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Art

Breaking the Gender Binary with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge at MoMA PS1

In a lecture at MoMA PS1, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge will trace how their beginnings in the music scene helped them to shatter preconceived notions of gender.

Art

Against a Feathered Headdress: A Tale of Two Performance Festivals and Native American Voices [UPDATED]

The same day that Latifa Laâbissi donned a faux-Sioux headdress at MoMA PS1, Emily Johnson created a collaborative event that championed indigenous voices and values

Interview

“I Am an Invented Character”: A Performance Artist on Living in His Utopia

“I am back in New York. My lungs need poison air,” began Papo Colo in one of his recent emails to me.

Art

Cao Fei’s Fantastical Take on China’s Sociopolitical Climate

In Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities, Marco Polo regales Kublai Khan with tales of his travels, musing about the strange poetry of each city and their intersections with memory and selfhood.

Art

Paint Flows Over a Rockaway Ruin Like Hurricane Waves

One of the most remarkable places accessible to the public in New York City is the ruins of the Fort Tilden military base on the Rockaway Peninsula, where huge batteries with now-empty heavy gun turrets open to the beach.

Art

When Art Spills Beyond Its Curatorial Frames

There has been a good deal of conversation in the last few years around the subject of Congressional district gerrymandering, a process by which the boundaries of an electoral constituency are manipulated to favor a political party or a class.

In Brief

A Kiddie Pool and Kaleidoscopic Canopy Come to MoMA PS1 This Summer

Every summer for the past 17 years, the Young Architects Program has chosen a designer to transform MoMA PS1's courtyard in Long Island City, Queens with a temporary installation.

Art

We Prowl in the Night and Burn

We may stay awake in our sleep and write what we read in dreams.

Art

Best of 2015: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows

Occasionally, we are forced to venture beyond Brooklyn to see art.

Art

MoMA PS1's Citywide Survey Shows New York's Greats (and Not-so-Greats)

Every five years MoMA and MoMA PS1 team up to take the pulse of New York City's contemporary art scene, filling the latter institution with works made recently by artists based in the metropolitan area.

News

MoMA PS1 Will Be Free for All New Yorkers for a Year

Starting on October 11, MoMA PS1 will be free for all New Yorkers for a year.

Books

5 Mini Reviews of Zines from the NY Art Book Fair

The 2015 edition of Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair opens to the public today and in anticipation we reviewed some of its standout offerings.