The Bronx Museum of the Arts - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Jamel Shabazz “Eyes on the Street”
Starting at the young age of fifteen, Brooklyn born photographer Jamel Shabazz identified early on the core subject of his lifelong investigation: the men and women, young and old, who invest the streets...More »
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Shaun Leonardo “The Breath of Empty Space”
Shaun Leonardo: The Breath of Empty Space presents drawings by the Brooklyn-based artist that critique how mediated images of systemic violence against Black and Brown young men in contemporary American...More »
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Sanford Biggers “Codeswitch”
Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch is the first survey of quilt-based works by the New York-based interdisciplinary artist. The solo show features over 60 quilt-based works by the artist that seamlessly weave...More »
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José Parlá “It’s Yours”
José Parlá: It’s Yours will be the first solo museum exhibition of the internationally renowned artist in New York City. The new paintings evoke the artist’s personal connection to the Bronx, as well as...More »
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Henry Chalfant “Art vs. Transit, 1977-1987”
Widely regarded as one of the most significant documentarians of street art, Henry Chalfant has produced a voluminous body documenting the emergence of the trend since its early days in the Bronx, following...More »
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“Smells Like Teen Spirit” Exhibition
Organized by The Bronx Museum of the Arts Teen Council, Smells Like Teen Spirit features artwork created by New York City-based teen artists. Through an open call, young people were invited to submit artworks...More »
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“Useless: Machines for Dreaming, Thinking, and Seeing” Exhibition
It has been a long tradition among philosophers and writers to praise uselessness as a means to stress the importance of spiritual activities and creations without clear functional aims. Aristotle, for...More »
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Peter Campus “video ergo sum”
Widely regarded as a pioneer of video art, peter campus creates complex installations that engage and amuse, while leading the viewer in a journey of discovery and self-awareness.More »
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Eddie Martinez “White Outs”
Widely recognized for his large scale paintings that incorporate silkscreens of blown up drawings, Eddie Martinez has built a consistent body of work over the last decade successfully merging the tradition...More »
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Rochelle Feinstein ” Image of an Image”
The work of Bronx native Rochelle Feinstein is deeply informed by abstraction, while also conveying a keen sensibility to contemporary culture, particularly to our everyday use of language. Over the span...More »
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Christopher K. Ho “Aloha to the World at the Don Ho Terrace”
What happens when an artist disengages, psychically if not ideologically, from the margins? Can those in the mainstream responsibly acknowledge and harness their status toward progressive art in the US...More »
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Manuel Mendive “Nature, Spirit, And Body”
Over the last fifty years, Cuban artist Manuel Mendive has developed a sophisticated and pointed examination of the influence of African oral-based traditions on Cuba through the experimental lens of contemporary...More »
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Al-Hadid “Delirious Matter”
The centerpiece of Diana Al-Hadid: Delirious Matter at the Bronx Museum will be the monumental sculpture Nolli’s Orders (2012), which references Giambattista Nolli’s landmark 1748 map of Rome, the first...More »
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“Iran: Women Only” Exhibition
Iran: Women Only focuses on the contemporary women of Iran with a look back at the early work of photojournalist Randy H. Goodman started almost four decades ago. The 1979 occupation of the US Embassy...More »
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“Dialogues: Tim Rollins & K.O.S. and Glenn Ligon” Exhibition
This exhibition in honor of the late Tim Rollins takes as its departure point the concept of dialog that was central to his vision as an artist and educator. Deeply influenced by the educational theories...More »
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Oded Halahmy “Exile Is Home”
Oded Halahmy: Exile is Home includes over 100 works representing Halahmy’s work from the mid-1960s to the present and features a selection of Judaica – handmade by the artist for Hanukkah and Sukkah celebrations...More »
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Moses Ros “Landing / Aterrizaje”
Landing / Aterrizaje is solo show of Bronx artist Moses Ros’ sculptures on the Bronx Museum’s Sculpture Terrace. The work is inspired by recent migrations to the United States caused by environmental and...More »
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Susannah Ray “A Further Shore”
Inspired by the boundless humanism in Walt Whitman’s poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” Susannah Ray has developed a new series of photographs on the waterways of New York City. In his poem, Whitman calls...More »
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Gordon Matta-Clark “Anarchitect”
Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect at The Bronx Museum of the Arts will explore how the artist’s practice introduced radical ways of subverting urban architecture, beginning with the series of “cuts” he produced...More »
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Angel Otero “Elegies”
Since early on in his career Angel Otero has aligned his practice to the oldest and most revered painting tradition, which he endeavors to constantly reinvent it. Thus, Otero not only retains a commitment...More »
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“Bronx Calling: The Fourth AIM Biennial” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2017-07-22 - 2017-10-22
Now in its fourth cycle, Bronx Calling: The Fourth AIM Biennial features the work of seventy-two emerging artists from the 2016 and 2017 classes of the Bronx Museum’s Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program....More »
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“Love Thy Neighbor” Exhibition
Love Thy Neighbor is the third and final part of The Neighbors, an exhibition series guest curated by Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy for The Bronx Museum of the Arts. In this third iteration of the series,...More »
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Arlene Slavin “Intersections”
At the Bronx Museum’s Terrace, Arlene Slavin will present a group of sculptures from Intersections, a series that plays off the principle of the sundial. In these works, Slavin employs crisscrossed, translucent...More »
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Daniel Hauben “Reflecting on the Familiar”
Over the past 40 years, Bronx native and resident Daniel Hauben has focused his attention on the changing urban landscape of our cities, creating paintings of streets and parks from the perspective of...More »
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“Wild Noise/Ruido Salvaje” Exhibition
Wild Noise/Ruido Salvaje is an exploration of contemporary Cuban art from the 1970s to the present that looks at how Cuban artists both on the island and abroad have grappled with issues of identity, community,...More »
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Clayton Frazier “Faces of the Island of Saint Dominique”
Bronx-born photographer Clayton Frazier has balanced a career in special education and history with his work creating publicity and video presentations for companies such as CBS, Warner Brothers, Arista...More »
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Andrea Bowers “Sanctuary” and Andrea Aragón “Home”
For the second iteration of The Neighbors at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, guest curator Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy organizes two concurrent exhibitions: Sanctuary, featuring work by the Andrea Bowers,...More »
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Robert Raphael “Symposium”
Robert Raphael’s ceramic-based work draws on the complex history of decorative art, a tradition that intersects and runs parallel to the history of art. Rather than interpreting ornamentation as superficial,...More »
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“Art AIDS America” Exhibition
This summer The Bronx Museum of the Arts will present Art AIDS America, the first exhibition to examine the deep and ongoing influence of the AIDS crisis on American art and culture. The exhibition will...More »
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Frank Gimpaya “En Foco Presents Mask”
In 2007, the Museum of Modern Art exhibited a series of drawings by French post-Impressionist painter and draftsman Georges Seurat. Frank Gimpaya was taken by the painter’s 1882 rendering of The Veil....More »
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“Spotlight: John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres” Exhibition
This exhibition highlights a group of sculptures by John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres in the Bronx Museum Permanent Collection. Whether produced individually or in collaboration, this series of works convey...More »
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“Bronx Focus: Paintings by Valeri Larko” Exhibition
For over thirty years, Valeri Larko has drawn inspiration for her paintings from the dilapidated industrial landscapes of New Jersey and New York. She focuses on the collision between nature and man-made...More »
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“Beyond the Veil: Works from the Permanent Collection” Exhibition
Focusing initially on artists of African, Asian and Latin American descent, the Bronx Museum Permanent Collection was created in 1986 with the goal to reflect the borough’s dynamic communities. Beyond...More »
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Martine Fougeron “The South Bronx Trades”
The South Bronx Trades series, initiated in 2011 and still in progress, documents the active industries and manufacturing enterprises of Port Morris and Hunts Point, revealing to the viewer the unseen...More »
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Michele Brody “Reflections in Tea”
Since 2007 Michele Brody has been serving tea to the public through the interactive community-based project Reflections in Tea. The ritual performance of preparing loose-leaf tea within special paper...More »
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Jill Baroff “in a grove”
Since the mid-1990s, Jill Baroff has been strongly influenced by Japanese architecture, which she categorizes as “floor-based,” as opposed to the West’s emphasis on verticality. During a six-month NEA...More »
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Michelle Stuart “Theatre of Memory”
The exhibition consists of twelve recent large-scale works that showcase the artist’s lifelong involvement with photography. Organized by guest curator Gregory Volk, it is accompanied by a forty-page catalogue. In...More »
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Martin Wong “Human Instamatic”
Martin Wong: Human Instamatic is the first museum retrospective of the work of Chinese-American painter Martin Wong (1946-1999) since his untimely death. This project gains momentum from recent exhibitions...More »
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“Transitions: New Photography from Bangladesh” Exhibition
The Bangladeshi American Creative Collective (BACC) presents Transitions: New Photography from Bangladesh. We teeter on moments of change, brought by forces that reach in and push out. Memories checker...More »
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E. J. McAdams “Trees Are Alphabets”
Perhaps inspired by his earlier work as a NYC urban park ranger, E. J. McAdams is interested in how we attend to the forces in our environment. Therefore, the attempt to read natural or built elements...More »
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“Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennial” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2015-07-09 - 2015-09-20
Curated by Bronx-based artists Hatuey Ramos-Fermín and Laura Napier, Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennial features the work of seventy-two emerging artists engaged in the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM)...More »
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“¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York” Exhibition
¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York is a multi-venue artistic and cultural survey of The Young Lords Organization—a radical social activist group founded by Puerto Rican youth in the 1960s that demanded...More »
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“¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York” Exhibition
The Bronx Museum of the Arts is organizing a multi-venue artistic and cultural survey of The Young Lords Organization—a radical social activist group founded by Puerto Rican youth in the 1960s that demanded...More »
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Jaime Davidovich “Adventures of the Avant-Garde”
Jaime Davidovich is perhaps best known in New York for his original contributions to the video and television practices of the 1970s and early 1980s through Cable Soho and the Artists’ Television Network....More »
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Raul Mourão “Please Touch”
Featuring three new works, the terrace installation Please Touch conveys artist Raul Mourão’s awareness of the city, with its characters, architecture, objects and accidents. Displaced from their original...More »
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“Cuba Libre!: Works from the Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection” Exhibition
The recent announcement of a new re-engagement policy between the United States and Cuba has increased the level of expectation as to what the future of the island will be. While this new political openness...More »
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“Three Photographers from the Bronx” Exhibition
Three Photographers from the Bronx showcases the work of Jules Aarons, Morton Broffman, and Joe Conzo—three Bronx-born photographers who captured significant moments of societal and urban change in the...More »
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Jeffrey Spencer Hargrave “Escape Route: Paintings and Drawings”
Escape Route: Paintings and Drawings by Jeffrey Spencer Hargrave presents a selection of works by the New York based artist created from 2011 to 2014 that deal with issues related to race, religion and...More »
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“Highlights from the Permanent Collection” Exhibition
Born in Washington, D.C., in 1915, Elizabeth Catlett became the first student to receive a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History in 1940. Highly influenced...More »
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Aristides Logothetis “Craft and Colony: from the Arachnae Series”
Craft And Colony: from the Arachnae Series by Aristides Logothetis presents a new large sculpture by New York-based artist Aristides Logothetis created in 2014 that deals with issues related to the many...More »
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Bosco Sodi “Untitled”
Born in Mexico City in 1970, Bosco Sodi’s paintings and sculptures play with notions of experimentation and material spontaneity. In his latest installation, Sodi utilized the remains of sculptures damaged...More »
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“In print / Imprint: Works from the Permanent Collection”
Over the course of its forty-year history, the Bronx Museum has drawn together a significant collection of prints and graphic-art works, guided by its mission to give visibility to artists of African,...More »
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Dennis Oppenheim “S-T-A-B-“
First shown in 1991 at MoMA PS1 as part of the exhibition And the Mind Grew Fingers, S- T- A- B- is an installation composed of welded rolled steel angle, steel plate and red vacuum formed letters that...More »
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Lisa Leone “Here I Am”
The Bronx - Paris - Los Angeles - early 1990s - hip hop. This culture of music, dance, art and fashion is forever in its nascent and most authentic in Here I Am: Photographs by Lisa Leone. From Nas in...More »
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Sarah Sze “Triple Point (Planetarium)”
Sarah Sze’s Triple Point (Planetarium), one of the works created for the U.S. Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale, will be on view at The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Sze’s work attempts to navigate and...More »
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“In Print / Imprint: Works from the Permanent Collection” Exhibition
Over the course of its forty-year history, the Bronx Museum has drawn together a significant collection of prints and graphic-art works, guided by its mission to give visibility to artists of African,...More »
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“Beyond the Supersquare” Exhibition
- Media: Drawing - Photography - Architecture - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2014-05-01 - 2015-01-11
Beyond the Supersquare explores the indelible influence of Latin American and Caribbean modernist architecture on contemporary art. The exhibition features over 30 artists and more than 60 artworks, including...More »
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Shyu Ruey-Shiann “One Kind of Behavior”
Shyu Ruey-Shiann works with different materials and media to explore themes related to our environment. The installation One Kind of Behavior is inspired by the quasi-mechanical movements of creatures...More »
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“Rethinking the Garden Casita” Exhibition
From Puerto Rico to the South Bronx, the casita, or “little house” in Spanish, is the social centerpiece and focal point of many community gardens. New York Restoration Project (NYRP), in partnership with...More »
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Nina Talbot “Veterans”
The series of paintings Veterans conveys rarely told personal stories of American men and women from the U.S. Military. The paintings, interviews conducted by the artist, and the accompanying stories by...More »
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Wayne Lawrence “Orchard Beach”
The Bronx is considered one of the most diverse communities in America, as well as the home of Hip Hop and Salsa. For the families who have called this borough a home, Orchard Beach remains a treasured...More »
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Tony Feher Exhibition
A comprehensive survey of the works of American sculptor Tony Feher, this exhibition features key artworks that use everyday objects and found materials in a post-minimalist aesthetic, displaying the richness...More »
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Paulo Bruscky “Art Is Our Last Hope”
Born in Recife, Brazil, Paulo Bruscky began his career in the late 1960s, becoming involved with the international mail-art movement and participating in Fluxus exhibitions around the world. In the following...More »
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“Bronx Calling: The Second AIM Biennial” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2013-06-23 - 2013-09-08
Bronx Calling: The Second AIM Biennial will feature the work of seventy-three emerging artists who participated in the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program (classes of 2012 and 2013). The exhibition...More »
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“State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2013-06-23 - 2013-09-08
State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970 offers an in-depth survey of Conceptual art and related avant-garde activities in both Northern and Southern California during a pivotal period in contemporary...More »
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"URBAN ARCHIVES: The Rituals of Chaos" Exhibition
This group exhibition, named after Carlos Monsivais' book of the same title, takes the work of Mexico’s renowned photojournalist, Enrique Metinides, as a departure point and complements it with the work...More »
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"Style Wars" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2012-07-19 - 2013-01-06
A forum and test site for new ideas, BRONX LAB engages audiences in topics relevant to our surrounding communities. Through different social media platforms as well as hands-on activities, viewers will...More »
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"Revolution Not Televised" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2012-07-19 - 2012-10-07
Inspired by Gil Scott-Heron's famous song-poem from 1970 that detected a wave of cultural changes imperceptible to the mainstream, revolution not televised features works by contemporary Cuban artists...More »
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Alina and Jeff Bliumis "A Painting for a Family Dinner / Bronx, NY"
"New York based husband and wife artist team are offering a painting in exchange for an invitation to a family dinner. Please, email or call for more info." Alina and Jeff Bliumis are placing a call...More »
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Juan Downey "The Invisible Architect"
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2012-02-12 - 2012-06-10
Organized in collaboration with the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Juan Downey: The Invisible Architect is the first U.S. survey of this pioneering video artist and brings together more than one hundred...More »
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Antoni Muntadas "Muntadas: Information>>Space>>Control"
Beginning September 29, the Bronx Museum of the Arts will present a collection of video works and photography by multi-disciplinary media artist Antoni Muntadas in the exhibition Muntadas: Information...More »
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"Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Photography - Other - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2011-06-26 - 2011-09-05
Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial features sculptures, works on paper, video installations, photographs, and other works by the 72 participants in the 2011 AIM program. On view at the Bronx Museum...More »
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Emilio Sanchez " Urban Archives"
The exhibition displays a group of oil on canvas and works on paper by Emilio Sanchez depicting commercial buildings in the Hunts Point area of the South Bronx. With their colorful palette and rigorous...More »
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"Taking Aim" Exhibition
For three decades, the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program has helped to demystify the often opaque professional practices of the art world for artists at the beginning of their careers and has introduced...More »
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Alexandre Arrechea "Orange Tree"
ORANGE TREE is a 20 foot steel sculpture created by Cuban born artist Alexandre Arrechea, with multi-limbed basketball hoop "branches" surrounded by scattered basketballs to mimic fallen fruit. Orange...More »
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Bosco Sodi "Pangaea"
The title Pangaea, from the Greek pan (entire), and Gaia (Earth), refers to a super continent that existed about 250 million years ago before Earth was separated into its current configuration of different...More »
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Tracey Moffatt "Montages"
The Bronx Museum presents a complete installation of Moffatt's Montages (1999-2010). Shown collectively for the first time, the series of seven videos explores emotionally charged tropes of the film industry,...More »
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Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao "Yankee Stadiums"
Specially commissioned by the Bronx Museum to commemorate the centennial of the Grand Concourse, Liao's iconic image of the two Yankee Stadiums captures a unique moment of transition in the South Bronx...More »
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Paul Strand "The Mexican Portforio"
Organized in collaboration with Aperture Foundation, PAUL STRAND: THE MEXICAN PORTFOLIO features twenty gravure plates from Strand's 1967 reissue of The Mexican Portfolio. Paul Strand: The Mexican Portfolio...More »
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"After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy" Exhibition
During the span of twelve years, a series of events, later hailed as the Civil Rights Movement, would forever change the social and political course of America. The Bronx Museum of the Arts will present...More »
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"Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968" Exhibition
During the span of twelve years, a series of events, later hailed as the Civil Rights Movement, would forever change the social and political course of America. The Bronx Museum of the Arts will present...More »
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"Urban Archives: Happy Together" Exhibition
The second exhibition related to the Urban Archives Project features artworks by Asian and Asian American artists from the Bronx Museum Permanent Collection as well as material from the Fales Library at...More »
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"Performa 09: Drifts & Traps" Performance Program
Coinciding with the centennial of the Futurist Movement Manifesto, 2009 also marks the centennial of the Grand Concourse, the Bronx main thoroughfare that organized the borough around its vertical axis....More »
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"Urban Archives: That Was Then This Is Now" Exhibition
The first of a new, multi-year series of exhibitions that look at contemporary culture as a “living archive,” Urban Archives: That Was Then This Is Now draws primarily from the personal collections of...More »
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"Collected Visions: Modern and Contemporary Works from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection" Exhibition
Exhibition Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection. JPMorgan Chase will team-up with The Bronx Museum of the Arts to present Collected Visions: Modern and Contemporary Works...More »
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"Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100" Exhibition
A visionary feat of 19th-century city planning, largely taken for granted by 21st- century New Yorkers, the Grand Concourse flows through the Bronx from Van Cortlandt Park at the top to East 138th Street...More »
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"Street Art Street Life" Exhibition
Street Art, Street Life examines the street as subject matter, venue, and source of inspiration for artists and photographers from the late 1950s to the present. This far ranging exhibition, one of the...More »
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"How Soon Is Now?" Exhibition
How Soon Is Now? features an array of work by 36 artists from Artist in the Marketplace (AIM), one of the most celebrated and competitive programs for emerging artists in the country. The title, a nod...More »
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"A day of collaborative performance"
"A Day of Collaborative Performance" is the live-performance component of the exhibit "Making It Together: Women's Collaborative Art and Community," which explores an important chapter in recent history...More »
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"Making It Together" Exhibition
Making It Together explores an important chapter in recent history when women artists, inspired by the 1970s Feminist Movement, worked collectively in new ways to engage communities and address social...More »
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Jamel Shabazz Exhibition
The Bronx Museum’s Teen Council class of 2007-2008 organizes a small exhibition of photographs by Jamel Shabazz based on the theme of community. During their tenure, the Teen Council conducted an interview...More »
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"Highlights of the Permanent Collection: Women Artists" Exhibition
Conceived as a counterpart to Making It Together, The Bronx Museum features Highlights of the Permanent Collection: Women Artists, a special exhibition from its permanent collection of women artists whose...More »