This weekend is a good opportunity to catch up on art shows that are closing soon, such as:
Summer of Love at the Freight + Volume Gallery, a large group exhibition which presents the engagements of a diverse body of 111 artists with themes of love and romance, the quandaries of relationships, and sympathetic resonances in the natural world.
Multiply, Identify, Her, An exhibition at ICP that showcases work by an intergenerational group of women artists exploring the construction and implications of hybrid and multiple identities.
Access and Ability at the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. There has been a surge of design with and by people with a wide range of physical, cognitive, and sensory abilities. This exhibition explores how users and designers are expanding and adapting products in ways previously unimaginable.
Next week, check out Rapture of the Depp: The Textile Art of Tzuri Gueta, a special pop-up exhibit curated by CALA instructor Yaara Keydar Luft. The opening will take place on September 5th at 6pm and the show runs through September 24th. Tzuri Gueta is a multidisciplinary artist and designer, who creates magnificent, underwater-inspired objects from silicone and lace. The installation has been selected to show as part of New York Textile Month and is hosted by the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, alongside a collection of textile exhibitions.
And you can always enjoy art in the open air through the various public artworks around the city such as Wake by Mel Chin in Times Square, I Lift My Lamp Beside the Door at the High Line, and Yinka Shonibare’s Wind Sculpture in Central Park. Cathie Behrend’s Fall course Art in the Public Domain will explore various art installations around the city.
From all of us at CALA, have a great Labor Day weekend!
Other CALA courses of interest in art and art history:
Ana Lis Salotti‘s translation of Deborah Cramer’s The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab and an Epic Journey will be published by the Argentine publishing house Vázquez Mazzini Editores this fall. She will be giving two presentations about the translation, “A Journey of 10,000 Miles: Translating Environmental Nonfiction” at the American Translators Association 59th Annual Conference and “Un viaje de 15 000 kilómetros: La traducción de un libro de no ficción ambientalista” at the Mexican Translator’s Association / Guadalajara International Book Fair.
Sandra Smith has two books in translation forthcoming, Jacques Schiffrin: A Publisher in Exile by Amos Reichman (Columbia University Press) and Laurent Gounelle’s novel Then you will find the treasure within (Little, Brown). Her translation of Marceline Loridan-Ivens’ But you did not come back (Grove Atlantic) won the 2016 Jewish Book Award for best Biography/Autobiography/Memoir. She will be participating in the 
Abby Russell’s Emmy nomination, Telly Awards, James Beard Award, and extensive experience as a television producer and filmmaker puts her at the forefront of video storytelling. Her work has appeared on PBS, Discovery, Food Network, MTV, Sundance, and Lifetime. Moreover, as founder and CEO of Nuforms Media, with a wide range of clients including Funny or Die, IBM, Gillette, HBO, and Armani, Abby knows how to help professionals in very different industries tell stories that have an impact, engage audiences, and get results.
As an accomplished and award-winning podcaster and public radio reporter, Eric J Molinsky is a key player in one of the fastest growing industries for writers. Eric knows podcasting and radio reporting inside and out: he has worked as an associate producer at Studio 360 from WNYC and PRI, and on The New Yorker Radio Hour; he has reported for some of public radio’s most popular programs, including Marketplace, Morning Edition, and All Things Considered; and he has hosted and written for podcasts like The Truth and Imaginary Worlds on the Panoply network.
From deputy director of BuzzFeed Audio to senior producer for Trump, Inc., a popular podcast that employs innovative new ways to investigate the business dealings of Donald Trump and his family, Meghan Cramer has been an innovator in the way reporters and storytellers engage listeners in topics like business, politics, and arts and culture. Having also worked for Michigan Radio and APM’s Marketplace, her thorough knowledge of podcasting and audio reporting promises to be an extraordinary asset to SPS students.
Rachel Abrams has been a reporter with the New York Times since 2013. She was part of the team of reporters that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for reporting that exposed sexual harassment and misconduct, and another that covered General Motors’ faulty ignition switches and the government’s failure to respond.
Next month, NYU’s Grey Art Gallery will unveil a new exhibition on Italian neorealism, a national art movement which arose in response to the destabilizing impacts of World War II. Through photography, film, and literature, its contributors sought to capture the everyday hardships of the working and lower classes and contend with the moral implications of their bleak conditions.
