2. The Ethics of Desire at Hauser & Wirth
Sitting near the water next to Chelsea Piers is Hauser & Wirth, formerly a Swiss modern art gallery founded by Ivan and Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser in 1992. It has since grown into an international enterprise with locations in Zurich, London, and two galleries in New York. It’s summer show, “The Ethics of Desire,” features the uncannily frank works by Ida Applebroog, whose depictions of simplified human forms with bold outlines, showcased in their entirety throughout Hauser & Wirth’s 18th Street location, were developed when she arrived in New York in the mid 1970s. Her canvases cover the walls, but also hang from the ceiling as well in arranged formations. Often, the viewer is forcefully pulled into these unusual situations by the surrounding figures, demonstrating Applebroog’s fascination with “the polemics of human relations.” The show ends July 31st.