Art
Drawing Meaning Out of Art with Conversation
The exhibition owes its title to a famous essay by philosopher Édouard Glissant, and it asks some big questions about how artists convey the substance of their art.
The Drawing Center
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An Artist-Led Tour of Jennifer Wynne Reeves’s Deeply Personal Drawings
As part of the Drawing Center’s The Artist's Eye series, Essenhigh, along with artist and critic Matthew Weinstein, will take visitors through Reeves's exhibition next Tuesday.
Film
An Artist’s Film Not Like the Others
We watch Ellen Berkenblit drawing. She is left-handed and uses charcoal. She rubs lines out and never looks at the camera.
Art
Terry Winters Draws the Shape of Space
In his best drawings, everything is keyed to the way that Winters attains difference while doing the same thing over and over.
Art
A Book Fair Where Visitors Collaborate with Cartoonists
For those who can't draw to save their lives, have no fear — more than a dozen artists will be on hand to help.
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An Artist’s Devotion to Exactness
The sensual surfaces of Susan York’s graphite sculptures bring together sight and touch without favoring either.
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Judith Bernstein's Horror Show
There may be no artist in America better equipped to express the perversity of the Trump administration than Bernstein.
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The Colonial Legacy of a Globe-Trotting Team of Artists and Scientists
An exhibition at The Drawing Center explores the controversial history of a group of researchers that recorded the nature around them.
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Best of 2016: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows
This list barely scratches the surface of the city's artistic offerings this year, from overdue retrospectives to surprising sides of artists we know well.
Art
The Ecstasy of Drawing
Cecily Brown is genuinely interested in all the ways a body experiencing pleasure can occupy space. In her drawings she records the results of her curiosity, her looking.
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Conjuring the Specters of Black Silent Film Actors
In Gary Simmons' newest work, he uses the names of silent screen actors of color and renders them in white paint, bleeding down against a black background like stigmata that suddenly appeared by divine intervention on the gallery’s walls.
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The Abstract Patterns of Sound on Dusty Speaker Covers
There are no drawings on the walls for the Drawing Center's current exhibition — at least, none you may define in the conventional sense of the medium.