A Burning Testament presents text by the writer and environmental activist Terry Tempest Williams with illustrations by the artist Mary Frank.
DC Moore brings together Alexi Worth and James Hannaham to discuss Worth's exhibition, Changing Table, currently on view at DC Moore Gallery through December 23.
DC Moore Gallery is pleased to host an artist talk between Barbara Takenaga and Elle Pérez, on the occasion of Takenaga's sixth solo exhibition at the gallery, Barbara Takenaga: Shibaraku, on view through December 23.
375 Hudson Street, in partnership with DC Moore Gallery, is pleased to present Joyce Kozloff: Mind Mapping in the Lobby Gallery.
An artist talk with Eric Aho and Todd Bradway will accompany the exhibition, Eric Aho: Source on October 14 @ 4:30pm
This week, an Instagram Live conversation brings together artist Darren Waterston and poet Mark Doty to discuss Waterston's exhibition Notes from the Air, currently on view at DC Moore Gallery.
Over the past few months, DC Moore Gallery has been providing inside views into how our artists continue their practices to create new works of art, while sharing perspectives of their current, everyday lives. We are excited to continue this initiative and welcome your thoughts about these features, as we hope they will bring together our friends, families, and colleagues.
Over the past few months, DC Moore Gallery has been providing inside views into how our artists continue their practices to create new works of art, while sharing perspectives of their current, everyday lives. For this announcement, we are looking back at artist Jane Wilson (1924-2015), and her life in Water Mill, NY, as told by her daughter, Julia Gruen.
This immersive installation by contemporary artist Darren Waterston presents a detailed and decadent interpretation of James Abbott McNeill Whistler's famed Peacock Room, a sumptuous 19th-century interior.
Join MAM Conversations for a discussion with innovative photographer Duane Michals and Studio Manager Josiah Cuneo as moderator.
Over the past few months, DC Moore Gallery has been providing inside views into how our artists continue their practices to create new works of art, while sharing perspectives of their current, everyday lives. We are excited to continue this initiative and welcome your thoughts about these features, as we hope they will bring together our friends, families and colleagues.
Mary Frank will be interviewed by artist and educator David Hornung. A brief Q&A with the artist will conclude the approximately 50-minute talk.
Artists Carie Moyer and Sheila Pepe will discuss their work and process with artist and Rail contributor, Yasi Alipour. We’ll conclude with a poetry reading from Biswamit Dwibedy.
Over the past few months, DC Moore Gallery has been providing inside views into how our artists continue their practices to create new works of art, while sharing perspectives of their current, everyday lives. We are excited to continue this initiative and welcome your thoughts about these features, as we hope they will bring together our friends, families and colleagues.
Joe Sheftel is pleased to announce the opening of Intimate Companions, the inaugural exhibition hosted by the Provincetown Arts Society at the Mary Heaton Vorse House. The title of the group exhibition referencesIntimate Companions: A Triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein and Their Circle by author and playwright David Leddick.
Over the coming weeks, we will be providing inside views into how our artists continue their practices to create new works of art, while sharing perspectives of their current, everyday lives. We are excited to welcome your thoughts about these features, as this initiative will bring together our friends, families, and colleagues.
Over the coming weeks, we will be providing inside views into how our artists continue their practices to create new works of art, while sharing perspectives of their current, everyday lives. We are excited to welcome your thoughts about these features, as this initiative will bring together our friends, families, and colleagues.
Over the coming weeks, we will be providing inside views into how our artists continue their practices to create new works of art, while sharing perspectives of their current, everyday lives, but for this announcement we are delighted to highlight DC Moore Gallery’s Mark Valenti.
This week, an Instagram Live conversation brings together Carrie Moyer and curator Piper Marshall to discuss Moyer’s presentation for DC Moore Gallery's Frieze New York Viewing Room.
Over the coming weeks, we will be providing inside views into how our artists continue their practices to create new works of art, while sharing perspectives of their current, everyday lives. We are excited to welcome your thoughts about these features, as this initiative will bring together our friends, families and colleagues
Over the coming weeks, we will be providing inside views into how our artists continue their practices to create new works of art, while sharing perspectives of their current, everyday lives. We are excited to welcome your thoughts about these features, as this initiative will bring together our friends, families and colleagues.
Over the coming weeks, we will be providing inside views into how our artists continue their practices to create new works of art, while sharing perspectives of their current, everyday lives. We are excited to welcome your thoughts about these features, as this initiative will bring together our friends, families and colleagues.
Over the coming weeks, we will be providing inside views into how our artists continue their practices to create new works of art, while sharing perspectives of their current, everyday lives. We are excited to welcome your thoughts about these features, as this initiative will bring together our friends, families and colleagues.
Over the coming weeks, we will be providing inside views into how our artists continue their practices to create new works of art, while sharing perspectives of their current, everyday lives. We are excited to welcome your thoughts about these features, as this initiative will bring together our friends, families and colleagues.
Over the coming weeks, we will be providing inside views into how our artists continue their practices to create new works of art, while sharing perspectives of their current, everyday lives. We are excited to welcome your thoughts about these features, as this initiative will bring together our friends, families and colleagues.
Over the coming weeks, we will be providing inside views into how our artists continue their practices to create new works of art, while sharing perspectives of their current, everyday lives. We are excited to welcome your thoughts about these features, as this initiative will bring together our friends, families and colleagues.
Over the coming weeks, we will be providing inside views into how our artists continue their practices to create new works of art, while sharing perspectives of their current, everyday lives.
David Driskell died April 1, 2020 in the late afternoon in a hospital outside of Hyattsville, MD, where he lived with his wife, Thelma Driskell.
Exploring Romare Bearden’s important yet rarely-seen body of abstract work in tandem with the range of his art (including the popular figurative collages), this exhibition highlights Bearden’s place within the context of the New York avant-garde of the 1950s-60s and provides the opportunity to reassess the achievements of this seminal American artist.
154 West 131st Street, Manhattan, NY
The Historic Landmarks Preservation Center is organizing this dedication for a building where Romare and his family resided.
The David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland is proud to announce its Spring 2020 exhibition, Romare Bearden: Artist as Activist & Visionary which explores the body of work of one of the 20th century’s most important visual artists and highlights his life as an educator, scholar, writer, songwriter, and social activist.
4:30 - 6pm
DC Moore Gallery artist Mary Frank in conversation with David Hornung
Since 2015, the artist Duane Michals has worked mainly in the medium of short film. On these special evenings, he introduces programs of selected works exploring a wide range of genres, including memoir, dream narrative, burlesque, farce, literary fantasy, and murder mystery.
In anticipation of their collaborative exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art, Associate Curator Jaime DeSimone will moderate a conversation with Sheila Pepe (A '94, F '13) and Skowhegan Governor Carrie Moyer (A '95, F '10).
The Estate of Robert De Niro, Sr. is pleased to announce the publication of Robert De Niro, Sr.: Paintings, Drawings and Writings: 1949-1993.
Please join us from 3-5pm, for an open house with Yvonne Jacquette to accompany her exhibit Yvonne Jacquette: Daytime New York on view through October 5th.
535 West 22nd Street
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10011
This exhibition gathers five contemporary abstract painters whose work interprets the sky and its the stars in fresh visual language. Includes Barbara Takenaga.
Panel Discussion with Paolo Arao, Amie Cunat, Carrie Moyer & Odili Donald Odita
Moderated by Richard Kalina
In partnership with the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, the Figge is proud to present "Living Legacy," a conversation between Professors David C. Driskell and Curlee R. Holton.
A panel with artist Carrie Moyer and Marina Ancona of 10 Grand Press, and artist Joanne Greenbaum and Jennifer Melby of Jennifer Melby Editions exploring how the relationship between artist and printer informs the process of making a print from start to finish.
The experience of making art as a woman has changed dramatically in the past 50 years—but how far have we come, and how far do we still have to go?
Painter, curator, and art critic, Alexi Worth joins us for The Review Panel at The Brooklyn Library moderated by David Cohen.
Held at the School’s National Historic Landmark building, the Evening Lecture Series offers a platform for diverse perspectives and spirited conversation between artists, scholars, students and the general public on contemporary art and art history subjects alike.
The March Green Series features artist Claire Sherman, whose show New Pangaea, up now at DC Moore Gallery in Manhattan, represents the natural world in a manner that makes her landscapes both recognizable and utterly imaginative, inviting yet daunting.
The Arthur Ross Gallery is proud to announce that David C. Driskell, distinguished artist, professor, and scholar in the field of African-American art, will present the third annual Susan T. Marx Distinguished Lecture on March 21, 2019.
A conversation between Pattern and Decoration artists Valerie Jaudon, Richard Kalina, Joyce Kozloff, Robert Kushner, Kim MacConnel, Ned Smyth, and Robert Zakanitch
Moderated by Manuela Ammer
Dr. David C. Driskell, one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject of African-American art, will give a lecture discussing his personal memories of Romare Bearden and his incredible works as an artist.
In this public conversation with Professor Peggy Phelan (Director of Stanford Arts Institute, Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, and of English), Joyce Kozloff will show her decorative work (in high art and craft media) from the early 70s to the present.
Please rsvp to pcolon@dcmooregallery.com
Near & Dear is an intergenerational exhibition that explores amorous connections artists make with signifying materials and objects. This group of eight artists use objects to deliver embodied meaning, from the haptic to the optical to cerebral. All have an investment in a specific material culture and the product of their research takes the form of discrete artifacts.
EFA PROJECT SPACE
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 12 - 6 PM
Office Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 10 - 6 PM
323 W. 39th St, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10018
projectspace@efanyc.org
212.563.5855 ext 22
NewFilmmakers NY hosts a short film program at Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue, New York City)
Tickets are $7 and go on sale at 5:30PM the night of screening at the Anthology Box Office.
The Pleasures of the Glove will screen with a group of other short films beginning at 7:15pm
Artists Barbara Takenaga and Tom Burckhardt discuss abstraction, painting, and geometry.
In Conversation: Barbara Takenaga
Neuberger Museum, SPACE | 42 Event
Join our Chief Curator, Helaine Posner, and artist Barbara Takenaga for a lively conversation about Takenaga’s work in the Neuberger Museum’s satellite New York City location.
The Neuberger Museum of Art SPACE | 42 is located on the ground floor of 33 West 42nd Street (across from Bryant Park).
Tickets to public programs are free to Members of the Neuberger Museum of Art and to Purchase College students, faculty and staff.
General Admission: $5
For more information please email:
nma.rsvp@purchase.edu
Summer of Know: Carrie Moyer in Conversation with Laura Flanders
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Tuesday, August 1, 6:30pm
Artist Carrie Moyer and Laura Flanders, author and broadcaster, discuss feminism and activism. Moderated by Ylinka Barotto, Assistant Curator.
The Whitney Biennial is the longest running survey of contemporary art in the United States, with a history of exhibiting the most promising and influential artists and provoking lively debate. The 2017 Biennial is the Museum’s seventy-eighth in a continuous series of Annual and Biennial exhibitions initiated by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in 1932. It is the first to be held in the Whitney’s downtown home at 99 Gansevoort Street, and the largest ever in terms of gallery space.
Fern Canyon features a selection of drawings and paintings by artist Claire Sherman, including the recent KMAC acquisition Tree, 2016. The exhibition introduces Sherman’s innovative approach to a traditional genre, displaying her patent perspectives on contemporary landscape painting. Riotous representations of nature blur into abstraction as moss covered tree limbs, tangled branches, and rock-strewn caves combine with Sherman’s urgent brushstrokes and bold warps of color, scale and environmental perception.
An exhibition of prints by David Driskell, Renewal and Form | Selected Recent Prints presents his most recent series. Referencing African and African-American art, Driskell says, “I try to pattern my art with certain aspects of African and African-American iconography…in particular with African textiles, with costumes – especially with the Egungun costume, where the Yoruba dancers wear large costumes with strips of quilted cloth.”
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of this city’s most beloved artists, Jacob Lawrence, the Seattle Art Museum presents Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series. Acclaimed as Lawrence’s masterwork, this epic series chronicles in words and pictures the exodus of African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North in the decades after the First World War.
Between the apex of Abstract Expressionism and the rise of Pop Art and Minimalism, the New York art scene was transformed by artist-run galleries. Inventing Downtown presents works from fourteen of these crucibles of experimentation, highlighting artists’ efforts to create new exhibition venues for innovative works of art—ranging from abstract and figurative painting, assemblage, sculpture, and works on paper to groundbreaking installations and performances.
Please join us on Friday, March 24 and Saturday, March 25 at 6pm for an evening of choreography and conversation in connection with the exhibition Romare Bearden: Bayou Fever and Related Works. This special event features a preview performance of a new dance based on parts of Bearden’s Bayou Fever, which he originally conceived as a collage/storyboard for a dance. Created and performed in the gallery by the acclaimed South African choreographer Dada Masilo with two other dancers, the piece was commissioned by the Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University, in conjunction with the exhibition. The performance will be followed by a talk-back with Ms. Masilo.
Space is limited. Please RSVP to rjohnson@dcmooregallery.com.
Join us at DC Moore Gallery for a informal gathering to celebrate Robert Kushner: Portraits & Perennials
Saturday, March 4, 10am-12pm
The artist will be present. Light refreshments will be served.
Cincinnati Art Museum presents the first major museum survey of the Lexington Camera Club's artistic achievements in the new exhibition Kentucky Renaissance: The Lexington Camera Club and Its Community, 1954-1974. More than 150 photographs, books, prints and other objects made in and around Lexington, Kentucky will be on view from October 8, 2016 - January 1, 2017.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard is the most esteemed artist affiliated with this group. This exhibition sets his art with an unprecedented examination of his mentors, peers and friends in the Lexington Camera Club during the third quarter of the 20th century. In doing so, the exhibition notes the influence this club had not only on Meatyard, but on developing a modernist sensibility blended with Southern culture.
Claire Sherman will showcase six paintings at the lobby gallery at 527 Madison Avenue, a boutique office building in the Plaza District. The paintings, many of which exemplify Ms. Sherman's signature style of large-scale, tight-focus landscapes, will be on display through November 22, 2016. Located at 54th Street and Madison Avenue, the show is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Please join us at The American Art Fair
November 18 - 21, 2016 | Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, New York, NY 10021
Work by Romare Bearden, Charles Burchfield, Elizabeth Catlett, Stuart Davis, Robert De Niro, Sr., Beauford Delaney, Emil Ganso, Gwen Knight, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Luigi Lucioni, John Marin, Reginald Marsh, Ben Shahn, Everett Shinn, and others.
The three artists in this exhibition–Carrie Moyer, David Reed, and John Zinsser–are prominent abstract painters who in very different but vital ways continue the tradition of abstract painting. In addition to their common concerns with color, shape, and surface texture, each creates abstract imagery that powerfully evokes a world of human feeling–and a kind of radiant humanism. They were invited to show in this exhibition because of the quality of their work and the continuity that they represent between Abstract Expressionism and contemporary abstraction. All three artists were also participants in a symposium about the legacy of Robert Motherwell at the Archives of American Art in Washington, D.C., in December 2015.
American artist Whitfield Lovell discusses the multilayered implications of his meticulously arranged compositions and the personal histories that inspired his celebrated Kin series.
Join us on opening night of Yvonne Jacquette: Paintings 1981-2016 for a gallery talk with Vincent Katz and Yvonne Jacquette. Reception to follow.
A Feast for the Eyes, guest curated by Franklin Hill Perrell, explores how cuisine has always inspired artists. The exhibition opens on July 30, 2016, and remains on view through November 6, 2016. A Feast for the Eyes, a sweeping two-floor exhibition focused on food and dining in art, features works by Isabel Bishop, Robert De Niro, Sr., Janet Fish, Robert Kushner, Duane Michals, Jane Wilson, Alexi Worth and others.
This event is co-sponsored by Carl Solway Gallery and the Friends of Photography at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
The work of internationally recognized American artist Whitfield Lovell (b. 1959, Bronx, New York) powerfully examines “the markings that the past has made—and continues to make—on who we are.” In his exquisitely crafted Kin series and related tableaux, Lovell combines freely drawn Conté crayon figures of anonymous African Americans with time worn objects from everyday life, such as a brooch, clock, or flag. Lovell’s poetic combinations “transgress cultural or racial boundaries” in their exploration of identity, heritage, memory, and our collective American past. This exhibition of 40 works features selections from the Kin series in dialogue with some of his finest related works.
Duane Michals with speak about his photographic career alongside High Museum of Art Curator of Photography, Brett Abbott and Atlanta Celebrates Photography Executive Director, Amy Miller.
An abstract painter working in acrylics, Barbara Takenaga is known for her swirling, dot-based paintings of saturated color and undulating patterns. Her simple forms, arranged into dense and detailed composition, radiate and recede in what seems to be infinite space.
Takenaga has been the Mary A. and William Wirt Warren Professor of Art at Williams College since 1985. Her first major exhibition was at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in 1987, and her work has since has been exhibited at institutions including the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; and the National Academy Museum, New York.
"I still love the idea of the Big Bang," Takenaga has said of her work. "I feel like I am on this really giant ocean liner and I've got this little tiny steering wheel, and I'm turning and turning and turning it, and I'm trying to make a different course for the ship, turning and turning the wheel, and nothing happens. Finally, the thing--me, my attitude, the history of the work, the paintings themselves--because its mass is so big, it starts moving, ever so slowly shifting."
For nearly 25 years, Eric Aho has depicted the landscape as a means to investigate and expand the boundaries of painting and personal inquiry. Since his earliest projects, Aho has brought historical research, personal relationships, and a close reading of the landscape together to reinvigorate traditional portraiture and challenge what it means to paint the landscape today, in works that are both representational and dynamically abstract.
An installation of photographs from the Museum’s permanent collection by Ralph Eugene Meatyard and Duane Michals. Meatyard and Michals are each known for creating distinctive narratives using staged photography, often pushing their image-making toward other genres, including film, theater, and literature.
Project Gallery: Romare Bearden features a series of photostat Projections produced by the artist in 1964. Bearden created 21 small collages, which he subsequently converted into large black-and-white photographic images. The imagery comprises some of the first artistic representations of black traditional and popular culture from an African American perspective. Project Gallery: Romare Bearden features a series of photostat Projections produced by the artist in 1964. Bearden created 21 small collages, which he subsequently converted into large black-and-white photographic images. The imagery comprises some of the first artistic representations of black traditional and popular culture from an African American perspective.
Recorded in New York City
Episode Length: 42:00
Air Date: June 15, 2016
Produced by: Jordan Weitzman & Michelle Macklem, Edited by: Cristal Duhaime
In this episode, photographer Duane Michals talks to Jordan Weitzman about his early days in photography to the work he is doing today. Michals is best known for his Sequences, which he first started to develop in the mid sixties. He has had an eclectic career, from that early work being exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York to doing commercial work for Vogue and Esquire. He is a self-taught photographer and his work broke away from the established styles of the sixties, from his portraits to his iconoclastic combinations of image and text to his very personal approach to bookmaking. Duane has been with his partner Fred Gorey for over 55 years and they live together in New York City. He is 84 and still working, still feeling inspired, still playful in his philosophical and thoughtful approaches to photography.
Barbara Takenaga has created a new work of an unprecedented scale for a 100 foot wall in the Hunter Center lobby at MASS MoCA.The mural features a new image from her series, Nebraska Paintings, a body of work that moves closer to the representational imagery only implied in earlier pieces, but which captures the wide open spaces and big sky of the artist’s native state. The work will be on view at MASS MoCA beginning July 12, 2015.
First exhibited at MASS MoCA in 2013, in the installation Filthy Lucre, Darren Waterston reimagines James McNeill Whistler’s famed Peacock Room—an icon of American art—as a decadent ruin collapsing under the weight of its own creative excess. Forging a link between inventive and destructive forces, Filthy Lucre forms the centerpiece of an unprecedented exhibition that highlights the complicated tensions between art and money, ego and patronage, and acts of creative expression in the nineteenth century and today.
Women, Art, AIDS, and Activism: Here Then, Here Now
Brooklyn Museum
June 4, 6:00pm
From 1991 to 2004, DC Moore artist Carrie Moyer collaborated with photographer Sue Schaffner as "Dyke Action Machine!"(DAM!), one of few long-standing public art projects. DAM! inserted lesbian imagery into mainstream commercial contexts, challenging how lesbians are (and are not) depicted in American culture. Today Moyer continues her activist work, channeling it into writing and teaching.
Catch Moyer and other women artist-activists this Saturday, June 4th at 6:00pm at Brooklyn Museum on the panel "Women, Art, AIDS, and Activism: Here Then, Here Now," hosted by Visual AIDS!
Duane Michals: Talking Pictures
Special Screening of 12 Short Films by Duane Michals
Friday, May 13, 7:30pm
School of Visual Arts' Beatrice Theatre (333 W 23rd Street)
Please join us at the SVA's Beatrice Theatre for a full screening of Duane Micha's 12 "mini-movies"
Tickets at the door: $10 public, $5 students, cash only
Sea of Stars: The Astral and the Oceanic in Contemporary Art
DC Moore Gallery
Friday, April 29 at 6:30pm. Reception to follow.
Please join us at DC Moore Gallery for a gallery talk featuring artcritical Editor David Cohen in conversation with artists Katherine Bradford and Barbara Takenaga.
Pattern & Decoration and Femmage: Then and Now
National Academy Museum & School, Assembly Hall
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Panelists: Melissa Meyer, Robert Kushner, Gaby Collins-Fernandez
Moderator: Maura Reilly
Art Talk: Robert O'Meally on Romare Bearden
Perez Art Museum Miami
April 14, 2016
7:00PM
Distinguished Columbia University Professor Robert O’Meally will discuss the work of Romare Bearden and his series of photostat projections which were produced in 1964 and are currently on view at PAMM. O’Meally has written extensively on Bearden and organized the Smithsonian traveling exhibition Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey, which toured the country through early 2015.
Gallery Talk about "Carrie Moyer: Sirens"
DC Moore Gallery
Wednesday, March 16 at 6:30 PM
Join us for an gallery with Carrie Moyer and Amy Smith-Stewart, Curator at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
Eric Aho: Ice Cuts
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
January 9 - March 13, 2016
Aho began the Ice Cut series nine years ago, making one painting a year of the dark void created by the act of sawing into the thick ice. The central abstract form in these compositions provides the structure for Aho's experimentation with paint texture, surface, and subtly nuanced color, giving these frozen scenes a sense of both austere beauty and vibrant life.
American Artists Against War, 1935-2010
The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 6 PM
Joyce Kozloff, along with author David McCarthy and artist Martha Rosler have a discussion about artists’ activism and antiwar art in the age of the American Century. McCarthy provides a historical overview of the continuities and changes in antiwar art from the 1930s until today, while Kozloff and Rosler contextualize this broader history with their experiences as artists and activists since the 1960s.
Robert De Niro, Sr. and Irving Feldman
Painter and Poet at UB in the Late 1960s
UB Art Galleries, Buffalo, NY
September 11 - October 25, 2015
Robert De Niro Sr. taught during summer sessions at University of Buffalo for six years beginning in 1967. His friend, poet Irving Feldman, taught at the university from 1964 to 2004 and was responsible for recruiting De Niro to teach for the program. "Robert De Niro, Sr. and Irving Feldman: Painter and Poet at UB in the Late 60s" includes work from both, alongside additional material from the collections of the Burchfield Penney Art Center and the UB Poetry Collection.
MoMA PS1 presents the fourth iteration of its landmark exhibition series, begun as a collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art in 2000. Recurring every five years, the exhibition has traditionally showcased the work of emerging artists living and working in the New York metropolitan area. Greater New York arrives in a city and art community that has changed significantly since the first version of the survey. With the rise of a robust commercial art market and the proliferation of art fairs, opportunities for younger artists in the city have grown alongside a burgeoning interest in artists who may have been overlooked in the art histories of their time. Concurrently, the city itself is being reshaped by a voracious real estate market that poses particular challenges to local artists. The speed of this change in recent years has stoked a nostalgia for earlier periods in New York—notably the 1970s and 1980s, and the experimental practices and attitudes that flourished in the city during those decades. Against this backdrop, Greater New York departs from the show’s traditional focus on youth, instead examining points of connection and tension between our desire for the new and nostalgia for that which it displaces.
Bringing together emerging and more established artists, the exhibition occupies MoMA PS1’s entire building with over 400 works by 157 artists, including programs of film and performance. Greater New York is co-organized by a team led by Peter Eleey, Curator and Associate Director of Exhibitions and Programs, MoMA PS1; and including art historian Douglas Crimp, University of Rochester; Thomas J. Lax, Associate Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art, MoMA; and Mia Locks, Assistant Curator, MoMA PS1.
Considering the “greater” aspect of its title in terms of both geography and time, Greater New York begins roughly with the moment when MoMA PS1 was founded in 1976 as an alternative venue that took advantage of disused real estate, reaching back to artists who engaged the margins of the city. Together, the works in the exhibition employ a heterogeneous range of aesthetic strategies, often emphatically representing the city’s inhabitants through forms of bold figuration, and foregrounding New York itself as a location of conflict and possibility.
Jane Wilson, Painter of Luminous Landscapes, Is Dead at 90
Jane Wilson, whose sixty-year career established her as one of the leading landscape painters of the postwar era, died on January 13, 2015 in New York. She was 90.
An exhibition of paintings and works on paper in association with DC Moore Gallery
January 16 - 26, 2014
This exhibition is in parallel with the screening of The HBO Documentary Film Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr. which premieres are the Sundance Film Festival 2014 and on HBO in June 2014.
Alexi Worth's current exhibition States will be the subject of The Review Panel, presented by the National Academy Museum in association with artcritical.com.
Friday, June 7 at 6:30 pm
National Academy Museum
1083 Fifth Avenue at 89th St.
Eva Diaz, Ken Johnson, Chloe Rossetti, and moderator David Cohen will discuss:
Lorna Williams: Appositions: Still / Birth / Shit at DODGE gallery
Wolfgang Tillmans: From Neue Welt at Andrea Rosen
Alexi Worth: States at DC Moore Gallery
Brock Enright: Verdigris at Kate Werble Gallery
