News
Climate Protesters Target NYC’s Iconic “Charging Bull” in Earth Day Protest
The action featured an excremental installation to call out Wall Street’s “bullshit.”
New York
Art
I Attended My First “Plant Funeral” in New York City
With my plastic container of dirt in hand, I entered the Lower East Side arts space Chinatown Soup and joined a crowd teeming with shriveled leaves, moldy roots, and wilted stems.
Art
The Most Joyful Hats of NYC’s Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival
From artwork tributes to miniature landmarks, this year’s event brought together the quirky, camp, and fantastical in what one participant called “a love-fest.”
Art Review
Patty Chang Looks Into the Abyss
The artist meditates on motherhood, and more broadly, on empathy, connection, and violence across space, species, and time.
Art Review
Myrlande Constant Immerses Us in Opulence
Standing before Constant’s sumptuous embroideries, shimmering with beads and sequins, is awe-inspiring and joyfully disorienting.
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Announcement
NADA New York 2025 Features 120 International Galleries
The New Art Dealers Alliance’s signature fair presents a diverse and expanded selection of contemporary art from around the world. On view May 7–11.
Art Review
A Vision of Design That Transcends Empire’s Grid
Reverberations decenters anthropocentrism, builds upon non-Western cosmologies, and harnesses alternative knowledge-keeping.
Art
Move Over, Jeff Koons, There's a New Balloon Sculpture in Town
CJ Hendry’s massive inflatable installation, Keff Joons, transforms a seemingly unassuming Brooklyn warehouse into an air-filled rainbow playground.
Guide
Your Low-Stress Guide to Spring Art Fairs and Events in NYC
A quick and easy lowdown on what to expect at the more than a dozen fairs opening soon, plus programs and other happenings coinciding with the frenzy.
Art Review
The Banality of the American Dream
Objects like beds, houses, and diamond rings, and the successful middle-class life they represent, are both desired and stultifying in Suellen Rocca’s art.
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Pratt Manhattan Gallery Exhibits Photography by Dona Ann McAdams and Abby Robinson
Black | Box pairs McAdams’s historic photos with her lyrical reflections. AutoWorks & WaterWorks showcases how Robinson captured the body performing games of chance with the camera.
Art Review
Was Rembrandt Inspired by the Story of Queen Esther?
A show argues that the Jewish tale was interpreted as a symbol of liberation from Spanish rule in 17th-century Dutch society.