Artnet News: Top 10 Shows on the LES and Surrounding Neighborhoods This Summer

It’s all happening downtown.

by Henri Neuendorf

Already the site of New York’s emerging and experimental art scene, Manhattan’s Lower East Side and its surrounding neighborhoods the fun and discovery is multiplied in the summer when the galleries present oddball and left-field works including live plants, obsolete refrigerators, and copper heating circuits. Here artnet News compiled some of the most interesting and unusual shows that you can’t miss.

1. “Minerva” at Cuevas Tilleard Projects (June 8—July 10, 2016)Organized by Fabiola Alondra, Erin Goldberger, Anna Furney, and Jane Harmon, and featuring works by Andrea Belag, Sally Saul, Kurt Kauper, and Lucy Mink-Covello, the exhibition’s participants were selected based on recommendations made on the underground radio station Know Wave’s “Minerva” program.

Andrea Belag was nominated by Marilyn Minter, Sally Saul was nominated by Peter Saul, Kurt Kauper was recommended by Jeffrey Deitch, and Betty Tompkins vouched for Lucy Mink-Covello. According to the gallery, a portion of the proceeds from sales will be donated to Planned Parenthood.

Blouin Artinfo: The Female Gaze, Women Artists in Focus

by Rachel Corbett

If Cheim & Read offers a female perspective on men, a show organized by the all-woman, New York-based Minerva Collective sets its sights on a group of under-celebrated - and predominantly women - artists. “The Minervite is the self-made woman. Her mind is made up, and remade in her own image,” Glenn O’Brien explains in the text accompanying the show. Each member of Minerva - Fabiola Alondra, Erin Goldberger, Anna Furney, and Jane Harmon - nominated an artist whom they had previously interviewed on their Know Wave radio show. That artist then selected another to highlight in the exhibition. The resulting group includes Andrea Belag, Sally Saul, Kurt Kauper, and Lucy Mink-Covello.