Art
Cut through by the rumbling FDR Drive and shadowed on one side by the towering skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan, the South Street Seaport is still surprisingly transporting to New York City's maritime past.
Art
They say you don't realize what you were missing until you get it. Well, New York City was missing a building for showing modern and contemporary art.
Art
Like her paintings, Alice Neel’s watercolors and drawings, now showing at David Zwirner, wobble and tilt out of proportion, only more so.
In Brief
The board of trustees of the Cooper Union has offered not to renew the contract of the school's current president, Jamshed Bharucha, if it would help bring an end to New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's investigation into the university's management.
Art
Lina Puerta makes ruin porn on an unusually intimate scale.
Art
Tatiana Trouvé mounted 212 giant spools of rope onto three steel structures in Doris C. Freedman Plaza, with each rope representing one of Central Park’s winding walkways.
Art
The 2015 Armory Show delivers pretty much what you'd expect of the 2015 Armory Show: some quite good art, some pretty bad art, and a lot of completely harmless stuff in between.
Performance
It's hard to resist a dancing robot. Taiwanese choreographer Huang Yi's dance piece Huang Yi & YUKA, currently having its US premiere at New York's 3LD Art and Technology Center, shows that it's also very hard to share the stage with a robot.
Art
New Yorkers often complain that Times Square feels sterile and dead. The London-based artist Rebecca Louise Law’s new installation, “Flowers 2015: Outside In,” suspended in the lobby of the Viacom building, reintroduces nature and life to the neighborhood’s largely artificial environment.
Art
Last month, students in the Forensic Sculpture Workshop at the New York Academy of Art (NYAA) made faces for 11 anonymous skulls belonging to unidentified victims of crimes.
Art
Nowhere can you feel the silliness (and yet cloying realness) of the term "outsider art" more distinctly than at the Outsider Art Fair, which, by its very nature, is an insiders' affair.
Art
The expressive quality of collage across all manner of media, from literature and music to the visual arts, came to mind while viewing Rough Cut, an exhibition at Morgan Lehman Gallery.