Art
The New MoMA: A Mix of Innovative Choices and Missed Opportunities
The renovation aims to be big enough to not only hold the institution’s art, but its promises.
New York
Art
Garden-Hose Sculptures, Seductive Landscapes, and More Brighten a Rainy Night on the Lower East Side
Despite torrential downpour and poor turnout, there were some excellent exhibitions on view for the second annual LES Art Night — most of which will continue throughout the remainder of the month.
Film
Geisha, Gangsters, and More: Tokyo’s Underbelly Onscreen
For the next three weeks Film Forum presents SHITAMACHI: Tales of Downtown Tokyo, an expansive series dedicated to the city’s grittier east side, where filmmakers have long turned their lens.
Film
Joker Is a Thinly Veiled (and Thin) Take on '80s NYC
The film is far too derivative, far too wedded to juvenile mythology, and far too tentative to deserve its elevated profile.
Announcement
Editions/Artists’ Books Fair Kicks Off During Print Week NYC, October 24–27
This year’s fair will gather 40 exhibitors from the US and around the world, showing their latest in contemporary prints and artists’ books.
News
Brooklyn Museum Is Trying to Sell a Francis Bacon Painting the Artist Wanted Destroyed
During his lifetime, Bacon wrote the museum that "It was a throw-out and it depresses me […] that it has years later found its way onto the art market and I would prefer if it were not exhibited."
Announcement
Join Creative Time for Speaking Truth | Summit X, November 14–16, 2019
Can speaking truth to power unravel the disillusion we find ourselves in? Bringing together thinkers, dreamers, and doers to address radical truth-telling, its implications, manifestations, and potentialities at home in NYC as Creative Time celebrates 10 years of the CT Summit.
Art
Artists and Scholars Join to Discuss the Creation of Black Visual Archives
The free-to-attend Black Portraiture[s] conference will focus on the creation of visual archives in the context of landmark moments in Black history.
In Brief
NYC Mayor De Blasio and Governor Cuomo Face Off Over Mother Cabrini Statue
The rivalry between the political opponents was cemented after Cuomo announced he would bypass the mayor and fund the polarizing Mother Cabrini statue with state money.
Announcement
Vera Lists Center’s 2019 Forum Considers "If Art Is Politics"
At the forum, the collective Chimurenga will install its Pan African Space Station for a three-day broadcast that explores the participation of African American artists, activists, and intellectuals in FESTAC ’77.
Performance
A Performance Investigates Domesticity and Power via Simone de Beauvoir
Carrie Ahern's Sex Status 2.0 is a performance of desire in all of its expressions — anguished, flirty, direct, sorrowful, desperate, awkward, joyous — and, as such, essential viewing.
Film
The Hidden Sides of New York's Well-Known Landmarks
Three new HBO documentaries probe the stories of the Statue of Liberty, the Bronx, and the Apollo Theater.