GothamToGo

China Institute Gallery Reopens to ‘Flowers on a River’ in March 2023

China Institute Gallery, Downtown

 

 

 

Li Shan (1686-ca. 1762). Flowers. Birds, and Insects (leaf 3). Album of 12 leaves, ink and color on paper. 14 5/8 x 13 in. (36.9 x 32.9 cm). Tianjin Museum.

China Institute Gallery will reopen on March 23rd with a landmark exhibition of Chinese flower-and-bird paintings. The largest survey of its kind outside of China and the first in the U.S., Flowers on a River: The Art of Chinese Flower-and-Bird Painting, 1368-1911, Masterworks from Tianjin Museum and Changzhou Museum will showcase masterpieces of Chinese painting across five centuries. The exhibition will be on view through June 25, 2023. The exhibition marks the first showing of masterpieces traveling from China to the U.S. since the onset of the pandemic.

Continue reading “China Institute Gallery Reopens to ‘Flowers on a River’ in March 2023” →

‘Americans in Paris’ ~ a Book Discussion with the Authors at Rizzoli Bookstore on March 2nd

Book Launch, Flatiron District, Grey Art Gallery/NYU, Rizzoli Bookstore

 

 

 

Image Courtesy Hirmer Publishers and Grey Art Gallery, New York University

Join Lynn Gumpert, director of New York University’s Grey Art Gallery, and Debra Bricker Balken, independent curator, on March 2nd for a conversation about Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962, published by Hirmer Publishers and Grey Art Gallery, NYU.

Continue reading “‘Americans in Paris’ ~ a Book Discussion with the Authors at Rizzoli Bookstore on March 2nd” →

‘Calligraphy of Line: The Drawings of Anna Walinska’ at Graham Shay Gallery Through March 3rd

Graham Shay Gallery, Upper East Side

 

 

 

Anna Walinska in Paris, 1926. Image courtesy Graham Shay Gallery.

As we approach Women’s History Month, we highlight an exhibition from this year’s Master Drawings New York. It is Calligraphy of Line: the Drawings of Anna Walinska on view at Graham Shay Gallery through March 3rd.

Continue reading “‘Calligraphy of Line: The Drawings of Anna Walinska’ at Graham Shay Gallery Through March 3rd” →

Villa Albertine’s Annual Event ‘Night of Ideas’ to Take Over Fifth Ave on March 3rd

Night of Ideas, Villa Albertine

 

 

 

Villa Albertine, Night of Ideas. Photo credit: Elizabeth Leitzell

Villa Albertine today announced the 2023 Night of Ideas. The event is the cultural institution’s flagship annual nocturnal marathon of intellectual debates, performances, readings, and more, centered on the great questions and challenges of our time. Programming will take place at Villa Albertine, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Ukrainian Institute of America, and The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. The Night of Ideas is coordinated worldwide by the Institut Français.

As part of Villa Albertine’s French/US Cultural Exchange for 2023, Night of Ideas, Night of Ideas will kick off in New York City on Friday, March 3rd at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Continue reading “Villa Albertine’s Annual Event ‘Night of Ideas’ to Take Over Fifth Ave on March 3rd” →

‘Alex Voinez / Rick Lazes: 3 Seconds After Lift Off’ to Open at Fremin Gallery

Chelsea, Fremin Gallery

 

 

 

Alex Voinea AV 866, 2022.  Acrylic on Canvas. 47 x 47 x 2 in/119.4 x 119.4 x 5.1 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Fremin Gallery

“3 Seconds After Lift Off“, featuring the works of two emerging artists, Romanian born painter ALEX VOINEA and American sculptor RICK LAZES is the coalition of the two artists, resulting in the creation of a consequential and eruptive exhibition at Fremin Gallery. Alex Voinea / Rick Lazes: 3 Seconds After Lift Off will be on view from March 2 to April 1, 2023.

Continue reading “‘Alex Voinez / Rick Lazes: 3 Seconds After Lift Off’ to Open at Fremin Gallery” →

Howard Greenberg Gallery + Sundaram Tagore Gallery Present Edward Burtynsky’s Powerful New Photography Series, ‘African Studies’ in Two Solo Gallery Exhibitions

Howard Greenberg Gallery, Photography, Sundaram Tagore Gallery

 

 

 

Edward Burtynsky: African Studies. Tea Plantations #4, Near Kericho, of Kenya, 2017. Chromogenic Colour print. Image courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery.

Edward Burtynsky’s powerful new photography series African Studies, a seven- year project spanning ten countries, will have its New York premiere with two solo gallery exhibitions this March. The exhibitions will be on view at Sundaram Tagore Gallery from March 2 through April 1 at 542 West 26th Street and at Howard Greenberg Gallery from March 4 through April 22 at 41 East 57th Street. Opening receptions will be held at Sundaram Tagore Gallery Thursday, March 2, 6 – 8 p.m. and at Howard Greenberg Gallery Saturday, March 4, 3 – 5 p.m. The artist will attend both receptions.

Continue reading “Howard Greenberg Gallery + Sundaram Tagore Gallery Present Edward Burtynsky’s Powerful New Photography Series, ‘African Studies’ in Two Solo Gallery Exhibitions” →

Visiting ‘Abigail DeVille: Bronx Heavens’ at The Bronx Museum of the Arts

Art Exhibition, Bronx, The Bronx Museum of the Arts

 

 

 

Abigail DeVille, Freedom Triumphant in War and Peace, 2021, and The Observatory, 2021. Installation view of Brand New Heavies, curated by Racquel Chevremont and Mickalene Thomas (Deux Femmes Noires), at Pioneer Works. Photo by Olympia Shannon / Dan Bradica Studio.

Currently on view at the Bronx Museum of the Arts is Abigail DeVille: Bronx Heavens, the artist’s first museum survey, examining the myths and realities of local familial and ancestral histories, and the convoluted notion of freedom in a country fraught with oppression and racism. The exhibition features DeVille’s work created over the past ten years, examining different aspects of the borough’s 120 year history as a haven for immigrant and migrant communities, including for several generations of DeVille’s family who have lived in the area and were part of the Great Migration.

Continue reading “Visiting ‘Abigail DeVille: Bronx Heavens’ at The Bronx Museum of the Arts” →

GR Gallery Presents David Olatoye | Victor Olaoye: Times Are Changing

GR gallery, Lower East Side

 

 

 

David Olatyoe, ‘Global Citizen III’, acrylic, pastel and pen on canvas, 36 in. Courtesy GR Gallery

GR Gallery is pleased to present “Times Are Changing”, an extensive duo exhibition featuring the latest production of Nigerian artists David Olatoye Babatunde and Victor Olaoye, integrated in the same event for the first time. The show will reveal 18 acute artworks, executed with the artists signature techniques and expressly created for this occurrence, designed to guide the visitor into a rare cultural journey represented by noble characters, inspired by the artists’s personal involvements and akin by colorful and aesthetically sophisticated traditional ensemble. Opening on March 2nd.

Continue reading “GR Gallery Presents David Olatoye | Victor Olaoye: Times Are Changing” →

Mark S. Kornbluth: DARK ~ an Exhibitions of Broadway-Inspired Photographs to Open at Cavalier Gallery

Broadway, Cavalier Gallery, Chelsea, Photography

 

 

 

Mark S. Kornbluth, Richard Rodgers, Ed. 3, Mark S. Kornbluth, 2020 archival pigment print on Canson 60 x 66 in. Image courtesy Cavalier Gallery

Cavalier Galleries is delighted to announce DARK—a solo exhibition of Mark S. Kornbluth’s photographs of Broadway theaters during the pandemic closure. The series comprises large-format photographs of dozens of New York City theater exteriors, a majority of which will be on display in the exhibition. Images of the Ambassador, Barrymore, Booth, Eugene O’Neill, Imperial, Lunt-Fontanne, Lyric, Music Box, New Victory, and Richard Rodgers theaters are featured, among others. Broadway shows captured in the historical moment include The Book of Mormon, Hamilton, Hangmen, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Inheritance, Moulin Rouge, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and TINA: The Tina Turner Musical. The exhibition opens Thursday, March 2, with an artist reception from 6–8 p.m., and runs through Saturday, April 15, 2023.

Continue reading “Mark S. Kornbluth: DARK ~ an Exhibitions of Broadway-Inspired Photographs to Open at Cavalier Gallery” →

New York City Landmarks Conservancy Lucy G. Moses Preservation Awards for 2023

Lucy G. Moses Awards, NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, Preservation

 

 

 

 

Castle Clinton National Monument in Battery Park

Award winners were announced for the 33rd Lucy G. Moses Preservation Awards for 2023. The Lucy G. Moses Awards are the Conservancy’s highest honors for outstanding preservation efforts, named for a dedicated New Yorker whose generosity benefited the City for more than 50 years.

Continue reading “New York City Landmarks Conservancy Lucy G. Moses Preservation Awards for 2023” →

Loss, Longing, Belonging: Shahzia Sikander’s Khorfakkan Series ~ a Discussion at NYU

19WSN, Greenwich Village, Grey Art Gallery/NYU, NYU

 

 

 

Image: Shahzia Sikander, The Cypress Despite Its Freedom Is Held Captive to the Garden, 2012–2013, Sharjah, Khorfakkan Cinema, UAE. Courtesy of Shahzia Sikander Studio.

Join NYU Abu Dhabi Institute in New York on March 7th for an exciting dialogue, presented by the Intersectional Feminist/Queer Studies Collective with 19 Washington Square North, and co-sponsored by the Grey Art Gallery.

Alongside the opening of the exhibition of work by Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander at 19WSN, the gallery opens its doors to a dialogue between Sikander and Gayatri Gopinath (Director, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, NYU). Sikander’s photographs, initially taken in 2012, depict the ruin and desolation of a South Asian movie theater and its sole caretaker in Khorfakkan, Sharjah, and speak poignantly to the questions of home, displacement, belonging, and unbelonging that touch the lives of many South Asian migrants in the UAE.

Continue reading “Loss, Longing, Belonging: Shahzia Sikander’s Khorfakkan Series ~ a Discussion at NYU” →

The Garment District Alliance Unveil’s the Redesign of the Iconic Big Button Sculpture!

Garment District, Garment District Alliance

 

 

 

The Big Button, Fashion Avenue at 39th Street

On February 16th, the Garment District Alliance (GDA) unveiled its new Big Button sculpture in the heart of the Garment District on Fashion Avenue (Seventh) and 39thStreet, replacing the information kiosk and featuring an updated installation that references the neighborhood’s history.

Continue reading “The Garment District Alliance Unveil’s the Redesign of the Iconic Big Button Sculpture!” →

Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence Ceramic Sculpture at Museum of Arts & Design

Ceramics, Museum of Arts & Design, Sculpture

 

 

 

Diana Yesenia Alvarado, Lista Para Volar, 2022, Earthenware, glaze, underglaze, and luster. 

The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) will present the first major museum survey of humor and irreverence in modern and contemporary clay sculpture. On view from March 18–August 27, 2023, Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture brings together 50 artworks from the 1960s to the present day in which clay is used as a tool for critique and satire. In the exhibition, pieces by artists of the originating Funk art generation will be placed next to work by contemporary artists who are expanding on Funk’s legacy of humor, subversion, and expressive figuration.

Continue reading “Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence Ceramic Sculpture at Museum of Arts & Design” →

‘Sarah Sze: Timelapse’ to Open at The Guggenheim Museum

The Guggenheim Museum

 

 

 

Work in progress by Sarah Sze, 2022. © Sarah Sze. Photo: Courtesy Sarah Sze Studio

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present a solo exhibition of Sarah Sze (b. 1969, Boston) featuring a series of site-specific installations by the acclaimed New York–based artist. Sarah Sze: Timelapse will unravel a trail of discovery through multiple spaces of the iconic Frank Lloyd Wright building, from the exterior of the museum to the sixth level of the rotunda and the adjacent tower level gallery. The exhibition will explore Sze’s ongoing reflection on how our experience of time and place is continuously reshaped in relationship to the constant stream of objects, images, and information in today’s digitally and materially saturated world.

Continue reading “‘Sarah Sze: Timelapse’ to Open at The Guggenheim Museum” →

Hippo Ballerina & Friends Pirouette Over to One Dag Hammarskjöld Through March, 2024

Cavalier Gallery, Dag Hammarskjöld, Midtown, Sculpture

 

 

 

Bjørn Okholm Skaarup, Hippo Ballerina, Hippo Ballerina, pirouette, and Rhino Harlequin, pirouette at their new destination at One Dag Hammarskjöld. Images courtesy Cavalier Galleries

Last year, New Yorkers in and around Pershing Square were treated to the whimsical outdoor sculpture installations created by Danish artist Bjørn Okholm Skaarup affectionately named Hippo Ballerina, Hippo Ballerina, pirouette, and Rhino Harlequin, pirouette.

Now, a smaller version of Hippo Ballerina has been installed at One Dag Hammarskjöld alongside her friends, Hippo Ballerina, pirouette and Rhino Harlequin, pirouette.

Continue reading “Hippo Ballerina & Friends Pirouette Over to One Dag Hammarskjöld Through March, 2024” →

New York Now: Home ~ a Photography Triennial to Open at Museum of the City of New York

Museum of the City of New York, Photography

 

 

 

Liberty, from the series “We Are Like Air: NYC”, 2022. Courtesy of Xyza Cruz Bacani

Museum of the City of New York, NYC’s storyteller for nearly 100 years, today announced the list of 33 image-makers whose work will be included in the inaugural presentation of New York Now: Home – a photography triennial. Opening on March 10, 2023, the first installation focuses on the theme of “Home” and features photographs and artworks by artists that reveal a complex understanding of home in New York’s five boroughs. With works ranging from social documentary to conceptual, the artists in New York Now: Home explore the ways that homes cross geographic borders; how homes are havens of safety for some but not all; the fact that homes are chosen as much as they are inherited; and the experience of homes that is made in our bodies. Together, the work celebrates the diversity of what home, family, kinship, and community are and can be in New York, now.

Continue reading “New York Now: Home ~ a Photography Triennial to Open at Museum of the City of New York” →

Hauser & Wirth in Collaboration with Fort Gansevoort Present ‘Winfred Rembert. All of Me’

Fort Gansevoort, Hauser & Wirth, Upper East Side

 

 

 

Saint to Saint II, 2016. Dye on carved and tooled leather. 87 x 97.8 cm/34 1/4 x 38 1/2 in (framed); Winfred Rembert © 2023 The Estate of Winfred Rembert/ARS NY Courtesy the estate, Fort Gansevoort, and Hauser & Wirth

On 23 February, Hauser & Wirth will present ‘All of Me,’ its first exhibition of works by late American artist Winfred Rembert (1945-2021), in collaboration with Fort Gansevoort. Occupying all three floors of the gallery’s 69th Street location, this immersive tribute to Rembert’s life and artistry will include more than 40 works made in his signature medium of carved, tooled and painted leather, including several never before seen.

Continue reading “Hauser & Wirth in Collaboration with Fort Gansevoort Present ‘Winfred Rembert. All of Me’” →

The Photography Show 2023 Presented by AIPAD ~ March 31 through April 2

AIPAD, Keith de Lellis Gallery, Photography, The Photography Show

 

 

 

The Photography Show. Photo: © Andy Ryan

The Photography Show presented by AIPAD has announced the exhibitors for the 2023 show, which will be on view from March 31 through April 2, 2023, at Center415 on Fifth Avenue between 37th and 38th streets. The fair will open with a VIP Preview on March 30. The roster of galleries includes members of the prestigious Association of International Photography Art Dealers known as AIPAD, recognized as the world’s leading galleries of fine art photography, as well as an exceptional selection of emerging galleries new to AIPAD.

Continue reading “The Photography Show 2023 Presented by AIPAD ~ March 31 through April 2” →

‘Entrance to the Mind: Drawings by George Condo’ in The Morgan Library & Museum

The Morgan Library

 

 

 

Female Portrait, 2003. The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Anna Nikolayevsky, 2021.102. Photography by George Condo Studio. © George Condo, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.

In 2021, the Morgan acquired twenty-eight drawings by American artist George Condo (b. 1957) that offer an overview of his career over the last forty-five years. Ranging from early drawings made when he was a teenager to recent explorations into what he calls “psychological Cubism,” the exhibition, Entrance to the Mind: Drawings by George Condo will highlight Condo’s brilliant draftsmanship through a cast of characters in turn comic, monstrous, tragic, and endearing. The exhibition opens on February 24th.

Continue reading “‘Entrance to the Mind: Drawings by George Condo’ in The Morgan Library & Museum” →

12 MFA Artists from SVA in ‘Echo Box: A Group Exhibition’ at LatchKey Gallery

LatchKey Gallery, Lower East Side, School of Visual Arts, SVA

 

 

 

Katinka Huang, Pickle it if you don’t know what to do with it, 2023; Charcoal, ink, acrylics and pastel on canvas, 48 x 48 in. Image courtesy of the artist.

LatchKey Gallery is proud to present ECHO BOX, a group exhibition of 12 emerging artists currently pursuing their MFA at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Over the course of this new year, artist, professor James O. Clark and founder, director of LKG, Amanda Uribe worked with the students to realize an exhibition while providing the business fundamentals for an artist navigating this art world. ECHO BOX will be on view at LatchKey Gallery, 173 Henry Street NYC from Friday, February 10 – February 26, 2023. An opening reception will take place on February 10 from 6-8pm.

Continue reading “12 MFA Artists from SVA in ‘Echo Box: A Group Exhibition’ at LatchKey Gallery” →

‘Luminous Elsewheres’ to Open at Westbeth Gallery in Late March, 2023

Greenwich Village, Westbeth Gallery

 

 

 

Westbeth Gallery will host Luminous Elsewheres, an exhibit featuring artists who actively explore visual domains that are evocative, mysterious and unexpected. Eschewing the confines of logic and linearity, Luminous Elsewheres artists are receptors through whom “the echoes and reflections of an irrational elsewhere flow freely and take form.” (Daniela Ferretti) The exhibit will be on view from March 31 through April 28, 2023.

Continue reading “‘Luminous Elsewheres’ to Open at Westbeth Gallery in Late March, 2023” →

‘Mostly New: Selections from the NYU Art Collection’ on view at Grey Art Gallery

Greenwich Village, Grey Art Gallery at NYU, NYU

 

 

 

Installation view of “Mostly New: Selections from the NYU Art Collection” Photo by Nicholas Papananias, courtesy Grey Art Gallery, NYU

Currently on view at Grey Art Gallery at NYU, ‘Mostly New: Selections from the NYU Art Collection‘. The exhibition presents modern and contemporary artworks, the majority of which have entered the New York University Art Collection over the last decade. This exhibition will be on view to June 28, 2023.

Continue reading “‘Mostly New: Selections from the NYU Art Collection’ on view at Grey Art Gallery” →

Berenice Abbott’s New York Album, 1929 to Open at The MET in March, 2023

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photography

 

 

 

Marquee: Berenice Abbott (American, 1898–1991). Page from New York Album, 1929–30. Gelatin silver prints, 10 x 13 in. (25.4 x 33 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Emanuel Gerard, 1984 (1984.1097.9–.18). © Berenice Abbott / Commerce Graphics Ltd. Inc.

Opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on March 2, 2023, Berenice Abbott’s New York Album, 1929 will present selections from a unique unbound album of photographs of New York City created by American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), shedding new light on the creative process of one of the great artists of the 20th century. Consisting of 266 small black-and-white prints arranged on 32 pages, the album comprises a kind of photographic sketchbook, offering a rare glimpse of an artist’s mind at work. In addition to some 20 framed album pages, the exhibition will feature photographs from The Met collection of Paris streets by Eugène Atget, whose archive Abbott purchased and promoted; views of New York by her contemporaries Walker Evans and Margaret Bourke-White; and selections from Abbott’s federally funded documentary project, Changing New York (1935–39).

Continue reading “Berenice Abbott’s New York Album, 1929 to Open at The MET in March, 2023” →

7th Annual Love Rocks NYC at The Beacon Theatre for God’s Love We Deliver ~ March 9th

Beacon Theatre, Gods Love We Deliver, Music

 

 

 

3rd Annual Love Rocks NYC, 2019

Love Rocks NYC is a marquee annual music event that raises money and unites new and existing supporters for God’s Love We Deliver. The concert, which has become one of the premiere benefit concerts in the country, is known for hosting riveting performances, and unique artist collaborations from many of the world’s most talented and revered artists.

All proceeds from Love Rocks NYC benefit God’s Love We Deliver.

Continue reading “7th Annual Love Rocks NYC at The Beacon Theatre for God’s Love We Deliver ~ March 9th” →

The Morgan Library & Museum Presents ‘Uncommon Denominator: Nina Katchadourian at the Morgan’

The Morgan Library

 

 

 

Jan van de Velde (1593 – 1641), The sorceress [Netherlands?: s.n.], 1626, engraving in Joseph Ames (compiler; English, 1689–1759), Emblematic and Satirical Prints on Persons and Professions. The Morgan Library & Museum, PML 145850.40. Photography by Janny Chiu.

The Morgan Library & Museum is pleased to present Uncommon Denominator, a sequence-based exhibition in which interdisciplinary artist Nina Katchadourian combines pieces from the Morgan’s collection with her own artworks and objects of familial significance. Opening February 10th and on view through May 28th, 2023, it is the third in an ongoing series of exhibitions the Morgan’s Photography Department has created in collaboration with a living artist.

Continue reading “The Morgan Library & Museum Presents ‘Uncommon Denominator: Nina Katchadourian at the Morgan’” →

New Museum to Present a Major Wangechi Mutu Survey Spanning the Entire Museum

New Museum

 

 

 

Image: Wangechi Mutu, Yo Mama, 2003. Ink, mica flakes, acrylic, pressure-sensitive film, cut-and-pasted printed paper, and painted paper on paper, diptych, overall 59 1/8 × 85 in (150.2 × 215.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift, 2005. Courtesy the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles. Photo: Robert Edemeyer

The New Museum will present a major solo exhibition of work by Wangechi Mutu, bringing together more than one hundred works across painting, collage, drawing, sculpture, and film to present the full breadth of her practice from the mid-1990s to today. On view March 2–June 4, 2023, “Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined” will take over the entire the museum, encompassing the three main floors, lobby, “Screens Series” program on the lower level, and a new commission for the building’s glass façade. Curated by Vivian Crockett, Curator, and Margot Norton, Allen and Lola Goldring Senior Curator, with Ian Wallace, Curatorial Assistant, “Intertwined” will trace connections between recent developments in Mutu’s sculptural practice and her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions.

Continue reading “New Museum to Present a Major Wangechi Mutu Survey Spanning the Entire Museum” →

Architecture Now: New York, New Publics ~ The Inaugural Presentation of a New Exhibition Series at The Museum of Modern Art

Architecture, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art

 

 

 

The Museum of Modern Art announces Architecture Now: New York, New Publics, the inaugural installation of a new exhibition series that will serve as a platform to highlight emerging talent and foreground groundbreaking projects in contemporary architecture. On view February 19 through July 29, 2023, the first iteration of the series, New York, New Publics, will explore the ways in which New York City–based practices have been actively expanding the relationship of metropolitan architecture to different publics through 12 recently completed projects. In addition, each project will be accompanied by a new video by Brooklyn-based filmmaker Hudson Lines, produced on the occasion of the exhibition. Architecture Now: New York, New Publics is organized by Evangelos Kotsioris, Assistant Curator, and Martino Stierli, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator, with Paula Vilaplana de Miguel, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design.

Continue reading “Architecture Now: New York, New Publics ~ The Inaugural Presentation of a New Exhibition Series at The Museum of Modern Art” →

‘ChrisRWK: Promise Made. Promise Kept’ to Open at Harman Projects

Comic Art, Graffiti, Harman Projects, Lower East Side, Street Art

 

 

 

ChrisRWK ‘True To The Blue’. Image courtesy of the artist and Harman Projects

Harman Projects is pleased to present Promise Made. Promise Kept, a solo exhibition by New York City-based artist ChrisRWK. This will be the artist’s first solo presentation with the gallery.

ChrisRWK creates layered mixed mediapaintings drawing inspiration from cartoons, comic books and his time as a graffiti writer. These paintings feature a selection of recurring cartoon-like characters that the artist has been developing over the last two decades. Centered in this cast of characters is the eponymous robot. The most iconic image in Chris’ work, the robot actually originated as a cube that began appearing in his work in the late 1990s and evolved into a television and then finally a robot around the turn of the century.

Continue reading “‘ChrisRWK: Promise Made. Promise Kept’ to Open at Harman Projects” →

Simone Elizabeth Saunders: Unearthing Unicorns to Open at Claire Oliver Gallery in March, 2023

Claire Oliver Gallery, Harlem, Textiles

 

 

 

Simone Elizabeth Saunders, Release in Darkness, 2022, Unearthing. Image courtesy Claire Oliver Gallery

Claire Oliver Gallery will open its doors to Unearthing Unicorns, the debut solo exhibition by artist Simone Elizabeth Saunders. Unearthing Unicorns showcases large-scale textile artworks that explore the iconography of the famed high Renaissance era Unicorn Tapestries and Art Nouveau advertising through a contemporary Black feminist lens. The artist’s sweeping art historical reframing is rendered in vibrant polychrome hand-tufted textiles that both reference the prized woven tapestries of the Renaissance as well as the more contemporary feminist craft movement of the later 20th century. Unearthing Unicorns will be on view in Harlem March 17 – May 13, 2023.

Continue reading “Simone Elizabeth Saunders: Unearthing Unicorns to Open at Claire Oliver Gallery in March, 2023” →

‘Themes and Dreams’ ~ Joan Hall Retrospective to Open at Westbeth Gallery

Greenwich Village, Westbeth Gallery

 

 

 

Boxed Dreams: A New Day, 2020, Mixed Media Assemblage, 11”x 10”

Themes and Dreams, a retrospective of collage and assemblage illustration by New York-based artist Joan Hall, will be on view at the Westbeth Gallery from March 4-24, 2023. Self-curated with input from independent curator Lilly Wei, the exhibition will feature seven distinct bodies of work that explore modernist strategies of fragmentation and re-composition. Produced over a 50-year career, the 100 pieces in the exhibition will be exhibited together for the first time charting the depth and breadth of Hall’s varied interests and talent.

Continue reading “‘Themes and Dreams’ ~ Joan Hall Retrospective to Open at Westbeth Gallery” →

‘Nell Breyer: Where Lines Converge’ on view at Historic Central Synagogue

Central Synagogue, Midtown

 

 

 

‘Where Lines Converge’~ Nell Breyer © 2022 at Central Synagogue

As part of Central Synagogue’s ‘Get Inspired. Get Connected. Get Shabbat’ initiative, the Synagogue has opened its sanctuary to a new site-specific installation, Where Lines Converge, created by Brooklyn-based artist Nell Breyer. The temporary installation adds a new, visual dimension to a place of prayer, offering a unique opportunity for individual, communal, and spiritual reflection.

Continue reading “‘Nell Breyer: Where Lines Converge’ on view at Historic Central Synagogue” →

‘Anastasia Bay: The Stumbler’s Parade’ to Open at Venus Over Manhattan on Great Jones Street

Noho, Venus Over Manhattan

 

 

 

Image credit: Anastasia Bay, The Stumbler’s Parade (Landscape), 2022. Pastel and acrylic on canvas; 78 3/4 x 104 1/4 in (200 x 265 cm). Courtesy the artist and Venus Over Manhattan, New York.

Venus Over Manhattan will open its doors to Anastasia Bay: The Sumbler’s Parade, an exhibition of new work by the Brussels-based artist. Comprising a series of twelve paintings inspired by Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s masterpiece The Blind Leading the Blind (1568), the exhibition is Bay’s first in New York City, and her debut presentation with Venus Over Manhattan. On view February 9th.

Continue reading “‘Anastasia Bay: The Stumbler’s Parade’ to Open at Venus Over Manhattan on Great Jones Street” →

Explore the Whimsical & Experimental World of 1960s Paper Fashion at Museum of Arts and Design

Columbus Circle, Fashion, MAD, Museum of Arts & Design

 

 

 

Installation view of Generation Paper: Fast Fashion of the 1960s, 2021; Phoenix Art Museum. Image © Phoenix Art Museum.

On view from March 18 to August 27, 2023, at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), Generation Paper: A Fashion Phenom of the 1960s explores the era’s short-lived phenomenon of paper fashion through more than 80 rare garments and accessories crafted from non-woven textiles. These fashions, introduced in 1966 as a promotional campaign for Scott Paper Company, combined bold, graphic design with space-age innovations in materials. Surfacing a little-known chapter in the history of design, Generation Paperilluminates the creative partnerships of craft and commerce in the development of semi-synthetic and synthetic materials.

Continue reading “Explore the Whimsical & Experimental World of 1960s Paper Fashion at Museum of Arts and Design” →

A Masterpiece in the Making: Joaquín Sorolla’s Gouaches for the Vision of Spain at The National Arts Club

National Arts Club, The Hispanic Society of America

 

 

 

Image: Courtesy of The Hispanic Society of America, New York. Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

The National Arts Club is proud to partner with the Hispanic Society Museum and Library in presenting this landmark exhibition commemorating the Valencian master Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida. The exhibition features the work of the Valencian master Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida—the preeminent artist in Spain at the turn of the 20th century—on the occasion of the centennial year of his death. On view are Sorolla’s rarely-seen preparatory sketches for the paintings in the HSM&L’s Sorolla Gallery, Vision of Spain. This is the first time the works are being exhibited in the U.S.

Continue reading “A Masterpiece in the Making: Joaquín Sorolla’s Gouaches for the Vision of Spain at The National Arts Club” →

Art and Activism in the Amazon ~ ‘The Yanomami Struggle’ at The Shed

Hudson Yards, The Shed

 

 

 

Claudia Andujar, [A guest decorated with vulture and hawk down feathers at a feast, Catrimani], 1974. Gelatin silver print. 26.4 x 39.8 inches (67 x 101 cm). Artwork © Claudia Andujar. Collection of the artist.
The Yanomami Struggle is a comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the collaboration and friendship between artist and activist Claudia Andujar and the Yanomami people, one of the largest Indigenous groups living in Amazonia today.

Following acclaimed presentations at the Instituto Moreira Salles (São Paulo), the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain (Paris), and the Barbican Centre (London), among other venues, the exhibition is expanded at The Shed to include more than 80 drawings and paintings by Yanomami artists André Taniki, Ehuana Yaira, Joseca Mokahesi, Orlando Nakɨ uxima, Poraco Hɨko, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, and Vital Warasi. Visitors will also encounter new video works by contemporary Yanomami filmmakers Aida Harika, Edmar Tokorino, Morzaniel Ɨramari, and Roseane Yariana.

Continue reading “Art and Activism in the Amazon ~ ‘The Yanomami Struggle’ at The Shed” →

Pier 107 ~ Bobby Wagner Walk Reconstruction Project Wants to Hear From You!

East Harlem, East River Esplanade, El Barrio, NYCEDC, Pier 107

 

 

 

The Esplanade Friends’ years of tireless advocacy is paying off, thanks in large part to your continuing support. The Pier 107 and Bobby Wagner Walk Project is finally moving forward. Community Board 11 and the New York City Economic Development Corporation want to hear from you about whether to rebuild the Pier on 107th or 112th St. Register for the February 9th or 11th visioning meetings now.

Continue reading “Pier 107 ~ Bobby Wagner Walk Reconstruction Project Wants to Hear From You!” →

Hikes Before Likes: NYC Parks is Kicking You Off the Couch!

NYC Parks Department

 

 

Image: NYC Parks

NYC Parks announces a new campaign debuting today on LinkNYC, to remind New Yorkers of the fun and beauty they can experience by spending time off-screen by playing and exploring the outdoors. 

“Our new campaign is a gentle reminder to get out, look up, and enjoy the outdoors!” said NYC Parks Commissioner Sue Donoghue. “Social Media is a great way to learn about the best parks to visit in NYC, but nothing beats the mental and physical benefits of playing in nature IRL.”  

Continue reading “Hikes Before Likes: NYC Parks is Kicking You Off the Couch!” →

Art Installations, Events & Exhibits in NYC ~ it’s the February 2023 GothamToGo Art Roundup

Art Installation Roundup

 

 

 

Image: Jia Sung, six realms, 2019, Acrylic, embroidery, glass beads on linen, 58 x 32 inches, on view in the exhibition ‘The Ripening’ at Pen + Brush, opening February 16th.

This month we celebrate Black History Month, the annual Queens Center for Progress ‘Evening of Fine Food’, Losar Family Day at Rubin Museum, new exhibitions, gallery walks and tours. Love is in the air in all five boroughs for Valentine’s Day, as we also have a Day of Remembrance for Japanese American Incarceration on its 81st anniversary. Entering February, here are a few suggestions.

Continue reading “Art Installations, Events & Exhibits in NYC ~ it’s the February 2023 GothamToGo Art Roundup” →

‘The Ripening’ to Open at Pen + Brush

Flatiron District, Pen + Brush

 

 

 

Jovan C. Speller, Deeply Rooted, 2017, Van Dyke brown print, 8.5 x 8.5 inches

Pen + Brush is pleased to present its first exhibition of 2023, The Ripening curated by Parker Daley Garcia with Birdie Piccininni, opening February 16th and open to the public through May20th.  Loosely based on Édouard Glissant’s book of the same name, The Ripening puts forth a shared process, where trauma, fluidity, and choice intersect, as a way of exploring the state of identity, specifically, gendered (or lack thereof) identity today. Artists here explore various states of ‘otherhood’, pain, desire, and power as ways of self-actualizing identity. Much like the process of ripening, this exhibition blurs the realms of dream and reality as it explores the capacity and fluidity of gender to become and, indeed, unbecome. Works put forth here document and envision complexities of differences in our shared world. Multitudes are put forth, as are universal truths, while hedging toward a dynamic and unpredictable future.

Continue reading “‘The Ripening’ to Open at Pen + Brush” →

International Center of Photography Presents ‘Face to Face’

ICP, International Center of Photography, Photography

 

 

 

Fran Lebowitz and Fran Lebowitz. Photo by Will Ragozzino/scottruddevents for ICP

The International Center of Photography (ICP) has opened its doors to the exhibition Face to Face: Portraits of Artists by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe and Catherine Opie. Organized by renowned writer and curator Helen Molesworth, the exhibition presents portraits of luminaries in the arts by three of the most prominent portraitists of our time. Face to Face will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue published by ICP and MACK, London, with essays by Molesworth and writer and curator Jarrett Earnest.

Continue reading “International Center of Photography Presents ‘Face to Face’” →

Xiyadie: Queer Cut Utopias at The Drawing Center

Soho, The Drawing Center

 

 

 

Xiyadie, Sewn, 1999. Papercut with water-based dye and Chinese pigments on Xuan paper, 55 1/8 x 55 1/8 inches (140 x 140 cm). Courtesy of the artist

In February 2023, The Drawing Center will present Xiyadie: Queer Cut Utopias, the first solo exhibition of work by Chinese artist Xiyadie in New York. The name Xiyadie, which translates to Siberian Butterfly, is one the artist chose for himself to describe his upbringing in Weinan, a city in the Shaanxi Province of Northwest China. A reflection of his personal and artistic evolution, the pseudonym also denotes Xiyadie’s enduring resilience despite the fact that he has never been able to freely show his work or live openly with regard to his sexual orientation. Occupying two floors at The Drawing Center, Queer Cut Utopias will feature more than thirty of Xiyadie’s intricate paper-cuts, dating from the early 1980s through today, each of which articulates his longing to fully express his queer desire. Xiyadie presents a strong sense of artistic autonomy; his highly graphic works on paper fuse traditional folk forms and iconography with narratives from his personal life.

Continue reading “Xiyadie: Queer Cut Utopias at The Drawing Center” →

‘TAFA: The Echoes of Memories’ to Open at Pictor Gallery in Chelsea

Chelsea, Pictor Gallery

 

 

TAFA, ‘The Canonization of Sarah Baartman’, Acrylic on canvas. Image courtesy of the artist

Pictor Gallery will open its doors to a solo exhibition by West African born, Harlem based artist TAFA entitled The Echoes of Memories.

Well known for his colorful abstract oil & acrylic paintings of musicians, sporting events, marches, and protests, his brush strokes take viewers on a literal moving adventure. Below, ‘Pele the Great’…… His paintings also bring to light social and political issues, such as the featured image on this post (above) Sarah Baartman…

Continue reading “‘TAFA: The Echoes of Memories’ to Open at Pictor Gallery in Chelsea” →

NYC Celebrates Black History Month ~ February 2023

Black History Month

 

 

 

Author Ernest J. Gaines, painting by artist Robert Peterson, to be featured on new stamp commission for Black History Month 2023. Image courtesy the artist and Claire Oliver Gallery.

This year’s theme for Black History Month is “Black Resistance,” and will explore how African-Americans have fought repression from America’s earliest days, from escaping plantations, to the rise out of poverty and struggle for equal housing and education, and voting rights. Here are a few ways to celebrate the month.

Continue reading “NYC Celebrates Black History Month ~ February 2023” →

Tenuous Threads, a Two-Part Exhibition On View at Atlantic Gallery in January & February

Atlantic Gallery, Chelsea, Fiber Art, Textiles

 

 

 

Gorgeous piece by artist Carol Paik entitled ‘Same River, Twice’ will be in Part Two of the exhibition Tenuous Threads at Atlantic Gallery. Image courtesy of the artist.

Atlantic Gallery will open its doors to TENUOUS THREADS, a two-part exhibition showcasing works incorporating textiles, fibers, threads and mixed media. Tenuous Threads alludes to the delicate lines that bring us together and sets us apart; that join us yet repel us. All of life is connected through networks, systems, fibers and webs. Communication (visual, verbal, electrical, chemical, and kinetic) enables an exchange of information amongst all life forms. The exhibition, curated by Patricia Miranda, includes innovative artworks that utilize textiles, fibers, threads (natural and synthetic) in sculpture, collage, 3D and 2D mixed media that communicates the strength and fragility of what binds all life.

Continue reading “Tenuous Threads, a Two-Part Exhibition On View at Atlantic Gallery in January & February” →

USPS Issues New Forever Stamp of Author Ernest J. Gaines by Artist Robert Peterson Issued as Part of its Black Heritage Series

Black History Month, USPS

 

 

 

Author Ernest J. Gaines, painting by artist Robert Peterson, to be featured on new stamp commission for Black History Month 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and Claire Oliver Gallery.

The 46th stamp in the Black Heritage series for the USPS honors author Ernest J. Gaines (1933-2019). Best known for such novels as ‘The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman’ and ‘A Lesson Before Dying‘, Gaines drew from his childhood as the son of sharecroppers on a Louisiana plantation to explore the untold stories of rural African Americans.

The Stamp is being issued as a Forever Stamp in panes of 20 for Black History Month.  By the way, the cost of stamps just went up!

Continue reading “USPS Issues New Forever Stamp of Author Ernest J. Gaines by Artist Robert Peterson Issued as Part of its Black Heritage Series” →

Proposed Cannabis Dispensary Location on 125th Street ~ What do You Think?

Harlem

 

 

 

NYC Manhattan Community Board 10 invites the public to comment on a proposed Cannabis Dispensary location, to be located at 248 West 125th Street.

Continue reading “Proposed Cannabis Dispensary Location on 125th Street ~ What do You Think?” →

The Thoughtful Work of Roberto Cuoghi in ‘PEPSIS’ Opens at Hauser & Wirth

Chelsea, Hauser & Wirth

 

 

 

A(XLVIIPs)t, 2021, silk, acrylic, wood, aluminum structure; 385 x 514 cm/151 5/8 x 202 3/8 in; Photo: Sarah Muehlbauer. Roberto Coughi © Roberto Cough Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

For his first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth and first New York City solo presentation in nearly a decade, Italian artist Roberto Cuoghi will populate the ground floor of the gallery’s 22nd Street building with an entirely new body of work. One of the most celebrated, yet enigmatic, artists of his generation, Cuoghi is known for an exacting, almost obsessive, research- and process-driven practice that spans the full spectrum of styles and genres. ‘Pepsis’* will debut works from Cuoghi’s ongoing, all-consuming project of the same name—a complex, multi-faceted investigation initiated in early 2020 after a fully immersive stay in New York City. Much of this body of work focuses on a rarely explored aspect of his ever-expanding practice, a medium infrequently associated with Cuoghi but central in contemporary art discourse now: painting.

Continue reading “The Thoughtful Work of Roberto Cuoghi in ‘PEPSIS’ Opens at Hauser & Wirth” →

‘Death is Not the End’ ~ an Exhibition About the Afterlife to Open at The Rubin Museum of Art in March, 2023

Chelsea, The Rubin Museum of Art

 

 

 

Lords of the Charnel Ground; Smashana Adipati; Tibet; 18th century; painted terracotta; 6 1/2 x 5 1/8 x 1 1/2 in. (16.5 x 13 x 3.8 cm); Rubin Museum of Art; C2002.36.1 (HAR 65149); photography by David De Armas for the Rubin Museum of Art, 2012

The Rubin Museum of Art is pleased to present “Death Is Not the End,” a new exhibition opening March 17 that explores notions of death and the afterlife through the art of Tibetan Buddhism and Christianity. Featuring prints, oil paintings, bone ornaments, thangka paintings, sculptures, illuminated manuscripts, and ritual objects, “Death Is Not the End” invites contemplation on the universal human condition of impermanence and the desire to continue to exist. This cross-cultural exhibition brings together 58 objects spanning 12 centuries from the Rubin Museum’s collection alongside artworks on loan from private collections and major institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Morgan Library & Museum; Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp; Wellcome Collection, London; Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City; San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and more. The exhibition is part of the Rubin Museum’s yearlong thematic focus on Life After, exploring moments of change that propel us into the unknown. “Death Is Not the End” will be on view March 17, 2023, to January 14, 2024.

Continue reading “‘Death is Not the End’ ~ an Exhibition About the Afterlife to Open at The Rubin Museum of Art in March, 2023” →

NYC DOT Announces Search for Artists to Beautify 191st Street Tunnel

DOT ARTS, Murals, Street Art, Washington Heights

 

 

 

191st street at Broadway # 1 Train, 2017

The community was shocked to see their 191st Street #1 subway station at Broadway, devoid of the colorful murals commissioned by Department of Transportation in 2015 as part of a Beautification Project. This past weekend, a DOT operation “fully clean and sanitize’ the approximately 900-foot-long tunnel early on Saturday morning, January 21, 2023.

Update ~ NYC DOT Announces Search for Four Artists to beautify 191st Street Tunnel (March 16, 2023).

Continue reading “NYC DOT Announces Search for Artists to Beautify 191st Street Tunnel” →

Harlem Fine Arts Show Celebrates 15th Anniversary with Exhibition at The Glasshouse in Chelsea

Harlem Fine Arts Show

 

 

 

The Harlem Fine Arts Show (HFAS) is the largest traveling African Diasporic art show in the United States. Inspired by the Harlem Renaissance, HFAS provides a platform for African Diasporic artists and American visual artists to exhibit and sell their works. This three-day event serves as an economic platform for the multicultural, general market and arts communities to empower and increase market share in numerous regions throughout the United States. From February 24-26, the Harlem Fine Arts Show will return to New York City to celebrate its 15th Anniversary in a new location ~ The Glasshouse in Chelsea.

Continue reading “Harlem Fine Arts Show Celebrates 15th Anniversary with Exhibition at The Glasshouse in Chelsea” →