With the Whitney Museum of American Art opening its new survey Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back on Monday, this week’s DART Artist Q&A features an interview Glenn O’Brien did with Warhol for Interview magazine [The Crystal Ball of Pop] in June, 1977. Warhol’s famously laconic speaking style often failed in its attempt to present him as a dumb blond; see for … Read the full Story >>
With her magically exuberant color palette, Aliza Nisenbaum tells human stories: painting people, individually or in groups, with their countenance, posture, and immediate surroundings organically composed to depict their connections with their families ,homes, and communitie. Above: Pedacito de Sol (Vero y Marissa), 2022 In this exhibition the artist’s years-long engagement with people at the Queens Museum and its neighborhood, Corona, highlights Nisenbaum’s personal … Read the full Story >>
Fiber arts—a newer name for “womens’ work”, is everywhere in museums and galleries—but nowhere is the idea of craft as art as environmentally equal to work made in metal and bronze by men more beautifully realized than it is today at Madison Square Park. Sheila Pepe, a feminist and queer artist whose elaborate web-like structures have been seen in New York in galleries and museums, … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, January 15, 6-9pm: Anita Kunz | Evolution at Philippe Labaune Philippe Evolution, a solo exhibition by Canadian artist and longtime AI contributor, Anita Kunz, brings together decades of work that explores evolution as a living system, one shaped by continual change, expansion, and recalibration. Kunz is internationally recognized for her editorial illustrations for such magazines as: The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and … Read the full Story >>
On permanent view |Terminal B commission at LaCuardia Airport The Public Art Fund celebrates its collaboration with LaGuardia Gateway Partners for the permanent installation of LaGuardia Vistas, a window mural by Sabine Hornig for the new Terminal B. The 42’ h x 268’ w transparent photo-collage fills an expansive glass façade, allowing sunlight to immerse visitors in a kaleidoscopic wash of color, image, 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 >>
Continuing through January 29, 2022: Meghann Riepenhoff: Ice, Haines Gallery Meghann Riepenhoff, whose work was most recently seen in NYC at the New York Public Library, in 2019, lives and works in Bainbridge Island, WA. She creates her camera-less cyanotypes in collaboration with the elements, placing paper coated with homemade emulsion directly within the landscape. As they make contact with photographic materials, weather and water … 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 >>
Saturday, June 19, marks the anniversary of what we know as Juneteenth. According to the Smithsonian Institution, in 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, and over 250,000 enslaved Africans were declared free by the executive decree known as General Order No. 3. Today, Juneteenth celebrations take place largely in the form of regional parades, … Read the full Story >>
Saturday-Sunday October 21-22: Open House New York Weekend “A pubic celebration of New York and the power of place! The 21st edition of Open House New York Weekend festival will offer a mix of in-person experiences, self-guided explorations, and digital content—inviting you to get an insider’s look at everything from single rooms, studios, factories, and public spaces to entire buildings, blocks, bike corridors, and waterways. Above: … 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 >>
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 >>
