"Call it conceited, call it tunnel vision, call it East Coast elitism or editorial hyperbole, but sometimes it really does feel like everything in the world runs through New York City. That drifted through my mind a lot this week, as I, alongside Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia, visited a number of wonderful exhibitions to put together our guide to what to see around the city right now."
"But there's this shot from Alison Nguyen's film at Storefront for Art and Architecture that I can't get out of my mind. With the lights of Manhattan's City Hall looming in the background, the artist fires arrow after arrow at some unseen target off-screen. It's a guerrilla action of almost embarrassing smallness - a handful of arrows against colossal, labyrinthine networks of power. But it's also a hopeful act: Keep at it, and something might just land."
"This week, the New York art world contends with a deep rot that has hollowed it out from the inside, implicating David A. Ross, former head of the Whitney Museum andchair of the MFA art practice program atthe School of Visual Arts, and Leon Black, who somehow still sits on the board at MoMA today, with surely more to come. It can feel deflating to lay claim to any part of such a system."
New York's art world faces public scandals that implicate figures like David A. Ross and Leon Black, revealing systemic rot. Multiple exhibitions across the city highlight art from the Amazon, national revolutions, and three millennia of storytelling. Alison Nguyen's film stages a small, guerrilla act—firing arrows toward unseen targets against the backdrop of Manhattan's City Hall—as a metaphor for persistent, hopeful resistance. The Morgan Library & Museum curates storytelling across time. The National Museum of the American Indian showcases the luxurious breadth of Indigenous glasswork in the United States. Goya's Disasters of War series issues a brutal warning about the violence of conflict.
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