Art
Your Art-Filled Itinerary for This Year’s Open House New York
The festival returns for its 22nd edition this week with behind-the-scenes tours of historic landmarks, award-winning architecture, artists’ studios, and more.
New York
News
Met Museum Show Will Put the Spotlight on Black Menswear
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style opens on May 10 as the museum’s first menswear exhibition in over two decades.
Art
Kemar Keanu Wynter Shares a Soulful Meal of Art
Each work in Wynter’s show is a reflection of someone in the artist’s chosen family, the sort of person with whom he could share a soulful meal.
Interview
Stefan Sagmeister’s Open Secrets to Designing an Optimistic Life
The innovative designer is the subject of a major retrospective at the School of Visual Arts and he talks about his aesthetic, the creative need for sabbaticals, and why pessimism reigns today.
Art
Christian Marclay’s Disorientation Project
His work suspends us in the flow of time, calling attention to the scattered technologies that have defined our lives.
Art
How Alvin Ailey Redefined Modern Dance
Through his choreography and his company’s performances, Ailey seamlessly interwove narratives of Black, American, and queer identity.
News
Beloved Sculpture Garden in Manhattan Faces Eviction
The city wants to build affordable housing on the Elizabeth Street Garden plot, but park advocates say one shouldn’t come at the expense of the other.
News
NYC's Studio Museum, Champion of Black Artists, Will Reopen Next Year
The Harlem institution has been closed since 2018 for a multimillion-dollar expansion project.
Film
Film Decries the Dystopian Artwashing of Lincoln Center
Director Stanley Nelson traces a linear narrative from San Juan Hill’s origins to its demolition to make way for Lincoln Center, displacing thousands.
Art
Red Hook’s Arts Scene Is Worth the Trek
Live glass-blowing, artist-made doll houses, robots in love, and a show of "rejects" were among the highlights of the neighborhood's open studios event this year.
Art
Nan Goldin’s Celestial Sensations
Her new body of work invites us to experience art as nothing short of rapturous, a portal to another dimension.
Art
The Nostalgia of Painting
Evan Halter’s use of collage in his trompe l’oeil paintings is about loss and our inability to see the actual world in all its complexity.