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 >>
Erna Rosenstein. Once Upon a Time opens Thursday, September 30 at Hauser & Wirth It’s beginning to look as if Surrealism is edging out Abstract Expressionism as the lingua franca of the NYC art scene. An exhibition of the Polish artist, Erna Rosenstein (1913-2004 )—the first monographic exhibition of her work outside of Poland—opens this week. One of the key figures of the Polish … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, November 30, noon-6pm: Artists Against the Bomb In Conversation at Judd A series of conversations organized by Artists Against the Bomb on denuclearization, disarmament and atomic culture with artists Rachel Bronson, Lyndon Burford, Stephanie Dvareckas, Petuuche Gilbert, Adam Jonas Horowitz, Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky, Pedro Reyes, and Eric Schlosser. This event is free and open to the public, no reservation required. … Read the full Story >>
Saturday-Sunday, October 19-20: 28th Annual Gowanus Open Studios More than 400 artists, businesses, and venues in Gowanus will open their doors, giving the public a rare glimpse inside the former factories, warehouses, and studio buildings of this vibrant neighborhood. Artists will be present to discuss their work, share their processes, and showcase their latest projects. Plus, it’s a unique opportunity to purchase work … Read the full Story >>
Noguchi’s New York at the Noguchi Garden and Museum In 1922, Isamu Noguchi first moved to New York—a city that would remain his on-again, off-again home for the remainder of his life. Though he was an avid traveler who built meaningful connections and temporary homes around the world, Noguchi always returned to New York. It was here that he created some of his … Read the full Story >>
Now on view: Louise Bourgeois Paintings at The Met Louise Bourgeois: Paintings is the first comprehensive exhibition of paintings produced by the iconic, French-American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) between her arrival in New York in 1938 and her turn to sculpture in the late 1940s. Above: Roof Song, 1946-48 While Bourgeois is best known today as a sculptor, it is in this early body … Read the full Story >>
Friday, February 13: Art of Noise at the Cooper Hewitt Museum “Music is the soundtrack to our lives, and design is at the center of how we experience it,” said Maria Nicanor, director of Cooper Hewitt. “Through iconic works that many will be able to trace back to their own memories, ‘Art of Noise’ underscores how design shapes the very emotions of our … Read the full Story >>
Friday, August 1: William Kentridge | A Ntural History of the Studio at H&W With A Natural History of the Studio, renowned South African artist William Kentridge presents his acclaimed episodic film series ‘Self-Portrait as a Coffee- Pot’ with more than seventy works on paper integral to its creation and an array of sculptures at 542 West 22nd Street. This immersive exhibition is … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, January 16, 6-8 pm: Simphiwe Mbunyuza | UMTHONYAMA at Kordansky Mbunyuza’s work stems from a personal and spiritual exploration of long-performed ritual and iconography associated with the Xhosa people of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Throughout his practice, the artist has developed a unique approach to his materials, in which he’s able to achieve uncommon textures and glazes that highlight his grasp of both … Read the full Story >>
Thornton Dial Paintings 1990-1998 | Closing Friday, July 16 The work of Thornton Dial (1928–2016) delivers a deeply personal historical account of life in the United States. Born and raised in rural Alabama on a sharecropping farm, from a young age Dial would collect discarded and recycled materials to be worked into new objects, and meanwhile observed deep physical and philosophical lessons from his … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, October 12: Rirkrit Tiravanija | A Lot of People at MoMA PS1 For over four decades, Rirkrit Tiravanija has created artworks that aim to "make less things, but more useful relationships." This week the artist invites visitors to play ping-pong, eat pad thai, and record music when you experience some of Tiravanija's most iconic participatory works, presented on a rotating schedule. The exhibition, his first major … Read the full Story >>
ESTAMOS BIEN – LA TRIENAL 20/21, El Museo del Barrio’s first national large-scale survey of LatinX contemporary art featuring more than 40 artists from across the United States and Puerto Rico, continues in person, on weekends, through September 26th. Featuring works in diverse mediums, from time-based art to reliefs from detritus to sculpture in the round as well as paintings, drawings and works … Read the full Story >>
Last chance, Wednesday, August 13: Mary Temple + Nathan Dilworth at Half Please go by the images here since this, from the website, is not much to go on: In the 1970s. Robert Frank and his wife June Leaf began spending summers in Nova Scotia, vacating New York for more wide-open spaces. Outside their house in Mabou, they hung a clothesline both for laundry … Read the full Story >>
Continuing: Cecily Brown | Death and the Maid at The Met For more than twenty-five years, Cecily Brown (b. 1969) has transfixed viewers with sumptuous color, bravura brushwork, and complex narratives that relate to some of Western art history’s grandest and oldest themes. After moving to New York from London in the 1990s, she revived painting for a new generation alongside a handful of … Read the full Story >>
In 1972, artist Faith Ringgold dedicated a painting to the women incarcerated at Rikers Island, the notorious jail complex in New York City. Titled “For the Women’s House,” the work is a message of possibility and perseverance, depicting women of different ages and ethnicities in diverse roles inspired by Ringgold’s interviews with detainees. It was conceived, in the artist’s words, to … Read the full Story >>
Sunday, June 6 | Opening Day Cézanne Drawing at the Museum of Modern ArtMoMA presents a major exhibition offering a new look at the celebrated modern artist Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) through close attention to his process in pencil and watercolor and fresh insights into this profoundly original yet lesser-known body of work. Cézanne Drawing is the first major effort in the United States to unite drawings from … Read the full Story >>
[Today] self-publishers, independent/collaborative publishers and print-on-demand services are challenging the traditional publishing paradigm. A photobook is a photobook, no matter how it was published. A self-published book should not be judged differently. Doing-it-yourself is just as valid as publishing with a big press. All are part of the current photobook discussion and I have been championing that for many years.—Larissa Leclair, founder of Indie … Read the full Story >>
Analyze Lovers by Les Levine at Ulrik People have been complaining about how the art market [fueled by wealth and power] is ruining art since the Renaissance—when Vasari noted that there were beginning to be too many portraits of patrons in paintings meant to persuede the converted. Today it’s mostly about how art fairs and AI are ruining things every which way. Above: … Read the full Story >>
A new exhibition of work by Diane Arbus opened this week at Levy Gorvy on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Diane Arbus: In the Park presents images made in Central Park and Washington Square Park from the time she began photographing for her own purposes until her life ended in 1971. In Washington Square Park, not far from where she lived after separating from her … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, November 10, 8:30-10:00 am: Fanny Allié | Shadows at Bella Abzug Park The 10 new site-specific sculptures, Shadows, are installed in planting beds within the first block of the park (nearest The Shops at Hudson Yards and where the 7 train entrances are located). They depict ten workers who maintain the park in outline form. Shadows also includes an audio … Read the full Story >>
