In the 1995 movie Smoke (dir. Wayne Wang and Paul Auster), Auggie, the proprietor of the Brooklyn cigar store where the story unfolds, is played by Harvey Keitel. For the past 14 years, Auggie has been taking a photo every day from his front door. One of his customers (played by William Hurt), a dispirited novelist whose wife has been killed in a bank robbery, doesn't … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, February 23, 5:30-7:00pm: Genevieve DeLeon | To Order the Days at Hartford During her tenure as the 2022-23 Koopman Chair in the Painting Department of the Hartford Art School, Genevieve de Leon has produced solo and collaborative artwork focused on the knowledge–intellectual and embodied–that she has received as part of her study of the Maya calendrical cycles. Maya cosmology, mathematics, and mythology are … Read the full Story >>
Sunday March 8: Whitney Biennial 2026 The eighty-second edition of the Whitney Biennial—the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States—features work of 56 artists, duos, and collectives that reflects the current moment and examines various forms of relationality, including interspecies kinships, familial relations, geopolitical entanglements, technological affinities, shared mythologies, and infrastructural supports. Above: kekahi wahi (Sancia Miala Shiba Nash and … Read the full Story >>
Continuing through December 14: Howardena Pindell at Garth Greenan Howardena Pindell’s decades-long career seems to be an effort to map and capture this secret order of the universe. Her enigmatic works revolve around what remains unseen and unexplained, blending abstract intuition with the rigor of scientific observation. Moving fluidly across media, her practice combines elements of mystery with a precision that recalls the … Read the full Story >>
EDITOR'S NOTE: THE DEADLINE FOR THE DART OP ED ART CONTEST IS EXTENDED TO MIDNIGHT FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 28! Information. Cheers, Peggy Monday, September 24-Monday, October 1Viewing, Phillips de Pury & Company Photographs Auction (October 2, 10 am & 2 pm) 450 Park Avenue, NY, NY. Information. Thursday, September 27-Sunday, September 30NY Art Book Fair. Free and open to the public, the NY … Read the full Story >>
It would be hard to dispute that the second half of 20th century America was defined by the 1960s and ‘70s. There was a counter-culture within every sector of society—it was not just about hippies and flower power. While the post-war American Dream was promoted by the Mad Men in the ‘50s, through the new medium of TV commercials, it was the anything goes … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Screenings / Book Events / and Beyond Tickets for Brainwave | Power, at The Rubin, February-April 2019 go on sale Thursday, January 10, 9 am. Info Registration open for In Our Time: A Year of Architecture in a Day, an all day symposium on January 19. Presenters include Eyal Weizman, Elizabith Diller, David Lang and Beatrice Galilee, and Vincent Fournier, among others. … Read the full Story >>
As a leadup to the New New York 6 exhibition of images documenting the city in transition, The Architectural League NY is presenting a lecture by curator and historian Bonnie Yochelson about Berenice Abbott's landmark photo project of the 1930s. Having made a name for herself in photography after spending a decade in Paris, Abbott returned to New York in 1929. Even during the … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from South America, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in New York? A: I am originally from Sao Paulo, Brazil and I moved to New York City in 2012. New York is very inspiring! Not only is a city where you can see amazing art, exhibitions, etc., but is also a place that attracts people from everywhere. … Read the full Story >>
Unfixed—ideas, methods, materials—is what can be said to characterize the extraordinary output of Robert Rauschenberg. In Robert Rauschenberg: Erasing the Rules, a sweeping retrospective continuing at SFMOMA, this restless innovator’s contributions to the art of our own time registers in full. Visitors will experience the moment when Modern art made its exit, rules were swept aside, and friendships became collaborations, opening access to … Read the full Story >>
Vincent Van Gogh is likely the most beloved artist of all time. While there is no official poll on the subject, I propose that the large number of forgeries of his work, movies about the artist, and the continuing research on authentication of his work proves that Van Gogh lives large in the popular imagination. And don’t forget the 1971 song “Vincent,” by Don … Read the full Story >>
Dissident artist Ai Weiwei posted on-site video on Instagram of the destruction of his Beijing Studio, which began last Friday, with many of his large-scale works still inside. His studio manager fed video to the artist, who resides in Berlin. aiww Today,they started to demolish my studio zuo you[left/right] in Beijing with no precaution .which I have as my main studio since … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, June 12: Last chance for Transparent Shades | Elizabeth Murray at Gladstone Elizabeth Murray: Drawings (1974-2006) presents over sixty rarely seen works, curated by Kathy Halbreich, who co-organized the first retrospective of her work, Elizabeth Murray: Paintings and Drawings in 1987, which originated at the Dallas Museum of Art and traveled to major institutions nationally. Halbreich once again contributes to shaping Murray’s … Read the full Story >>
Right or wrong, to be different is to be distinguished. So wrote the American artist Henry Darger (1892-1973), who was different and distinguished indeed. An exhibition of 14 of his large, double-sided watercolor landscapes that opened yesterday at Ricco Maresca Gallery sheds light on the consummate artistry and the strange workings of this mysterious artist who was completely unknown during his lifetime. Henry Darger was a self-taught artist who lived … Read the full Story >>
The best way I've found so far to beat the heat is to hop the Governors Island ferry, bike in hand, and spend a Friday afternoon in a world apart. Last week, conditions were ideal for a picnic and a 1-hour urban farming intensive - optional, of course: you could just as easily loll about with some reading material or catch up on email … Read the full Story >>
Talk / Discussion / Performance / and Beyond Tuesday January 12 MFA Art Writing and Criticism presents: Kara Rooney, 6 pm. School of Visual Arts, 133/141 West 21st Street, NY, NY. Info Timothy Morton | And You Might Find Yourself Living in an Age of Mass Extinction, 6:30 pm ISCP, 1040 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY [Williamsburg] RSVP required Sharon Butler, 6:30 pm. Trestle Gallery, … Read the full Story >>
In 1893, Santiago Ramon y Cajal, the Spanish neuroanatomist, outlined a general theory of memory that, in its essence, is almost identical to the one that is accepted today. Learning, he suggested, leaves its mark by making connections between neurons. His scientific findings were based on his detailed microscopic studies of brain cells, conveyed by his elegant drawings that were both extraordinarily accurate and … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from New York what are some of your favorite things about living and working in the Big Apple? A: I grew up in the Seaport, when it was a very smelly fish market, and I still live nearby, which is either a sign of the utmost uninventiveness or total security. Because my family and so many of my friends are here, from … Read the full Story >>
This exhibition. continuing at Garth Greenan Gallery through February 25, features five large-scale tipis and two sets of ceramic bullets from Luger’s series Rounds. “Indian Country,” Cannupa Hanska Luger writes, in unofficial US military terms, is used to refer to hostile territory in active war zones. From the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, the US government expanded westward, carrying out … Read the full Story >>
