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 >>
Thursday, November 16, 6-8 pm; Barbara Nessim | Drawings at Derek Eller Balancing Act: Drawings 1969-1974 brings together a collection of portrait drawings by pioneering artist Barbara Nessim. These depictions of enigmatic female archetypes reflected the zeitgeist of a pivotal moment in women’s history by an artist who broke through the barriers in a male-dominated field and went on to become a … Read the full Story >>
June 11-July 24 | The Whitney Museum of American Art Today, the Whitney Museum announced its lineup of summer public programs featuring a hybrid schedule of digital and in-person events. The diverse range of programs kicks off on June 17 and includes conversations and film screenings hosted virtually and onsite. The Museum will also host a free Pride celebration on June 24 featuring … Read the full Story >>
As an author of books published in the UK who receives royalty payments—not only on book sales but also on fees paid for photocopying pages from my books, in libraries—I was excited to learn about the American Society for Collective Rights Licensing [ASCRL]. ASCRL, a membership organization based in Washington, D.C., is the only 501 C-6 not for profit tax exempt rights … Read the full Story >>
Continuing: Joan Mitchell | Paintings, 1979-1985 at Zwirner This exhibition of works from public and private collections, as well as from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, is presented in conjunction with the career retrospective that opened at SFMOMA, traveled to the Baltimore Museum of Art, and is now on view at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris—concurrent with the exhibition Claude Monet—Joan Mitchell. Mitchell established a singular … Read the full Story >>
The Future Was Then | The Changing Face of Facist Italy at Poster House In a fascist movement inspired by art, how does the fascist government influence the artists living in its grasp? This exhibition explores how Benito Mussolini’s government created a broad-reaching culture that grew with and into the Futurist movement to claw into advertising, propaganda, and the very heart of … Read the full Story >>
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA is an exploration of Latin American and Latino arts in dialogue with Lo Angeles, taking place from September 2017 through January 2018 at over 70 cultural institutions from Santa Barbara to San Diego and from Los Angeles to Palm Springs. Among the Southern California arts rooted in protest is the Chicano movement, which was born out of West Coast handstyle … Read the full Story >>
Taking place across three floors of the museum, this exhibition encapsulates the full range of Theaster Gates’s artistic activities, featuring artworks produced over the past twenty years and site-specific environments created especially for this presentation. Gates has titled the exhibition “Young Lords and Their Traces” in honor of the radical thinkers who have shaped his home city of Chicago and America as a whole. … Read the full Story >>
Artist Mark Todd, a long-time DART subscriber and multiple AI awardee, is presenting a large selection of hand-painted movie posters from Ghana, West Africa. In an email exchange this week he wrote: These wild posters were once the product of a much larger industry known as the Ghanaian Mobile Cinema”. This business started in the late 1980’s when Ghanain entrepreneurs formed video clubs. With a … Read the full Story >>
Closing January 7: Regarding Kimber at Cheim & Read Kimber Smith (1922-1981) had his first exhibition in New York in 1951, where his work was paired with Joan Mitchell’s. Smith’s effortless style [above] anticipates the work of influential artists such as Mary Heilmann, Richard Aldrich, and Joe Bradley The first exhibition of his works in NYC since 2011 was held at Cheim & Read's UES … Read the full Story >>
The biggest week on NYCs art calendar just got bigger. As galleries reopen after their August break, Armory Art Week opens for the first time during the same time slot. So if you throw a dart in any direction, chances are you’ll hit an opening or an artists talk or performance that appeals. Here are just a few things that got my attention. … Read the full Story >>
