Art
What’s Left to Say About Picasso?
A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn at The Met is a compact, simple display, but the work and research it contains is diminished by being so cut off from its historical and personal contexts.
New York
Film
How to Make a Different Kind of Holocaust Film
Two movies at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival reflect on the onscreen representation of the Holocaust after Claude Lanzmann’s landmark Shoah.
Art
Bushwick Open Studios Returns With Optimism
Those who ventured through torrential rain were treated to intimate conversations in cozy lofts and sometimes extraordinary work.
News
$500M Performing Arts Center Opens Near World Trade Center
The idea for the Perelman Center was conceived in 2003 as a way to revitalize the neighborhood in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
Art
Peek Inside the Newly Reopened Tenement Museum in Manhattan
The 160-year-old Lower East Side landmark tells the story of the immigrant families who lived under its tin ceilings and wood-frame walls.
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Announcement
Shary Boyle Ventures Outside the Palace of Me at the Museum of Arts and Design
The multisensory solo exhibition of new works by the Canadian visual artist includes sculpted ceramics and life-sized automatons. On view in NYC.
News
Moss-Covered Activists Protest Penn Station Neighborhood Over-Development
A proposed plan to expand the train station and “revitalize” the Midtown area would evict hundreds of residents, activists say.
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Announcement
Vera List Center Forum 2023: An International Convening on Collective Approaches to Correction*
With artists, conversations, workshops, an exhibition, a dinner, and karaoke party, the VLC Forum 2023 showcases global modes of collectivity.
Art
How to Spend $1,000 at NYC’s Affordable Art Fair
I gave myself an imagined budget and set out to find everything from dorm-room art to a housewarming gift for that friend who loves crystals.
Art
Jim Nutt's Art Deserves a Closer Look
By choosing the unforgiving surface of toothed paper and making irrevocable marks, Nutt enters a territory few American artists have dared to go.
News
New York Gets Its Very Own “Little Prince” Sculpture
Marking the 80th anniversary of Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s book, a bronze statue of the beloved traveler can now be seen on Fifth Avenue.
Art
The New York Neon Shop That Became Legendary
Let There Be Neon in Tribeca made a name for itself as an essential resource for artists, from Keith Haring to Laurie Anderson.