archive in America and the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs of the New York Public Library and in collaboration with Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong. Stop by the library’s main reference branch to help add information about women artists Wikipedia, with the aid of provided books and research materials. The event will also include a talk with Brooklyn-based artists Jaishri Abichandani and Jean Shin.
Location: The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 476 Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street
Price: Free with RSVP
Time: 11:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
—Sarah Cascone
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Through Sunday, March 15
17. “JEF by Jeremy Couillard Presented by TSS x Daata” at Times Square Space
Collector Tiffany Zabludowicz is back with her first new show at Times Square Space in over a year. As usual, she’s taking over an empty office space in the building, this time with a sci-fi flavored animation and video game work from Jeremy Couillard. The show opened over the weekend and has expanded hours for Armory Week.
Location: Times Square Space, 1500 Broadway, Times Square, entrance on West 43rd Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, Monday, March 2, 6 p.m.–8 p.m. daily this week, 12 p.m.–6 p.m.; after March 8, Wednesday–Sunday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m.
—Sarah Cascone
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