Art
Two Artists Invite You to Bask in Their Garden
Garden is a sustained mind-meld between two artists’ aesthetic sensibilities, one clearly born from a long friendship grounded in loving, making, and sharing art over the course of 15 years.
New York
Announcement
An Evening With Pia Camil at the Guggenheim on November 8
Pia Camil joins Pablo León de la Barra for a discussion of her practice, followed by a celebration that includes a communal activation of her new work Here Comes the Sun (2019).
Art
A Brutal, Historic Film About Decolonization
Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers is one of the great films in history to depict insurgent warfare, and New Yorkers can see it for free this week.
Announcement
Purchase College, SUNY Is Now Accepting Applications to Its Graduate Programs
Purchase College is a public liberal arts college and among the most respected art schools in the country — a hidden gem located within the greater New York City region.
Art
Incarcerated Artists, Seen Through the Lens of Their Creativity
While The Pencil Is a Key spans continents, training levels, and types of imprisonment, today’s constant headlines about mass incarceration and border detentions lend it a special timeliness.
Art
A Deliciously Transgressive and Strikingly Vulnerable Ode to Queer Sex Work
Declaring a pro-sex, pro-porn stance off the bat, On Our Backs presents diverse notions of intimacy, in sex work and the communal art and advocacy that spring from it.
Art
The Fearless Faces of a Feminist Firebrand
With her series of plastic surgeries, ORLAN wasn’t using her face simply in a performance, but as an art material.
Art
Answering the Colonizers of Modernism
The paintings of Kenyan artist Michael Armitage present a particularly resonant response to the expanded, repackaged, and redefined offerings at the reopened MoMA.
Art
TEFAF 2019, Safe and Champagne-filled With a Few Elements of Surprise
Amid the current state of US politics, the latest fall edition of the fair offered a selection of mostly apolitical artworks as soothing as a BBC documentary.
Art
An Artist Is Installing Hundreds of Golden Nets on Community Basketball Courts
Jeremy John Kaplan founded the Gold Nets Project to replace deteriorating nets with shiny replacements.
News
NYC Culture Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl Resigns in Surprise Announcement
The once omnipotent commissioner leaves his post after a stormy six-year tenure at the commission. The city provided no specific reason for his abrupt resignation.
Announcement
Join Columbia University MFA in Visual Arts for an Information Session and Open Studios
The 2019 Information Session will take place on November 10 at 11 am, and afterward, second-year MFA students open their studios to the public to show their work in progress.