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.
New York
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.
Art
The Cosmic Vessels of an Adventurous Glass Artist
Josiah McElheny's glass vessels concentrate the ethereal and boundless into the finite and physical.
Art
A Painter's Dissonant Geometry
Gary Petersen is a highly intelligent painter, which is to say he has absorbed a lot of art history and, more importantly, is at ease with it.
Art
A Forgotten Painter and Her Visionary Abstraction
During her lifetime, Sonia Gechtoff was feted on the West Coast and for many years showed her work in New York, but the art world has yet to adequately address her achievement.
In Brief
Brooklyn Museum Visitor Dies After Trying to Slide Down Third-Floor Banister
Kirkland Dawson, a 34-year-old attorney, toppled over the staircase railing and landed on the ground floor at a party at the museum.
Announcement
A Blade of Grass Assembly Kicks Off With Film Screenings and Keynote by Trans Activist Tourmaline
This event on October 19 is a biannual day-long learning exchange and magazine launch for creative changemakers to investigate the methods, ethics, challenges, and joys of practicing art that advances social justice.
Announcement
Alice Miceli: Projeto Chernobyl On View at Americas Society Through January 25, 2020
This is the first exhibition of this series in the United States, showing a set of radiographs documenting the residual effects of the 1986 Ukrainian nuclear plant explosion.
News
Over 200 Artists and Scholars Urge MoMA and Board Member to Divest from Private Prison Companies
Hal Foster, Andrea Fraser, and Tania Bruguera have signed the letter released by New Sanctuary Coalition.