Art
Finding Quality Time Through Art
With subversive wit and trenchant humor, the artists in Quality Time expose the arbitrary nature of society's benchmarks for meaning.
New York
Art
Roger Brown’s Innovative Still Lifes
Brown was interested in mishaps and disasters, but above all, he was interested in what it meant to be American.
In Brief
Bronx Museum Launches Kickstarter to Support a Graffiti Exhibition
The museum has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a retrospective of the works of Henry Chalfant, the photographer and filmmaker who has documented New York City's subway art since its early days in the Bronx.
Film
The Raw, Unshakeable Queer Love in 1951's Olivia
Jacqueline Audry’s powerfully complex film set in a 19th-century French boarding school for girl resonates even today, and it just got a new restoration.
Announcement
Call to Artists: Public Art Commission for the New Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge
ArtsWestchester seeks proposals from professional New York State artists or artist collectives for commission opportunities including artist-made bike racks and the Rockland landing underpass mural.
In Brief
The New Museum's Bathroom Nominated as "America's Best Restroom"
A national competition rates the best restrooms in the United States. Among its finalists are the NYC museum's colorfully designed washrooms.
Film
A Joan of Arc Film Brings the Saint Down to Earth
An expansive biopic, Jacques Rivette's newly restored 1994 film Joan the Maid focuses on Joan of Arc the human first — and Joan the myth, saint, and warrior second.
Announcement
Summer of Know, an Evening Conversation Series at the Guggenheim
On select Tuesdays this summer, the series will host artists and practitioners in dialogue about urgent issues such as climate change and environmental justice, Asian American subjectivity in pop culture, and housing rights.
Art
Brice Marden's Intuitive Formalism
Each work in Marden's series Cold Mountain Studies is the trace of a transient intention, and their variety is potentially infinite.
Art
The Disturbing Greatness of Hyman Bloom
Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock considered Hyman Bloom to be America’s first Abstract Expressionist, a label, it should be pointed out, that the artist himself rejected.
In Brief
James Turrell Skyspace Reopens at MoMA PS1 After 6-Month Closure
The artist requested that the museum close the installation in January after construction on a neighboring luxury condo encroached on the work's view.
Art
What Does Radical Love Look Like?
When love is in full bloom, it goes everywhere and touches everything and in its nondiscrimination constitutes an attitude rarely seen or enacted in human story.