This week, the city hosts an animation block party, a small press flea, and a poetry festival. Plus, don’t miss Hyperallergic’s panel on art and propaganda, a look at the latest projects in art and tech, and more.
This week, stare at the sun through an artist’s custom-made masks, enjoy a neoclassical opera based on a series of 18th-century paintings, revisit the 1972 presidential conventions in two DIY documentaries, and more.
This week, three performers explore living in a black or brown body, Socrates Sculpture Park starts screening films outdoors, Brooklyn activists host a forum on gentrification and displacement, and more.
This week, an artist eats an American flag, Thomas Jefferson’s slave mistress leads a tour of Storm King, you can edit Wikipedia in celebration of LGBTQ pride, and more.
This week, a show by renowned Dutch-Californian conceptualist Bas Jan Ader lands in Chelsea, queer book arts get a show, Staten Island’s Lumen festival returns, and more.
This week, Vito Acconci opens at MoMA PS1 (and any serious art-lover will want to see it), El Museo del Sures will document the stories of South Williamsburg, Ida Applebroog talks about her childhood, and much much more.
This week, salsa dancing in a museum, learn from Martha Rosler about gentrification, talk about endangered languages with Mariam Ghani, explore Museum Mile, and more.
This week, see current work by legendary choreographer Yvonne Rainer, write on an abandoned house on Governors Island, learn about the Art and Social Justice Working Group, and more.
This week, two rarely screened videos by Adrian Piper, a show of artist-made pins, a retrospective for László Moholy-Nagy, an artistic celebration of Menstrual Hygiene Day, and more.
This week, artists make work in PowerPoint; the New-York Historical Society displays a vast collection of folk art; I, your humble author, offer free financial advice; and more.
This week, check out two film festivals — one devoted to contemporary African movies, the other to experimental, found-footage films — or consider art in unusual places — like Green-Wood Cemetery, the storefronts of Bay Ridge, and a patch of land off the BQE.
This week, take in open studios in Greenpoint and Lower Manhattan, visit an indie game arcade in Queens, listen to an experimental noise pop group play the soundtrack of Twin Peaks, and more.
