Books
The Disappearing Queer Spaces of the Harlem Renaissance
A new project by Columbia’s Queer Students of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation explores queer histories that have been suppressed by gentrification and urban development.
New York
Art
Stanley Rosen’s Embrace of Vulnerability
If art is regarded traditionally as an impermeable form that resists the effects of time, Rosen acknowledges and accepts their inevitable triumph.
Art
What Does Spiritual Diversity Mean in Contemporary Art?
In From Confucius to Christ, artists from around the world touch on notions of wisdom and insecurity in Confucianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity.
News
NYC's Last Public Pay Phone Is Now a Museum Artifact
The relic was acquired by the Museum of the City of New York and included in the exhibition Analog City.
Film
A Youthful Documentary Memoir Both Enthralls and Frustrates
For both good and bad, first-time filmmaker Rebeca Huntt is “the lens, the subject, the authority” of Beba.
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Announcement
Ray Johnson’s Previously Unseen Photography Comes to the Morgan Library & Museum
PLEASE SEND TO REAL LIFE: Ray Johnson Photographs reveals the “career in photography” that occupied the artist in the last three years of his life.
Books
NY Public Library Is Giving Away 500,000 Free Books This Summer
Young New Yorkers across the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island can head to any NYPL branch and pick up a free book.
Art
Geometric Abstraction for a Shattered World
Gary Petersen recognizes that whatever dream of unity geometric artists once pursued is no longer possible.
Art
Ascending Into the Realm of Naudline Pierre’s Mystical Paintings
Encountering Pierre's dynamic, intensely colorful oil paintings, sculptures, and works on paper is like entering a spiritually charged, alternate world.
News
Meaningful Events to Honor Juneteenth in New York City
From Harlem to Brooklyn, from joyful dance to quiet reflection, here are eight ways to observe Juneteenth and recognize the enduring repercussions of slavery.
Performance
Circle Jerk Takes the Absurdity of Modern Existence to the Extreme
Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the hybrid film/theatrical production is a dense and irreverent look at the performance of queerness.
Art
The Endless Realities of Evelyn Statsinger's Art
Statsinger has created a world that is simultaneously microscopic and macroscopic, cellular and cosmological, wherein the inexplicable and enigmatic coexist.