The Yanomami Struggle art exhibition showing at the shed through April 16.
Indigenous people to the Amazon rainforest.
The Yanomami Struggle is showing at The Shed through April 16. The NYT has written about it. The Yanomami People a group of approximately 35,000 indigenous people who live in villages in the Amazon rainforest, and Claudia Andujar is a renowned photographer. The exhibition shows Andujar’s photographs of the Yanomami and native Yanomami art pieces collected by Andujar over five decades.
The purpose is to show a vision of Yanomami culture, society, and visual art. It looks like tickets are $10 and include a tour.
Jim Kempner Fine Art (northwest corner of 23rd & 10th)
Currently on display: homages to New York and unhelpful advice.
I find myself stopping into the gallery on the northwest corner of 23rd and 10th relatively frequently, which is called Jim Kempner Fine Art.
Currently on display are some homages to NYC, which I’ll always appreciate. I put on the home page a colorful, arts-and-craftsy, geographically correct rendering of NYC, and in the montage above you’ll see the crowded version of NYC that brought me to the city in the first place and that I hope we’ll get back to shortly.
Also on display is a compilation of all of the pieces of advice that I’m quite positive have never made anyone feel better about anything. Buy this piece if your friends frequently ask you for advice but you find yourself not really listening to the backstory and you now realize you need to fill the silence. I probably would have thrown in “calm down” as well.
Shout out to this lady (overlooking 10th Avenue from 30th Street).
She’s called “Brick House.”
She’s called “Brick House,” and she’s looking over the eastern side of this block association from a high perch on 30th Street.
The artist is Simone Leigh, who lives in Brooklyn. The sculpture was first unveiled on the High Line in June 2019, and interestingly, she has a sister—a copy was installed at the main entrance of the University of Pennsylvania in November 2020.
I remember looking up at this for the first time and thinking that it made for a striking contrast against the skyscrapers behind it. That in fact was the artist’s point: “What better place to put a Black female figure? Not in defiance of the space, exactly, but to have a different idea of beauty there.”