In Cynthia Daighnault’s exhibition at Olney Gleason, the walls are covered with different versions of the same subject: Denali, the tallest mountain in North America. A natural wonder and a national treasure at risk, Denali has lost over 60 percent of its glacier mass, and rising temperatures have accelerated permafrost thaw and disrupted local ecosystems, directly affecting the wildlife that depend on it. The paintings in this exhibition preserve their likelihood like the sculpture of the last three rhinos (by Gillie and Marc, now installed at 441 Ninth Avenue), but this documentation of endangered species contains an underlying criticism of American megalomania, without escaping the artist’s own American identity and ambitions. A big, beautiful white thing, Denali’s demise mirrors the nation’s uncertain future and the accumulative effect of its past.
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The space in Smack Mellon’s back gallery welcomes you as Kate Teale’s exhibition, Vanishing Points, fills the room, bringing the history of Dumbo into the space. Teale expands space itself through her studies of edge, architecture, and place. The work is a seamless connection of drawings adhered to the walls using Tyvek, making the illusion of space and the real blur into one. The gallery is transformed into a combination of several places, and as visitors turn, they adjust to each new location, finding details offering hints of the places Teale wants us to wander into.
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Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture at The Frick Collection
1 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021
Feb 12 – May 25, 1026.
Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture examines the dynamic relationship between Thomas Gainsborough’s portraits and the culture of fashion in eighteenth-century Britain. The exhibition explores how style shaped not only the sitters’ attire but also the scale, composition, and facture of painted portraiture. Bringing together more than two dozen works from North America and the United Kingdom, the show spans Gainsborough’s four-decade career and marks the museum’s first special exhibition devoted to the artist—and the first focused on his portraiture in New York. Technical studies conducted with major conservation partners further illuminate his materials and process, linking his practice to the textiles, pigments, and luxury goods that defined the era.
Hours of Operation: Wed – Thu 11 am to 6 pm, Fri 11 am to 9 pm, Sat – Sun 11 am to 6 pm
