Art Review
One Man’s Trash Is Another’s Art
An exhibition argues that human production — its surplus and waste — is a rising influential force in contemporary art.
New York
Art Review
Global Tourism Was Built on Headless Blemmyes
The Book of Marvels is the kind of show that’s hard to avoid at archival art institutions, wherein problematic historical content, aesthetic appeal, and fantasy all intersect.
News
Schomburg Center Turns 100 With an Art Historical Library Card
The New York Public Library’s limited-edition design features late artist Houston Conwill’s cosmogram “Rivers,” inspired by a 1921 Langston Hughes poem.
News
TEFAF New York Is a Cabinet of Curiosities
From lesser-known Meret Oppenheim works to Anna Weyant’s jewel-box paintings, this over-the-top New York fair is rich with gems waiting to be discovered.
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Conversation Flows at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair
In the heart of the financial district, over 70 artists from across the African diaspora showed works to an eager VIP audience.
Features
A Late Feminist Sculptor Who Plumbed the History of Human Migration
Mary Ann Unger's massive biomorphic artworks, now on view in New York City, are shockingly prescient and powerful now more than ever.
News
Downtown New York Shines at the Independent Art Fair
The invite-only fair includes downtown stalwarts, as well as emerging Tribeca galleries.
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Who Says You Have to Leave Brooklyn to Go to an Art Fair?
Across the bridge, away from the perhaps buzzier Manhattan shows, The Other Art Fair and Conductor offer intimate opportunities to engage with artists.
Features
A Bronze Tribute to Motherhood Rises in Prospect Park
The new sculpture by artist Molly Gochman channels abstraction to honor and memorialize caregivers of all forms.
News
Frieze New York Is Back to Its Old Ways
The blue-chip art market inflates with anger and slams its fist if you keep pestering it with the nuisance of the outside world.
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Sculptures Steal the Spotlight at NADA New York
At the fair's new and bigger Chelsea venue, I admired taxidermied crustaceans, homages to Puerto Rican life, and textures galore.
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Future Art Fair Enters Its Grown-Up Era
Having launched in the choppy waters of the pandemic, the show has since nestled comfortably into New York’s busiest fair week.