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Current events
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"Pop Objects and Icons from the Guggenheim Collection" Exhibition
Pioneered in Europe in the late 1950s, the American Pop art movement took off after finding support from critics such as Guggenheim curator Lawrence Alloway. Encouraged by the economic vitality and consumerist...More »
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"Black & White" Exhibition
Held annually since 1878, the Black & White Exhibition has in the past included great American artists such as William M. Chase, Thomas Moran, John Singer Sargent, and James M. Whistler. This...More »
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Cassius Fouler "Unpaid Dues"
Ketamine, dust, and Evan Williams are the Father, Son, Holy Spirit in the world that Cassius Fouler paints. A failed attempt at self-deprecating humor and outdated hood-rat etymology, Fouler's work has...More »
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"Grey Full" Exhibition
Jeff Bailey Gallery opens the New Year with a large group show of drawings, paintings, sculpture, and photography, an exhibition poised and eager to explore the color Grey in all its moody ramifications....More »
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"Hybrid Thinking" Exhibition
Jonathan LeVine Gallery presents Hybrid Thinking, a group exhibition curated by Marc + Sara Schiller of Wooster Collective, in their first curatorial since the groundbreaking 11 Spring exhibition, in December...More »
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"Interiors" Exhibition
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"Rotary Connection" Exhibition
Casey Kaplan presents a group exhibition, Rotary Connection, organized by the gallery’s director, Loring Randolph. The exhibition brings together 13 artists who, despite different approaches, all challenge...More »
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Hassan Sharif Exhibition
Alexander Gray Associates presents Emirati artist Hassan Sharif's first solo exhibition in the United States. To introduce his work to a New York audience, the Gallery has organized a micro-retrospective...More »
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Lori Ellison Exhibition
In her first solo exhibition at the gallery, Lori Ellison will exhibit ink on notebook paper drawings and gouache on panel paintings. Also in the show will be paintings executed on shaped panels in various...More »
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Santi Moix "Santi Moix on Huckleberry Finn: Watercolors and Wall Drawings"
Three years after tackling themes and images from the quintessential work of Spanish satirical-heroism, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Santi Moix animates the ultimate allegory of American cultural-heroism, Mark...More »
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Sarah Hardesty "Imminent"
The exhibition will feature new work in a variety of media, including paintings, works on paper, and sculptural installations. Sarah Hardesty’s sculptures and installations use found and reclaimed wood,...More »
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"Expanding the Landscape" Exhibition
Limpert's figurative sculptures reflect the architectural structures of her native New York. "Steel allows me to create life-size open bodily forms while leaving space for the unseen aspects of the figure....More »
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"Subliminal Sunlight" Exhibition
numberthirtyfive gallery presents "Subliminal Sunlight" curated by Howard Hurst as its first exhibition for 2012.More »
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Dawn Clements Exhibition
Clements’ powerful use of Sumi ink and ballpoint pen on small to large-scale paper panels remains her primary medium and scale. She often cuts and pastes the paper together to edit and compose a completed...More »
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Yuki Ioroi Exhibition
Yuki Ioroi was born in 1980, Shizuoka Japan. She started her career as an artist when she moved to Los Angeles in 2001, and participated in local artist showcase events throughout the two years. Her style...More »
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"Gifted: Collectors and Drawings at MoMA, 1929–1983" Exhibition
This exhibition examines the history of MoMA’s drawings collection through key gifts from donors whose connections with the Museum helped shape the institution from its earliest days. Lillie P. Bliss and...More »
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El Roto (Andrés Rábago) "Draw What You Think"
After a brief showing at Film Society at Lincoln Center, Instituto Cervantes New York presents a collection of twenty-four drawings, the work of the cartoonist Andrés Rábago, also known as EL ROTO, internationally...More »
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Spanky and Nina "Drawings and Sculpture"
Hailing from different cultural and artistic backgrounds, artists Kevin “Spanky” Long and Nina Milner examine their diverse creative origins through a practice of visual dialogue. While both artists...More »
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Thomas Scheibitz "A Panoramic View of Basic Events"
For his seventh solo exhibition at the gallery, titled "A Panoramic View of Basic Events," Thomas Scheibitz will present an extraordinary group of new paintings, sculptures, drawings, and collages. These...More »
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"Dubuffet and the Art Brut" Exhibition
Ricco/Maresca Gallery and Jennifer Pinto Safian present Dubuffet and the Art Brut. The exhibition presents the art of Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) alongside works championed by Dubuffet and collected under...More »
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"Looking Back / The 6th White Columns Annual" Exhibition
Selected by Nick Mauss and Ken Okiishi ‘Looking Back’ is the sixth installment of the White Columns Annual. The exhibition is now an annual fixture on White Columns’ calendar. Each year, an individual...More »
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"Material Magic" Exhibition
An exhibition of work presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department. Curated by Department Chair Suzanne Anker and faculty member Gunars Prande. More »
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Alfred Leslie "Figure Drawings, 1976 - 1983"
In the Drawing Gallery and concurrent with the Lenaghan exhibition is a show of five figure drawings by Alfred Leslie. The exhibition is comprised of four signature portraits in graphite pencil, including...More »
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Andy Warhol "Who's Who in Holiday Hats?"
L&M Arts presents a series of twenty-seven unique ink and watercolor drawings by Andy Warhol, c. 1958, of marvelous make-believe millinery that appeared in the 1964 holiday issue of McCall’s magazine....More »
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James Brooks & Dan Flavin "Unlikely Friends"
The gallery is pleased to present this two-person exhibition featuring works on paper and canvas by James Brooks and fluorescent light sculptures by Dan Flavin. This exhibition pairs these visually...More »
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Janet Culbertson "Possible Peril"
ACCOLA GRIEFEN GALLERY presents –Janet Culbertson: Possible Peril. For more than four decades Janet Culbertson’s paintings and drawings have been infused with a passionate concern for our planet’s ecology....More »
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Jeff Keen "Works from the 1960s + 1970s"
Elizabeth Dee Gallery presents the first solo exhibition at the gallery and United States debut of paintings and films by Jeff Keen [b. 1923, UK]. This important first exhibition in New York will explore...More »
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Jen Casad "Drawings"
Known to many as the subject of Sharon Lockhart’s recent film "Double Tide," Jen Casad is a master draftsman as well as a professional clammer. Casad’s first one-person New York exhibition will present...More »
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Katayoun Vaziri "Yeki Bud, Yeki Nabud"
Meulensteen presents Yeki Bud, Yeki Nabud, an exhibition of new work by Katayoun Vaziri. Featuring drawings, paintings, prints and video work, this exhibition marks the artist’s second show with the gallery....More »
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Madeleine Gekiere Exhibition
Fred Torres Collaborations presents a survey of drawings, paintings, and assemblages by Madeleine Gekiere. This is Gekiere’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition features a selection...More »
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Marc Cavello Exhibition
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Mitch Miller "Natural Selection"
ACCOLA GRIEFEN GALLERY presents – Mitch Miller: Natural Selection. Mitch Miller’s work is rooted in a fraught relationship with the natural world that began in formative visits to the awe-inspiring sites...More »
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Nick Mauss Exhibition
For his second solo exhibition at 303 Gallery, Nick Mauss presents a landscape of images and notations, drawn across various forms. Accumulations of large aluminum sheets painted white and silkscreened...More »
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Paula Scher "Maps"
For the past twenty years, renowned graphic designer and fine artist Paula Scher has been reinterpreting society's approach to data and our visual representation of the trafficked environment. Through...More »
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Robert Buck "Kahpenakwu"
For his second show at CRG Gallery, Robert Buck (who previously showed under the name Robert Beck) exhibits sculptures, assemblages, paintings, and drawings inspired by the deserts of the American southwest...More »
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Yvonne Estrada Exhibition
Yvonne Estrada's latest body of work is predominantly rendered in varying intensities of ultramarine and cobalt blue gouache and watercolor. Mainly inspired by architectural blueprints, these works are...More »
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"Accrochage" Exhibition
Miguel Abreu Gallery presents an installation of recent works by gallery artists and others.More »
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"Foreign Bodies" Exhibition
We first “make Other” by seeing, by encountering physically. Looking at the body, we begin to categorize it. Othering is one of the first steps to identifying the self; one learns who she is in relation...More »
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"New Moon : Interpretations of the Chinese Zodiac 2012" Exhibition
myplasticheart presents the 4th annual New Moon: Interpretations of the Chinese Zodiac exhibit. We are kicking the year off right with this stellar group show featuring 18 artists’ reinterpretations of...More »
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"20th Anniversary" Exhibition
Skoto Gallery at 20 by Geoffrey Jacques It is tempting to talk about Skoto Gallery as a secret treasure of the New York art scene; but doing so brings up a lot of contradictory data. For instance,...More »
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"Campaign" Exhibition
C24 Gallery presents CAMPAIGN, a group exhibition curated by Amy Smith-Stewart. The exhibition places the popular depiction of the female body in a torrent of unrestrained expression from 27 international...More »
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"Detonate: Chaos and Consumerism" Exhibiton
Denise Bibro Fine Art presents Detonate: Chaos and Consumerism. The exhibition features artists Nancy Baker, Carol Es, Bill Gusky, Leslie Kneisel, Tim Ripley and Oriane Stender. Economic and cultural turmoil...More »
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"Discursive Abstraction" Exhibition
This exhibition quietly observes a group of works on paper over a 60-year period by a disparate set of artists, chiefly British and American, whose primary common denominator is an eye towards abstraction....More »
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"Mind the Gap" Exhibition
Each of the works in "Mind the Gap" operates between and within signs in order to discover, tease out, and make manifest meaning that is neither obvious nor orthodox. The artists presented here respond...More »
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Fré Ilgen "Shaping Presence"
Sundaram Tagore Gallery presents Shaping Presence, an exhibition of abstract metal and wood sculpture and works on paper by Berlin-based Dutch artist Fré Ilgen. Shaping Presence introduces the latest...More »
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Jason Fox "Eating Symbols"
Peter Blum presents the exhibition Jason Fox: Eating Symbols. This will be Jason Fox’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. For this exhibition, Jason Fox will present paintings, drawings, and...More »
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Kevin Lips and Mason Saltarrelli Exhibition
Both artist's source their work from the found, either in materials, shapes, or forms. Through this process they both create narrative triggers that remain undetermined by the artist and the naturalistic...More »
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Seong Kyung Hee Exhibition
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“The End" Exhibition
Vogt Gallery presents the group exhibition “The End,” featuring works by mostly New York-based artists ranging from sculpture over drawing and painting to video and installation. The show is curated by...More »
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“To Be or Not To Be. New York City” Exhibition
The Mantle, in collaboration with art@apt, present “To Be or Not To Be,” an exhibition featuring five Burmese artists, hosted by Gallery35 in New York City. The featured artists include Aung Zaw Tun,...More »
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"25 years anniversary show Part 1" Exhibition
Kazuko Miyamoto presents Gallery Onetwentyeight's 25th Anniversary at 128 Rivington in New York's Lower East Side. During the 25 years anniversary show Part 1 we will exhibit the work of Gallery Onetwentyeight...More »
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"Double Reverse" Exhibition
The selected group of artists for this exhibit work in a diversity of materials and approaches, both traditional and unexpected, to create work that is a mirror of contemporary issues and obsessions. Whether...More »
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"Exposed" Exhibition
Muriel Guépin Gallery presents "Exposed" a new group show featuring the artwork of: Andrea Dezsö, Donald Graham Hershey & Rogelio Manzo. Interested primarily in human forms as a vehicle to penetrate...More »
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"The Laughing Dough" Exhibition
MATTHEW THURBER’s 120-foot by three- and four-foot sumi ink on paper scrolls, “Century 21,” “1-800-MICE Scroll,” and “Ambergris Performance Scroll,” tell the story of a mouse security guard, the protagonist...More »
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Derek Lerner Exhibition
Derek Lerner layers countless well refined marks, lines, and shapes to create complex systems that look as if we are peering through a microscope and a telescope at the same time. After 15 years of working,...More »
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Nicholas Buffon "Applied Flesh"
Callicoon Fine Arts presents Applied Flesh, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Nicholas Buffon on view from January 27th to February 26th, 2012. A performance by the artist will take place in the...More »
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"Back From L.A." Exhibition
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Dannielle Tegeder "Transparent Studio"
Bose Pacia presents the second installment of Transparent Studio with Dannielle Tegeder. The artist will occupy the gallery space from February 7 through March 1 during which time the public is invited...More »
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"African American Art from the Flomenhaft Collection" Exhibition
The Black artists’ selections on view share neither an artistic program nor a similar background. They are all of a different mettle. All create with an unremitting creative force that issues from their...More »
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"Celestial" Exhibition
For nearly twenty years the Hubble Telescope has astonished us with its images of faraway cosmic objects and phenomena, bringing a revolution in universal perspective. The Hubble has produced a seemingly...More »
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"In Their Own World" Exhibition
Curator: D. Dominick LombardiMore »
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Don Doe "Tossed Overboard"
Morgan Lehman Gallery presents, Tossed Overboard, paintings and works on paper by Don Doe. This is Doe's first solo exhibition with the gallery. The artist is closely associated with the group of figurative...More »
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George Grosz "The Way of All Flesh" & "Large Drawings" Exhibition
David Nolan Gallery presents two exhibitions: George Grosz, The Way of All Flesh, which includes seven works on paper, and a group exhibition entitled Large Drawings, featuring seven works by contemporary...More »
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Norman Mooney "Works on Paper"
Sasha Wolf Gallery presents a solo exhibition by artist, Norman Mooney. This is his second solo show at the gallery. Norman Mooney’s new drawings are based on the artist’s intuitive approach to the...More »
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Patrick Brennan "Moon Drawings"
Presented by Halsey Mckay Gallery, Moon Drawings, is a new body of work on paper and recently finished iMovies by Patrick Brennan. Made with the same casual splicing, snipping, camoflauging approach as...More »
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"Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine" Exhibition
The exhibition explores caricature and satire in its many forms from the Italian Renaissance to the present, drawn primarily from the rich collection of this material in the Museum's Department of Drawings...More »
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Ellen Emmet Rand and Ellen Emmet Rand Exhibition
The work in this show will combine Ellen Emmet Rand’s portrait paintings and drawings from the turn of the century with Ellen Emmet Rand's new abstract collage paintings, which have been inspired from...More »
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Roberto Burle Marx "Tablecloth"
Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994, Brazil) is recognized as one of the most influential – if not the most influential – landscape architects of the 20th century. “Tablecloth/Toalha” will be comprised of several...More »
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"MAKE. BELIEVE." Exhibition
This group exhibition features work by Fountain Gallery artists and by artists with mental illness from three other non-profit organizations based in New York City, participating through The Fountain Gallery...More »
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Dwight Ripley "Travel Posters and Language Panels"
Dwight Ripley was a British born artist, whose work was the subject of five solo exhibitions at Tibor de Nagy starting in 1951. A polymath, Ripley was a serious botanist, the author of a volume of poetry,...More »
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Emna Zghal "Plato/Pineapple"
MIYAKO YOSHINAGA art prospects presents Plato/Pineapple, a solo exhibition of new works on paper by Emna Zghal. Following Against Reason, her 2009 exhibition at the gallery,Emna Zghal further asserts...More »
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Jonathan Lasker "Sketchbooks"
Jonathan Lasker’ sketchbooks reveal the initial stage of his process the proto-permutations of the glyphs, color fields and arrangements that will later occupy his finished work. Some motifs are cursory,...More »
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Kay Rosen "Wide and Deep"
Sikkema Jenkins & Co. presents Wide and Deep, an exhibition of two series of recent works by Kay Rosen. Kay Rosen’s paintings, drawings, editions, collages, and installations on walls, billboards...More »
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Natasha Bowdoin "Jungle Book"
Monya Rowe Gallery presents the first New York solo exhibition of hand-cut drawings by Natasha Bowdoin titled Jungle Book. Pushing the boundaries between drawing, sculpture and installation, Bowdoin...More »
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Miha Strukelj "Memories of a City"
LMAKprojects presents Slovene artist Miha Strukelj's Memories of a City, a first solo exhibit with the gallery. For this exhibit Strukelj will create an installation of murals and small drawings on panels...More »
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"Queens International 2012: Three Points Make a Triangle" Exhibition
Queens International 2012: Three Points Make a Triangle is the fifth edition of the Queens Museum of Art’s biannual survey of artists living and working in the borough. The 31 artists featured this year...More »
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"The Influential Female, Drawings Inspired by Women in History" Exhibition
The human figure has been a subject for visual artists throughout history. With such an expansive subject matter, this exhibition has chosen to focus on contemporary artists drawing inspiration from the...More »
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"Drawing a Line in the Sand" Exhibition
Peter Blum presents the exhibition Drawing a Line in the Sand, a group exhibition of works on paper. Drawing a Line in the Sand is a continuation of the gallery’s ongoing interest in drawing. It follows...More »
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"Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950–1970" Exhibition
Comprised of some 50 works, Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950–1970 is the first largescale exhibition dedicated to this major Venezuelan artist to be held at a New York institution in more than 35 years. Featuring...More »
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Anne Truitt "Drawings"
This retrospective of Truitt’s works on paper spans the four decades of her career. The 40 works on view date from the early 1960s, when she first developed the totemic sculptures in painted wood for which...More »
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"Where Do We Migrate To?" Exhibition
- at The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design
- in the Villages area
- Closes in 68 days
Where Do We Migrate To? explores contemporary issues of migration as well as experiences of displacement and exile. Where Do We Migrate To? features the work of nineteen internationally recognized artists...More »
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Enrico David "Head Gas"
“Head Gas” is the first New York exhibition by Italian-born, Berlin-based artist Enrico David. Over the past twenty years, David has produced a body of work encompassing painting, drawing, sculpture, and...More »
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"The Annual: 2012" Exhibition
The National Academy’s Annual exhibition features works by over 100 artists and architects juxtaposing contemporary masters with emerging and mid-career artists. This year’s new format has been designed...More »
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"Under the Influence: The Comics and Contemporary Art" Exhibition
Under the Influence: The Comics and Contemporary Art will examine the work of approximately 25 artists indebted to the style and energy of comics imagery. The comics connote humor with the term "funnies"...More »
Permanent events
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"Rachel Beach and Nicole Stager" Exhibiton
92YTribeca presents the works of Rachel Beach and Nicole Stager – both formerly shown at Like the Spice gallery in Brooklyn – in an opening reception for this semi-permanent exhibit. Brooklyn-dwelling,...More »
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"Small Wonders from the American Collections" Exhibition
This special exhibition celebrates a major new installation in the Luce Center for American Art: Visible Storage ▪ Study Center that gives the public access to more than 350 additional objects from the...More »
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American Landscapes in the Robert Lehman Wing
Nine large and superb American landscape paintings from the Metropolitan Museum’s collection are currently displayed in the newly renovated Robert Lehman Wing, enabling visitors to view selected highlights...More »
Upcoming events
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Duro Olowu "Material"
London-based fashion designer Duro Olowu will present a show and pop-up shop of fashion and art at Salon 94’s Freeman Alley Gallery. The show will present a group of limited edition fashion and accessory...More »
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"Makeup on Empty Space" Exhibition
Larissa Goldston Gallery inaugurates its new ground floor space with the exhibition Makeup on Empty Space, featuring works by Nicole Cherubini, Lauren Clay, Orly Genger, Janelle Iglesias, Fabienne Lasserre,...More »
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Garrett Pruter "Mixed Signals"
Charles Bank Gallery presents its first solo exhibition with Garrett Pruter. A graduate of Parsons School of Design, Pruter presents a body of work that explores the frailty of memory in his exhibition,...More »
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Marilla Palmer "Nature Burlesque"
Marilla Palmer's delicate compositions of flowers and leaves combine nature and theatrical embellishments; sequins, glitter and beads are all decadent components used to make nature her Soubrette. Palmer's...More »
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"First Truth" Exhibition
The artist who sets out to examine or establish a truth sometimes runs into the bigger truth that came before it: that what one wants to accomplish may be fleeting and may possibly be unaccomplishable,...More »
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"My Last Attempt" Exhibition
An exhibition of projects by students in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department based on Brendan Matthews' short story "My Last Attempt to Explain to You What Happened with the Lion Tamer" and...More »
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Amy Wilson "We dream of starfish and geodesic domes"
[Image: Amy Wilson How We Came To Know We Were Ready (we felt excluded by high culture), (2011) watercolor, pencil, walnut ink on paper 7 x 5 in.]More »
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Robby Herbst "New Pyramids for the Capitalist System"
Dumbo Arts Center presents “New Pyramids For the Capitalist System,” an exhibition by Robby Herbst. “New Pyramids For The Capitalist System” explores acrobatics, class, bodies and interpersonal dynamics...More »
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"See My Voice, Hear My Vision" Exhibition
An exhibition of selected work by second-year students in the MPS Art Therapy Department and the clients they work with at their internship sites. Curated by faculty member Liz DelliCarpini. More »
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"A Passion for Drawings" Exhibition
In late 2010 a generous bequest of ten drawings was made to the Frick by the estate of its former Director Charles Ryskamp. During his tenure at the museum, Ryskamp — an avid collector of works on paper...More »
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Mark Podwal "Sharing The Journey: The Haggadah"
"Sharing The Journey" features new paintings and drawings by Mark Podwal-- twenty-six colorful paintings that relate the story of Passover. Working in the pictorial language of symbol and metaphor, Podwal’s...More »
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Theo A. Rosenblum and Chelsea Seltzer "Two Heads are Better than One"
The Hole presents the collaborative exhibition "Two Heads are Better than One" by Theo A. Rosenblum and Chelsea Seltzer opening this February 14th. This exhibition will feature sculpture, painting and...More »
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"The Ungovernables, Second New Museum Triennial" Exhibition
The 2012 New Museum Triennial will feature thirty-four artists, artist groups, and temporary collectives—totaling over fifty participants—born between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s, many of whom have never...More »
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"Notations: Cage Effect Today" Exhibition
Notations: The Cage Effect aims to serve as a timely platform upon the centennial of John Cage's birth. The exhibition will examine his diverse and widespread influence throughout America, Asia, Europe...More »
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"Reinventing Landscape" Exhibition
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"New City" Art Fair
H.P. FRANCE NY, Inc presents the launch of the NEW CITY ART FAIR, the first art fair dedicated solely to contemporary Japanese art in New York. Open from March 7-11, 2012—dates that coincide with SCOPE,...More »







