“Animating Park Avenue Armory with the sights, sounds, and movement of renowned interdisciplinary artist Nick Cave, The Let Go transforms the Armory’s Wade Thompson Drill Hall into a dance-based town hall that brings together visitors to participate in a collective act of catharsis. The Armory’s… Read More
All posts tagged “Contemporary Art”
Aaron Fowler: Bigger Than Me at New Museum, Storefront Window, May 2 – August 19, 2018
“Aaron Fowler (b. 1988, St. Louis, MO) creates elaborate assemblage paintings from discarded found objects and unconventional materials sourced from his local surroundings. Through intuitive layering of castoff furniture, oil and acrylic paint, and collaged elements including CDs, water bottles, iridescent LED lights, car parts,… Read More
Anna Boghiguian: The Loom of History at New Museum, May 2 – August 19, 2018
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “The Loom of History marks the first US solo exhibition of Armenian-Egyptian artist Anna Boghiguian (b. 1946, Cairo, Egypt). Her raw and expressionistic works combine painting, drawing, writing, collage, and sculpture to contemplate the past and present through intersections of economics,… Read More
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 at Brooklyn Museum, through July 22, 2018
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 is the first comprehensive exhibition to explore the pioneering artistic practices of Latin American and Latina women artists during a tumultuous and transformational period in the history of the Americas and the development of contemporary art. The exhibition includes more than 260… Read More
2018 Triennial: Songs for Sabotage at New Museum, February 13, 2018 – May 27, 2018
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “More than ever, images dominate our reality. The artists in “Songs for Sabotage” treat art as a form of propaganda that turns images on their head in order to reveal the ideologies and built worlds behind them. This tendency echoes the historical notion… Read More
elmuseo@SVA: May Contain Moving Parts at El Museo del Barrio, January 13 – Saturday, February 3
“El Museo del Barrio, in collaboration with the School of Visual Arts (SVA) Masters of Fine Arts Department present elmuseo@SVA: May Contain Moving Parts. Curated by El Museo’s Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, and a part of SVA’s winter programming, the exhibition features artists of the Caribbean diaspora, many of them… Read More
Laura Owens at Whitney Museum of American Art, through February 4, 2018
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “For more than twenty years, Laura Owens has pioneered an irreverent and innovative approach to painting by challenging its conventions while remaining deeply committed to its visual and emotional possibilities. Owens (b. 1970) was raised in suburban Norwalk, Ohio, and pursued… Read More
High Line Plinth: An exhibition of sculptural models of proposed artworks exhibited on the High Line at West 14th Street, February 10 – April 30, 2017
“Presented by Friends of the High Line, High Line Art announces the High Line Plinth, a new landmark destination for major public art commissions in New York City located on the High Line at West 30th Street and 10th Avenue. Designed as the focal point of… Read More
But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, April 29 – October 5, 2016
“The exhibition enables viewers to experience a range of concerns among artists from a variety of access points to showcase the cross-circulation of knowledge. One of them is the migration of ideas and peoples in an age of anxiety, when civil liberties and freedom of movement have… Read More
Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, June 5 – September 9, 2015
“Bringing together over one hundred works from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s contemporary collection, Storylines examines the diverse ways in which artists today engage narrative through installation, painting, photography, sculpture, video, and performance. The exhibition offers an expansive view of how recent artistic practice has become the site of new… Read More
Judith Scott–Bound and Unbound at Brooklyn Museum, October 24, 2014 – March 29, 2015
Judith Scott—Bound and Unbound is organized by Catherine Morris, Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, and Matthew Higgs, artist and Director of White Columns, New York. Images courtesy Brooklyn Museum … Read More
The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World at The Museum of Modern Art, December 14, 2014 – April 05, 2015
Images courtesy Museum of Modern Art












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