Film
The Refugee Crisis Seen Through a Heat-Detecting Camera
Richard Mosse's video installation Incoming gives migrants anonymity while emphasizing their humanity.
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What Can the Arts Do for Immigrants? NYC’s Cultural Leaders Convene an Event to Hear Your Thoughts
70 of New York City arts organizations have called upon the City's government to convene a symposium on how to better serve the city's immigrant community now under siege by ICE and the Trump administration.
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Pushing the Limits of NYC's Periphery at the Southeast Queens Biennial
The inaugural biennial questions how we define the city margins by presenting the work of artists who call the eastern edge of New York City’s largest borough home.
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In the Bronx, a Pop-up Art Show Is a Lightning Rod for Fear of Gentrification
There weren’t many protesters — just seven — but they were loud.
Announcement
No Longer Empty Is Accepting Applications for the Fall 2015 NLE Curatorial Lab
No Longer Empty Curatorial Lab (NLE Lab) is a 15-week professional development program for emerging curators that is dedicated to the curation of site-specific exhibitions. [http://engine.adzerk.net/p/eyJhdiI6MzAyMzAsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjoyNjkyNTMsImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjciI6OTE4NTEyLCJkbSI6NCwiZmMiOjk
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If You Build It in Harlem
No Longer Empty's current exhibit, If You Build It, manages to avoid the ickiness of so many other art projects exploited to anoint development projects on the verge of fruition, and in an art economy that's popularized the practice of artwashing that's no small feat.
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One Artist's Attempt to Break into Show Biz and the Art World in One Fell Swoop
Isha is a cinematic work-in-progress both literally and figuratively. Recently a 15-minute screening, as well as actual location shoot happened back-to-back at Long Island City’s Clocktower Gallery as part of the ongoing How Much Do I Owe You? exhibition. It’s a ballsey attempt by Indian writer/dire
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Revealing the Hidden Truths of the Financial World Through Art
After the Gomorrah-like deal-a-minute-a-thon of Art Basel Miami Beach, an exhibition arrives examining the artworld's underbelly: money, lucre, filthy-stinking-rich moolah, big bucks, hated, denounced, but vital nonetheless. The show asks the question, what, exactly is a transaction? How does money
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The Bronx's Favorite Abandoned Mansion Becomes a Home for Art
In the last several years, the term “pop up” has become ubiquitous in the art world. The majority of these related, newfound endeavors — brief exhibitions, stores and happenings — make charming use of relatively sparse, small storefronts. In this vein, I've come to expect a bit of space-maximizing i
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Rediscovering Paradise in the Bronx
The curious history of a former retirement home for wealthy elderly people fallen on hard times and the contemporary Bronx community now surrounding that home provide rich material for the 32 artists in No Longer Empty's current exhibit, This Side of Paradise. Sharing its name with F. Scott Fitzgera