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& # 39; SCENES OF THE COLLECTION & # 39; at the Jewish Museum. After a surgical renovation of its grand Fifth Avenue hall, the Jewish Museum reopened its third floor galleries with a refreshing and redesigned exhibition from its permanent collection, which blends 4,000 years of Judaica with modern and contemporary art Jews and Gentiles. Mark Rothko, Lee Krasner, Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman and the excellent young Nigerian cartoonist Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze. The works are shown in a series of agile and non-chronological galleries, and some of its secular juxtapositions are reinforced; others feel reductive, even dilettant. But still, the Jewish Museum conceives art and religion as intertwined elements of a history of civilization, openly open to new influences and new interpretations. (Farago)
212-423-3200 thejewishmuseum.org
"THE SENSES: DESIGN BEYOND THE VISION" at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (until the 28th October). There is a great and timely thought for this exhibition: as social media, smartphones and virtual reality are making us more and more "ocular", we have taken leave of our non-visual senses – and need to come back contact, literally. Thus, "The Senses" offers multisensory adventures, such as a portable device the size of a loudspeaker that emits odors, with titles like "Surfside" and "Einstein", in timed combinations; hand-painted scratch and snuff wallpaper (think Warhol patterned cows but with cherries – cherry-scented, of course); and a device that projects ultrasonic waves to simulate the feel and feel of virtual objects. The show also features commissions, videos, products and prototypes from more than 65 designers and teams, some of which deal with sensory impairments such as blindness and deafness, including Vibeat, which can be worn as a bracelet, brooch or necklace . And if you bring the kids, they'll probably be happy to caress a wavy, fur-lined installation that makes music while you scrub it. (Michael Kimmelman)
212-849-8400, cooperhewitt.org
& # 39; CHAIM SOUTINE: THE CHAIR & # 39; at the Jewish Museum (until 16 September). The Russian Jewish artist Chaim Soutine (1893-1943), who spent most of his life in Paris, is best known for his bloody and ecstatic paintings of beef carcbades. But it was not death that interested him – it was the immaterial life force of the material world. Accompanied by an instructive range of naked poultry, silver herrings and popeye sardines, this indispensable tribute to the transcendent but still underestimated painter focuses on a prodigious carcbad of 1925 beef, scintillating scarlet, striated of orange fat and spanning a starry sky. (Will Heinrich)
212-423-3200 thejewishmuseum.org
"THROUGH A DIFFERENT LENS: STANLEY KUBRICK PHOTOGRAPHS" at the New York City Museum (until October) 28). This photographic exhibition of the great director is essentially Kubrick before becoming Kubrick. From 1945, when he was 17 years old and lives in the Bronx, he worked as a photographer for Look magazine, and the subjects he was exploring were chestnuts so old that they felt a moldy: lovers kissing on a park bench ostensibly elsewhere, patients anxiously waiting for their doctor's appointment, boxing hopes in the ring, celebrities at home, pampering dogs in the city. This probably helped Kubrick to be a kid, so instead of inducing yawning, these perennial magazine plants hit him like new stuff, and he brought something new to them. The photographs that focus on the staging could be film images: a shouting circus director who takes the good side of the foreground while aerials repeat halfway, a boy climbing on a roof with the buildings of the city that surround it, a metro car filled with sleepy pbadengers. Looking at these pictures, you want to know what comes next. (Arthur Lubow)
212-534-1672, mcny.org
"THE WORLD ON THE HORIZON: THE SWAHILI ARTS ON L & # 39, INDIAN OCEAN " at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington (until September 3). The Swahili coast of East Africa is home to a crossroads culture. For millennia, the port cities of Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique have been centers of long-distance trade and cultural exchange from several directions. To the west, they were formerly connected by caravans with Central Africa; to the east, by boat with India, China and Japan; to the north, with an Arab world that included Oman, Iran and Yemen; and to the south, via round shipping routes with Europe and the Americas. This exhibition highlights both the great beauty and the profound disruption of these connections – East Africa was a nodal point of the international slave trade. (Holland Cotter)
202-633-4600, Africa.si.edu
Last Chance
& # 39; DAVID BOWIE IS & # 39; at the Brooklyn Museum (until July 15). After just over four months in Brooklyn, this tribute from around the world to the original pop chameleon comes to an end. Although fashion is the focal point of every section of the show, dozens of additional items deserve equal attention, such as a trunk full of Bowie's favorite novels and two-sided cloth doll Tony Oursler's video sculpture for his 50 years. For this ultimate stop of the exhibition, Melena Ryzik wrote 100 articles, some of which have never been shown publicly. These visual pieces are complemented by a soundtrack of reports, interviews and music, delivered. thanks to a device that synchronizes with the screens when you move in the exhibition. Tickets are no longer available online, but there is a slim chance to have access in person on a first-come, first-served basis. (Danielle Dowling)
718-638-5000, brooklynmuseum.org
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