Art
The Underground Gay Art of Early 20th-Century New York
The Young and the Evil at David Zwirner casts a light on lesser-known gay artists who rejected the prevailing trend toward abstraction.
New York
Announcement
Ain’t No Mo’ Is an “Electrifying Spiritual Portrait of Black Lives in America”
Jordan E. Cooper’s new satirical play, now showing at The Public Theater, asks Black communities, “if you could leave America for Africa, would you? And what if you had to leave all of your culture behind?"
Art
Paintings About Change, Not Perfection
Sanford Wurmfeld’s magic is partially the result of a mistake he made in 1985.
Art
Japan’s Radical Conceptual Art of the 1960s
An exhibition at Japan Society makes room in the modernist canon for the heady, playful ideas of free-thinking renegades.
Art
Expressions of the Fullness of Being
In Natvar Bhavsar's art, all is in flux; everything is both what it is and all that it might become.
Art
The Colors of the Sixties
Spilling Over: Painting in the 1960s at the Whitney Museum expands the common understanding of a pivot point in American art, while basking unapologetically in the pure pleasure of looking.
Announcement
Hunter College Presents Part I of the Spring 2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Do You Believe In Life After Love?
The exhibition will feature ten MFA candidates and will be on view from April 11 to 27 at 205 Hudson Street.
Announcement
Arttable’s Annual Benefit Honors Estrellita B. Brodsky and Alexandra Chang
ArtTable’s annual gala gives attendees a chance to raise their glasses to celebrate the accomplishments of two industry leaders while hearing inspiring words from art market expert Amy Cappellazzo.
Film
Films on the Fringes of the Japanese New Wave
A series at the Japan Society opening on April 5 further complicates the definition of the Japanese New Wave cinema, whose parameters are typically difficult to define.
Art
Can the Shed Save the Soul of Hudson Yards?
The stakes could not be higher for the critically panned, $20 billion development. Will culture sanctify this one percenter's playground?
News
Latinx Scholars, Curators, and Artists Urge El Museo del Barrio to Stay True to Its Mission
A letter penned by a group of Latinx artists, scholars, and community activists accuses the museum of straying from its identity and mission.
Art
Bodies Lose Themselves Within Other Bodies in Erotic Watercolors
Nadine Faraj's technique, which is to work wet-in-wet with watercolors on paper, evokes the misty arcs of pleasure and the deep, deep depths of hunger that the sexual act taps.