New York

Announcement

University at Albany Offers Tuition Waivers and Funding for MFA Students

They offer an affordable and interdisciplinary program where students work across Painting and Drawing, Printmaking, Sculpture and Installation, and Photography and Related Media. Applications are due by February 15, 2020.

Announcement

Hunter College Presents Part I of the Fall 2019 Thesis Exhibition

The eleven artists in the exhibition represent an array of art-making practices. Their work will be on view from November 14 - 30, 2019 at 205 Hudson Street.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.