Art
The Latest Hunter MFA Thesis Exhibition Highlights Collectivity
laissez faire et laissez passer, on view at 205 Hudson Gallery, mirrors the community of the program, demonstrating the ways in which students often act as their own advocates.
New York
Film
A History of Film at MoMA, as Told by Its Original Curator
As part of its reopening slate, a film series at the museum pays tribute to the foundational programming of its influential film curator Iris Barry.
Art
Celebrating the History of Parisian Couture
Paris, Capital of Fashion at the Museum at FIT is a comprehensive visual compendium that can help audiences understand how fashion became foundational to the identity of the city.
Art
Discussing the Growing Tide of Labor Organizing in the Art World
A panel at Verso Books discusses recent union efforts by art handlers at Uovo Fine Art and the ongoing struggles of arts workers to organize their workplaces and industry.
Art
The Many Blues of Matthew Wong
A rising art-world star, Wong planned his exhibition Blue before his suicide in October. The show reveals a marked tension between beauty and melancholy, making it difficult at times to keep his biography and work separate.
Art
Hans Haacke’s Sharp Metaphors and Maps of Power
Exposing systems of injustice and how they operate is Haacke’s great skill. At the New Museum, the artist draws the connections, and we follow along, wondering what our role is in this circuit.
Announcement
Apply to MFA, MA, and PhD Programs in the Department of Art at Stony Brook University
To be considered for the highest levels of funding and support, applications must be received by January 15, 2020.
Art
Meleko Mokgosi's Discursive Art
Mokgosi is as interested in the discourse around the figures in his paintings as in their representation — not that the two could ever exist separately.
Art
Painting on a Knife’s Edge
With ATOMIC, her new body of work, Patricia Satterlee pitches us into abstract apparitions of heaven and hell before pulling us back to earth.
Art
Philip Taaffe, Symbolist and Naturalist
Taaffe is able to bring the exterior, visible world as well as the interior imagined world into his paintings. To me, this is what distinguishes him from his contemporaries.
Art
Probing the Tensions Between the Universal and the Specific in Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls
Then and now, Shange’s work responds to an urgent fever pitch humming beneath the taut surface of pain and respectability. A dazzling revival at the Public Theater reminds us of its timelessness.
Announcement
apexart Announces Winners of Its Latest NYC Open Call for 2020-21
Four proposals were selected from 512 submissions, rated by over 400 jurors who cast over 14,000 votes. The winners will be presented as part of the organization’s 2020-21 Exhibition Season.