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Albacore opens, Kyle Carey performs, Black history lectures: Community events this week

Albacore opens, Kyle Carey performs, Black history lectures: Community events this week

Albacore Park opens for the season 

PORTSMOUTH – The Albacore Park Museum, 569 Submarine Way, will open for the season on Monday, Feb. 21. It will be open for tours Monday through Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with the last ticket sold at 4 p.m. 

Regular admission for tours is $9 per adult and $4 per students and children under 14 years of age. Group rates are also available for groups of 10 or more. Albacore Park will continue health and safety protocols to keep visitors and staff protected during the continuation of COVID-19 recommendations. Everyone must wear a mask at all times. 

For more information, the best place to view Albacore Park’s events is on its Facebook page. You can also call 603-436-3680 or visit  www.ussalbacore.org.

Greenland Women’s Alliance presents Chowder Luncheon

GREENLAND — The Women’s Alliance of Community Congregational Church in Greenland will be hosting a chowder luncheon on Tuesday, Feb. 22. Lunch will feature fish chowder or corn chowder served with bread and butter pickles, coffee or tea, and choice of homemade pie slice for dessert. The price is just $10 per person and take-out is available. There will also be a bake sale with other homemade goodies.

The luncheon is open to the public and held at the Greenland Parish House, 44 Post Road, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information, contact Robin Weeks at 603-431-1823 or robinweeks@comcast.net.

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Active Retirement Association presents The Innocence Project

The Active Retirement Association of the Greater Seacoast will present a free Zoom presentation by UNH law professor Albert Scherr on The Innocence Project at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 23.

Founded in 1992, The Innocence Project seeks to exonerate the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and to reform the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. Professor Scherr, currently Chair of the International Criminal Law and Justice Program at the Franklin Pierce School of Law at UNH, is a nationally recognized authority on forensic DNA evidence. To register for this free presentation, send email to seacoastara@gmail.com. Include your name, the program title, “The Innocence Project,” and the name of your city or town. For more information, please visit www.unh.edu/ara or email arainfo1982@gmail.com.

Kyle Carey in concert at Dover library 

DOVER — Dover Public Library located at 73 Locust St. Dover, presents Kyle Carey in concert on Wednesday, Feb. 23 at 6:30 p.m.

Kyle Carey’s unique trans-Atlantic fusion of music includes influences of the American Folk Anthology, the Appalachian poetry of Louise McNeill, and the traditional music of Ireland, Cape Breton and Scotland. Having toured for five years on both sides of the Atlantic, Carey is a unique and innovative artist not to be missed. For more information about Carey, visit www.kyleannecarey.com.

The program is free and open to the public. For more information call the Library at 603-516-6050. 

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Rye library to present virtual ‘Difficult Conversations’

RYE — Want to engage on the topic of diversity but afraid you’ll stumble and offend?  Want to challenge discrimination but don’t know how? The program “Difficult Conversations”, Wednesday, Feb. 23 at 6:30 p.m. will help you gain an understanding of the reasons conversations can be difficult and learn tools to make them more productive. Presenter James McKim is Founder and Managing Partner of Organizational Ignition, a management consulting firm. 

Register for this virtual program at www.ryepubliclibrary.org. All programs are free of charge and open to the public. For more info, call 603-964-8401 or gputnambailey@ryepubliclibrary.org for more information.

Preserving Historic Homes lecture series begins

SOMERSWORTH – “Energy Conservation Retrofitting Old Homes;

 will take place Feb. 23 at 5:45 p.m. presented by Elizabeth Paglia. One of the most challenging issues facing homeowners is how to make older or historic homes more energy efficient without sacrificing character and charm. This lecture presents a historic preservation perspective on insulation, air sealing, mechanical upgrades, and other energy retrofit opportunities in your older home.

Event is free to the public, but you must register to attend. Registration can be found at www.Somersworth.com.  Event will take place in Council Chambers at Somersworth City Hall, 1 Government Way, Somersworth. The event will be recorded on the Government Channel and will be available on the City of Somersworth website as well. www.Somersworth.com.

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Learn about Dover’s renowned African American soprano

DOVER — Celebrate black history month by learning about one of Dover’s most celebrated operatic singers: Nellie Brown Mitchell.

The virtual program presented by the Dover Public Library will take place on Thursday, Feb. 24 at 6:30 p.m. and be presented by Dr. Dennis Britton, a trustee for the Black Heritage Trail in Portsmouth. Registration is required to receive a link to the online lecture and can be found by visiting library.dover.nh.gov/events or by calling the library at 603-516-6050. This program is free and open to the public.

Bob Greene to present ‘Maine’s Black History’

SOUTH BERWICK – Old Berwick Historical Society will present a lecture by journalist Bob Greene about Maine’s Black History on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 7:30 p.m. at Berwick Academy in the Dining Commons (not in the traditional theater space).

It is frequently said that Maine is the whitest state in America. Yet, Black people have a long history in the Pine Tree State. The first Black person that we know the name of was here some 12 years before the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock. A native of Portland, Greene is the eighth generation of his family to be born in Cumberland County.

Admission is free to members, with a $5 suggested donation for non-members. The lecture is open to the public, no registration is required. Masks are mandatory inside the building. The lecture will be recorded and posted to the society’s website.

More information is available by calling 207-384-0000 or at www.oldberwick.org.

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UNH Faculty Concert Series presents The New Hampshire Trio

DURHAM – The University of New Hampshire Department of Music presents the New Hampshire Trio; Karl Orvik, violin/viola; Jacques Lee Wood, cello;  Mathilde Handelsman, piano on Friday, Feb. 25 at 8 p.m., in Bratton Recital Hall of the Paul Creative Arts Center, on the Durham campus. The program will include the Rachmaninoff Trio Elegiaque in G Minor, and Beethoven’s Piano Trio Op. 97 “Archduke”. The concert is also available via livestream at Youtube.com/unhmusic. Admission is free.

Comedy show at Strikers East in Raymond

RAYMOND — Comedy returns to the Striker’s East function room at 4 Essex Drive in Raymond, Saturday, Feb. 26 at 8 p.m., with a double headliner show starring Will Noonan and Jim Lauletta with regional star Kennedy Richard opening. Tickets are $20 and may be purchased at the door the night of the show.

Environmentalist Bill McKibben to speak at North Church Feb. 26

PORTSMOUTH – North Church is continuing to celebrate its 350th year with a series of lectures on important issues of our time. 

Noted environmentalist and grass roots activist Bill McKibben is one of the foremost voices on climate change and climate activism in the nation. He will be speaking on the topic “How do people of faith respond to a crisis this big? Global warming is the biggest thing people have ever done. We are threatening to run Genesis in reverse. How do we stop in time?” 

McKibben’s 1989 book, “The End of Nature” was the first wake-up call for the public on the subject of climate change. He subsequently founded 350.org, and more recently ThirdAct.org, to spur activism and rally support for progressive climate policy.

The lecture takes place at the North Church of Portsmouth in Market Square Portsmouth on Saturday, Feb. 26 at 4 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Donations will benefit Third Acti.

Black Heritage Trail presents fourth Tea Talk Feb. 27

PORTSMOUTH — “The Lingual Divide: ¿Y Tu Abuela Donde Esta?” is the subject of the fourth in the series of “Courageous Conversations” presented by the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire as part of the 2022 Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talks. This free virtual and in-person event will be held on Sunday, Feb. 27, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. The in-person program will take place in the Levenson Room at the Portsmouth Public Library. The public can also attend the program online.

Registration is required. All programs are free and open to the public. For more information on this program or to register go to blackheritagetrailnh.org/tea-talks-2022/, call 603-570-8469, or send an email to info@blackheritagetrailnh.org

PSO to perform “Respiro di colori” Feb. 27 at Jimmy’s

PORTSMOUTH – The Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra’s chamber music series at Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club continues Sunday, Feb. 27 at 5:30 p.m. with “Respiro di colori.” The concert is the fourth in a six-part series that explores the borderlands between jazz and classical music.

Experience a “Breath of Colors” in this special performance with the PSO principal musicians Aubrie Dionne on flute, Sarah Krebs on oboe, John Ferraro on clarinet and special guest pianist Tianhong Yang. 

Paired with fine food and libations, this series promises chamber music like audiences have never experienced before. Tickets are $75 per person and include the concert as well as appetizers, dinner and dessert from an a la carte menu that will change seasonally. For tickets, visit portsmouthsymphony.org

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Brands seize on NBA All-Star Game and Valentine’s Day: The Week Ahead

Brands seize on NBA All-Star Game and Valentine’s Day: The Week Ahead

Feb. 15

Restaurant Brands International reports its fourth-quarter and full-year results. This will be the company’s first financial update since announcing plans to acquire the Firehouse Subs chain in December. Analysts will seek answers for slow-growing sales at Burger King and on international expansion for its fast-growing sibling chain, Popeyes Louisiana Chicken. 

Feb. 16

Kraft Heinz Co., which outperformed expectations in its fiscal third quarter, reports results for its fourth quarter and full year. Officials expect flat sales for the year vs. a robust 2020 but improving quarterly profits as it manages cost increases.

The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement begins its virtual 11th annual Converged TV Measurement and Data Conference. It comes at a time of unprecedented flux in TV measurement, with industry heavyweight Nielsen having lost Media Rating Council accreditation and a host of networks offering trials of alternative currencies for writing TV deals. Ad Age Editor Jeanine Poggi interviews Krishan Bhatia, president and chief business officer, global advertising and partnerships of NBCUniversal, in an opening keynote fireside chat.

Roblox, the gaming platform that has come to characterize the growing interest in the metaverse, announces fourth-quarter earnings on Feb. 15 and hosts a conference call today at 8:30 a.m. ET. Investors will see how the gaming world with almost 50 million active users is shaping up, and hear about how brands have been developing there.

Feb. 17

Coming off a fourth quarter in which it exceeded analyst expectations for sales and earnings, Hormel Foods will review its financial results for the fiscal first quarter. The maker of Spam, Planters and Skippy saw sales gains in all of its four divisions (refrigerated foods, grocery, Jennie-O turkey and international) in the fourth quarter.

Walmart announces fiscal fourth-quarter earnings, showing whether the country’s biggest retailer continued momentum from earlier in the year. Announced departures of the U.S. unit’s chief merchandising officer and chief customer officer in January might lead to some trepidation, but Walmart has been on a roll for a while.

Roku releases fourth-quarter results today with an earnings call at 5 p.m. ET. Industry watchers will get to see how the streaming company closed out last year in the holiday period, and how the connected TV advertising business is performing.

Feb. 18

The action-adventure video game series “Uncharted” gets brought to life in the form of a movie of the same name, starring Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg, that lands in U.S. theaters today. The New York Times reported that Sony Pictures spent $120 million to make it, with high hopes that the 40 million fans who have bought “Uncharted” games (published by Sony Interactive) for PlayStation over the years will turn it into a big-screen blockbuster.

Feb. 19-20

The closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics airs and streams live Sunday at 7 a.m. ET on NBC, Peacock and NBCOlympics.com, with a primetime re-airing on NBC at 8 p.m. ET.

The NBA All-Star Game heads to Cleveland on Sunday. TNT coverage begins at 6 p.m. ET. State Farm has the lead sponsorship on the All-Star Saturday night activity, which includes the Taco Bell Skills ChallengeMTN Dew 3-Point Contest and AT&T Slam Dunk.

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State Scan: List of noteworthy events last week

State Scan: List of noteworthy events last week

Telangana The Central government has convened its first meeting of a panel constituted to resolve the bilateral issues between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana on February 17. The meeting of the dispute resolution sub-committee will be held via video-conference to discuss the pending issues between the two Telugu States. This was announced by the Ministry of Home Affairs on Saturday.

The Ministry on February 8 constituted a committee under the chairmanship of Joint Secretary to carry out the preparatory work and recommend practical ways to resolve the bilateral issues arising out of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014. The Ministry had invited Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary Sameer Sharma, Telangana Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar, Andhra Pradesh’s Principal Secretary (Finance) and Telangana’s Special Chief Secretary K Ramakrishna Rao to attend the meeting.

The agenda of the meeting includes special category status, which was promised to the residuary State of Andhra Pradesh. The items on the agenda include division of Andhra Pradesh State Finance Corporation, settlement of power utilities of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, removal of anomaly in taxation matters, division of cash balance and bank deposits, cash credit by APSCSCL and TSCSCL, resource gap, development grant for seven backward districts of Andhra Pradesh covering Rayalaseema and north coastal region and tax incentives.

West Bengal
In a significant development, Trinamool Congress Chairperson and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee last Saturday dissolved all the existing posts in the party and formed a 20-member national working committee after holding a meeting with some senior party leaders at her Kalighat residence.

The significant announcement came at a time when there were rumours that the party’s All-India General Secretary, Abhishek Banerjee, is likely to step down from all organisational responsibilities allegedly because of differences with some senior party leaders. Senior Trinamool leader Partha Chatterjee said, Banerjee will later appoint the new office-bearers and accordingly it would be sent to the Election Commission of India.

Among the leaders who found a place in the national working committee are Amit Mitra, Partha Chatterjee, Subrata Bakshi, Sudip Bandopadhyay, Abhishek Banerjee, Anubrata Mondal, Aroop Biswas, Firhad Hakim, Yashwant Sinha, Asima Patra, Chandrima Bhattacharjee, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Moloy Ghatak, Jyotipriya Mallick, Goutam Deb, Buluchik Baraik and Rajesh Tripathi. Interestingly, most of the members of the national working committee belong to Mamata camp, indicative enough that the Chief Minister is keen to establish her control over the party.

Madhya Pradesh
In a bid to attract tourists to the State, the Madhya Pradesh Tourism Department has decided to organise two events — ‘Forsyth Trail Run’ and ‘Dhoopgarh Rock Climbing’ in the dense forests of Satpura at hill station Pachmarhi.

The first event, Forsyth Trail Run, will be held on February 12 and it will be the first-of-its-kind marathon in India. The second event will be Dhoopgarh Rock Climbing, which will be held on March 5. The events will be jointly organised by India’s leading adventure tourism agency ‘Moustache Escapes’ and the State Tourism department.

The State government has tied up with Moustache Escapes for the events. The Forsyth Trail Run will be organised on Saturday from Pachmarhi in Hoshangabad district. The run will start from Singnama and end at Bison Lodge Pachmarhi. Tourists from Mumbai, Delhi, Jaipur, Vidisha and Indore will participate in the run, covering a distance of 30 to 40 km in the forest area.

Jammu & Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha last Saturday laid the foundation of the Tawi riverfront development project here and said it would generate employment opportunities for local communities. The Lt Governor said planned urbanisation while respecting and restoring the delicate balance of nature can influence inclusive development.

In the first phase, embankments, interceptor drains, sewerage treatment plants, cycling track, jogging track, walkways, green spaces, and other wayside amenities would be developed. The complete project is prepared on the lines of the Sabarmati riverfront in Gujarat. The infrastructure would also include river plazas, promenades, parks, gardens, sports and entertainment venues, commercial and residential spaces that will transform Tawi as the center of the economic engine of Jammu.

The Lt Governor said 109 projects which were pending for years have been completed in the Jammu division at a cost of Rs 455 crore, including 14 new bridges which have made connectivity easier.

New Delhi
Senior Congress leader and former Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Saturday said the Wildlife Protection (Amendment) Bill, which has been sent to the parliamentary standing committee headed by him, is poorly drafted and has huge shortcomings.

Ramesh, who heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment, Forest and Climate Change, said he is overwhelmed by the over 70 responses received from experts and institutions on the Wildlife Protection (Amendment) Bill, 2021.

Now the Standing Committee has a very complicated task of examining the 50 amendments proposed.


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Manitoba to drop capacity limits next week, eliminate mask mandates by mid-March | CBC News

Manitoba to drop capacity limits next week, eliminate mask mandates by mid-March | CBC News

Manitoba will eliminate capacity limits for many businesses and other venues starting Tuesday as the province further loosens public health orders and eliminate mask requirements on March 15.

The province also intends to remove all proof of vaccination requirements on March 1, which means vaccination cards will no longer be needed.

All restrictions will end March 15, Premier Heather Stefanson said at a Friday morning news conference.

“Today we offer hope to those who have been waiting for a long time to see that light at the end of the tunnel,” she said.

“The restrictions have placed many burdens on Manitobans, and now that we see the pressure of our hospital systems starting to ease, it’s our responsibility of government to ease those restrictions on Manitobans.”

On Tuesday, pandemic capacity limits will be dropped for restaurants, licensed premises, entertainment venues, indoor and outdoor sporting events and casinos and gatherings at private residences.

They will also be removed for outdoor public gatherings.

Indoor public gathering limits will be removed if proof of vaccination is required to enter. If not, the limit will be 50 people.

Anyone age 12 to 17 who is participating in indoor sports and recreation will no longer be required to provide proof of vaccination or recent testing.

There are no changes to retail and personal services until March.

Also as of Tuesday, unvaccinated close contacts of a person who tests positive for COVID-19 will no longer be required to self-isolate.

Public health continues to recommend self-isolation for people who live in a household with someone who has symptoms or tests positive for COVID-19, but it will no longer be required.

Self-isolation requirements for people entering the province will also be discontinued. However, anyone travelling from international destinations will continue to be required to meet requirements under the federal Quarantine Act.

Public health orders restricting travel to northern Manitoba remain in place.

“Based on the information and data monitored by public health, we are seeing strong signals that the Omicron wave has peaked and is now having a reduced impact here in Manitoba,” said Dr. Brent Roussin, Manitoba’s chief provincial public health officer.

“So we are certainly turning the corner in the pandemic.”

But it is not over yet, he said, adding Manitoba is in “an important time of transition” that still requires people to get vaccinated and stay home when sick.

Though gathering limits will no longer be required, they are still strongly recommended, he said.

The changes — which are coming a week earlier than the current restrictions were initially set to expire — will include moving Manitoba to the yellow caution level under the province’s pandemic response system from the current restricted orange level.

School changes

Schools will also return to yellow, which means cohorts are only required in kindergarten to Grade 6. Masks are required indoors for staff and students but will not be required during physical education classes.

Medical masks will be recommended but no longer required for school staff.

Schools will continue to send out community notification letters if public health officials have identified increased transmission or recommended remote learning for a class, cohort or entire school.

As well, Manitoba’s online dashboard will continue to post this information but will no longer include case numbers, the province said in a release.

Children, school staff and child-care staff will only be eligible for PCR testing if medically indicated, in line with eligibility criteria for all Manitobans.

In some settings, such as personal care homes, shelters and health-care facilities, public health officials have continued to work with facilities to notify close contacts of people who test positive, but that will end on March 8, the province said in a news release.

Health group disappointed

The Manitoba Health Coalition, a non-profit health-care advocacy group, released a statement on Friday expressing its disappointment with the changes.

It suggested the province is responding to the anti-restrictions convoy set up outside the legislative building and international border.

“It is disheartening that the provincial government has chosen to reject the reality facing our health-care system in favour of catering to extreme voices that do not reflect the view of Manitobans,” coalition provincial director Thomas Linner said in a news release.

Patients are still being transferred out of their home communities for critical care due to staff shortages and overwhelmed hospitals in the province, while the backlog for surgical and diagnostic tests remains in excess of 150,000 because of the ongoing demand on the system, he said.

There have also been 29 deaths due to COVID-19 this week.

“The protest movement camped outside the legislative building has blocked access to health facilities, schools and the Emerson border crossing to the United States.

“This is not a movement that deserves to be catered to with political victories that will hurt families, overworked and understaffed front-line health-care workers and the most vulnerable Manitobans,” he said in the news release.

“Manitobans deserve better.”

Stefanson denied she is capitulating to the demands of the protesters, telling reporters that discussions toward reopening have been going on for some time as the data began to improve.

“The data is now telling us that the ICUs are on decline, the ICU capacity for COVID patients is on decline, the hospitalization capacity is on decline, so now it’s time to safely move forward with the reduction of these restrictions,” she said.

“This was not a decision that was made because of what’s going on and protests that are taking place in the province, this is a decision that is made for Manitobans who have sacrificed much of their lives for the last two years.”

‘Choice to get vaccinated is yours’: Stefanson

Stefanson laid the responsibility for dealing with the protests at the feet of other officials.

The downtown protest is under the purview of the Winnipeg police, she said, adding she has been talking with Mayor Brian Bowman.

On the protest at the border, Stefanson said she has reached out to the prime minister.

“I’ve asked for what is the plan, and his plan, moving forward to deal with this,” she said.

Stefanson and Roussin kept repeating that many statistical indicators back their decision to drop the mandates, yet did not present any supporting data.

When asked where that is, Stefanson brusquely said it would be released, then shrugged in response to a followup question on when.

Roussin then said he would present it next Wednesday at the weekly COVID-19 news conference.

Stefanson, who has stressed the importance of getting vaccinated, toned that message down on Friday. While she said she and her family are fully vaccinated, she added that “the choice to get vaccinated is yours.”

“It’s time for a new normal to begin in Manitoba,” she said.  

“We need to end the divisiveness between families, between communities. We need to move forward. It’s time to bring Manitobans back together again.”

WATCH | Full news conference on COVID-19 | Feb. 11, 2022:

Manitoba government daily briefing on coronavirus: Feb. 11

Provincial officials give update on COVID-19 outbreak: Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. 45:47

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Editors’ Picks: 9 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Talk on Eric Adams’s Arts Priorities to a Show by an Artist-Turned-Dragon

Nollywood Portraits: A Radical Beauty by Iké Udé. Published by Skira.

Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the New York area. See our picks from around the world below. (Times are all EST unless otherwise noted.)

 

Tuesday, February 8

Vikky Alexander. Photo by Peter Bellamy, courtesy of the Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Canada.

Vikky Alexander. Photo by Peter Bellamy, courtesy of the Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Canada.

1. “Tuesday Night Talks: Vikky Alexander” at the Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Canada

The Audain Art Museum kicks off season three of its virtual Tuesday Night Talks programming with Canada’s Vikky Alexander, whose piece Orange Ceiling (2010) was recently acquired by the institution. The photographer, sculptor, and installation artist will speak with director and chief curator Curtis Collins about her career—including her ties to the Vancouver School of photo-conceptualism as well as New York’s Pictures Generation—as well as how she finds inspiration in landscape, architecture, and design.

Price: Free with registration
Time: 11 p.m.

—Tanner West

 

 

Thursday, February 10

New York City Mayor Eric Adams in front of the Brooklyn Museum on Juneteenth Holiday, June 19, 2021, during his campang. Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams in front of the Brooklyn Museum on Juneteenth Holiday, June 19, 2021. Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images.

2. “More or Less: Notes to Our Next Mayor, Culminating Panel” at More Art, New  York

Ahead of last year’s mayoral election, social justice-minded public art nonprofit More Art hosted a three-part conversation series about what New York City residents need most—namely, food, shelter, and healthcare. Those discussions have been condensed into an open letter of demands from artists, activists, and community members to new Mayor Eric Adams’s administration. The moderators of the three discussions, artists Candace Thompson, Betty Yu, and Jeff Kasper, will return to talk about the intersection of art and activism, the contents of the letter, how it hopes to ensure all New Yorkers have guaranteed access to food, healthcare, and housing.

Price: Free with registration
Time: 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Thursday, February 10–Saturday, March 12

Suchitra Mattai, Fitting In, 2022 Courtesy of Hollis Taggart

3. “Suchitra Mattai: Herself as Another” at Hollis Taggart

Suchitra Mattai is a Guyanese artist who uses imagery from her Indian heritage to comment on colonialism and patriarchy. In her solo show at Hollis Taggart, Mattai presents mixed-media paintings, sculptures, and installations to explore the theme of “othering.” The artist used The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous as the main source for her research into folklore monsters, tales that reflect the taboos and stereotypes often applied to those denied power. Through the works in this show, Mattai creates “a space to confront these misunderstandings… and to reflect on the experience and perspective of the ‘other’ as a means of fostering empathy and connection,” the gallery states.

Location: Hollis Taggart, 521 West 26th Street, 1st Floor, New York
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, Thursday, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.; Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.

—Neha Jambhekar

 

Thursday, February 10–Saturday, March 19

Asif Hoque, Music of the sun Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery

4. “Asif Hoque: Before Sunrise” at Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

“Before Sunrise” is the first solo exhibition of New York-based Bangladeshi artist Asif Hoque. Born in Rome, Hoque moved to Florida at a young age with his family. The title of the exhibition alludes to early morning beach visits he took with his brother during his trips home, where the changing light greatly inspired the works shown here. Hoque’s new work builds on previous imagery of deified brown male and female figures, lions, and vases with the addition of a dynamic new form, the Bengal tiger, and a softening of the surface inspired by Rubens’ sfumato technique.

Location: Yossi Milo Gallery, 245 Tenth Avenue, New York
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, Thursday, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.; Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Neha Jambhekar

 

Friday, February 11

Iké Udé, Nollywood in Focus, still image.

Iké Udé, Nollywood in Focus, still image.

5. “African Is Beautiful” at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.

Following a virtual screening of portrait photographer and artist Iké Udé’s new film, Nollywood in Focus, about the Nigerian film scene, Touria El Glaoui, founding director of 1:54 Contemporary Art Fair, will moderate a discussion with Udé and industry insiders Eku Edewor, Alexx Ekubo, Enyinna Nwigwe, and Joke Silva. They’ll consider such topics as beauty, self-love, and the power of art.

Price: Free with registration
Time: 12 p.m.–6 p.m.

—Nan Stewert

Friday, February 11–Sunday, April 10

Carlos Motta and Tiamat Legion Medusa, <em>When I Leave This World</em> (2022), still. Courtesy of the artist, P.P.O.W. Gallery, and OCDChinatown.

Carlos Motta and Tiamat Legion Medusa, When I Leave This World (2022), still. Courtesy of the artist, P.P.O.W. Gallery, and OCDChinatown.

6. “Carlos Motta and Tiamat Legion Medusa: When I Leave This World” at OCD Chinatown, New York

Performance and body-modification artist Tiamat Legion Medusa has collaborated with artist Carlos Motta on a new two-channel video installation documenting Medusa’s transition from male to female to reptile. (The end goal of the artist, who goes by it pronouns, is to become a dragon.) Medusa, who explains in one of the videos how childhood abandonment and assault inspired it to reject its own humanity, bills itself as “interspecies and the most body-modified transexual in the world.”

Location: OCD Chinatown, 75 East Broadway NYC
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception,  6 p.m.–8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m. or by appointment

Sarah Cascone

 

 

Saturday, February 12–Sunday, January 8, 2023

Chris Schanck, <em>Banglatown</em> (2018). Photo by Michelle and Chris Gerard, courtesy the artist and Friedman Benda, New York.

Chris Schanck, Banglatown (2018). Photo by Michelle and Chris Gerard, courtesy the artist and Friedman Benda, New York.

7. “Chris Schanck: Off-World” at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York

Chris Schanck’s work exists at the boundary between sculpture and furniture, straddling the line between art and design with chairs, lighting, and other functional objects produced in his Detroit studio with the assistance of local Bangladeshi craftspeople. Schanck’s forms recall objects from nature, like coral reefs, but also suggest an otherworldly, extraterrestrial origin, at times futuristic, other times reminiscent of ancient civilizations.

Location: Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, New York
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m..

—Sarah Cascone

 

Sunday, February 13

Alex Strada and Tali Keren, <em>Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?</em> in "Year of Uncertainty (YoU) — Phase I: Participate & Build." Photo by Zynab Cewalam, courtesy of the Queens Museum.

Alex Strada and Tali Keren, Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System? in “Year of Uncertainty (YoU) — Phase I: Participate & Build.” Photo by Zynab Cewalam, courtesy of the Queens Museum.

8. “Defending Our Bodily Autonomy in a Broken System” at the Queens Museum

Artists Alex Strada and Tali Keren’s participatory installation, Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?, on view in “Year of Uncertainty (YoU) — Phase III: Synthesize and Reflect” (through February 13) will serve as the stage for programming addressing the ways in which many Black, Indigenous, and other people of color face reproductive and gender-based oppression. A presentation by CUNY Law professor Cynthia Soohoo will discuss the inadequacies of legal protection for reproductive rights, the likely overturn of Roe v. Wade, and how we can ensure reproductive justice for all. A hands-on self-defense workshop, led by Deena Hadhoud of Malikah, will follow.

Location: Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Meridian Road, Queens
Price: Free with registration
Time: 1 p.m.–3:30 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

 

Through March 19

Lucia Love, <I>BDW</I>, 2021

Lucia Love, BDW, 2021. Courtesy JDJ and the artist.

9. “Lucia Love: Angel At The Wheel” at JDJ Tribeca

The new show of paintings by Lucia Love at JDJ World’s recently opened location in Tribeca see the artist taking a darker, more cynical turn. Love’s surrealist and often figurative paintings are inspired by fraught political situations, and she does not seem to think things have gotten much better since her last show with the gallery in 2020. As fellow artist Emily Mae Smith wrote in the press release for the show, “The figures in Love’s paintings are amalgamated bodies, often balancing on impossible podiums or floating in broken geometries that defy perspectival logic. Love captures the instability of moral ground in our time of global peril.”

Location: JDJ Tribeca, 373 Broadway B11
Price: Free
Time: Tuesday–Saturday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m.

—Annie Armstrong

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