Guide
Your Concise New York Art Guide for March 2022
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month, including Kia LaBeija, Tenet, Hassan Sharif, and more.
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Revisiting Latin American Artists' Struggle for Representation in the United States
While the 1965 Immigration Act opened the United States for expanded Latin American immigration, the decade that followed found migrant artists actively involved in political struggles for representation.
Film
When You Could Get a Three-Course Meal and Coffee for 25 Cents in New York
Lisa Hurwitz’s documentary finds some impressive interviewees, including Mel Brooks and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to remember the bygone vending machine restaurant chain Horn & Hardart.
News
US Returns 55 Looted Artifacts to Greece
The majority of the items were seized from disgraced antiquities collector Michael Steinhardt, who has been accused of having a “rapacious appetite for plundered artifacts.”
News
New York’s Rubin Museum Will Help Preserve the Collection of One of Nepal’s Oldest Monasteries
Itum Bahal is known as the oldest and most important Buddhist monastery in Nepal’s capital.
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Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running
The first US museum survey of the avant-garde filmmaker, poet, and artist is on view at the Jewish Museum in New York City through June 5.
Art
Asako Tabata Paints a World Between Reality and Imagination
The subject running through all of Tabata's works is the meeting place of one’s inner and outer life, of psychic states and outward responsibility, and the different frictions that can arise in that gap.
Art
An Artist Shifts the Focus of a Folktale from Guilt to Liberation
Azzah Sultan acknowledges the power of stories we tell ourselves and each other, and our power to change their meanings.
News
One of the Most Famous Images of the 20th Century Is Going Up For Auction
Man Ray’s surrealist portrait of Kiki de Montparnasse, “Le Violon d’Ingres” (1924), could become the most expensive photograph ever sold.
Art
David Diao's Long Search for Painting's Many Identities
One key to understanding Diao’s art is that he has long worked with a reductive geometric vocabulary, while always pushing back against any of postmodernism’s reductive narratives.
News
New LaGuardia Terminal Will Feature Art by Six New York Artists
Long disdained by travelers, the airport will feature new, site-specific artworks as part of an $8 billion refurbishment project.
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A Theatrical Tapestry at the Public Theater Explores Age and Asian American Identity
In Out of Time, co-presented with the National Asian American Theater Company, the first all-Asian American cast over the age of 60 performs new monologues by award-winning playwrights.