Art
Under No Obligation
We should all be inspired by Alma Thomas’s optimism.
Studio Museum in Harlem
Art
When Art Spills Beyond Its Curatorial Frames
There has been a good deal of conversation in the last few years around the subject of Congressional district gerrymandering, a process by which the boundaries of an electoral constituency are manipulated to favor a political party or a class.
Art
From a Shipping Container in Brooklyn, a New Arts Org Champions Caribbean Culture
CaribBEING is a young hybrid arts organization working to play several roles.
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Best of 2015: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows
Occasionally, we are forced to venture beyond Brooklyn to see art.
News
A Harlem Alliance Creates New Initiative for Public Art
The Marcus Garvey Park Alliance has ambitious plans for a new program of public art to commence in 2016 with works primarily situated in four historic Harlem parks.
Art
In and Out of Frame: Lorraine O’Grady’s “Art Is…”
Like a Choose Your Own Adventure story or a game of Mad Libs, the elliptical title of Lorraine O’Grady’s 1983 performance piece, “Art Is…,” creates space, playful and inviting, for structured audience participation.
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Stanley Whitney Reclaims His History
Happily, for those who are curious about what came next in Whitney’s evolution, they need only to go uptown and see the artist’s first museum exhibition in New York, Stanley Whitney: Dance the Orange at the Studio Museum in Harlem, which contains a selection of twenty-nine paintings and works on pap
Opinion
What Will the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Expansion Achieve?
Given the Studio Museum’s unique position in the city’s arts and culture landscape, this rebuild, the first since the museum took up residence in its current space in 1982, seems to indeed be a cause to celebrate.
In Brief
Harlem’s Studio Museum Taps David Adjaye to Design $122M Expansion
Visitors to the Studio Museum in Harlem have long been struck by its small size.
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Stanley Whitney in the 1990s
Years ago I saw a drawing in a modest exhibition at the Centre Pompidou that Picasso made on a sheet of stiff cardboard while he was on a picnic with his friends, Michel and Louise Leiris. Not one to waste space, Picasso divided the surface into a grid, and in each small square he made a quick conto
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Portraits of Prisoners in Gold Leaf and Tar
When artist Titus Kaphar began searching for his father's prison records in 2011, he found the mugshots of 99 other black, incarcerated men who shared his dad's first and last name.
Performance
Turning Manifestos into Music
The premiere live performance of conceptual artist Charles Gaines’s “Manifestos 2” (2013) at the Museum of Modern Art on September 27 was nothing short of synesthetic.