Guide
Your Concise New York Art Guide for July 2022
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month, including Lee Lozano, Cindy Sherman, Tokuko Ushioda, Anas Albraehe, and more.
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Art
How Jean-Michel Basquiat Rose to Be King of the Art World
The art establishment was never quite sure what to do with a self-taught artist like Basquiat, who owed as much to bebop and William S. Burroughs’s cut-up technique as he did to African influences.
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Reuben Kadish's Enduring Portraits of Human Anguish
Kadish’s fossil-like heads, forms, and figures remind us that every civilization, including our own, eventually collapses.
News
Met Museum Raises Admission Fee to $30
The museum’s “pay-what-you-wish” policy will remain in place for New York State residents and tri-state students, but out-of-state adults will pay $5 extra.
News
Met President and CEO to Step Down in 2023
Daniel Weiss, who joined the museum in 2015, led the institution through the turmoil of the pandemic and oversaw milestones like the implementation of paid internships.
Art
Can Western Architecture Ever Be Truly Decolonial?
The Project of Independence at MoMA probes the limits of modernist construction in South Asia.
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Center for Art, Research and Alliances Opens Space for Future (Un)doings in Conjurings
Convened by Erika Sprey, Lamin Fofana, Sky Hopinka, Emmy Catedral, and Manuela Moscoso, the public program unfolds this summer at CARA in New York City.
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CCS Bard Summer Exhibitions Delve Into Video Art and Black Melancholia
Shows at the Hudson Valley’s Hessel Museum of Art feature artists Dara Birnbaum and Martine Syms, as well as new scholarship on Black melancholia as an artistic and critical practice.
Art
Alison Hall's Hypnotic Paintings Invite Slow Looking
Hall makes no attempt to entice the viewer to begin looking and to look again, letting her methodical craft compel viewers to reflect upon their experience.
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.
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.