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  • poster for "Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography" Exhibition

    "Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography" Exhibition

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Photography - Installation
    • Closes in 200 days

    For much of photography’s 170-year history, women have expanded its roles by experimenting with every aspect of the medium. "Pictures by Women" presents over two hundred photographs by women artists, charting...More »

  • poster for "Perspectives 2010" Exhibition

    "Perspectives 2010" Exhibition

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    • at International Center of Photography
    • 1133 6th Ave., New York, NY 10036
    • Media: Photography
    • Closes in 10 days

    This is the inaugural installment of a new annual series focusing on significant recent works by contemporary artists, photographers, and filmmakers. These five artists are not concerned only with the...More »

  • poster for "The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today" Exhibition

    "The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today" Exhibition

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Photography
    • Closes in 60 days

    Since its birth in the first half of the nineteenth century, photography has offered an unprecedented way to analyze works of art for further study. Through crop, focus, angle of view, degree of close-up,...More »

  • poster for "For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights" Exhibition

    "For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights" Exhibition

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    • at International Center of Photography
    • 1133 6th Ave., New York, NY 10036
    • Media: Photography - Prints - Film
    • Closes in 10 days

    "For All..." explores the historic role of visual culture in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for racial equality and justice in the United States from the late 1940s to the mid 1970s....More »

  • poster for "Summer Place" Exhibition

    "Summer Place" Exhibition

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    • at Bonni Benrubi Gallery
    • 41 E 57th St., 13 Fl., New York, NY 10022
    • Media: Photography
    • Closes in 23 days

    [Image: Karine Laval "Poolscape #1" (2010) chromogenic print]More »

  • poster for Miroslav Tichy & Josef Sudek "Behind the Curtain"

    Miroslav Tichy & Josef Sudek "Behind the Curtain"

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    • at Howard Greenberg Gallery
    • 41 E 57th St., New York, NY 10022
    • Media: Photography
    • Closes tomorrow

    Howard Greenberg Gallery presents Behind the Curtain, an exhibition of work by Czech photographers, Miroslav Tichý and Josef Sudek. While the style of their photographs vastly differs, each photographer...More »

  • poster for "Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980" Exhibition

    "Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980" Exhibition

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Prints - Furniture - Product
    • Closes in 109 days

    The new installation of the Architecture and Design Galleries features a selection of visionary objects, graphics, architectural fragments, and textiles from the Museum’s collection that reveal the attempts...More »

  • poster for "Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917" Exhibition

    "Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917" Exhibition

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting - Drawing - Prints - Sculpture
    • Closes in 39 days

    In the time between Henri Matisse's (1869–1954) return from Morocco in 1913 and his departure for Nice in 1917, the artist produced some of the most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic works of his...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
    • Closes in 39 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 "The Private Collection of Henry Darger" Exhibition

    "The Private Collection of Henry Darger" Exhibition

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    • at American Folk Art Museum
    • 45 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Photography - Prints - Other
    • Closes in 17 days

    Henry Darger had an art collection. He displayed it in his one-room apartment in Chicago, nearly one hundred artworks hanging from string, tacked into the walls, or pasted with glue directly onto various...More »

  • poster for "American Demonic" Exhibition

    "American Demonic" Exhibition

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    • at Maxwell Davidson Gallery/Davidson Contemporary
    • 724 5th Ave., Fl. 4, New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
    • Closes in 5 days

    Curated by Eve Biddle. The emblems of American society reflect a new animism that we worship both knowingly and unawares: Money, Multi-Culturalism, TV, Security, Machismo, Violence, Technology, Progress...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 "Dead or Alive" Exhibition

    "Dead or Alive" Exhibition

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    • at Museum of Arts & Design
    • 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Sculpture - Installation
    • Closes in 52 days

    “Dead or Alive” will showcase the work of over 30 international artists who transform organic materials and objects that were once produced by or part of living organisms—insects, feathers, bones, silkworm...More »

  • poster for "NineteenEightyFour" Exhibition

    "NineteenEightyFour" Exhibition

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    • at Austrian Cultural Forum NYC
    • 11 E 52nd St., New York, NY 10022
    • Media: Painting - Installation - Video installation
    • Closes in 3 days

    This exhibition examines the evolution of imagery and language in what has been described as our panoptic era. While its roots are grounded in the concepts that arose from the 1948 novel by George Orwell,...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 30 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 "Intertwined: Contemporary Baskets from the Sara and David Lieberman Collection" Exhibition

    "Intertwined: Contemporary Baskets from the Sara and David Lieberman Collection" Exhibition

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    • at Museum of Arts & Design
    • 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Product - Crafts
    • Closes in 10 days

    The exhibition presents the internationally acclaimed collection of baskets and fiber sculpture has been assembled by Sara and David Lieberman over the course of three decades. With their passion for collecting...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 4 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 »

  • poster for "Maya Deren’s Legacy: Women and Experimental Film" Film Program

    "Maya Deren’s Legacy: Women and Experimental Film" Film Program

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Film
    • Closes in 46 days

    Maya Deren (American, 1917–1961) was a visionary of American experimental film in the 1940s and 1950s. A precocious student, she studied poetry and literature at New York University and Smith College,...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 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 120 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 RECENT ACQUISITIONS (And Some Thoughts on the Current Art Market)  Galerie St. Etienne, New York

    RECENT ACQUISITIONS (And Some Thoughts on the Current Art Market) Galerie St. Etienne, New York

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    • at Galerie St. Etienne
    • 24 W 57th St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting - Drawing - Prints
    • Closes in 29 days

    [Image: Egon Schiele "Chief Inspector Benesch" (1917) Gouache and black crayon on cream wove paper 46.1 x 29.5 cm.]More »

  • poster for "Paper Scope" Exhibition

    "Paper Scope" Exhibition

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    • at Lower East Side Printshop
    • 306 W 37th St., 6 Fl., New York, NY 10018
    • Media: Prints
    • Closes in 10 days

    The Lower East Side Printshop announces the summer group exhibition "Paper Scope," featuring artists currently in residence at the Printshop, the exhibition includes Golnar Adili, Joell Baxter, Erin Diebboll,...More »

  • poster for "By All Means" Exhibition

    "By All Means" Exhibition

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    • at Roger Smith Hotel
    • 501 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10017
    • Media: Painting - Photography
    • Closes in 12 days
  • poster for Valerie Hird "THe Maiden Voyages Project"

    Valerie Hird "THe Maiden Voyages Project"

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    • at Nohra Haime Gallery
    • 730 5th Ave., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting - Drawing - Digital
    • Closes in 9 days

    Long fascinated by the Middle East, Hird convinced four women from the region – Iran, Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian West Bank – to keep a detailed journal of their activities on the same day of every...More »

  • poster for "You Can't Get There From Here" Exhibition

    "You Can't Get There From Here" Exhibition

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    • at The Camera Club of New York
    • 336 W 37th St., Suite 206, New York, NY 10018
    • Media: Photography
    • Starts in 8 days

    Curated by Evan Mirapaul, the writer behind the blog, "Fugitive Vision," "You Can't Get There From Here" is an exhibition of four contemporary photographers who challenge our perceptions of time and place....More »

  • poster for "Ukrainian Icons" Exhibition

    "Ukrainian Icons" Exhibition

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    • at Museum of Biblical Art
    • 1865 Broadway, New York, NY 10023
    • Media: Painting - Other
    • Closes in 10 days

    This exhibition from the collection of the oldest monastery in Ukraine, the Kyiv-Pecherskaya Lavra (or Monastery of the Caves) will survey the history of Ukrainian icons and their stylistic evolution over...More »

  • poster for Morris Graves "Falcon of the Inner Eye: A Centennial Celebration"

    Morris Graves "Falcon of the Inner Eye: A Centennial Celebration"

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    • at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
    • 24 W 57th St. New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting - Sculpture
    • Starts in 6 days

    This retrospective exhibition marking the centennial of the artist’s birthday examines a career that spanned five decades. Approximately thirty works, including three sculptures from his rarely exhibited...More »

  • poster for Kristina Skovby "Shopping for Life"

    Kristina Skovby "Shopping for Life"

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    • at The LAB Gallery
    • 501 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10017
    • Media: Performance Art
    • Starts in 18 days

    "Shopping for Life" is a performance piece driven by Conscious Consumerism, a social movement based around increased awareness of the impact of purchasing decisions on the environment and the consumers...More »

  • poster for Mike Bidlo "Not Warhol (Brillo Boxes 1964) 2005"

    Mike Bidlo "Not Warhol (Brillo Boxes 1964) 2005"

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    • at Lever House
    • 390 Park Ave., New York, NY 10022
    • Media: Sculpture - Installation
    • Closes in 9 days

    Mike Bidlo is best known for his incredibly accurate replications of masterworks by important 20th Century artists, including Picasso, Matisse, Man Ray, Duchamp, Leger, Pollock, and Warhol. Bidlo's earliest...More »

  • poster for "Projects 93: Dinh Q. Lê" Exhibition

    "Projects 93: Dinh Q. Lê" Exhibition

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
    • Closes in 144 days

    Dinh Q. Lê (Vietnamese American, b. 1968) weaves together—both literally and figuratively—personal recollections with larger histories and mythologies often related to the Vietnam War, also known as the...More »

  • poster for Dan Quintana "Ethos Astray"

    Dan Quintana "Ethos Astray"

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    • at Last Rites Gallery
    • 511 W 33rd St., Fl.3, New York, NY 10001
    • Media: Painting
    • Starts in 2 days

    Dan Quintana is a name many of us know in the contemporary surrealist community. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Dan maintains a certain street aesthetic in virtually all of his pieces. Nonetheless, the...More »

  • poster for "Summer Selections 2010" Exhibition

    "Summer Selections 2010" Exhibition

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    • at Spanierman Gallery
    • 45 E 58th St., New York, NY 10022
    • Media: Painting
    • Closes in 9 days

    This exhibition and sale presents works dating from the 1870s to the present by fifty-three artists-- some selections which are new to the gallery. [Image: Thomas Hart Benton "The Narrows, Buffalo River...More »

  • poster for Kanishka Raja "Against Integration"

    Kanishka Raja "Against Integration"

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    • at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery
    • 730 5th Ave., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting
    • Starts in 7 days

    The exhibition will feature new multi-panel paintings by the artist and a wall painting created on site in the front room of the gallery. In Kanishka Raja’s depicted realms, private and public domains...More »

  • poster for Charles Burchfield "Fifty Years as a Painter"

    Charles Burchfield "Fifty Years as a Painter"

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    • at DC Moore Gallery
    • 724 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting
    • Closes in 23 days

    Rarely does the opportunity arise to see a wide range of work by Charles Burchfield (1893-1967), one of the most inventive artists of the twentieth century. The gallery will be exhibiting an exceptional...More »

  • poster for "The Mexican Suitcase: Rediscovered Spanish Civil War Negatives by Capa, Chim, and Taro" Exhibition

    "The Mexican Suitcase: Rediscovered Spanish Civil War Negatives by Capa, Chim, and Taro" Exhibition

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    • at International Center of Photography
    • 1133 6th Ave., New York, NY 10036
    • Media: Photography
    • Starts in 22 days

    Considered lost since 1939, the so-called "Mexican Suitcase" is in fact three boxes containing 4,500 negatives documenting the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa, Chim (David Seymour), and Gerda Taro. There...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 Yeon Jin Kim "All Intellectual Animals are Dangerous"

    Yeon Jin Kim "All Intellectual Animals are Dangerous"

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    • at The LAB Gallery
    • 501 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10017
    • Media: Installation
    • Starts in 35 days

    "All Intellectual Animals are Dangerous" is a multi-media installation offering the viewer a more intimate experience than usually found with public art projects. The windows of the gallery will be whited-out...More »

  • poster for Glen Baldridge "Zig-Zag: Works on Paper"

    Glen Baldridge "Zig-Zag: Works on Paper"

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    • at Blackburn 20/20
    • 323 W 39th St., Fl.5, New York, NY 10018
    • Media: Prints
    • Starts in 13 days

    Artist, printmaker, and publisher Glen Baldridge presents a selection of new works on paper; zig-zagging between processes, rolling up the co-opting of counter culture by mainstream media and the idolization...More »

  • poster for "Contemporary Art from the Collection" Exhibition

    "Contemporary Art from the Collection" Exhibition

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting - Photography - Installation
    • Closes in 10 days

    The works selected for this installation highlight the debates around economics, politics, gender, and ethnicity that have permeated artistic practices since the late 1960s. Including approximately 130...More »

  • poster for Michael "Pooch" Pucciarelli Exhibition

    Michael "Pooch" Pucciarelli Exhibition

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    • at Last Rites Gallery
    • 511 W 33rd St., Fl.3, New York, NY 10001
    • Media: Painting
    • Starts in 2 days

    Michael "Pooch" Pucciarelli, began his artistry as a thriving and prosperous tattoo artist. Owner of Altered State, a Florida-based tattoo studio, Pooch designates his fifteen years of tattooing and drawing...More »

  • poster for "The Original Copy: On Photography and Sculpture" Panel Discussion

    "The Original Copy: On Photography and Sculpture" Panel Discussion

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Photography - Art Talk
    • Starts in 12 days

    Moderated by Roxana Marcoci, curator of the exhibition, this panel discussion features George Baker, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Vice-Chair, UCLA Department of Art History; Mark...More »

  • poster for Peter Halley "Early Work: 1982 to 1987"

    Peter Halley "Early Work: 1982 to 1987"

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    • at Mary Boone Gallery (Midtown)
    • 745 5th Ave., New York, NY 10151
    • Media: Painting
    • Starts in 8 days

    Assembled from paintings in American private collections, this exhibition chronicles Peter Halley’s work from 1982 to 1987, the years when, after settling in New York, the artist was developing a body...More »

  • poster for "August Gallery Selections" Exhibition

    "August Gallery Selections" Exhibition

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    • at Spanierman Modern
    • 53 E 58th St., New York, NY 10022
    • Media: Painting
    • Closes in 9 days

    [Image: James Daugherty "Abstraction (a double-sided work)" (ca. 1970) oil on canvas 96 x 60 in.] 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 "Underground Gallery: London Transport Posters 1920s–1940s" Exhibition

    "Underground Gallery: London Transport Posters 1920s–1940s" Exhibition

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Prints
    • Closes in 131 days

    After World War I, striking modern posters began to trans­form the stations of London’s underground railway system into public art galleries. The posters, designed by significant artists like László Moholy-Nagy,...More »

  • poster for Eva Perrotta and Sophie Bortolussi "The Dressing Room"

    Eva Perrotta and Sophie Bortolussi "The Dressing Room"

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    • at The LAB Gallery
    • 501 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10017
    • Media: Performance Art
    • Starts in 67 days

    "The Dressing Room" is a duet created by Nu dance Theater in collaboration with the architects Eva Perez De Vega Steele and Ian Gordon. Trying to reconnect with themselves and each other, two women face...More »

  • poster for "Short-Term Deviation: A Collaboration with Showpaper" Exhibition

    "Short-Term Deviation: A Collaboration with Showpaper" Exhibition

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    • at EFA Project Space
    • 323 W 39th St., 11 Fl., New York, NY 10018
    • Media: Prints - Installation - Performance Art
    • Starts in 21 days

    Beginning mid-September, this collaboration with the print publication Showpaper, is a month-long exhibition, publication, video and music event. Bringing the spirit of Showpaper—which crossbreeds music,...More »

  • poster for "Alternative Histories: A History of New York City Alternative Art Spaces Since the 1960s" Exhibition

    "Alternative Histories: A History of New York City Alternative Art Spaces Since the 1960s" Exhibition

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    • at Exit Art
    • 475 10th Ave, New York, NY 10018
    • Media: Photography - Prints - Media Arts
    • Starts in 22 days

    "Alternative Histories" is a history of New York City alternative art spaces and projects since the 1960s. Through audio interviews with founders and key staff, a reading room of magazines and publications,...More »

  • poster for "Defining Beauty: Albrecht Dürer at the Morgan" Exhibition

    "Defining Beauty: Albrecht Dürer at the Morgan" Exhibition

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    • at The Morgan Library & Museum
    • 225 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016
    • Media: Drawing - Prints
    • Closes in 10 days

    Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), preeminent master of the German Renaissance, transformed drawing in northern Europe. Using his unrivaled talent as a draftsman and the force of his powerful artistic persona,...More »

  • poster for "The 2010 Abraaj Capital Art Prize" Exhibition

    "The 2010 Abraaj Capital Art Prize" Exhibition

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    • at Museum of Arts & Design
    • 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting - Video installation
    • Closes in 38 days

    The Museum of Arts and Design presents the 2010 winners of the Abraaj Capital Art Prize. Now in its second year, this prize is unique among art awards; not only is it the world's most generous, disbursing...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 11 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 "From Line to Plane" Exhibition

    "From Line to Plane" Exhibition

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Sculpture
    • Closes in 279 days

    This summer’s Sculpture Garden installation features a selection of abstract geometric works dating from the early 1960s to the late 1980s. Highlights include Tony Smith’s minimalist sculptures "Free Ride...More »

  • poster for Verónica Peña Martinez "Without Name"

    Verónica Peña Martinez "Without Name"

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    • at The LAB Gallery
    • 501 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10017
    • Media: Installation - Performance Art
    • Starts in 99 days

    "Without Name" is a reconstruction of an ephemeral installation/performance created in 2008 in response to the loss of the artist's father. In order to feel closer to him, Verónica Peña Martinez creates...More »

  • poster for Adam Straus "Air and Water or: Everything's Fine Until It's Not"

    Adam Straus "Air and Water or: Everything's Fine Until It's Not"

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    • at Nohra Haime Gallery
    • 730 5th Ave., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting
    • Starts in 12 days

    An exhibition of seascape paintings by Adam Straus, A"Air and Water or: Everything's Fine Until It's Not," marks the artist's 20th anniversary with the gallery. The exhibition juxtaposes 21 recent paintings...More »

  • poster for "Black & White" Exhibition

    "Black & White" Exhibition

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    • at Jason McCoy, Inc. (Midtown)
    • 41 E 57th St., New York, NY 10022
    • Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture
    • Closes in 29 days

    Often abbreviated as B/W or B&W, black-and-white as a visual description is somewhat of a misnomer as it can entail various shades of white, black and gray. In photography, the early works for example...More »

  • poster for  Milijada Barada Exhibition

    Milijada Barada Exhibition

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    • at Ana Tzarev Gallery
    • 24 W 57th St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting
    • Starts in 7 days

    This exhibition features paintings by the well-known contemporary Croatian artist Milijada Barada. Her masterful use of color showcases a variety of imagery ranging from the natural to the spiritual. Barada’s...More »

  • poster for "Action! Design over Time" Exhibition

    "Action! Design over Time" Exhibition

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Other - Furniture - Product
    • Closes in 158 days

    Objects are not still. And yet design is often considered in terms of static aesthetic and functional qualities, without much consideration of trajectory in time or relationships with people. The objects...More »

  • poster for "Modern Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture: A Summer Selection" Exhibition

    "Modern Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture: A Summer Selection" Exhibition

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

    [Image: Charles Burchfield "Fantastic Landscape" (1917) mixed media on paper 21 x 17 in.]More »

  • poster for "Written in Stone: Historic Inscriptions from the Ancient Near East, ca. 2500 B.C.–550 B.C." Exhibition

    "Written in Stone: Historic Inscriptions from the Ancient Near East, ca. 2500 B.C.–550 B.C." Exhibition

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    • at The Morgan Library & Museum
    • 225 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016
    • Media: Sculpture - Furniture
    • Closes in 3 days

    An inscribed tablet from the Middle Assyrian period of Mesopotamia records and commemorates the restoration of the temple of the goddess Ishtar in the capital city of Assur. The extremely rare object is...More »

  • poster for "Perspectives: Forming the Figure" Exhibition

    "Perspectives: Forming the Figure" Exhibition

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    • at American Folk Art Museum
    • 45 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
    • Closes in 356 days

    This exhibition, the second installment of the "Perspectives" series organized by the education department, examines some of the many renderings of figures in the museum's permanent collection. From 19th...More »

  • poster for "Experimental Women in Flux" Exhibition

    "Experimental Women in Flux" Exhibition

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Prints - Other - Product
    • Closes in 60 days

    n the spirit of MoMA’s publication of "Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art" in June 2010, the Museum Library features experimental works by women that form part of the newly acquired...More »

  • poster for Gary Brent Hilsen "Feminine Wiles"

    Gary Brent Hilsen "Feminine Wiles"

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    • at Fountain Gallery
    • 702 9th Ave. New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting
    • Starts in 8 days
  • poster for Michael Heizer "Markings"

    Michael Heizer "Markings"

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    • at Nohra Haime Gallery
    • 730 5th Ave., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting
    • Starts in 12 days

    Driven by his explorations of land sites and familiarity with the topography of arid regions, Heizer conveys through markings his concern with the concepts of time, movement, space and emptiness. This...More »

  • poster for Susan S. Bank "Cuba: Campo Adentro"

    Susan S. Bank "Cuba: Campo Adentro"

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    • at The Gabarron Foundation Carriage House Center for the Arts
    • 149 E 38th St., New York, NY 10016
    • Media: Photography
    • Closes in 18 days

    These exhibition features the work of Susan S. Bank, whose selection from her work allows us to explore the daily life of the Cuban campesinos, their relationships among them, their animal and the land. ...More »

  • poster for "Frank Bowling, O.B.E., RA: Paintings 1974–2010" Exhibition

    "Frank Bowling, O.B.E., RA: Paintings 1974–2010" Exhibition

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    • at Spanierman Gallery
    • 45 E 58th St., New York, NY 10022
    • Media: Painting
    • Closes in 9 days

    The exhibition presents twenty-three richly textured canvases works in the abstract expressionist and color field mode by the first black artist in history to be elected to the Royal Academy, London. Born...More »

  • poster for "Women Only: Folk Art by Female Hands" Exhibition

    "Women Only: Folk Art by Female Hands" Exhibition

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    • at American Folk Art Museum
    • 45 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
    • Closes in 10 days

    Female artistic expression in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries followed prescribed time-honored conventions. Most of the graceful works presented in this exhibition, all of which are in the museum’s...More »

  • poster for "Contemporary Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture: A Summer Selection" Exhibition

    "Contemporary Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture: A Summer Selection" Exhibition

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

    [Image: Robert Bauer "Adam" (2010) oil on wood 8 3/8 x 6 3/8 in.]More »

  • poster for "Mark di Suvero at the Morgan" Exhibition

    "Mark di Suvero at the Morgan" Exhibition

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    • at The Morgan Library & Museum
    • 225 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016
    • Media: Sculpture
    • Closes in 10 days

    Three sculptures by Mark di Suvero are on view in the multi-story, glass-enclosed atrium designed by architect Renzo Piano. The exhibition is the first of contemporary sculpture at the Morgan. The works...More »

  • poster for "Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen" Exhibition

    "Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen" Exhibition

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    • at The Museum of Modern Art
    • 11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Photography - Prints - Film
    • Starts in 13 days

    "Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen," is an exhibition that examines the kitchen and its continual redesign as a barometer of changing ideologies and technologies, and explores the twentieth-century...More »

  • poster for "The Machine Eats" Exhibition

    "The Machine Eats" Exhibition

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    • at Frederico Sève Gallery/latincollector
    • 37 W 57th St., Fl. 4, New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Painting - Sculpture - Video installation
    • Closes tomorrow

    Frederico Sève Gallery proudly presents our summer salon, "The Machine Eats" an exhibition of hybridized multiples that combine: video, marble sculpture, live streaming video, sound, photography, painting,...More »

  • poster for "Behind the Scenes: New Staff Work at CCNY" Exhibition

    "Behind the Scenes: New Staff Work at CCNY" Exhibition

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    • at The Camera Club of New York
    • 336 W 37th St., Suite 206, New York, NY 10018
    • Media: Photography
    • Closes tomorrow

    The Camera Club of New York presents Behind the Scenes: New Staff Work at CCNY, curated by Jesse Chan and John Stanley, an exhibition featuring work from emerging photographers dedicated to the fine art...More »

  • "50 Years at Pace" Exhibition

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    • at Pace MacGill
    • 32 E 57th St., 9 Fl., New York, NY 10022
    • Media: Painting
    • Starts in 15 days

    "50 Years At Pace" is a retrospective exhibition of The Pace Gallery’s contribution to the history of art, celebrating the artists, exhibitions, people, and ideas that have contributed to Pace’s textured...More »

  • poster for Pieralli)(Favi "Extrakestrakos"

    Pieralli)(Favi "Extrakestrakos"

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    • at Nohra Haime Gallery
    • 730 5th Ave., New York, NY 10019
    • Media: Illustration - Painting - Sculpture
    • Closes in 9 days

    With an extraordinary wit and method, the Florentine duo Pieralli)(Favi, introduce staggering surfaces that combine painting, sculpture and installation. Made of acrylic, adhesives, nails and wood, the...More »

  • poster for Susan Vecsey Exhibition

    Susan Vecsey Exhibition

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    • at Spanierman Gallery
    • 45 E 58th St., New York, NY 10022
    • Media: Painting
    • Starts in 14 days

    [Image: Susan Vecsey "Untitled No. 11" (2009) oil on linen, 30 x 30 in.]More »

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