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Your Concise New York Art Guide for June 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month. → Read More
Your Concise New York Art Guide for May 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month. → Read More
Dave McKenzie Brings His Methodical Approach to the Whitney Museum’s Facade
Debuting May 1, McKenzie’s Disturbing the View takes its inspiration from New York’s “squeegee men.” → Read More
Your Concise New York Art Guide for March 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month. → Read More
Black Visionaries Challenge the Exclusionary History of Architecture In This Online MoMA Class
In conjunction with the new exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, the free course creates further space to hear directly from Black designers, scholars, and artists. → Read More
Your Concise New York Art Guide for February 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month. → Read More
Alvin Ailey, the Icon and Enigma
Much as the documentary Ailey delights and inspires, it also evokes a sense of wistfulness by privileging the choreographer’s public persona at the expense of Alvin the man. → Read More
Rashaad Newsome and Kiyan Williams Talk Art, Inspiration, and Black Magic
As part of Newsome’s new multi-part project with Leslie-Lohman Museum, the pair will discuss their “relationships to soil and earth, WEB Du Bois, and the lie of the American experiment.” → Read More
Films That Center and Celebrate the Might of Black Women
On the eve of Kamala Harris’s historic inauguration, Protect Black Women highlights the lives and interiority of those who have “historically been the most vulnerable.” → Read More
Your Concise New York Art Guide for January 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month. → Read More
Fold Yourself a Little Serenity
With The Lotus Effect, the Rubin Museum of Art invites participants to stop and recenter. → Read More
Your Concise New York Art Guide for December 2020
Bye 2020. You've been a whole lot. For this final month of a wild year, we've pulled together a list of shows and film series that provides both ample → Read More
A Stirring Tribute Honors Voices Lost and Living with HIV/AIDS
Hear Me comes at a time when the ability to gather and grieve is as difficult as it is sorely needed. Fittingly, the NYC AIDS Memorial will debut the outdoor, touch-free installation starting December 1, for World AIDS Day. → Read More
Outdoor Video Art Screenings at Brooklyn Museum Offer a Break From Streaming Fare
Snuggle up (with a member of your household) on the museum’s steps and catch works by artists including Howardena Pindell, Jeffrey Gibson, and Adama Delphine Fawundu. → Read More
Meet the NYC Art Community: Lumi Tan on Drawing Strength from “Generative Challenges”
An interview series spotlighting New York’s creative community. Hear directly from artists, curators, and art workers about their current projects and personal quirks. → Read More
Photographs Document a Father’s Journey for Justice, One Run at a Time
An exhibition in the Bronx shines a light on Running for Ayotzinapa 43, a group calling for justice for the 43 young Mexican students kidnapped in 2014. → Read More
Vivid Posters Chart a “People’s History” of the Struggle for Social Justice
Enjoy an excerpt of Celebrate People’s History, a timely book of political posters reprinted by the Feminist Press. → Read More
Lorelei Rodriguez Brings the Fine Art of Virtual Comedy to Twitch
With Art is Easy, the artist and comedian invites viewers to tune in for a mix of cathartic comedy and Photoshop draw-alongs, aimed at making the shit show we’re all currently waist-deep in feel just a bit more bearable. → Read More
Outstanding MFA Work from Columbia, Cornell, and SVA
As summer winds down, Hyperallergic is continuing to highlight some of the superb work produced by recent MFA graduates from around the country. → Read More
Portraits and Oral Histories Highlight the Resilience of New Yorkers
At the New York Historical Society, Hope Wanted: New York City Under Quarantine points to both the grave challenges faced by New Yorkers, and their strength. → Read More