“The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents a major retrospective of the work of American painter Agnes Martin (1912–2004), the first since her death. One of the preeminent painters of the twentieth century, Martin created subtle and evocative paintings composed of grids and stripes and frequently… Read More
“With From the Collection: 1960–1969, The Museum of Modern Art reinstalls its fourth-floor collection galleries with works from all six of its curatorial departments, along with work from the MoMA Library and archives collection. On view from March 26, 2016, to March 12, 2017, the presentation is… Read More
“Mo Willems’ work boldly and artfully melds the humor and wonder of youth with a complex understanding of the human experience, so it speaks to readers of all ages,” said Louise Mirrer, President and CEO of the New-York Historical Society. “The Art and Whimsy of… Read More
Photographs by Corrado Serra. One World Observatory is an enclosed observation deck on top of One World Trade Center. It provides panoramic views of New York City from above 1,250 feet and on a clear day, you can see up to 50 miles away. The five observatory elevators ascend to the 102nd floor in… Read More
“Martin Wong boldly defied the notion of boundary. As an artist, he overhauled assumptions that a painter is defined by their identity. Within his work he embraced the complexity and hybrid nature of urban culture—mixing everything from graffiti and Chinese calligraphy, to West Coast and East… Read More
“This concentrated survey of the work of Jackson Pollock (American, 1912–1956) tracks the evolution of the artist’s work from the 1930s until his 1956 death at the age of 44. The Museum of Modern Art’s Pollock holdings are unparalleled in their breadth and quality, and… Read More
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “The modern American mass-culture industry was born at Coney Island, and the constant novelty of the resort made it a seductively liberating subject for artists. What these artists saw from 1861 to 2008 at Coney Island, and the varied ways in… Read More
“The term agitprop emerged from the Russian Revolution almost a hundred years ago, combining the words agitation and propaganda to describe art practices intended to incite social change. Since that time, artists across the ideological and global landscape have adopted modes of expression that can… Read More
“Probing the effects of an image-based post-Internet reality, Ocean of Images examines various ways of experiencing the world: through images that are born digitally, made with scanners or lenses in the studio or the real world, presented as still or moving pictures, distributed as zines,… Read More
“Over the past three decades, Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner have been very astute collectors of contemporary art. This exhibition presents a selection from their recent gifts of nearly five hundred fifty works by American artists to the Whitney Museum, and more than three hundred works by European… Read More
“The artists in the exhibition attempt to rematerialize the photograph through meticulous printing, using film and other disappearing photo technologies. Drawing on the legacies of Conceptualism and invested in exploring the processes and techniques of photography, they are also deeply interested in how photographic images circulate. Theirs is… Read More
“Chris ‘Daze’ Ellis: The City is My Muse is a visual journey through the five boroughs as seen in the paintings of Christopher Ellis, best known by his street name, Daze, who gained notoriety and fame as a teenager painting trains in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The… Read More
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