News
After Strained Negotiations, New Museum Signs Five-Year Contract With Union Workers
The workers achieved an across-the-board pay increase of 3% in the first four years of the contract, with a 3.5% increase in the final year.
New York
Announcement
Kosciuszko Projects Unveils Its First Exhibition: The Many Faces of Tamara de Lempicka (1898–1980)
Kosciuszko Projects is a new cultural initiative presenting masters of Polish art in New York. The inaugural exhibition is on view from October 11 to November 1, 2019.
In Brief
Brooklyn Art Nonprofit BRIC Announces $100,000 in Prizes for Under-Recognized Artists
Ten New York-based artists were awarded the first Colene Brown Art Prize. Each of them will receive a $10,000 no-strings-attached grant.
Art
The Listings Project Shares How It's Created an Online Community
Close to 200,000 artist subscribers can't be wrong.
Film
Unpacking Mentorship and Masculinity in Two Portraits of Fatherhood
Screening as part of BAM's annual "Contemporary Arab Cinema" showcase, Of Fathers and Sons and Fatwa offer starkly different meditations on the radicalization of young men.
In Brief
New Museum Union Workers Threaten a Strike Over Contract Negotiations
The workers voted by a 96% margin to authorize a strike if their demands for higher wages, health care benefits, and improved worker safety are not met.
Announcement
Call for Applications: Bard Graduate Center's Master's in Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
Training the next generation of curators, museum and arts professionals, scholars, and educators.
Announcement
BAM Opens Doors to Its First Dedicated Visual Art Space
The Ruden Family Gallery and additional programming deepen the performing arts institution’s commitment to visual art.
Art
A New Generation of Artists Confronts Environmental and Colonial Issues
Socrates Sculpture Park presents its annual exhibition of artist fellows in an effort to nurture emerging talent.
Art
Are Joe Massey’s Prison Drawings the Next Big Thing?
A remarkable cache of drawings by a now-deceased, African-American prisoner in Ohio might be just what the art market has been waiting for.
Art
The Unseen Labor of Women in Art
Sara VanDerBeek’s new print series, Women & Museums, interrogates how women occupy institutional spaces, particularly through the prominence of traditionally craft media like ceramics and textiles.
Art
Capital and Complicity in the Art World
William Powhida reorients our perspective away from the individuals who lead and fundraise for cultural institutions and redirects it toward international flows of capital.