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.
New York
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.
Art
A Film Festival a Stone's Throw Away From the Beach
Rockaway Film Festival offers a wide range of cinema screenings this weekend, from Barbara Hammer shorts to new and exciting documentary features, all in a district of New York that lacks a movie theater.
Art
Seeing Consent Through the Lens of Body Language
Photographer Tommy Kha's Return to Sender exhibition at LMAK Gallery frames him as his own subject — a listless participant in a series of intimate encounters.
Announcement
Visit the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts' Open Studios, October 17–19, 2019
This annual event invites the public to come explore and interact with EFA member artists in the intimate setting of their studios.
News
Hundreds March from American Museum of Natural History to Metropolitan Museum for Anti-Columbus Day Tour
For its fourth annual Anti-Columbus Day Tour, Decolonize This Place reiterated its demands that AMNH remove its controversial statue of Theodore Roosevelt
Art
The Defiant Spirit of Wangechi Mutu’s Caryatids at the Metropolitan Museum
In reflecting on Mutu’s recent commission for the Met’s façade one morning, I realized that her sculptures make space for excellences and joys that dominant Eurocentric histories have ignored and excluded.
Announcement
Susan Roth: BLACK IS A COLOR, on View at the Sam & Adele Golden Gallery
The 14 acrylic paintings exhibited in this show trace her unique approach to the shaping of the canvas as it responds to the compositional elements within. On view through March 13, 2020.
Art
Paintings with a Retinal Buzz
In Relative Brightness the canvas transforms into a rippling, luminous field of ever-shifting optical sensations.