A gilded brass reliquary bust of a martyred feminine saint (Southern Germany or Switzerland, c. 1500), brass with gilding and polychrome, at Luhring Augustine gallery in Manhattan (picture Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic)
A very good two-person present can carry out one of the best of each artists. Trenton Doyle Hancock and Philip Guston on the Jewish Museum often is the metropolis’s most high-profile pairing in the meanwhile. John Yau follows his podcast dialog with Hancock with a evaluation of this spectacular present, however Yau additionally urges readers to pay attention to Amanda Church and Jenny Hankwitz at Steven Harvey High-quality Artwork Initiatives — a pairing he calls a “stroke of genius.” Be certain to take a look at each exhibits, and spherical out your artwork viewing this week with socially aware works by Tuan Andrew Nguyen and Alex Strada, and an intimate encounter with some medieval treasures at Luring Augustine in Tribeca. —Natalie Haddad, Evaluations Editor
Intersection: Abstractions by Amanda Church and Jenny Hankwitz
Steven Harvey High-quality Artwork Initiatives, 208 Forsyth Road, Decrease East Facet, ManhattanThrough March 8
Amanda Church, “Untitled (Undressed)” (2024), oil on canvas (picture John Goodrich, picture courtesy Steven Harvey High-quality Artwork Initiatives)
“The pairing of paintings by Amanda Church and Jenny Hankwitz in Intersection was a stroke of genius and another reminder that planar abstraction is thriving, even if the art world seldom focuses on it.” —John Yau
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Treasures of the Medieval World
Luhring Augustine, 17 White Road, Tribeca, ManhattanThrough March 8
Grasp of the Regensburg Hostienfrevel, “The Pentecost” (c. 1480), oil on spruce panel (picture Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic)
“The rich color and details of each work invite viewers to spend time looking, and the opportunity to have a relaxed, intimate experience with these pieces should not be missed.” —NH
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Collective Mobilities
DeKalb Gallery at Pratt Institute, 331 Dekalb Avenue, Clinton Hill, BrooklynThrough March 9
Alex Strada, Mutual Help Cellular (2025) sculptures (courtesy the artist)
“With Collective Mobilities, Alex Strada argues that aesthetic care and dignity are not rewards for attaining basic needs, but something to be found in that dispensation.” —Lisa Yin Zhang
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Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Lullaby of Cannons for the Night time
James Cohan Gallery, 291 Grand Road, Decrease East Facet, ManhattanThrough March 22
Movie nonetheless of Tuan Andrew Nguyen, “The Sounds of Cannons, Familiar Like Sad Refrains / Đại Bác Nghe Quen Như Câu Dạo Buồn” (2021), two-channel video, colour, sound, 9 min 41 sec (© Tuan Andrew Nguyen 2025; picture courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York)
“When people are dehumanized — an essential first front of war, fought right at home, in the theater of the psyche — humanizing an object might, paradoxically, kindle empathy.” —LYZ
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Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston
The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue, Higher East Facet, ManhattanThrough March 30
Philip Guston, “Riding Around” (1969), oil on canvas; Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, New York (© The Property of Philip Guston)
“In the worlds they have built, where a jalopy is held in by the canvas’s edge, and a red ouroboros encircles a painting, Guston and Hancock can look at the outside world without turning away.” —JY
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Take heed to Trenton Doyle Hancock’s dialog with John Yau and Hyperallergic‘s Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian right here.
