Announcement
The American Academy of Arts and Letters Presents the 2020 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts
The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, videos, photographs, and works on paper by 28 artists. On view March 5–April 5.
New York
News
Dominican Artists Organize "Vigil for Democracy" in Times Square, Joining Protests Worldwide
After Dominican Republic's municipal elections were abruptly halted, protesters gathered in New York City and around the world to demand electoral transparency and accountability.
Art
Rethinking What Passes for Normal Amid the "Trump Revolution"
A yearlong series at the Bronx Documentary Center shows how nativist US immigration policies have affected people from many different walks of life.
News
Protesters Occupy MoMA PS1, Calling Museum “Complicit in Global Violence”
For the closing of The Gulf Wars exhibition, one of the participating artists, Ali Yass, planned a guerrilla action to tear his drawings off the walls.
Guide
Your Concise Guide to Armory Week 2020
Your useful guide to the fairs and exhibitions of interest this week.
Performance
Two Plays by Downtown Legend María Irene Fornés
These plays depict a reality that seems familiar and plausible yet feels dreamlike, monumental, and mythical.
Art
Sculpting With Light, Drawing With Shadow
It’s hard to identify precedents for Christopher Wilmarth’s sculpture, which uses its banal modern materials purely abstractly.
Art
Searching for Humanity in the Not-Quite-Human
Throughout his career Jon Pylypchuk has confronted the most awkward and gut-wrenching parts of being human.
Art
My Meetings With Donald Judd
Judd hated the cult of the artist.
News
Scorched Museum of Chinese in America Archives Building Will Be Rebuilt
The announcement quelled concerns by community members that the city had neglected its pledge to help recover the museum’s damaged archives.
Film
A New Film Series Teases Out the Complex History of Black Heroines On Screen
“Each film in the series, in its own way, provides a more authentic connection to Black women's expression, stories and experiences,” said Dara Ojugbele, one of the curators of the two-week program at MoMA.
Art
An Artist Finds Inspiration in a Novel Suppressed Under Stalin
Irena Haiduk materializes the fictional spaces in Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and Margarita, imbuing them with her own imagination and creating the alternative realities Bulgakov’s Stalinist government so feared.