News
We Buy Gold Joins a Growing Cluster of Galleries in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
A new gallery is the latest to join a growing cluster of art spaces in the quickly gentrifying neighborhood.
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Art
A Democratic Dance Moves Visitors at MoMA
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Work/Travail/Arbeid is a kind of communal performance in which everyone is welcome.
Art
Surveying 20 Years of French Counterculture, Sans Punk Rebellion
In our age of imprudent Trumpism, this astute nasty display felt like dainty relics mislaid.
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Measuring the Social Impact of Internet Images
An ambitious exhibition at the International Center of Photography examines the relationship between new media and the offline world.
Art
The History of Tattoos in New York, from Bowery Sensation to Banned Art
The New-York Historical Society explores three centuries of Gotham's relationship to the tattoo through vintage images, electric pens, and live demonstrations.
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A Syllabus for Making Work About Race as a White Artist in America
This course offers a starting point: assignments for the white artist to understand their own racial position.
Comics
The Art of the Art Party
Who said art making was a solo activity?
Books
The Playful Yet Sobering Anti-Alcohol Posters of the Soviet Union
A new book from Fuel features previously unpublished anti-alcohol posters from the 1960s to '80s in the Soviet Union.
Art
Clay Vessels Pay Tribute to the Plastic Water Bottle
Jami Porter Lara's slick, black sculptures, currently on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, reframe how we see the ubiquitous plastic water bottle.
Art
A Feminist’s Cutting Critiques of Consumerism at Charlie James Gallery
Opening this Saturday, Nancy Buchanan's solo show Consumption explores that word's contemporary relevance through photography, collage, and video.
Art
Setting the Puzzling Language of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake to Music
Over 100 contributors to the project Waywords and Meansigns are setting James Joyce's experimental 1930s book Finnegans Wake to music.
News
Cultural Organizations Improve Quality of Life in NYC’s Low-Income Neighborhoods, Report Finds
Among the report's surprising findings is that the city's cultural sector is phenomenally informal and extensive, with more than 4,700 nonprofit cultural providers and more than 17,000 for-profit cultural entities.