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, July 30, 6-8pm: Summer Invitational at First Street Gallery This just in from long-time subscriber and contributor, Ken Carbone: I'm pleased to be exhibiting five new paintings at First Street Gallery's Summer Invitational. This show features a talented group of artists offering a spectrum of abstract and figurative work. Close to Home, open to literal and metaphorical interpretations, can certainly be … 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 >>
Wednesday, August 12-Sunday, August 16: Puppet Fringe Festival at The Clemente The 4th International Puppet Fringe Festival hits Manhattan with a sprawling, five-day low-tech takeover that defies the dusty constraints of traditional performance, leaning heavily into tactile storytelling, cardboard surrealism, and a timely showcase dedicated this year to Women in Puppetry. This multi-disciplinary gathering of 100+ international makers captures the creative energy that … 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 >>
Last week, Ken Carbone emailed the news that he had completed his apple a day project, which has been unfolding on Instagram and Facebook for the past year. This is what he wrote: An apple a day. No. 365!!! [above, right] Mission accomplished! It has been a beautifully exhausting journey, in all the right ways. I learned to love the daily challenge of making art. It … 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 >>
Through September 11: Dakota Modern | The Art of Oscar Howe at the National Museum of the America Indian in NYC This major retrospective introduces new generations to one of the twentieth century’s most innovative Native American painters. Howe (1915–1983) committed his artistic career to the preservation, relevance, and ongoing expression of his Yanktonai Dakota culture. He proved that art could be simultaneously modern … Read the full Story >>
September 6-8: 30th Anniversary Armory Show at the Javits A cornerstone of New York’s cultural landscape since its founding in 1994, The Armory Show brings the world’s leading international contemporary galleries to New York each year. Through elevated presentations, thoughtful programming, curatorial leadership, meaningful institutional partnerships and engaging public art activations, The Armory Show has played a significant role in global contemporary art. The … Read the full Story >>
Ruling families of the Renaissance, such as the Medici, exerted their influence through political intrigue, war and art, as can be seen in The Met’s presentation of The Medici: Portraits & Politics 1512-1570. American high culture, a construct of large institutions, mostly white, endowed by the wealth of corporate donors, also mostly white, is undergoing a radical shift, as consumers are beginning to … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday June 7: Sylvia Palacios Whitman | To Draw a Line with the Body at Americas Society Americas Society presents Sylvia Palacios Whitman: To Draw a Line with the Body, the first solo exhibition and career survey of the Chilean artist in the United States. Whitman (b. Osorno, Chile, 1941) is a visual and performance artist, who has been experimenting with movement and contemporary … 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 >>
It’s Open Studios season in NYC, with hundreds of artists opening their doors for an intimate view of their work and process. Following are some of the upcoming events. Additional public art events are mixed in chronologically. Saturday, October 7, 2-3:30pm: Esteban Cabeza de Baca and Heidi Howard at Wave Hill Join exhibiting artists Esteban Cabeza de Baca and Heidi Howard in conversation with … Read the full Story >>
