Art
Lorna Simpson Searches for Meaning in the Arctic Ice
Darkening, an exhibition of Lorna Simpson’s glacial paintings, submerges us in an icy desert largely devoid of language and far from human habitation.
New York
Art
Echoes of Identity Across the Work of Two Asian-American Artists
Artists Tommy Kha and Meena Hasan map not only the ethnic dimensions of their background but also the public and private ones.
Art
Artists Examine the Troubling Histories of Medical Abuse and Human Experimentation
Baneful Medicine looks to the past, but offers an opportunity to ponder bodily autonomy, informed consent, and medical practice in the present.
Announcement
Study the Fundamentals of Art Business with Christie’s Education
The Art Business Certificate in New York is an intensive program designed to provide in-depth knowledge of all aspects of business in today’s art world. Enrollment is now open for September.
Announcement
Reflections on Artistic License
Join the Guggenheim Museum for a series of conversations with the six artist-curators of Artistic License on select Tuesdays from June 18–December 17, 6:30 pm.
Art
Figural Sculptures That Weave an Enigmatic Story of Disassociation and Isolation
Claudette Schreuders's most recent show at Jack Shainman gallery, In the Bedroom is perhaps both her most revealing and most enigmatic body of work to date.
Film
Classic Films About Drag Pageants and Ball Culture Return to Theaters to Dazzle Again
The landmark queer documentaries The Queen and Paris is Burning have been restored and are back in theaters.
Art
Mosaics of Motherboards, Keyboards, and Wire
Ethiopian artist Elias Sime makes wall sculptures from castoff computer parts that evoke the toxic dumping of these materials around the world.
Art
The Southern Gothic Moods of Allison Janae Hamilton
Hamilton’s immersive installation allows visitors to wrestle with a mysterious land, its racial realities, and its mythic past.
Music
Ragnar Kjartansson’s Panorama of Love and Death
The artist’s Death Is Elsewhere conveys an understanding that humans — relatively recent additions to a 4.5-billion-year-old planet — will come and go. The planet will remain.
Art
Marley Freeman Charts the Abstract Space of Memory
Freeman transmutes a recollection into a color-based relationship between abstract forms.
Announcement
Celebrate World Pride at the New York Public Library After Hours
The Library After Hours: Pride event is happening on Friday, June 21, 2019 at 7pm.