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.
New York
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.
Interview
Turning Trauma Into Images of Power and Celebration
Ruben Natal-San Miguel’s photographs transform a series of traumatic events into empathetic energy. His new book, Harlem, takes that human connection further.
Film
Exploring a Film Critic's Tastes Through the Movies She Loved — and Hated
On the centennial of Pauline Kael's birth, the Quad Cinema is presenting Losing It at the Movies, a retrospective including both films that received her highest praise and those she viciously tore apart.
In Brief
Haunting Installations About Child Immigrant Detentions Appeared Across NYC Today
#NoKidsInCages, 24 installations commissioned by an immigration legal services nonprofit, were placed in front of media companies, cultural institutions, and other busy New York landmarks.
Art
A More Inclusive Future for Digital Art (With GIFs, Too)
Molly Soda, Claudia Hart, and Faith Holland will discuss their work at a panel this week, The Artist Isn't (Physically) Present: Women in Digital Art.
Announcement
See Vibrant Works of Contemporary Glass From Around the World
New Glass Now is on view at The Corning Museum of Glass through January 5, 2020.
News
Activists Occupy El Museo del Barrio During Its 50th Anniversary Celebrations
A group of 15 protesters occupied El Museo’s galleries to read out the Mirror Manifesto, an open letter that Latinx activists released in April in an attempt to steer the museum back toward its roots as a community-based institution.
News
Guggenheim Workers Are Looking to Unionize as Wages Stagnate and Demands Increase
Around 90 workers are organizing for better wages and benefits. "It's about transparency," one worker said. "We have no autonomy."
Announcement
Join LMCC at Their 2019 River To River Festival, June 18-29, 2019
Organized by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the 18th annual River to River Festival is Downtown New York City’s completely free summer arts festival.
Books
The Cult of Jean-Michel Basquiat
What happens when an artist's mythologized life distracts from his work?