Film
Fiction and Fact Intermingle at the First Look Film Festival
The Museum of the Moving Image’s annual experimental cinema event features several films that remix archival materials.
New York
Art
Sanford Wurmfeld Investigates How We Perceive Color
Paintings that appear ever-changing make us conscious of how we see.
Art
First Impressions From the 2024 Whitney Biennial
The exhibition that often acts as a barometer of trends and ideas percolating in global art communities has both hits and misses.
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Announcement
Mondays at Pratt Institute: Weekly Openings of Work by Graduating Artists
Free and open to the public, Pratt Shows celebrate the school’s graduating students. MFA and BFA work on view this spring in Brooklyn, New York.
News
UrbanGlass Staff Leave Exhibition After Board Excludes Palestinian Artist’s Work
The board said the neon artwork, which features the phrase “from the river to the sea,” could be interpreted as a “call for violence.”
News
New York Times Art Critic Roberta Smith Retiring After 32 Years
She was appointed co-chief art critic in 2011, becoming the first woman at the paper to hold the title.
News
Met Museum Staff Urges Leaders to Address Israel’s Attacks on Gaza
Over 150 workers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art say the institution must call for a ceasefire and take a stand against the destruction of heritage sites.
Art
Half a Century Before Midjourney, There Was AARON
Harold Cohen’s plotters and software programs both clarify and complicate the historical narrative around AI and art.
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None Whatsoever: Zen Paintings from the Gitter-Yelen Collection
Japan Society explores the origins of Zen Buddhism over four centuries of work from painter-monks, including celebrated Buddhist master Hakuin Ekaku.
News
Protesters Disrupt Event With Israeli Soldier on New School Campus
The lecture featured an Israeli lieutenant from the “terrorism unit” who was invited to recount his October 7 experiences.
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Announcement
Shan Shui Reboot: Re-Envisioning Landscape for a Changing World
Contemporary artists reinterpret traditional Chinese landscape painting in the context of the climate crisis in this show at China Institute Gallery in NYC.
Art
Sarah Grilo’s Prescient Abstraction
By laying numbers, words, and phrases onto otherwise abstract imagery, the late Argentinian artist prophesized the dread-inducing news alerts of our time.