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  • poster for "Monet’s Water Lilies" Exhibition

    "Monet’s Water Lilies" Exhibition

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting
    • Closes in 28 days

    The Museum of Modern Art presents an installation that will, for the first time since the Museum's reopening in 2004, feature the full group of Claude Monet's late paintings in the collection. These include...More »

  • poster for William Kentridge "Five Themes"

    William Kentridge "Five Themes"

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting - Drawing - Video installation
    • Closes in 63 days

    This large-scale exhibition surveys nearly three decades of work by William Kentridge (b. 1955, South Africa), a remarkably versatile artist whose work combines the political with the poetic. Dealing with...More »

  • poster for Ryuji Miyamoto "Kobe"

    Ryuji Miyamoto "Kobe"

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    • at Amador Gallery
    • 41 E 57th St., 6 Fl., New York, NY 10022
    • Media: Photography
    • Closes in 54 days

    5:46 am, January 17, 1995. An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 originating from a point twenty kilometers below Awajishima Island in southern Hyogo Prefecture struck the city of Kobe and its vicinity....More »

  • poster for "Graphic Heros,Magic Monsters: Japanese Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi from the Arthur R. Miller Collection" Exhibition

    "Graphic Heros,Magic Monsters: Japanese Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi from the Arthur R. Miller Collection" Exhibition

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    • at Japan Society Gallery
    • 333 E 47th St., New York, NY 10017
    • Media: Prints
    • Closes in 90 days

    Thrashing sea creatures, samurai warriors, and a giant, looming skeleton are among the distinguishing subjects of the brashest of Japan’s Ukiyo-e masters, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861). Graphic Heros,Magic...More »

  • poster for Tim Burton Exhibition

    Tim Burton Exhibition

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting - Drawing - Video installation
    • Closes in 42 days

    This major career retrospective on Tim Burton consisting of a gallery exhibition and a film series, considers Burton's career as a director, producer, writer, and concept artist for live-action and animated...More »

  • poster for "Slash: Paper Under the Knife" Exhibition

    "Slash: Paper Under the Knife" Exhibition

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    • at Museum of Arts & Design
    • 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Drawing - Other - Sculpture
    • Closes in 20 days

    "Slash" explores the international phenomenon of cut paper in contemporary art- showcasing the work of artists who reach beyond the traditional role of paper as a neutral surface to consider its potential...More »

  • poster for "The Visible Vagina" Exhibition

    "The Visible Vagina" Exhibition

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    • at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art
    • 24 W 57th St., Suite 305, New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting - Photography - Prints
    • Closes in 5 days

    As the title of the exhibition suggests, the show is designed to make visible a portion of the female anatomy that is generally considered taboo―too private and intimate for public display. If shown at...More »

  • poster for "Atget, Archivist" Exhibition

    "Atget, Archivist" Exhibition

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    • at International Center of Photography
    • 1133 6th Ave., New York, NY 10036
    • Media: Photography
    • Closes in 55 days

    This presentation of 31 vintage prints by the celebrated French photographer Eugène Atget (1857–1927) is drawn from the ICP permanent collection. Surrealists such as Man Ray were fascinated by Atget's...More »

  • poster for "The New Typography" Exhibition

    "The New Typography" Exhibition

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Graphics - Prints
    • Closes in 119 days

    In the 1920s and 1930s, the so-called New Typography movement brought graphics and information design to the forefront of the artistic avant-garde in Central Europe. Rejecting traditional arrangement of...More »

  • poster for Ernesto Neto "Navedenga"

    Ernesto Neto "Navedenga"

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Sculpture - Installation
    • Closes in 42 days

    On view for the first time at the Museum, Ernesto Neto's "Navedenga," is an important early example from an ongoing body of work. Since the late 1990s, Neto has been creating enveloping sculptural environments...More »

  • poster for Ross Bleckner Exhibition

    Ross Bleckner Exhibition

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    • at Mary Boone Gallery (Midtown)
    • 745 5th Ave., New York, NY 10151
    • Media: Painting
    • Closes in 5 days

    Time– and, by extension, mortality– has been a prevailing theme of Bleckner’s work since he began exhibiting in the late 1970s. With two distinct new series, Bleckner here focuses on physical and perceptual...More »

  • poster for Man Ray Exhibition

    Man Ray Exhibition

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    • at Zabriskie Gallery
    • 41 E 57th St., New York, New York 10022
    • Media: Photography - Sculpture
    • Closes in 3 days

    [Image: Man Ray "Jacques Villon" (1922) vintage gelatin silver print 11 x 9.25 in.]More »

  • poster for "Fashion + Film: The 1960s Revisited" Exhibition

    "Fashion + Film: The 1960s Revisited" Exhibition

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    • at CUNY Graduate Center
    • 365 5th Ave., New York, NY 10016
    • Media: Fashion - Film
    • Closes in 47 days

    Focusing on the 1960s, this multimedia exhibition will explore the cross-cultural relations between a number of European countries’ cinematography and fashion and their reception in modern US culture....More »

  • poster for "Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris" Exhibition

    "Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris" Exhibition

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    • at International Center of Photography
    • 1133 6th Ave., New York, NY 10036
    • Media: Photography
    • Closes in 55 days

    Paris was a city of fantasy and chance encounters for Surrealist artists of the 1920s and '30s. During this period of unprecedented social and cultural transformation, photography played a dramatic new...More »

  • poster for "Tichý" Exhibition

    "Tichý" Exhibition

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    • at International Center of Photography
    • 1133 6th Ave., New York, NY 10036
    • Media: Photography
    • Closes in 55 days

    This is the first American museum exhibition devoted to the work of the reclusive and mysterious Czech photographer Miroslav Tichý. Now over eighty years old, Tichý is a stubbornly eccentric artist, known...More »

  • poster for Kaz Maslanka "A Spectrum of Jewels"

    Kaz Maslanka "A Spectrum of Jewels"

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    • at The LAB Gallery
    • 501 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10017
    • Media: Installation
    • Closes in 11 days

    Curated by Robert C. Morgan, "A Spectrum Of Jewels" will feature what Maslanka calls a 'Dodecaorthogonal Space Poem.' This type of 'mathematical poem' is constructed with twelve 'orthogonal space poems'...More »

  • poster for Marina Abramović "The Artist Is Present"

    Marina Abramović "The Artist Is Present"

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Video installation - Performance Art
    • Closes in 77 days

    This performance retrospective traces the prolific career of Marina Abramović (Yugoslavian, b. 1946) with approximately fifty works spanning over three decades of her early interventions and sound pieces,...More »

  • poster for "Gaze" Exhibition

    "Gaze" Exhibition

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    • at Pace MacGill
    • 32 E 57th St., 9 Fl., New York, NY 10022
    • Media: Photography
    • Closes in 5 days

    "Gaze" explores photography's ability to capture both the literal and psychological space around a subject caught in a gaze. The photographs on view reveal the complex relationship between photographer...More »

  • poster for "Tim Burton" Film Program

    "Tim Burton" Film Program

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Film
    • Closes in 42 days

    A director of fables, fairy tales, and fantasies, with an aesthetic that incorporates the Gothic, the Grand Guignol, and German Expressionism, Tim Burton has created a body of films—fourteen features released...More »

  • poster for "Eye of the Mind: Contemporary Photography by Emerging and Established Artists" Exhibition

    "Eye of the Mind: Contemporary Photography by Emerging and Established Artists" Exhibition

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    • at Fountain Gallery
    • 702 9th Ave. New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Photography
    • Closes in 30 days

    "The aim of this exhibition is to ask the viewer to re-examine the creative process and mental illness," said Sue Stoffel, curator, art historian, and museum specialist. A former trustee of the Brooklyn...More »

  • poster for "Irving Penn, 1917–2009" Exhibition

    "Irving Penn, 1917–2009" Exhibition

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Photography
    • Closes in 255 days

    Irving Penn’s unbroken stream of creative invention spanned seven decades and established an indelible standard of clarity, grace, wit, and elegance. The Museum of Modern Art has collected and exhibited...More »

  • "Smoke+Mirrors/Shadows+Fog" Exhibition

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    • at Hunter College Times Square Gallery
    • 450 W 41st St., New York, NY 10036
    • Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
    • Closes in 33 days

    The Hunter College Art Galleries are pleased to present Smoke+Mirrors/Shadows+Fog, an exhibition featuring 16 international artists whose use low-tech means to create astonishing and stirring illusions....More »

  • poster for "Folk Art Revealed" Exhibition

    "Folk Art Revealed" Exhibition

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    • at American Folk Art Museum
    • 45 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting - Sculpture - Furniture - Crafts

    "Folk Art Revealed," opened on November 16, 2004. The exhibition explores the nature of folk art through four themes applied to a diverse range of artwork from the museum's rich and extensive holdings,...More »

  • poster for "Uneasy Communion: Jews, Christians, and the Altarpieces of Medieval Spain" Exhibition

    "Uneasy Communion: Jews, Christians, and the Altarpieces of Medieval Spain" Exhibition

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    • at Museum of Biblical Art
    • 1865 Broadway, New York, NY 10023
    • Media: Painting - Other
    • Closes in 76 days

    This exhibition discusses the last two centuries of medieval Spanish history in the Crown of Aragon (the Kingdom of Aragon, the Kingdom of Valencia, and the region of Catalonia) from the vantage point...More »

  • poster for "Projects 92: Yin Xiuzhen" Exhibition

    "Projects 92: Yin Xiuzhen" Exhibition

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Sculpture - Installation
    • Closes in 70 days

    A leading figure in contemporary Chinese art, Yin Xiuzhen has worked primarily in site-specific installation and sculpture since the early 1990s. Her work addresses issues on both an environmental scale...More »

  • poster for "SNØHETTA: architecture – landscape – interior" Exhbition

    "SNØHETTA: architecture – landscape – interior" Exhbition

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    • at Scandinavia House
    • 58 Park Ave., New York, NY 10016
    • Media: Drawing - Photography - Film
    • Closes in 19 days

    The innovative, award-winning, and environmentally conscious architectural firm, Snøhetta, is featured in a multi-faceted exhibition which offers insights into the design and construction of the firm’s...More »

  • poster for "Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront" Exhibition

    "Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront" Exhibition

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Architecture
    • Starts in 9 days

    In order to provide the context for understanding the problems and issues that the teams were required to address during the workshop phase of "Rising Currents," the exhibition will begin with a background...More »

  • poster for "Performance 7: Joan Jonas: Mirage" Exhibition

    "Performance 7: Joan Jonas: Mirage" Exhibition

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Sculpture - Video installation - Performance Art
    • Closes in 77 days

    Inspired by a trip the artist took to India, Joan Jonas’s Mirage (1976/2005) was originally conceived as a 1976 performance for the screening room of New York’s Anthology Film Archives. In it, Jonas carried...More »

  • poster for "Portable Treasuries: Silver Jewelry from the Nadler Collection" Exhibition

    "Portable Treasuries: Silver Jewelry from the Nadler Collection" Exhibition

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    • at Museum of Arts & Design
    • 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Fashion - Product
    • Closes in 146 days

    Collectors Daniel and Serga Nadler have assembled a unique collection of silver jewelry from around the world, including massive neck ornaments, anklets, bracelets, complex earrings, and a wide variety...More »

  • poster for "Solace" Exhibition

    "Solace" Exhibition

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    • at Austrian Cultural Forum NYC
    • 11 E 52nd St., New York, NY 10022
    • Media: Painting - Installation - Performance Art
    • Closes in 61 days

    This exhibition understands art in a very mundane sense as a source of solace. It is committed to the mildly intoxicating character of beauty and the inebriating quality of alcohol and embraces the baser...More »

  • "Focus: Joseph Beuys" Exhibition

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting - Sculpture
    • Closes in 67 days

    Joseph Beuys (1921–1986) is widely understood to be the most important German artist of the post–World War II period. Highly provocative and always controversial, he and his peers reinvented a thriving...More »

  • poster for "Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey" Exhibition

    "Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey" Exhibition

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    • at Museum of Arts & Design
    • 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting - Drawing - Ceramics
    • Closes in 48 days

    The first major exhibition of Viola Frey's work since her death in 2004 will feature Frey's colossal clay figures, sculptures, ceramic plates as well as a selection of her paintings and works on paper....More »

  • poster for "Ars Fennica: Finnish Art Now" Exhibition

    "Ars Fennica: Finnish Art Now" Exhibition

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    • at Scandinavia House
    • 58 Park Ave., New York, NY 10016
    • Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture

    Scandinavia House presents recent work by four of Finland’s most prominent and critically acclaimed artists: photographer and video artist Elina Brotherus, sculptor Markus Kåhre, painter Elina Merenmies,...More »

  • poster for Nikki Lindt "Solastalgia"

    Nikki Lindt "Solastalgia"

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    • at Heskin Contemporary
    • 443 W 37th St., New York, NY 10011
    • Media: Painting - Drawing
    • Closes in 12 days

    This exhibition features recent paintings and works on paper. "Solastalgia," from the Latin solacium (comfort) and the Greek, algia (pain)— which is defined as “the pain experienced when there is recognition...More »

  • poster for "Writing in the Dark: Bruce Andrews, Wayne Koestenbaum, Wendy Steiner, and Reva Wolf" Event

    "Writing in the Dark: Bruce Andrews, Wayne Koestenbaum, Wendy Steiner, and Reva Wolf" Event

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    • at CUNY Graduate Center
    • 365 5th Ave., New York, NY 10016
    • Media: Art Talk

    Bruce Andrews will relive his 2006 confrontation with Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly, playing an "Outrage of the Week" video segment. Wayne Koestenbaum will offer a medley of poems and prose. Wendy...More »

  • poster for "Demons and Devotion: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves" Exhibition

    "Demons and Devotion: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves" Exhibition

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    • at The Morgan Library & Museum
    • 225 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016
    • Media: Painting - Drawing - Other
    • Closes in 48 days

    "The Hours of Catherine of Cleves" is the most important and lavish of all Dutch manuscripts as well as one of the most beautiful among the Morgan's collection. Commissioned by Catherine of Cleves around...More »

  • poster for "Journeys: The Art of Betty Parsons" Exhibition

    "Journeys: The Art of Betty Parsons" Exhibition

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    • at Spanierman Modern
    • 53 E 58th St., New York, NY 10022
    • Media: Painting
    • Closes in 5 days

    Parsons's career as a legendary art dealer who represented many of the important avant-garde artists of the mid-twentieth century has often overshadowed a consideration of her own art. This oversight has...More »

  • poster for Robert Donahue "The Middle East Series: Portraits of Chaos and Destruction"

    Robert Donahue "The Middle East Series: Portraits of Chaos and Destruction"

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    • at Medialia...Rack and Hamper Gallery
    • 335 W 38th St., 4 Fl., New York, NY 10018
    • Media: Drawing
    • Closes in 12 days

    [Image: Robert Donahue "The Middle East Series" (2010) carbon on paper 11 x 15 in.]More »

  • poster for Chris Peters Exhibition

    Chris Peters Exhibition

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    • at Last Rites Gallery
    • 511 W 33rd St., Fl.3, New York, NY 10001
    • Media: Painting
    • Closes in 13 days

    Chris Peters will soon be unveiling his first ever solo exhibition in New York City with 10 brand new, never before seen paintings on display. Chris Peters' paintings try to find the beauty in that uneasy...More »

  • poster for "Mapping New York's Shoreline, 1609-2009" Exhibition

    "Mapping New York's Shoreline, 1609-2009" Exhibition

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    • at Humanities and Social Sciences Library
    • 476 5th Ave., New York, NY 10018
    • Media: Illustration - Photography - Prints
    • Closes in 103 days

    September 2009 marks 400 years since Henry Hudson sailed into New York Harbor and up the Hudson River, almost to what is now Albany, performing detailed reconnaissance of the Hudson Valley region. Other...More »

  • poster for Carmen Kordas "Mixed Double"

    Carmen Kordas "Mixed Double"

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    • at Gallery MC New York
    • 549 W 52nd St., 8 Fl., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Video installation
    • Closes in 10 days

    "Mixed Double," a video installation by Carmen Kordas, spawns pairs of unknown live forms. The ephemeral, and yet carnal couplings undulate and morph as they parasitically cling onto Gallery MC’s columns....More »

  • Myriam Babin "Artic"

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    • at Heskin Contemporary
    • 443 W 37th St., New York, NY 10011
    • Media: Photography
    • Closes in 12 days
  • poster for "Perspectives: Setting the Scene in American Folk Art" Exhibition

    "Perspectives: Setting the Scene in American Folk Art" Exhibition

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    • at American Folk Art Museum
    • 45 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
    • Closes in 153 days

    The notion of "setting" is a theme that is an integral part of the folk art of America. There is a long tradition of depicting places—from domestic interiors and sites of work and leisure to country landscapes,...More »

  • poster for "Rome After Raphael" Exhibition

    "Rome After Raphael" Exhibition

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    • at The Morgan Library & Museum
    • 225 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016
    • Media: Painting - Drawing
    • Closes in 55 days

    Featuring more than eighty works drawn almost exclusively from the Morgan's exceptional collection of Italian drawings, Rome After Raphael illuminates artistic production in Rome from the Renaissance to...More »

  • poster for "Minimalism: Prints by Albers, Judd, Reinhardt, Ryman, & Tuttle" Exhibition

    "Minimalism: Prints by Albers, Judd, Reinhardt, Ryman, & Tuttle" Exhibition

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    • at Pace Prints Gallery
    • 32 E 57th St., 3 Fl., New York, NY 10022
    • Media: Prints
    • Closes in 12 days
  • poster for David R. Choquette Exhibition

    David R. Choquette Exhibition

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    • at Last Rites Gallery
    • 511 W 33rd St., Fl.3, New York, NY 10001
    • Media: Painting
    • Closes in 13 days

    Montreal based tattooist and painter David R. Choquette will be unveiling his first ever solo exhibition of paintings in New York City with approximately 15 brand new, never before seen paintings on display....More »

  • poster for "Candide at 250: Scandal and Success" Exhibition

    "Candide at 250: Scandal and Success" Exhibition

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    • at Humanities and Social Sciences Library
    • 476 5th Ave., New York, NY 10018
    • Media: Graphics - Prints - Other
    • Closes in 41 days

    Commemorating the 250th anniversary of Candide, this dynamic exhibition explores the legacy of Voltaire’s famous satire as a history of public reading, reflecting the many diverse ways in which a public...More »

  • poster for "Artistas Iberoamericanos en New York" Exhibition

    "Artistas Iberoamericanos en New York" Exhibition

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    • at Jadite Galleries
    • 528 W 47th St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting
    • Ends Today

    [Image by Barbara Alcalde Necochea]More »

  • "Fluxus Preview" Exhibition

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting - Prints - Installation
    • Closes in 201 days

    An international art movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Fluxus— whose name was based on the Latin word flux, meaning constant flow or change— brought together artists working in music, poetry, film, theater,...More »

  • poster for Valeska Soares "passa tempo"

    Valeska Soares "passa tempo"

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    • at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery
    • 730 5th Ave., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Sculpture - Installation
    • Closes in 5 days

    Greenberg Van Doren Gallery presents passa tempo, an exhibition of sculptural installations by New York-based Brazilian artist Valeska Soares, from February 18 – March 20, 2010. The exhibition is concurrently...More »

  • poster for "Henry Darger and the Coloring Book" Exhibition

    "Henry Darger and the Coloring Book" Exhibition

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    • at American Folk Art Museum
    • 45 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Drawing
    • Closes in 182 days

    Henry Darger (1892-1973) adopted countless images from popular media sources such as newspapers, magazines, comics, and cartoons, but no single source influenced him as continuously as the coloring book....More »

  • poster for "A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy" Exhibition

    "A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy" Exhibition

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    • at The Morgan Library & Museum
    • 225 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016
    • Media: Painting - Drawing - Film
    • 2009-11-06 - 2010-03-14

    This exhibition explores the life, work, and legacy of Jane Austen (1775–1817), regarded as one of the greatest English novelists. Offering a close-up portrait of the iconic British author, whose popularity...More »

  • poster for Hilo Chen "Recent Paintings"

    Hilo Chen "Recent Paintings"

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    • at Bernarducci Meisel Gallery
    • 37 W 57th St., 6 Fl., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting
    • Closes in 12 days

    [Image: Hilo Chen "Beach 161" (2008) oil on canvas 30 x 40 in.]More »

  • poster for Tom Levine "Stringed Instruments and Other Recent Works"

    Tom Levine "Stringed Instruments and Other Recent Works"

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    • at Joan T. Washburn Gallery
    • 20 West 57 St., New York, NY 10019
    • Closes in 12 days

    [Image: Tom Levine "8.X.09" charcoal, graphite and acrylic on board with collage 14.25 x 15.25 x 0.75 in.]More »

  • poster for Gregory Gillespie Exhibition

    Gregory Gillespie Exhibition

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    • at Forum Gallery
    • 745 5th Ave., New York, NY 10151
    • Media: Painting
    • Closes in 47 days

    Forum Gallery marks its fiftieth anniversary year by presenting an exhibition of paintings by the artist Gregory Gillespie (1936-2000), whom Forum represented from his first New York exhibition in 1966...More »

  • poster for "Approaching Abstraction" Exhibition

    "Approaching Abstraction" Exhibition

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    • at American Folk Art Museum
    • 45 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
    • Closes in 175 days

    It is commonly assumed that contemporary self-taught artists work solely in a representational style, eager to engage in storytelling and personal memory. But while the narrative tradition often is a primary...More »

  • "5 Artistas Iberoamericanos" Exhibition

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    • at Jadite Galleries
    • 528 W 47th St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting - Photography
    • Starts in 2 days
  • poster for Allen Tucker "The Force of Emotion: A Post-Impressionist Rediscovered"

    Allen Tucker "The Force of Emotion: A Post-Impressionist Rediscovered"

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    • at Spanierman Gallery
    • 45 E 58th St., New York, NY 10022
    • Media: Painting
    • Closes in 12 days

    An artist of prominence in New York from the mid-1910s through the 1930s, Allen Tucker elicited inordinate respect from his peers for his integrity and broad-mindedness as well as for the creative versatility...More »

  • poster for "Flemish Illumination in the Era of Catherine of Cleves" Exhibition

    "Flemish Illumination in the Era of Catherine of Cleves" Exhibition

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    • at The Morgan Library & Museum
    • 225 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016
    • Media: Illustration - Painting - Other
    • Closes in 48 days

    This exhibition of eighteen manuscripts illuminated in the area of Flanders in the southern Netherlands (today part of Belgium) celebrates the variety of styles from the last great flowering of Flemish...More »

  • poster for "Architectural Digest Home Design Show" Fair

    "Architectural Digest Home Design Show" Fair

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    • at Pier 94
    • 711 12th Ave., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Photography - Furniture - Product
    • Starts in 3 days

    Explore exhibits by more than 300 premier home furnishings companies, including manufacturers, retailers and design firms representing the finest luxury goods and professional services in today’s marketplace....More »

  • poster for "Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology" Exhibition

    "Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology" Exhibition

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    • at Exit Art
    • 475 10th Ave, New York, NY 10018
    • Media: Sculpture - Installation - Performance Art
    • Closes in 26 days

    "Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology," the sixth exhibition of the SEA (Social Envrionmental Aesthetics) program, is a survey of the Waterpod's five-month voyage around the boroughs of New York. It includes...More »

  • poster for "California Dreamers: Ceramic Artists from the MAD Collection" Exhibition

    "California Dreamers: Ceramic Artists from the MAD Collection" Exhibition

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    • at Museum of Arts & Design
    • 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Ceramics
    • Closes in 76 days

    The exhibition is presented in conjunction with Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey to give a sense of the lively era in which she was working. At the beginning of Viola Frey's career- the early...More »

  • poster for Alexey Titarenko "Saint Petersburg in Four Movements"

    Alexey Titarenko "Saint Petersburg in Four Movements"

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    • at Nailya Alexander Gallery
    • 41 E 57th St., Suite 704, New York, NY 10022
    • Media: Photography
    • Closes in 40 days

    This will be Alexey Titarenko’s first major exhibition in New York that features his entire St. Petersburg series (1991-2009). The four underlying sequences, or movements– to borrow a term from the vocabulary...More »

  • poster for "Global/National: The Order of Chaos" Exhibition

    "Global/National: The Order of Chaos" Exhibition

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    • at Exit Art
    • 475 10th Ave, New York, NY 10018
    • Media: Photography - Installation - Video installation
    • Closes in 47 days

    The exhibition investigates how local artists from a variety of backgrounds are placed in relation to the rest of the world. Seen through a global lens, this exhibition explores the multiple cultures that...More »

  • poster for "Freedom to Create" Exhibition

    "Freedom to Create" Exhibition

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    • at Ana Tzarev Gallery
    • 24 W 57th St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting - Film
    • Closes in 3 days

    An exhibition featuring works by finalists in the 2009 Freedom to Create Prize celebrating the courage of artists who use their talents to build the foundations for open societies and inspire the human...More »

  • poster for Ben Henderson "Radical Shifts: Movements in Color"

    Ben Henderson "Radical Shifts: Movements in Color"

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    • at Jadite Galleries
    • 528 W 47th St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting
    • Closes in 15 days
  • poster for "out of the chaos and darkness..." Exhibition

    "out of the chaos and darkness..." Exhibition

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    • at Lower East Side Printshop
    • 306 W 37th St., 6 Fl., New York, NY 10018
    • Media: Prints
    • Closes in 55 days

    This presentation takes Matthew Day Jackson’s print Metamorphosis as an inspiration to present new unique works on paper created by Golnar Adili, Shana Agid, Rachel Beach, Sandra Chi, Erin Diebboll, and...More »

  • poster for "DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS' Dining by Design" Fair

    "DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS' Dining by Design" Fair

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    • at Pier 94
    • 711 12th Ave., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Fashion - Product - Other
    • Starts in 3 days

    DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS is one of the country's largest supporters of direct care for people living with HIV/AIDS and preventive education for those at risk. Merging care and...More »

  • poster for "African Americans: Seeing and Seen, 1766–1916" Exhibition

    "African Americans: Seeing and Seen, 1766–1916" Exhibition

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    • at Babcock Galleries
    • 724 5th Ave., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting
    • Closes in 18 days

    Babcock Galleries presents "African Americans: Seeing and Seen, 1766 – 1916," an incisive overview of refined and controversial fine art and popular culture images of African Americans as artists and subjects....More »

  • Robert Ryman "Large-Small, Thick-Thin, Light Reflecting, Light Absorbing"

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    • at PaceWildenstein (32 E 57th St)
    • 32 E 57th St., 2 Fl., New York, NY 10022
    • Media: Painting - Installation
    • Closes in 12 days

    The artist will transform the gallery space with nearly thirty paintings, measuring between 10" to 30" inches squared, and featuring a wide range of experimentation in materials and supports. For more...More »

  • "The Adventures of the Real Winnie-the-Pooh" Exhibition

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    • at Humanities and Social Sciences Library
    • 476 5th Ave., New York, NY 10018
    • Media: Other

    The REAL Winnie-the-Pooh won't be found on a video, in a movie, on a T-shirt or a lunchbox. Since 1987, the REAL Pooh and four of his best friends--Eeyore, Piglet, Kanga, and Tigger--have been living at...More »

  • poster for Denis Darzacq "Hyper"

    Denis Darzacq "Hyper"

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    • at Laurence Miller Gallery
    • 20 W 57th St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Photography
    • Closes in 12 days

    "Hyper" refers to the new garish supermarkets in Paris and Rouen where consumer goods, brightly packaged and presented, make for a vivid and contemporary backdrop for his pictures. Darzacq brings street...More »

  • poster for "Spain in the City" Exhibition

    "Spain in the City" Exhibition

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    • at The Gabarron Foundation Carriage House Center for the Arts
    • 149 E 38th St., New York, NY 10016
    • Media: Painting - Installation - Video installation
    • Closes in 46 days

    The main idea of this exhibition is to link different artistic expressions, languages and backgrounds, thus illustrating the plurality of these artists. The most talented young Spanish Art will have an...More »

  • poster for Grandma Moses "Seventy Years"

    Grandma Moses "Seventy Years"

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    • at Galerie St. Etienne
    • 24 W 57th St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting
    • Closes in 19 days

    On October 9, 1940, the Galerie St. Etienne opened an exhibition with the unassuming title, “What a Farmwife Painted.” It featured thirty-four relatively small paintings [checklist nos. 4-12] by an obscure...More »

  • Tamara N. Savinich

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    • at Jadite Galleries
    • 528 W 47th St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Drawing - Sculpture
    • Closes in 12 days
  • poster for "1930s-1940s Regionalism: Evolution of a Style" Exhibition

    "1930s-1940s Regionalism: Evolution of a Style" Exhibition

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    • at D. Wigmore Fine Art
    • 730 5th Ave., Suite 602, New York NY 10019
    • Media: Painting
    • Closes in 16 days

    This exhibition celebrates the development of new styles and themes in American art during the 1930s and 1940s, a time when the American Scene movement evolved into a national art form that described and...More »

  • poster for "The Modern Myth: Drawing Mythologies in Modern Times" Exhibition

    "The Modern Myth: Drawing Mythologies in Modern Times" Exhibition

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Drawing
    • Closes in 175 days

    Throughout history, mythologies have provided explanations for humankind’s existential surroundings through collective beliefs and shared verbal and visual narratives. Representational visual artists have...More »

  • poster for "Body Language" Exhibition

    "Body Language" Exhibition

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    • at Laurence Miller Gallery
    • 20 W 57th St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Photography
    • Closes in 12 days

    [Image: Helen Levitt "New York" (c. 1940) silver print 14 x 11 in.]More »

  • poster for "Continuity & Change in Japanese Ceramics: An Evening with Miwa Kyusetsu XII" Talk

    "Continuity & Change in Japanese Ceramics: An Evening with Miwa Kyusetsu XII" Talk

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    • at Japan Society Gallery
    • 333 E 47th St., New York, NY 10017
    • Media: Ceramics - Art Talk
    • Starts in 2 days

    Hagi is among the most celebrated of Japan's traditional wares and played an important part in the evolution of the tea ceremony. The works of the Miwa Kyusetsu dynasty have exemplified the Hagi tradition...More »

  • poster for "Concerns 2" Exhibition

    "Concerns 2" Exhibition

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    • at Medialia...Rack and Hamper Gallery
    • 335 W 38th St., 4 Fl., New York, NY 10018
    • Media: Sculpture
    • Closes in 12 days

    An exhibition of medallic art by international artists that focuses on social concerns and scientific discoveries which have shifted human perceptions. [Image: Daniel Altshuler "Obama Inauguration Medal"...More »

  • poster for "Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place" Exhibition

    "Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place" Exhibition

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    • at International Center of Photography
    • 1133 6th Ave., New York, NY 10036
    • Media: Photography
    • Closes in 55 days

    "Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place" is an intimate exhibition that explores photography, memory and some of the meanings associated with "place." Guest curator and native Montrealer, David Deitcher,...More »

  • poster for Frederick Wiseman Film Program

    Frederick Wiseman Film Program

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Film
    • Closes in 291 days

    To celebrate the recent acquisition of newly struck prints of thirty-six films by Frederick Wiseman (b. 1930, Boston), The Museum of Modern Art presents a comprehensive retrospective of the director’s...More »

  • poster for "A Visual Sympathy For Modernism" Exhibition

    "A Visual Sympathy For Modernism" Exhibition

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    • at Franklin Parrasch Gallery
    • 20 W 57th St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting - Drawing
    • Closes in 26 days

    This three-person exhibition features a selection of paintings and drawings from Rita Ackermann, Jeff Elrod and Jason Fox. When viewed collectively the work exposes a dichotomy between dominant color use...More »

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