Because the summer time winds down and the season of artwork festivals and openings approaches, you would possibly assume that your entire artwork world is on trip proper now. Don’t make the error of taking your individual trip from artwork simply but — there’s nonetheless loads to see. For starters, go to CLAMP’s showcase of James Bidgood’s homoerotic pictures from the Nineteen Sixties, a phantasmagoria of mythological cosplay closing this weekend. An exhibition of Beauford Delaney’s drawings on the Drawing Middle is one other must-see, because it focuses on the significance of this medium within the artist’s observe, and Sandra Poulson’s work, at the moment at MoMA PS1, is a captivating tackle the political lifetime of home symbols and objects. In the meantime, a fast journey to Greenwich, Connecticut, will lead you to the Bruce Museum, the place Jeremy Frey’s gorgeous basketry awaits. And when you’re out and about within the metropolis, ensure that to take a look at American Artwork Catalogues’s small however potent present of work by Joe Brainard, up via this weekend. —Natalie Haddad, Critiques Editor
James Bidgood: Dreamlands
CLAMP, 247 West twenty ninth Avenue, Chelsea, ManhattanThrough August 29
James Bidgood, “Bruce Kirkman Leaning on Willow Tree” (1965) (picture Daniel Larkin/Hyperallergic)
“He portrayed young men with phantasmagorical aplomb, often as mythological figures, going against the grain of the beefcake sensibility dominant at the time.” —Daniel Larkin
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Jeremy Frey: Woven
Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, ConnecticutThrough September 7
Jeremy Frey, “Double-Walled Point Basket” (2018), ash, cedar bark, and dye (picture Julie Schneider/Hyperallergic)
“In each impeccable vessel, ancestral Wabanaki basketmaking traditions crisscross with the Passamaquoddy artist’s distinctive creative vision.” —Julie Schneider
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Within the Medium of Life: The Drawings of Beauford Delaney
The Drawing Middle, 35 Wooster Avenue, Soho, ManhattanThrough September 14
Beauford Delaney, “Self-Portrait” (1964), watercolor and gouache on paper (courtesy Ruth and Joe Fielden, Knoxville; picture Knoxville Museum of Artwork, © Property of Beauford Delaney, by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire, Courtroom Appointed Administrator, Courtesy Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY)
“For Delaney, being queer meant living and creating at the margins, where sexuality, race, and modernism intertwined in both visible and concealed ways.” —Alexandra M. Thomas
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Sandra Poulson: Este quarto parece uma República!
MoMA PS1, 22–25 Jackson Avenue, Lengthy Island Metropolis, QueensThrough October 6
Sandra Poulson, “Candidato a Presidente da República de Angola” (2024), Oregon pine, discovered wood bedframe, veneered plywood, chipboard, MDF, and metal (picture Lisa Yin Zhang/Hyperallergic)
“Across these mostly household objects, Poulson emphasizes that history is something that haunts you as you sleep, as you dress, as you look at yourself in the mirror.” —Lisa Yin Zhang
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