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.
Studio Museum in Harlem
Art
The Artistic Madness of the American South
The insane, or seemingly insane, have constituted a good chunk of “outsider art” since the term’s inception, so it’s no surprise that When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South, now in the last week of its run at the Studio Museum in Harlem, includes a few of them.
News
NYC Cultural Institutions Have Pension Payments Withheld While City Examines "Anomalies"
The New York Times reported yesterday that New York City is withholding payments this fiscal year into a pension system for many cultural centers with city contracts, such as the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Art
Museum as Tool: Directors on How They Run Their Art Institutions
SAVANNAH, Georgia — Curators organize groups of art objects into exhibitions. Might it be said that museum directors organize groups of exhibitions into an identity or an institution? The highlight of Savannah College of Art and Design’s deFINE Art conference last week came for me in the form of a p
Art
Too Many Paths Leading Every Which Way at Caribbean: Crossroads of the World
Spending all day being party-bused between the three museums — El Museo del Barrio, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Queens Museum of Art — who are hosting the self-proclaimed landmark exhibition "Caribbean: Crossroads of the World," I was repeatedly told by the museum directors, curators and art
Art
Weekly Art Rx
This week we continue with more show openings for weekend art-goers in need of a nugget of inspiration. Our round-up includes the Mike Weiss Gallery, Sculpture Center, Journal Gallery, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Airplane gallery, Nyehaus Gallery and Chambers Fine Art.
Art
Weekly Art Rx: Holiday Overdose
Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Festivus (Cristivuskwanzakkah?) is upon us, but that's no excuse to miss your weekly dose of Art Rx. In fact, we're forcing a spoonful of holiday spirit down your throat with a selection of events for everyone, no matter what holiday you celebrate …
Art
Taking Five At The Studio Museum in Harlem
This summer the Studio Museum in Harlem is hosting five extensive exhibitions that hold true to its mission and bring both established artists and those in training under the same roof. Packed into the museum’s intimate space on 125th Street, the shows offer a tremendous range of mostly thought-prov
Books
Artist Interventions as Sugarcoating
The Studio Museum in Harlem's Fall 2010 Studio magazine, a publication that functions as newsletter, press release and behind-the-scenes peek at the museum's operation, doesn't exactly look institutional. This edition is covered by a mottled, fibrous layer of paper that obscures the magazine itself.