For his first solo museum exhibition in the United States, Cheng Ran debuts a new multi-video installation in the New Museum’s Lobby Gallery. Cheng Ran: Diary of a Mad 10/19/16 – 01/15/17 Cheng Ran (b. 1981, Inner Mongolia, China) is one of the most promising Chinese artists of his generation. Since 2005, Cheng has been […]

Film-maker and Sanders supporter says he was so spooked by the shock Brexit vote he rushed his documentary out before the election to make the case for Clinton Everyone loves a surprise. Hours after announcing the existence of a new film, Michael Moore in TrumpLand, film-lovers, leftists and New Yorkers drawn to wherever the action […]

LIVE from the NYPL: Marina Abramović in Conversation with Debbie Harry Friday, October 28 @ 7pm The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street SOLD OUT Livestream available here nypl.org/live Known for her performance art, in which she bares her body and presence in the most intimate of ways, […]

Beginning October 28, 2016, Dominique Lévy will present Joel Shapiro, the first survey exhibition of early wood wall reliefs by renowned American sculptor Joel Shapiro. Created between 1978 and 1980, these colorful small-scale works will be complemented by a major new site-specific installation work by the artist. The exhibition aims to illuminate the trajectory of Shapiro’s career, […]

By Ron Johnson “What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.”  ~ Aristotle What is inspiration?  Where does it come from?  For J.T. Kirkland it was a fortuitous trip to Musee D’Orsay on a hot day in Paris.  Kirkland, who was studying and later received his degree in Economics, recalls this visit […]

“Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest” Opens October 26, 2016 Over the past thirty years, Pipilotti Rist has achieved international renown as a pioneer of video art and multimedia installations. Her mesmerizing works envelop viewers in sensual, vibrantly colored kaleidoscopic projections that fuse the natural world with the technological sublime. Referring to her art as a “glorification […]

At The Met Fifth Avenue October 19, 2016–February 20, 2017 This exhibition will put a spotlight on artist Max Beckmann’s special connection with New York City, featuring 14 paintings that he created while living in New York from 1949 to 1950, as well as 25 earlier works, dating from 1920 to 1948, from New York […]

National Portrait Gallery Presents “Bill Viola: The Moving Portrait” November 18, 2016 – May 7, 2017 Museum Presents First Interpretation of Media Artist’s Work As Portraiture Nov. 18 In “Bill Viola: The Moving Portrait,” the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery offers a new interpretation of the artist’s work, presenting it through the lens of portraiture and […]

In this highly unconventional exhibition, visitors are encouraged to participate, touch, and even take home works of art by 42 international and intergenerational artists, many of whom are creating new and site-specific works for the exhibition. In a conventional museum experience, you, the visitor, may consume art only by looking at the paintings, sculptures, or […]

Sol LeWitt September 8 – October 22, 2016 534 W 21st Street NEW YORK – Paula Cooper Gallery is pleased to announce a sweeping celebration of Sol LeWitt’s prolific career in all public locations of the gallery. Opening on September 8th, the presentation will illuminate the pioneering scope of his oeuvre across a diverse range […]