Art
Jack Whitten’s Infinite Galaxies of Abstract Light and Color
Focused on Whitten’s legacy-defining cumulative process, I AM THE OBJECT assembles a mesmerizing selection of works, each its own tiny universe.
New York
Guide
Your Concise New York Art Guide for December 2020
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month.
Art
Salman Toor’s Dreamy Scenes Imagine the Queer, South Asian Everyday
Toor’s long-awaited Whitney debut shapes a new narrative, one that centers the brown, queer body.
Art
Light Up Your Family’s Winter With These Animated Shorts
The 2020 Best of BAMkids Film Festival presents a program of charming shorts.
Film
The Wistful, Lyrical, Romantic World of Wong Kar-wai
Film at Lincoln Center's complete retrospective of Wong's filmography offers the chance to see some of his lesser-known films.
Books
The Best Books of 2020, According to the New York Public Library
The library released its anticipated lists of the year’s best titles, including books for teens, kids, adults, and poetry.
Art
A Stirring Tribute Honors Voices Lost and Living with HIV/AIDS
Hear Me comes at a time when the ability to gather and grieve is as difficult as it is sorely needed. Fittingly, the NYC AIDS Memorial will debut the outdoor, touch-free installation starting December 1, for World AIDS Day.
Art
With Incisive Urgency, Howardena Pindell Confronts the Lingering Impacts of Racism
Uniting the personal and the political, Rope/Fire/Water positions Pindell’s creative process as entry points towards learning and healing, for both herself and others.
News
After Poets House Shutters and Announces Layoffs, Ex-Staff Accuse Leadership of Retaliation
The poetry nonprofit says it closed and laid off staff this week due to financial stress, but workers claim their unionizing efforts and workplace complaints are behind the move.
Art
The Absurdist Echoes of Tudor Tyranny
Cate Giordano’s immersive tableaux hurl the viewer headfirst into a historical clusterfuck that eerily recalls the present day.
Interview
New York's Own "Pizza Rat" on Making Performance Art Accessible
Videos of Jonothon Lyons, an accomplished performer, have gone viral for his romps around New York City in a lifelike rat costume.
Art
Join a Reading Group That Imagines a Future Beyond Gentrification
As part of her apexart exhibition, artist, activist, and curator Betty Yu will lead a discussion of works offering brilliant, accessible rebuttals to narratives of gentrification as positive or even unavoidable.