Museums and galleries have shut their doors, but not their commitment to art and the artists they represent. Online Viewing Rooms have been popping up due to the ban on public gatherings, and parks and public spaces have become a respite for New Yorkers getting a breath of fresh air and enjoying a bit of space. Here is a list of some online viewing, free and available to the public now, and beginning in April, 2020. We will continue to add content, as more exhibitions open their doors online.
Take a Virtual Day-Trip to The Barnes in Philadelphia
The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia has a new free online program ~ Barnes Takeout. Get your daily serving of art in this new YouTube series.
Take a Virtual Day-Trip to 12 Historic Destinations via National Trust for Historic Preservation
Stroll through Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Coconut Grove; tour the Pollock-Krasner House; the Museum at Eldridge Street; George Eastman Museum + more through the National Trust for Historic Preservation portal.
Take a Virtual Walk on Mars with NASA
You have the time, so why not take the ultimate day-trip ~ to Mars. Starting April, 2020, everyone can get a taste of what that feels like. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, collaborated with Google to produce Access Mars, a free immersive experience. It’s available for use on all desktop and mobile devices and virtual reality/augmented reality (VR/AR) headsets. That includes mobile-based virtual reality devices on Apple and Android. Buckle up!
Let’s Take a Van Gogh Museum 4K Tour of over 2,100 Artworks
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is closed due to COVID-19, but the Museum invites all to step into a seven-part virtual tour, displaying more than 2,100 artworks.
Times Square at The Crossroads
Times Square Arts, Poster House, Print Magazine, and For Freedoms have launched a citywide public art campaign featuring artist-designed PSAs and messages of love, gratitude, and solidarity with New York City’s health care and essential workers.
The initial phase will feature work by over 20 celebrated designers, including Paula Scher, Maira Kalman, and Pablo Declan, all rallied by Poster House and Print Magazine. Phase two will be shaped by the work of contemporary visual artists and curated by Times Square Arts and For Freedoms. A rotating display of designs will be on view in Times Square on an ongoing basis at the 15, 30, and 45- minute marks throughout each day.
Atlantic Gallery presents ‘Future (Perfect)’, an Online Exhibition & Benefit
Atlantic Gallery opens its Online Viewing Room to the exhibition, Future (Perfect). In an effort to do their part and help our amazing city get through this tough time, Atlantic Gallery members have decided to donate 20% of all sales to the UNITED WAY NYC: Covid19 Community Response & Recovery Fund.
One Third of a Nation: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1946 in the Howard Greenberg Online Gallery
Depicting challenges impoverished Americans were enduring at the time, with photographs by Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks, among others, the exhibition, One Third of a Nation: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration, demonstrates the extraordinary power of photography to define an era and inspire social change. Although the exhibition was planned months before the current pandemic situation, the images now take on a new relevance. The exhibition is now in the Howard Greenberg Gallery Viewing Room.
ZOYA CHERKASSKY | Lost Time ~ Online at Fort Gansevoort
ZOYA CHERKASSKY | Lost Time is the second in Fort Gansevoort’s ongoing online series, Seeing Through You. It is an exhibition of 19 new drawings by Kiev-born, Tel-Aviv-based artist Zoya Cherkassky, who taps into a collective imagined world of a pre-WWII Jewish life in Eastern Europe as an allegorical vehicle for contemplating our current crisis.
Free Passenger Search from Ellis Island Foundation
Have you tried the free passenger search to find your Ellis Island connection?
Beyond the Harlem Renaissance at Keith de Lellis Gallery Online
Keith de Lellis Gallery celebrates the portraiture of Carl Van Vechten (American, 1880-1964) in its spring exhibition in the Online Viewing Room. Van Vechten moved to New York City from Chicago in 1906 to pursue a writing career (he would become the first American critic of modern dance while contributing to the New York Times) before dedicating himself to photography.
Keith de Lellis Gallery ‘Paris Photo New York’ Online
Keith de Lellis Gallery opens its Online Viewing to a selection of photographs that would have been exhibited at Paris Photo New York.
Fotografiska New York Presents: The Foot Sessions, a New Digital Destination for Photography & Storytelling
Fotografiska New York, the Manhattan-based photography museum, introduces the launch of The Foto Sessions; a new digital exhibition space created to showcase incredible photography while the world stays at home. In light of COVID-19 events, the museum has temporarily closed its doors, but will continue to spotlight both aspiring and accomplished photographers via the online destination.
Columbia U Streaming Concerts From Home ~ Arturo O’Farrill: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Latin jazz works best when the musicians involved are as fluent in Afro-Cuban rhythms as they are in the deep grooves and advanced harmonics of bebop. Arturo O’Farrill has that pedigree in his DNA: His father, Chico O’Farrill, was part of a groundbreaking group of musicians who created the mash-up of Afro-Cuban music and jazz back in late-’40s New York. Turn up the sound & bring the image to full-screen!
Mi Barrio: Memories of Home, a Digital Visual Archive via El Museo del Barrio
In celebration of El Museo del Barrio’s 50th anniversary, the Museum partnered with Nuevayorkinos, a digital visual archive dedicated to New York City’s Latinx population. The collaboration aims to highlight the long-standing presence and cultural contributions of Latinx communities in its home of El Barrio (East Harlem). In the summer of 2019, the Museum co-hosted a number of pop-up installations at El Museo and issued an open call, asking visitors to submit images and videos of Latinx life in El Barrio from 1969 to 2005. The Museum is delighted to present “#MIBARRIO: Memories of Home,” a family album that celebrates personal and shared histories in this neighborhood ~ Online.
Take Refuge in the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room at The Rubin Museum of Art
The Rubin Museum of Art is sending out an online ‘Rubin Care Package’ of art and practices for navigating our world in this time of instability and feeling of global community fear, loss, isolation and stress. Take refuge in the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room with two-hours of meditative chanting, and Podcasts allowing listeners to hear meditations designed to focus our mind and control our breath.
Watch & Listen to the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Watch, listen and interact with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Learn about their recordings, enjoy music videos, and watch livestreams.
Jazz at Lincoln Center with Three Full concerts Online
Jazz at Lincoln Center has unlocked its vaults and rolled out three full concert videos from past seasons. Heading over to YouTube, enjoy The Music of Miles Davis; South African Songbook; and Family concert: Who is Chick Corea. Stay tuned for more from their archives in the near future.
Pierre Soulages: Light Out of Darkness in the Viewing Room at LÉVY GORVY
In celebration of his 100th birthday in December 2019, the Musée du Louvre, Paris, unveiled a solo survey exhibition with Pierre Soulages, marking only the third time in the institution’s history that the Salon Carré has been entirely devoted to the presentation of work by a single living artist. Now on view in the Online Viewing Room of LÉVY GORVY.
George Condo. Drawings for Distanced Figures Online at Hauser & Wirth ~ April 3
Museum of Arts & Design’s Online Video Learning Lab
The Museum of Arts & Design (MAD) created an incredible online learning lab filled with video’s, reading, and exploration of their collection ~ which includes over 95% of MAD’s permanent collection, to be viewed in high resolution images.
Here’s How to Whitney From Home!
Edward Hopper, Cape Cod Sunset, 1934. Oil on canvas, overall: 29 1/8 × 36 1/4in. (74 × 92.1 cm). Josephine N. Hopper Bequest; 70.1166. © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Still from “The Making of Liza Lou’s Kitchen”
Even in uncertain times, there are no limits to the creative spirit. It’s what makes us human. So while the Museum is temporarily closed, know that the spirit of the Whitney is open to all—and committed to connecting you to inspiration, knowledge, and a sense of community through art. They’ve laid out some of the best ways to explore American art of the twentieth century to today across our website and social media channels. Start with a journey through our online collection, revisit some of your favorite Whitney exhibitions, and enjoy an array of video and audio content that will bring you closer to the stories behind the art and artists that we at the Whitney hold so dear.
Read, Watch + Listen at MoMA
MoMA has opened its Online Portal to free online courses, educational materials to teach art from home, Artist Talks, and an online view of the Museum’s collection.
Virtual Visit of Villa Lewaro, Estate of Madam C.J. Walker
Tour self-made millionaire Madam C. J. Walker’s historic summer home with her great-great granddaughter, A’Lelia Bundles.
The MET 360° Project
The Met 360° Project is a series of six short videos inviting viewers to virtually visit The Met’s art and architecture using spherical 360° technology. The Project includes The Great Hall; Met Cloisters; The Temple of Dendur; Met Breuer; The Charles Engelhard Court; and Arms and Armor Galleries.
Explore The American Museum of Natural History Virtually
The Museum of Natural History is closed, but they welcome virtual visits. Here you will get a behind the scenes look at iconic habitat dioramas; inside the Museum, and a Google Arts and Culture Tour. On this page, you will also find materials for teachers (Khan Academy), families and kids.
Grey Art Gallery at NYU ~ Online Gallery
Grey Art Gallery at NYU opens its digital window to the exhibition, Taking Shape: Abstration from the Arab World, 1950s ~ 1980s, along with a short film taken at the opening reception in January, 2020. The Gallery also offers a selection of their permanent collection online. In addition, the gallery is passing along a link to Self-Guided Walking Tours for neighbors in Greenwich Village.
Joe’s Pub Performances on Youtube
Joe’s Pub, the small performance space inside the Public Theater New York, has a plethora of performances available on youtube.
The Galleries at The Salmagundi Club ~ Online
The historic brownstone that houses The Salmagundi Club may be closed, but the artists within are hard at work, and this work can been seen in the Artsy Showroom. The site features not only the SCNY Monotype Show, and the exhibition ‘Figuratively Speaking’, but also each participating artist member. All work available for sale.
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene Brings the Stage to You ~ Online
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, who brought us ‘Fiddler on the Roof‘ in Yiddish, has stepped up with ‘Folksbiene LIVE!’, a social media performance series. Can’t get to Broadway? Check out the online stage at Folksbiene! Live.
Museum of Jewish Heritage Livestream Events
The Museum of Jewish Heritage has launched Livestream Events including a concert to commemorate The 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz.
92Y Livestream Concerts + Conversations
Online at the 92nd Street Y, are a number of concerts and Conversations + online classes.
‘How the West was Won’ at JoAnne Artman Gallery Online
The romance of the Old West reminds modernity of the freedoms it represents in our imaginations. Artists America Martin, Billy Schenck, Greg Miller and James Wolanin incorporate the legacy of Western Expansion into their art. Now online, JoAnne Artman Gallery presents a new series of exhibitions.
MAD Visits the Studio of Ursula Von Rydingsvard
Ursula von Rydingsvard is renown for her powerful, monumental cedar sculptures, Here, she explains the labor-intensive, intuitive process for the 2011 Oddychająca, for which she manipulated a field of flat 2-by-4-foot beams into an organic form that gently curves out into space.
‘Nate Lewis: Latent Tapestries’ in the Online Viewing Room at Fridman Gallery
Fridman Gallery opens its doors to Latent Tapestries, a presentation of new work by New York-based, multidisciplinary artist Nate Lewis. This exhibition marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York. The exhibition is now available in the Online Viewing Room.
Gavin Brown’s enterprise Online Viewing Room
Uri Aran, Untitled (Conversation with D), Oil, oil pastel, acrylic, ink, graphite, wood stain, mixed media and collage on canvas, 2020
Gavin Brown’s enterprise unveiled its Online View Room, featuring new works by Rirkrit Tiravanijaand our current exhibitions of Uri Aran and Frida Orupabo. Ten percent of all sales from the Online Viewing Room will be donated to organizations in New York and Italy. These organizations include: Comunità di Sant’Egidio, Harlem United, NYC Health + Hospitals Donation Fund, The Studio Museum Fund, UNICEF Italia.
Fremin Gallery Exhibitions on Artsy Showroom
Fremin Gallery has opened an online window to its exhibitions on the Artsy Showroom. On view, new body of works by Nemo Jantzen and Emilie Arnoux. This site allows for Gallery news on the artists and their work, which is all for sale.
Louise Bourgeois. Drawings 1947-2007 in the Online Viewing Room at Hauser & Wirth ~ March 25
The works in this presentation capture her inner psyche through undulating marks in ink, watercolour and pencil. ‘Louise Bourgeois. Drawings 1947 – 2007’ coincides with the launch of ‘Dispatches’, a new series of original video, online features and experiences that connects you with the artists as the gallery continues to navigate this shared reality together.
Fort Gansevoort debuts ‘Seeing Through You’, a Series of Weekly Online Exhibitions ~ March 26
Fort Gansevoort Gallery will open its online window, announcing SEEING THROUGH YOU, a series of weekly online exhibitions organized for the gallery by invited curators and scholars. Launching with its first exhibition on Thursday, March 26, 2020, this initiative will highlight artists from around the globe and aim to initiate lively discourse among larger and more diverse audiences for whom the web and social media are an even more vital ‘salon space’ in a time of crisis.
Keith de Lellis Gallery presents New York Stories Online
In New York Stories, Keith de Lellis Gallery examines a familiar subject, New York City, through the lenses of fourteen accomplished photographers including David Attie, Anthony Barboza, Donald Blumberg, Esther Bubley, Jeanne Ebstel, Bedrich Grunzweig, Simpson Kalisher, Jan Lukas, Benn Mitchell, Fritz Neugass, Beuford Smith, W. Eugene Smith, Todd Webb, and Weegee. Now for sale in their online gallery.
The Schomburg Center invites the Public to Explore Victor Hugo Green + The Green Books Online
The Green Book, a guidebook for black Americans, was published by New York postal worker Victor Hugo Green from 1936 to 1966, during the Jim Crow era in America as a way for working-class African-Americans to pursue the American Dream of travel before and during the Civil Rights Movement. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture houses the full digital collection of Green Books and other similar guides. They are available free online.
Let’s Take a Walk in our Parks, Big & Small ~ and Bring Along Your 6′ Measuring Stick
New York City Parks have a plethora of outdoor art installations throughout all five boroughs. It may come to pass that our City is put under a ‘shelter-in-place’ order. But in the meantime, a nice long walk and some fresh air and exercise might be good for mind and soul. Here are a few suggestions, keeping in mind that some of the installations are temporary, and coming to an end as soon as the end of this month.
NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission Launches ‘Seneca Village Unearthed’ ~ Online
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) announced the launch of Seneca Village Unearthed, an online exhibit and collection of artifacts from what was once New York City’s largest community of free African-American landowners. Seneca Village was located in what is now Central Park, a scenic landmark. Through this online exhibit and collection, the general public will for the first time have access to nearly 300 artifacts and get a glimpse of what life was like for Seneca villagers in the mid-19th century.
The Salmagundi Club Annual Members’ Exhibition Online ~ April 27
The SWCNY Annual Members’ Exhibition will be Online from April 27 through May 21, 2020.
Religious Services ~ Online
Many religious institutions are offering online services. Here are just a few on view: St. Patrick’s Cathedral ~ Trinity Church NYC Online ~ Riverside Church Online ~ Park Avenue Synagogue ~ The Islamic Center at NYU ~ Most recent sermon at First Corinthian Baptist Church. Check with your religious institution to see what might be available.
Below are exhibitions still open and remaining on our calendar until cancelled (We will continue to add, as exhibits and installations re-open)
Gordon Hookey: Sacred Nation, Scared Nation at Fort Gansevoort on view through May 9, 2020
Fort Gansevoort Gallery opened its doors to Sacred Nation, Scared Nation, the first solo exhibition in the United States for noted Brisbane-based Waanyi Aboriginal artist Gordon Hookey (b. 1961, Cloncurry, Australia). Hookey uses metaphors, wordplay, and humor – sometimes brazenly provocative – to subvert tropes of English colonialization and to reclaim, empower, and redefine Aboriginal culture. Eschewing the traditional dot abstraction most commonly associated with indigenous Australian art, Hookey deploys deceptively folksy figuration and bold painted words in paintings that connect Black Aboriginal experience to that of African Americans.
Curtis Talwst Santiago: Can’t I Alter at The Drawing Center on view through May 10, 2020
In Can’t I Alter, Santiago creates a multi-faceted narrative in an immersive, drawing-filled installation that explores the theme of ancestry and the necessity of preserving the past while acknowledging the fallacies implicit in historical recollection. As viewers explore the space, they join Santiago and his alter ego, the J’ouvert Knight, in an attempt to locate a diasporic ancestor whose existence cannot ever be fully grasped. A newly commissioned film will accompany the installation, as well as performances organized by Santiago.
Guo Fengyi: To See from a Distance at The Drawing Center on view through May 10, 2020
Guo Fengyi: To See from a Distance is the first major institutional presentation of the Chinese artist’s work in the United States. The exhibition features more than thirty works from Guo’s brief yet prolific career, including drawings executed on book and calendar pages and on cloth, as well as small- and large-scale drawings on rice-paper scrolls. Spanning two floors of The Drawing Center’s galleries, To See from a Distance provides an overview of Guo’s visionary drawings, which incorporate the diagrammatic, the mystical, and the wildly imaginative.
In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection on view at The MET through May 17, 2020
The Costume Institute’s fall 2019 exhibition, In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection, will feature promised gifts from Sandy Schreier, a pioneering collector who over the course of more than half a century assembled one of the finest private fashion collections in the United States. On view from November 27, 2019, through May 17, 2020, the show will explore how Schreier amassed a trove of 20th-century French and American couture and ready-to-wear, not as a wardrobe, but as an appreciation of a form of creative expression.
Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945 at Whitney Museum of American Art on view through May 17, 2020
With approximately 200 works by sixty Mexican and American artists, this exhibition reorients art history by revealing the profound impact the Mexican muralists had on their counterparts in the United States during this period and the ways in which their example inspired American artists both to create epic narratives about American history and everyday life and to use their art to protest economic, social, and racial injustices.
Cauleen Smith: Mutualities at Whitney Museum of American Art on view through May 17, 2020
Cauleen Smith draws on experimental film, non-Western cosmologies, poetry, and science fiction to create works that reflect on memory and Afro-diasporic histories. Mutualitiespresents two of Smith’s films, Sojourner and Pilgrim, each in a newly-created installation environment, along with a new group of drawings collectively titled Firespitters.
Jordan Casteel: Within Reach at New Museum on view through May 24, 2020
In her first New York City solo museum exhibition, Jordan Casteel brings together nearly forty paintings spanning her career. Check schedule for related events including Jordan Casteel in conversation.
A Wonder to Behold at ISAW on view through May 24, 2020
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) presents A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate, opening new avenues for understanding one of the most spectacular achievements of the ancient world. On view from November 6, 2019, through May 24, 2020, the exhibition features 180 objects that bring to life the synthesis of masterful craftsmanship and ancient beliefs that transformed clay, minerals, and organic materials—seen as magically potent substances—into this powerful monument.
Creative Courts + Facebook AIR unveil Courts at Marcus Garvey Park on view to May 24, 2020
NYC Parks’ Art in the Parks ~ Creative Courts initiative, Facebook Artist-in-Residence Program (FB AIR Program), along with artist Saya Woolfalk, the non-profit Public Color, and the Marcus Garvey Park Alliance/Public Art Initiative have brightened up the basketball court on Madison Avenue near 122nd Street in Marcus Garvey Park.
Art Students League: Model for Monuments on view through May 2020
Art Students League unveiled this season’s Model to Monument Public Art in the Parks installations on Wednesday, May 22, 2019 in Riverbank State Park. This year, three sculpture pieces were installed along the Hudson River at 145th Street.
Robert Lobe: SuperStorm Arrived in Duarte Square Park on view to June, 2020
SuperStorm references Hurricane Sandy, one of the deadliest and most destructive hurricane to hit the northeast, inflicting billion in damage. This event so moved the artist that he was compelled to create a monument reflecting the event. Robert Lobe: SuperStorm will be on view to June, 2020.
New York Philharmonic: Project 19 to June, 2020
In celebration of the Centennial of the 19th Amendment, The New York Philharmonic has launched Project 19 ~ born of the conviction that an orchestra can participate in conversations about social imperatives and even change the status quo. Through Project 19, the Philharmonic can mark a “tectonic shift in American culture,” says President and CEO Deborah Borda, by giving women composers a platform and catalyzing representation in classical music and beyond. Project 19launches in February 2020 with the first six World Premieres. The Orchestra will premiere the next two commissions in May–June 2020. 11 more premieres will follow in future seasons.
The Facade Commission: Wangechi Mutu at The MET on view through June 8, 2020
The Metropolitan Museum of Art unveiled four installations on the facade of The Met Fifth Avenue, entitled The Facade Commission: Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free us. Wangechi Mutu was selected to create sculptures for The Met’s Fifth Avenue façade niches—the first-ever such installation on the Museum’s historic exterior—inaugurating a new annual artist commission series. The works were unveiled on September 9, 2019, and extended through June 8, 2020.
The Color of Power: Heroes, Sheroes & Their Creators at CCCADI on view to June 13, 2020
The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) will open its doors to the exhibition, The Color of Power: Heroes, Sheroes & Their Creators ~ highlighting the work of comic book artists of color. The exhibition will be on view in the historic firehouse (CCCADI) in East Harlem to June 13, 2020.
The Annual Cinema Connex Film Series through June 14, 2020
Cinema Connex brings independent film to Staten Island, free of charge, and featuring screenings and festival film-centric events spanning a variety of genres and locales. For many of the films, film subjects or directors will be coming out for Q&A’s post screening. Enjoy Downtown Dinner & A Movie.
Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist at The Whitney Museum of American Art on view through June 28, 2020
Agnes Pelton (1881–1961) was a visionary symbolist who depicted the spiritual reality she experienced in moments of meditative stillness. The exhibition, Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist is composed of approximately forty-five works ranging from 1917 to 1960.
Capucine Bourcard: Eat Me! + Public Art Initiative on view to July 1, 2020
In a city filled with fast-food options on every corner, bags of chips and cans of soda filling the shelves in local deli’s and bodega’s, and large, glossy ads of sugared drinks on billboards and in shop windows, it’s not easy promoting healthy eating to our kids. Or is it. In the installation EAT ME! the artist, Capucine Bourcart takes a deep-dive into the ease of turning this around in her community, Harlem.
Naomi Lawrence: La Flor De Mi Madre + Public Art Initiative on view to July 1, 2020
The 12 foot x 24 foot Crochet mural, La Flor De Mi Madre by artist Naomi Lawrence, is located on the fence at Eugene McCabe Field in East Harlem. It represents the diverse community in which it is placed, in a colorful representation of national flowers.
Studio 54: Night Magic at Brooklyn Museum of Art on view through July 5, 2020
The Brooklyn Museum of Art opened its doors to Studio 54: Night Magic, the first exhibition exploring the trailblazing aesthetics and continuing impact of New York City’s legendary nightclub. The exhibition will highlight the revolutionary creativity, expressive freedom, and sexual liberation celebrated at the world-renowned nightclub, presenting nearly 650 objects ranging from fashion, photography, drawings, and film to stage sets and music.
Salman Toor: How Will I Know at The Whitney on view to July 5, 2020
Salman Toor’s first solo museum exhibition will be presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art from March 20 to July 5, 2020.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh: Stop Telling Women to Smile on view to at least August, 2020
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, a Brooklyn-based street artist and painter whose street art project Stop Telling Women to Smiletackles gender-based street harassment. Her work can be found on walls from New York to Paris, Los Angeles to Mexico City, and right here…… along with some unexpected additions to her posters from locals.
T. rex: The Ultimate Predator at The Museum of Natural History on view to August 9, 2020
The American Museum of Natural History presents the new exhibition, T. rex: The Ultimate Predator, exploring the latest research and discoveries related to the dinosaurs known as Tyrannousaurs as a kick-off to the Museum’s 150th Anniversary celebration. As part of this exhibition, the Museum will introduce visitors to the entire tyrannosaur family, and reveal the amazing story of the most iconic dinosaur in the world.
Countryside, The Future at The Guggenheim on view through August 14, 2020
Countryside, The Future, is an exhibition addressing urgent environmental, political, and socioeconomic issues through the lens of architect and urbanist Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal, Director of AMO, the think tank of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). A unique exhibition for the Guggenheim Museum, Countryside, The Future will explore radical changes in the rural, remote, and wild territories collectively identified here as “countryside,” or the 98% of the earth’s surface not occupied by cities, with a full rotunda installation premised on original research.
José Parlá: It’s Yours at Bronx Museum of the Arts on view to August 16, 2020
José Parlá: It’s Yours will be the first solo museum exhibition of the internationally renowned artist in New York City. The new paintings evoke the artist’s personal connection to the Bronx, as well as the borough’s influence, which have helped to shape how Parlá views painting history and cities around the world. José Parlá: It’s Yours is organized by guest curator Manon Slome.
Brian Clarke: The Art of Light at Museum of Arts & Design on view through August 23, 2020
The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) presents a major exhibition of works by celebrated architectural artist and painter Brian Clarke (b. 1953, United Kingdom). The first museum exhibition in the U.S. of Clarke’s stained-glass screens, compositions in lead, and related drawings on paper, Brian Clarke: The Art of Light showcases the most considerable artistic and technical breakthrough in the thousand-year history of stained glass.
Ezra Wube: Project Junction on view at The Africa Center through August 23, 2020
The new exhibition at The Africa Center, Ezra Wube: Project Junction, couldn’t have been timed better ~ running during NYC Restaurant Week. This commissioned mixed media installation explores food “as a collective identity in its ever evolving state,” with the exhibition including a visit to some local, well-known African restaurants.
The Poster House Museum: The Sleeping Giant ~ Posters & The Chinese Economy + The Swiss Grid on view through August 23, 2020
The Sleeping Giant: Posters & The Chinese Economy explores China’s economic relationship with the world through poster design.
The Swiss Grid explores the development and impact of the International Typographic Style, considered one of the most important movements in graphic design history, through a selection of posters and ephemera. Influenced by the Concrete art of the Bauhaus and Jan Tschichold’s The New Typography, the practitioners of this style streamlined compositions through an adherence to geometric grid structures. The results were pared down, harmonious, instantly comprehensible designs—masterpieces of communication—that have stood the test of time.
To complete the story of Swiss poster history, companion exhibitions in adjoining galleries will celebrate over 100 years of Swiss design, from illustrational posters of the prewar period up through the “Swiss punk” movement of the 1970s and beyond.
The Sleeping Giant: Posters & The Chinese Economy + The Swiss Grid will be on view from February 27 through August 23, 2020 at Poster House Museum.
Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away at Museum for Jewish Heritage extended through August 30, 2020
The Museum of Jewish Heritage has opened its doors to the largest and most extensive exhibition on Auschwitz ever presented in the United States, featuring more than 700 original objects and 400 photographs ~ Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away, extended through August 30, 2020.
Jean-Marie Appriou: the Horses on view through August 30, 2020
Jean-Marie Appriou: The Horses arrived on the Doris C. Freedman Plaza, following Mark Manders: Tilted Head. Curated by Public Art Fund Curator, Daniel S. Palmer, the massive equine sculptures stand like surreal sentinels at the entrance to Central Park.
Susan Stair: Roots on Fire on view through August, 2020
Spending time with artist Susan Stair brings a whole new meaning to the trees that fill our green spaces. As we watched her work to create the clay molds for her next installation, Roots on Fire, Stair took us on a virtual journey underground, exploring how trees constantly send electrical messages through their roots and the mushroom (or mychorrizal network) that compose the Wood Wide Web. Come along on our three-part journey, as we document the creation of the installation Roots on Fire.
Simone Leigh: Brick House Coming to the High Line Plinth on view to September, 2020
As the High Line extends north, the new extended section known as the High Line Plinth unveiled its inaugural installation ~ Simone Leigh’s Brick House, seen from 10th Avenue at 30th Street.
Shrine Room Projects at The Rubin Museum on view through September 14, 2020
The Rubin Museum of Art presents “Shrine Room Projects: Shiva Ahmadi/Genesis Breyer P-Orridge/Tsherin Sherpa,” three contemporary art installations in dialogue with the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room. Located on the fourth floor of the Rubin, alongside the heart of the Museum — the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room — “Shrine Room Projects” feature artists who reinterpret traditional and religious iconography and practices. The exhibition includes rotating video installations by Shiva Ahmadi; an interactive sculptural piece by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge; and newly acquired work by Tsherin Sherpa. “Shrine Room Projects: Shiva Ahmadi / Genesis Breyer P-Orridge / Tsherin Sherpa” will be on view October 18, 2019, through September 14, 2020.
Willi Smith: Street Couture at Cooper Hewitt on view through October 25, 2020
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present the first museum exhibition of American designer Willi Smith (1948–1987). “Willi Smith: Street Couture” will feature key works by this pioneer of streetwear fashion who founded the iconic brand WilliWear with partner Laurie Mallet in 1976 and leveraged innovative partnerships with artists, designers and performers to break down social, cultural and economic boundaries.
Pope.L.: Choir at Whitney Museum of American Art on view through Winter, 2020
Pope. L continues on with Pope.L: Choir, the next complementary exhibition in the trio, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Lobby Gallery, from October 10th through Winter, 2020. Here, the artist creates a new installation expanding on his ongoing exploration and use of water. Choiris inspired by the fountain, the public arena, and John Cage’s conception of music and sound.
Jordan Casteel: The Baayfalls on The High Line at 22nd Street on view through December 2020
The mural The Baayfalls recreates a painting on canvas of the same name originally made in 2017. The Baayfalls is a double portrait of Fallou—a woman Casteel befriended during her artist residency at The Studio Museum in Harlem—and Fallou’s brother, Baaye Demba Sow. The pair are pictured outside the museum at Fallou’s table, where she sold hats she designed. When Fallou’s brother arrived in New York from Senegal, Casteel asked the two to sit for a portrait. The title references Baye Fall, a sect of the Sufi brotherhood Mouride, of which Fallou’s brother is a member. The gesture Fallou makes with her left hand signifies Allah among members of Baye Fall.
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