Thursday, November 14 · 7 - 11pm at Angel Orensanz Foundation The year's most anticipated networking schmooze-fest celebrating the American Photography 40 and American Illustration 43 winners is just 20 days away—get your tickets here! Once again AI-AP brings the art, photo and design communities together in a one-of-a-kind, trifecta gathering of photographers / illustrators / and creatives to launch the new AP40 … Read the full Story >>
The Ark at Powerhouse Arts The cavernous, industrial expanse of Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus—a beautifully repurposed former power station—has been transformed into a sprawling, modern-day art sanctuary. Curated by Eric Fischl and Eric Shiner, the venue's main inaugural exhibition gathers over 90 animal sculptures and installations by 51 artists. It is an ambitious, visually stunning exploration of coexistence, vulnerability, and our shared precarity in an … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, February 6: Real Clothes, Real Lives at the Historical Discover the everyday clothing of ordinary women on a gallery tour of Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore, the Smith College Historic Clothing Collection, an exhibition that highlights everything from hard-worn house dresses to psychedelic micro minis and modern suits to fast-food workers' uniforms. Showcasing items from the Smith … Read the full Story >>
As we hit the end of Week Nine of SIP, I’ve noticed that a lot of people in the arts here in NYC are taking a deep breath—and a second look: At their close surroundings and companions; their objectives for getting through the hour, the day, or the week; and what the future beyond that week might hold. By now anyone who had never … Read the full Story >>
Upstate Art Weekend [UPAW] is one of the miraculous outcomes of the Pandemic lockdown. Founded by art world phenom Helen Toomer in 2000, it has grown from a smattering of 23 participating galleries and institutions to more than 145 this year, running from Thursday, July 18 through Sunday, July 21. The opening celebration of the fifth edition takes place at The School | … Read the full Story >>
Last chance—closing today: Pamela Council | A Fountain for Survivors, Duffy Square, Times Square, NYC. Jasmine Weber writes, in Hyperallergic: "Eighteen-feet tall, A Fountain for Survivors is a magnificent protrusion in the middle of Times Square that manages to stand out despite being surrounded by billion-kilowatt billboards advertising the Jolly Green Giant, Coca-Cola, and every other brand in the American capitalist lexicon. … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, June 20 starting 6pm: Solstice Celebration at Noo Arts/Kingsland Wildflower What happens when you cross contemporary choreography with Nintendo’s Pikmin, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and a cutthroat game of The Floor is Lava? You get New York movement artist Karley Wasaff’s newest interactive creation, Growing Takes Time. Until recently, the intersection of performance art and digital subculture has struggled to break … Read the full Story >>
Shiko Munakata: A Way of Seeing, a new presentation of nearly 100 innovative works by the celebrated artist Shiko Munakata (1903–1975), goes on view December 10 at Japan Society. Primarily known for his expressive woodblock prints in black on white paper, this exhibition reveals the breadth of Munakata’s oeuvre, which spanned from prints to calligraphy, sumi ink paintings, watercolors, lithography, and ceramics. … Read the full Story >>
The 2016 Summer Sketchbook Invitational concludes with Edel Rodriguez, who hopped a flight to Europe after sharing his thoughts with DART: I started my travel sketchbooks while I was in college at Pratt Institute. The first time I traveled abroad was at that time, when I went to study in Venice for the summer; I also traveled to Paris, Nice, Barcelona, Brussels, Amsterdam, Rome, … Read the full Story >>
This year the New York Botanical Garden will present a monumental installation of major works by glass sculptor Dale Chihuly. The artist, who began his career as an interior architect, has a lifelong fascination with glasshouses that has evolved into a series of exhibitions within botanical setting that began in 2001. First at the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago, and then the presentation of … Read the full Story >>
In The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, written during a period of social and political unrest following the French Revolution, William Blake states, "You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.” Blake regarded Hell as a place of opportunity for unrepressed, Dionysian energy. He explained,“Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, … Read the full Story >>
From the streets of Bangkok to the logging camps of India's remote offshore islands, photographer Palani Mohan has traveled to eleven countries over the last six years to document the plight of the Asian elephant, and the people who look after them. At a time when its close relative in Africa is flourishing, the Asian elephant is highly endangered. The pressures of urbanization, logging, … Read the full Story >>
Continuing through April 2: The New Bend at Hauser & Wirth Curated by Legacy Russell, Executive Director & Chief Curator of The Kitchen, ‘The New Bend’ brings together 12 contemporary artists working in the raced, classed, and gendered traditions of quilting and textile practice – Anthony Akinbola, Eddie R. Aparicio, Dawn Williams Boyd, Diedrick Brackens, Tuesday Smillie, Tomashi Jackson, Genesis Jerez, Basil Kincaid, … Read the full Story >>
May 7, 5:00-7:00pm: Third Annual Upper East Side Art Walk Seventeen Upper East Side Galleries will join organizer Jill Newhouse Gallery for the third annual UES Art Walk. Anchored by the Metropolitan Museum, the Upper East Side is home to many beautiful galleries tucked away in historic townhouses. Showing a broad selection of fine art in all media, including European, American, and Australian art … Read the full Story >>
Roman Vishniac Rediscovered, organized by the International Center of Photography (ICP), is currently on view at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Vishniac (1897–1990) created the most widely recognized and reproduced photographic record of Jewish life in eastern Europe between the two World Wars. In fact, it was these photographs that informed the development and filming of Steven Spielbberg’s film, Schindler’s List. The exhibition is organized by Curator Maya … Read the full Story >>
Lower East Side galleries grab the spotlight for the early hours of Saturday Thirty+ galleries open their doors from 9 to 11am for art fair goers to squeeze in a few more hours of contemporary art, coffee and noshes before heading to the fairs around town. Map. Participating galleries: Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Central Booking Art Space, Cindy Rucker Gallery, The Clemente Soto Vélez … Read the full Story >>
Continuing at El Museo: Candida Alvarez | Circle, Point, Hoop This exhibition, spanning 48 years of Candida Alvarez’s bold, vibrant practice, is a celebration of color, culture, and artistic vision that highlights her evolution through painting, drawing, and collage. Exploring the interaction between abstraction and figuration, with a focus on her experience as a female artist in a predominantly male environment, it begins with figurative … Read the full Story >>
Opening March 3, 6:00-8:00 pm: Willie Birch | Chronicling Our Lives at Fort Gansevoort The exhibition features large paintings on paper and painted papier-mâché sculptures created between 1987 and 1996, complemented by a new monumental, mural-like work executed in black and white. Together, the thirty works on view reflect Willi Birch’s perspective on the beauty and complexities of the human experience. He writes, … Read the full Story >>
Editor’s note: With ICON9 The Illustration Conference on the horizon—four days of art, discussion, performance, and plenty of talk in Austin, TX—the current roster for the Q&A is peopled with many of the exceptional artists making presentations during this biannual artfest. Eleanor Davis, the artist behind the ICON9 poster, will be on the Main Stage Saturday, July 9, at 6:20 pm. Info Q: Originally from the … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, May 29th, 5:00 - 8:00 pm: Borinquen Gallo | Mending My Garden at Alessandro Berni In this solo show, Gallo brings together a series of intricate sculptural installations that reframe our relationship to waste, beauty, and resilience. Through a meticulous and deeply process-driven approach, Gallo transforms disposable, everyday materials—trash bags, debris netting, caution tape—into visually striking weavings and spatial interventions. The exhibition underscores her … Read the full Story >>
