Installation view of Sadie Barnette: The New Hawkeye Creek Saloon, The Kitchen, New York, January 18, 2022–March five, 2022 (courtesy of The Kitchen; photo past Adam Reich)

Contrary to the art world'due south discursive habits, art isn't a code you crack; it's more similar a place you lot go, ideally in good company. This February, get there. Lend an ear to a sonic fusion of orchestral music and noise from a concrete constitute, watch article of furniture leap to life in protest or pleasure, and dance in a glittery reimagining of San Francisco'due south first Black-endemic gay bar.

Cosmic Geometries

Installation view, Cosmic Geometries, EFA Projection Space, 2022. From left to correct: Marilyn Lerner,Queen Bee, Oil on console, 36×48 inches, 2020. Rico Gatson,Untitled (Double Lord's day/Sonhouse), Acrylic on panel, 36×48 inches. 2021, Courtesy of Miles McEnery Gallery, NYC. Natessa Amin, variable small works, materials and dimensions variable, 2018-2021. Stephen Mueller,Passeggiata, acrylic on sheet, 72×66 inches, 2005, Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, NYC. Anoka Faruqee and David Driscoll,2017P-07, Acrylic and linen on console, 33.75x 33.75 inches,  2017. Dorothea Rockburne,Lamenting Angels #two, Aquacryl and gouache on paper, framed, 22.5×thirty inches, 2021, Courtesy of David Nolan Gallery.

When: through February 26
Where: EFA Project Space (323 West 39th Street, Midtown Westward, Manhattan)

Hilma's Ghost, a feminist artist collective cofounded by Brooklyn-based artists Sharmistha Ray and Dannielle Tegeder in 2020, used ritual divination — and an invocation of the spirit of the organization's departed namesake, the Swedish Theosophist artist Hilma af Klint — to curate Cosmic Geometries. Work past a diverse group of 25 creators, including Carrie Moyer, Yevgeniya Baras, and Laleh Khorramian, unites effectually a shared affinity for the spiritual, the mystical, and the occult in abstraction.

Still from Theo Triantafyllidis, Ork Haus, 2022, video (courtesy of the artist and Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York)

When: through February 26
Where: Meredith Rosen Gallery (eleven Due east 80th Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan)

"The feeling of presence: this is the defining quality of the metaverse," a vocalization flatly tells us, borrowing some of Marking Zuckerberg's vacant techno-utopic utterances. Among the highlights of Athens-born, Los Angeles-based artist Theo Triantafyllidis'southward solo show are ii video installations that connect gimmicky feelings of alienation with the radicalization pipeline: one simulation depicts bored Orks on their electronic devices amid storms and kitchen fires, while the other features a violent clash of figures, some of whom deport white nationalist flags.

Listening Space

La Monte Young, Trio for Strings, 2021. © La Monte Young. Cover blueprint past Jung Hee Choi with calligraphy by Marian Zazeela (courtesy of Dia Art Foundation)

When: through February 26
Where: Dia Chelsea (537 Due west 22nd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan)

Dia Art Foundation, which counts Max Neuhaus'due south sound installation in Times Square as one of the eleven sites it manages, has been a staunch supporter of sound art for some fourth dimension — and now has iii releases to celebrate. In Listening Space, gallery-goers can enjoy a jukebox preloaded with the nonprofit's sound publications, from On Kawara'southward "One Million Years (Hereafter)" (1993), in which a human being and a woman methodically count, to new records by La Monte Young, Deantoni Parks and Lucy Raven, and Carl Craig.

Looking Back / The 12th White Columns Annual – Selected by Mary Manning

Installation view, Looking Back / The twelfth White Columns Annual – Selected past Mary Manning, White Columns, 2022 (photograph: Marc Tatti; courtesy of White Columns)

When: through March 5
Where: White Columns (91 Horatio Street, Meatpacking, Manhattan)

After a pandemic pause on the tradition, New York's oldest alternative art space has opened the 12th iteration of its Almanac, thoughtfully guest-curated by New York Urban center-based photographer Mary Manning as a reflection on and response to their past year of art experiences. The exhibition features work by 25 intergenerational artists, including Patrick Angus, Aria Dean, Stewart Uoo, and Gordon Parks, and will exist accompanied by a screening of Barbara Hammer's films at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center.

Kate Millett: Fantasy Furniture, 1967

Kate Millett, Dinner for One, 1967. Mixed media, 48 10 24 x 24 in. (courtesy of the artist and Salon 94 Design, New York. © Kate Millett)

When: through March 5
Where: Salon 94 (iii East 89th Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan)

In 1967, The Judson Gallery debuted a suite of fantasy furniture past downtown New York artist and radical feminist writer Kate Millett, who is best known today for her 1970 text Sexual Politics. The furnishings, currently on view at Salon 94, are whimsical, anthropomorphic, and wonderfully weird fusions of found objects and hand-carved wood that form a cabinet that opens its breast cavity, a bed with protruding feet, a stool that feeds itself, and fifty-fifty a table on roller skates (whose depiction on New York City'southward streets in a 1967 edition of Life was weaponized as "proof" that Millett, a doctoral candidate at Columbia, was non a serious scholar).

Sadie Barnette'south The New Hawkeye Creek Saloon

Installation view of Sadie Barnette: The New Eagle Creek Saloon, The Kitchen, New York, January 18, 2022–March v, 2022 (courtesy of The Kitchen; photograph past Adam Reich)

When: through March 6
Where: The Kitchen (512 West 19th St, Chelsea, Manhattan)

Organized in conjunction with The Studio Museum in Harlem, The New Eagle Creek Saloon presents Oakland-based creative person Sadie Barnette's fluorescent recreation of the San Francisco gay bar that her father, founder of the Compton chapter of the Black Panther Political party, operated in the early 1990s. On select Saturdays, the architectural installation is activated past DJs invited by queer scholar and artist madison moore as function of The Kitchen's new nightlife and club culture residency; visitors are invited to trip the light fantastic, an homage to queer Black spaces past and present.

Liz Larner: Don't put it back like it was

Liz Larner, vi (calefaction), 2015. Ceramic, glaze, stones, and minerals, 36.half dozen x 21 x 7.5 inches (courtesy of the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles)

When: through March 28
Where: SculptureCenter (44-nineteen Purves St, Long Island City, Queens)

Don't put it back like it was, co-organized with the Walker Fine art Center in Minneapolis, surveys the work of Liz Larner, an astonishingly versatile sculptor and installation creative person who came out of CalArts in the 1980s. The works on view run the gamut from Larner's early experiments with bacterial cultures, to a kinetic wall-bashing machine, to the ceramic slabs that take occupied the artist for the past 2 decades. Though materially and aesthetically various, these sculptures are rooted in a common interest in the ways that bodies move and be in social and architectural infinite.

Hugh Hayden: Brier Patch

Hugh Hayden'due south Brier Patch at Madison Square Park, 2022 (courtesy of the artist and Madison Square Park Conservancy; photograph past Yasunori Matsui)

When: through April 24
Where: Madison Foursquare Park (xi Madison Artery, Nomad, Manhattan)

Overtaking four lawns of Madison Foursquare Park, Hugh Hayden'south ambitious sculptural installation features 100 wooden elementary schoolhouse task chairs rendered unusable past the bare tree branches that aggressively sprout from them. Contemplating inequity in the American instruction system, Hayden'southward Surrealist twist on vernacular classroom furniture depicts institutionalized learning as a thicket that is structurally uninviting, exclusionary, and cool.

Beverly Semmes: POT PEEK

Beverly Semmes, Eye Tooth, 2021. Ink, acrylic over photograph printed on canvas. 54 7/viii x 40 in. (courtesy of Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC; photo by Chris Kendall)

When: February 3–March 12
Where: Susan Inglett Gallery (522 West 24th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan)

Initiated in the early 2000s, Beverly Semmes' ongoing "Feminist Responsibleness Project" intervenes with vintage porn magazines; using paint or ink to obliterate the majority of women's bodies in graphic images, Semmes transforms the subjects into bad-mannered abstractions. Continuing this complex gesture, recent works on view in POT PEEK explore the resemblances between the effaced women and vessels, literally and conceptually.

Faith Ringgold: American People

Faith Ringgold, The Wake and Resurrection of the Bicentennial Negro, 1975-89. Mixed media, dimensions variable. (courtesy of the artist and ACA Galleries, New York, 2021 © Faith Ringgold / ARS, NY and DACS, London; photograph by Ron Amstutz, courtesy Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland)

When: February 17–June five
Where: New Museum (235 Bowery, Lower E Side, Manhattan)

Jubilant six decades of fine art by Harlem-born nonagenarian Faith Ringgold, this long overdue retrospective features a collection of figurative paintings, narrative textiles, and soft sculptures shaped by a belief in the ability of women'south labor and Black visual traditions. A highlight is the entirety of the "The French Collection" (1991–1994), Ringgold's 12-part series of experimental story quilts exploring the life of a Blackness American creative person and model working in the modernist circles of 1920s Paris.

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