Opening Friday, July 8: Sensory Poetics | Collecting Abstraction at the Guggenheim Sensory Poetics: Collecting Abstraction brings together highlights from the Guggenheim’s growing collection of contemporary art. Acquired over the past ten years, and shown at the museum for the first time, this selection of artworks reflects developments in painting, sculpture, and video from the 1960s to today that demonstrate an expression of gesture … Read the full Story >>
“Unfair labor practices” is not exactly a phrase that springs to mind when one considers the ins and outs of teaching at the historically progressive New School for Social Research. Founded in 1919 as a radical alternative to the tradition-bound Ivy League, The New School, which includes Parsons School of Design, “has produced some prominent academics and intellectuals, including the philosophers Hannah Arendt and … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, March 14, 6-8[m: Eric Fischl | Hotel Stories at Skarstedt Nine new paintings by Eric Fischl, of hotel rooms, take on an array of meanings, associations, and possibilities for each of their inhabitants. For some, they feel personal and cozy, like a safe haven. For others, they’re simply a space to put their things. They can be sites of nefarious, taboo activity; a … Read the full Story >>
Friday, March 7, 6-8pm: First Friday Beats and Spoken Word at The Bronx FUTURA 2000’s critically acclaimed retrospective, BREAKING OUT, is on view through Sunday, March 30th! Don’t miss your chance to view this exhibition showcasing Futura’s five-decade career spanning his origins in the graffiti scene, his practice as an abstract contemporary artist, and his collaborations. Join crowd-favorite DJ Stormin’ Norman for a … Read the full Story >>
The American Manifest is Charles Gaines’s first public art project, unfolding in three parts over the course of two years across three sites — Times Square, Governors Island, and the banks of the Ohio river in Cincinnati. Presented by Creative Time, Governors Island, and Times Square Arts and staged in three chapters, The American Manifest begins with a performance-based installation and sculptural series … Read the full Story >>
The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism at The Met Through some 160 works, the exhibition will explore the comprehensive and far-reaching ways in which Black artists portrayed everyday modern life in the new Black cities that took shape in the 1920s–40s in New York City’s Harlem and Chicago’s South Side and nationwide in the early decades of the Great Migration when millions of African … Read the full Story >>
For the first DART Book Prize Essay Contest, students in Dr. Anastasia Aukeman’s Integrative Seminar 2: Visual Culture course at Parsons School of Design, in the School of Art and Design History and Theory, submitted their critiques of the Beauty –Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial exhibition. First place for the afternoon section goes to Angela Yang. First place for the morning section as well as runners … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday March 6, 6-8 pm: Joan Jonas | Animal, Vegetable, Mineral at Drawing Center Ahead of the full-on retrospective at MoMA, this retrospective of works on paper by Joan Jonas offers a denitive look at the integral place of drawing in the career of this pioneering artist. One of the most signicant experimental voices in American art over the past five decades, Jonas used the medium of drawing as … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, July 13, 6-8pm: Panel | The Legacy of A.I.R. at P•P•O•W In conjunction with Dotty Attie’s What Surprised Them Most, a survey exhibition of major works from 1974 to 2023, P·P·O·W is pleased to host a panel discussion with Attie and fellow A.I.R. Gallery founding members Judith Bernstein and Daria Dorosh. Founded in 1972 as the first nonprofit artist-run cooperative gallery for women … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, June 5: Cannupa Hanska Luger | Attrition at City Hall Park Cannupa Hanska Luger, an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold from the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota cultures, is a descendant of buffalo people. The form of Attrition, a larger-than-life skeletal sculpture made from steel with an ash black patina, emerges from the soil beneath, visible through grasses … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, May 3: Harold Ancart | Paintings at Gagosian In this new group of paintings, Harold Ancart employs an arboreal motif to explore nuances of color, shape and texture. Having previously depicted other elemental forms such as clouds, fires, icebergs—even matchsticks—the Belgian-born artist has stated that outward subject matter serves primarily as an “alibi” for painterly experimentation. In the atmospheric canvases currently on view, … Read the full Story >>
Just a week away, the first of the spring art fairs will turn New York City into a destination for globe-trekking art lovers. Starting with The Art Dealers Association of America’s [ADDA] Art Show, now in its 31st edition, once again takes over the Park Avenue Armory’s massive Drill. Among the public events are an Upper East Side Gallery Walk on Saturday, March 3, … Read the full Story >>
May 10-20: 10th Anniversary NYCxDESIGN Festival | Live and Online The lineup for NYCxDESIGN’s 10th Anniversary Festival is now live! New York City’s official celebration of design showcases the best of New York City design in person and virtually through open studio tours, workshops, public installations, talks, tours, and more. Highlights: May 10-20, Craft in Transition: An exhibition merging the dynamic artwork of 12 established and … Read the full Story >>
Roger Ballen is a photographer so identified with a black-and-white aesthetic of despair that similar work is referred to as “Ballenesque.” His in-your-face portraits of people living on the margins of society, in economic deprivation and psychological anguish, became the motifs and mythology of his lens. These images are staged—set up with the collaboration of his subjects, in chaotic settings with clutter and debris … Read the full Story >>
At a crossroads in mid-career, Jasper Johns (1930) found his way forward in part by looking to the work of Edvard Munch (1863–1944). Now a ground-breaking exhibition entitled Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch: Love, Loss, and the Cycle of Life examines how Johns, one of America’s preeminent artists, mined the work of the Norwegian Expressionist in the late 1970s and early 1980s as he moved away from a … Read the full Story >>
Joan Jonas | Good Night/Good Morning at MoMa I didn’t see a major difference between a poem, a sculpture, a film, or a dance,” Joan Jonas has said. For more than five decades, Jonas’s multidisciplinary work has bridged and redefined boundaries between performance, video, drawing, sculpture, and installation. The most comprehensive retrospective of the artist’s work in the United States, Joan Jonas: Good … Read the full Story >>
Many of NYC’s downtown galleries, which generally take an extended August break, are keeping their doors open this year. Following is a lineup of shows, installations, and events to keep in mind for the coming days and weeks. Thursday, July 28, 6-8pm: Re-Mastering at Frosch & Co What does it mean to create new work in our contemporary environment? New things proliferate, yet so … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, April 25-Sunday, April 28: New York Art Book Fair at 548 West Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair (NYABF) is the leading international event for the distribution of artists’ books, celebrating contemporary artists’ publishing and the medium’s rich history. Initiated in 2006, NYABF is an important gathering for artists’ book publishers to distribute their work, connect with broad audiences, and nurture new … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, March 14, 6-8 pm: Realism Today | Looking Forward and Back at IS-G This inaugural exhibition for the gallery’s new location, featuring recent works by Neil Jenney, Joseph Santore, Elisa Jensen, Victor Leger, Mercer Tullis, and Frank Webster, seeks to explore the ways in which contemporary realist artists borrow from illustrious examples from the past by such artists as Gustave Courbet, Jean-Francois Millet, … Read the full Story >>
Tomorrow, the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, opens Boundless: A California Invitational. The third triennial exhibition of contemporary California photographers, the invitational began in 2010 as State of Mind and was followed in 2013 by Staking Claim. These exhibitions showcase the talent and diverse scope of artwork by photographers living within the museum’s home state. The exhibition features 11 California artists … Read the full Story >>
