News
“Subway Therapy” Displays New Yorkers’ Post-Election Thoughts
Matthew Chavez launched his participatory art project in 2016, creating a space for the city’s private sentiments in the wake of Trump’s first win.
New York
Art
How Bob Thompson Created an Art Community
Fearless, prolific, and protean from the start of his career, Thompson was able to absorb influences from both contemporary and historical artists without becoming derivative.
Art
The Quiet Sublime of Steve McQueen
The filmmaker’s return to a more coincidental, permissive mode of observation in tandem exhibitions at Dia Chelsea and Beacon is enlivening, if not always incisive.
Art
How to Survive a Fall
Through visceral, corporeal gestures, Le’Andra LeSeur reconfigures trauma into a psychic site from which one can still bloom into something tender and fierce.
Art
Scabby the Rat, Icon of Labor Strikes, Gets His Own NYC Show
The larger-than-life inflatable rodent is the centerpiece of artist Marlene Hausegger’s exhibition at Open Source Gallery in Brooklyn.
News
Protesters Take to MoMA During World Jewish Congress Gala
One activist was taken into custody during the action, which targeted the organization’s support for Israel amid its attacks on Gaza.
Comics
NYC Housing Stories: Betty Yu and Emily Gallagher
Meet the artists, activists, and organizers on the front lines of the housing justice movement in New York City. Part two of a series.
Art
Exhibition Looks Back at Columbia’s Gaza Solidarity Encampments
“When your expression is part of a larger movement, it has the potential to alter the course of history,” said Peloloca, one of the artists in HINDS HOUSE.
Art
Judy Pfaff’s Garden of Unearthly Delights
At Wave Hill, the artist presents a teeming world of natural and artificial abundance.
Art
The Industrialization of the Hudson River in Art
For every idyllic image of the Hudson River Valley in Shifting Shorelines, there are many others in which human industry intrudes upon the view.
Art
The World’s Borough Exhibition Pays Tribute to Queens
With works by over 70 artists, the show contains everything from personified felt dumplings to crochet renditions of the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Unisphere.
News
US’s Biggest Documentary Festival Comes to NYC This Month
The trials of late-in-life romance and a photographer's chronicle of Black life under South African apartheid anchor the 15th edition of DOC NYC.