Art
A Photographer Retraces New York’s Forgotten Springs and Wells
A new book pairs photos from the early 1900s of springs and wells in New York with modern-day snapshots, revealing a transformed city.
New York
News
Artists Request Museum of Chinese in America Remove Their Work From Its Collection
Artists Colin Chin and Nicholas Liem decried MOCA’s acceptance of $35 million in funding from NYC as part of a jail expansion plan.
Performance
A Staggering New Play Creates Space for Black Interiority and Grief
What to Send Up When It Goes Down holds Black people at its center, inviting unique moments of commiseration, anger, and helplessness with no apologies.
Art
New Views of the Everyday World
Emily Pettigrew and Aubrey Levinthal are two painters who have much in common, but their differences run deeper and are more telling.
Books
An Archaeology of Loss in New York City
Mark Hage's photos of empty storefronts reveal how real-estate development leaves behind sites of civic neglect.
Art
What to Do About the Artists in Your Studio
If Philip Guston wanted everyone, including himself, to leave his studio, Franklin Evans seems to be inviting everyone in.
News
Urged by Battery Park City Locals, Work Paused on Essential Workers Monument
Critics say the memorial planned for Rockefeller Park was approved without community input and will significantly reduce green space.
Art
How Artists Have Paid Homage to the Bicycle
People throughout history, including artists like Robert Rauschenberg and Ebecho Muslimova, have celebrated the bike’s potential for freedom.
Art
Rotimi Fani-Kayode Captures the Abundant Glow of Black Queer Life
In Tranquility of Communion, soul-stirring photographs blend Yoruba cosmologies, queer desire, and Baroque theatricality.
Film
The 58th New York Film Festival, Now on the Big Screen
With quarantine restrictions now lifted, the festival’s virtual slate from last year is now getting play in theaters.
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Announcement
Exhibitions at CCS Bard Explore Art at Its Most Intimate, Playful, and Defiant
Now open in the Hudson Valley, two new exhibitions at the Hessel Museum of Art highlight the intimacy of works on paper and the under-examined “Pattern and Decoration” movement.
Art
Good Vibrations and Milford Graves’s Healing Harmonics
Graves spent nearly 40 years investigating the healing potential of music.