Pace Gallery hold an exhibition of the last paintings of Chuck Close at its 510 West 25th Street gallery in New York from February 23 to April 13, 2024.

Juliano-Villani’s irreverent artistry is fueled by her obsession with consumer culture and social taboo, resulting in a mirage of distorted iconography. Augmenting this strategy with an awareness of representational painting’s history, she produces images derived from a personal archive of books, magazines, and photographs, as well as from online sources. Using acrylic, airbrush, and oil painting techniques, she incorporates fragments of her own writing and elements of the work of other artists such as Danish painter and sculptor Ovartaci (1894–1985). Juliano-Villani’s work also refers to cartoons, addressing racial, sexual, and social stereotypes through their mischievous wit and unsettling ambiguity. For her, these kinds of images are “democratic, based on impulse and speed; much like a sniper with a vision.”

BRITISH ARTIST LUCY SPARROW RETURNS TO NEW YORK CITY WITH ‘FELTZ BAGELS’A BAGEL BAKERY MADE ENTIRELY FROM FELT.
Internationally acclaimed artist Lucy Sparrow first brought her felted world to New York Cityin June 2017 with her felt ‘faux-dega’ 8 Till Late – a fully stocked convenience store filled with9,000 handmade artworks. This October, Lucy returns to Manhattan with Feltz Bagels, anartistic homage to the city’s legendary culinary delicacy and the neighbourhood bagel jointsof the Lower East Side that made them famous.Opening on 3 October, in association with TW Fine Art, Lucy will transform an emptystorefront on the Lower East Side into a fully immersive Bagel Bakery where visitors can buytheir favourite lunch order handmade in felt and served personally by Sparrow herself. FeltzBagels will offer thirteen varieties of bagel - each hand-sewn and available filled or plain witha sewn selection of NY staples; choose from a poppyseed bagel with a schmear, a colourfulrainbow salt-beef bagel or the everything bagel filled with pastrami and pickles.

New York-based Emerging Artist Chase Hall's New Exhibition at David Kordansky Gallery. The Bathers continues Hall’s ongoing investigation into the complex histories of coastal regions and the ocean’s depth, featuring a new body of work that addresses access and limitations to nature, leisure, public space, and Black adventurism. Hall works with a mixture of acrylic paint and brewed coffee on cotton canvas to render portraits of figures living amongst animals, playing sports, and congregating in sharply focused aquatic scenes. Using the expanse of the canvas—and drawing on his personal experiences of moving between states such as Minnesota, Illinois, Nevada, Colorado, California, and New York, where he would locate water in and around these regions—Hall complicates traditional understandings of race, class, mixedness, and geography within historically charged social landscapes with painterly rigor.