Art
Mixing the Modern and Ancient at Master Drawings New York
“I was genuinely and pleasantly surprised to find innovative contemporary works among the typical somberly scholastic approach at this year’s edition of Master Drawings New York.”
New York
Announcement
Chautauqua School of Art's Multidisciplinary Residency Program Is Open for Applications
Apply by March 2, 2020 for the chance to spend seven weeks of bliss in Chautauqua, New York this summer and engage in critical discourse, studio time, and free experimentation. Funding available.
Art
A Film Series Spotlights Stories of Black Brazilians From Women Directors
Co-presented by Cinema Tropical and the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), Visions of Resistance presents narratives of resilience and uprising.
News
Recovery Efforts Begin After Fire Ravages Museum of Chinese in America Archives
Tens of thousands of unique cultural items were severely damaged. The museum launched a fundraising campaign, and Mayor Bill de Blasio promised to secure temporary locations for tenants displaced by the fire.
Film
Powerful Images of Pleasure and Experimentation Celebrate Queer Bodies
MoMA's screening series "Now We Think as We Fuck": Queer Liberation to Activism argues for the inclusion of less respectable films in the queer canon.
Art
A Contemporary Master of the Brushstroke
David Reed has figured out how to bring illusionism back into an abstract painting while remaining committed to paint-as-paint.
News
Museum of Chinese in America’s Archives in Danger Due to Ongoing Blaze
A fire that broke out last night injured eight people and destroyed the top floors of a building housing the museum's archives. The museum is still assessing the damage to its vast collection of Chinese-American cultural items.
Art
50 Artists Remind Us That "Abortion Is Normal"
The second half of a recent exhibition organized to raise awareness and funding in support of accessible, safe, and legal abortion opened this past Tuesday at Arsenal Contemporary.
Interview
MoMA's Dave Kehr on Film Preservation and Why There’s Never Enough Money
The veteran critic and curator speaks to Hyperallergic about the museum's festival of film restoration and the changing tides in the field.
Performance
Staging the Work of Ballet Amid Noguchi's Expressive Sculptures
For Contract and Release, choreographed by Brendan Fernandes, three dancers assume their positions amid a selection of Noguchi’s works that allude to the human form and proceed to slowly perform a prescribed set of tasks.
In Brief
Performance Space in Manhattan Will Be Run Entirely by Artists for a Year
A cohort of artists and collectives will have "full transparency into the organization’s inner workings" and control of its annual production budget to pay their own wages and develop programs.
News
Hans Haacke Gets Hacked by Activists at the New Museum
Two hackers, an artist and a graduate student at the New School, interfered with the results of Haacke's visitors poll at his New Museum retrospective to protest the museum's "complacency in capitalism."