This Week: Must-See Arts in the City
The portraiture of Alice Neel in Chelsea, the weird-grotesque films of a Swedish artist at the New Museum and the filmy interiors of a post-Impressionist at the Jewish Museum. Plus: photographic...
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Art by Teens Livens Up Manhattan Office
A floor of a midtown Manhattan office building has become an art gallery for work by 125 middle- and high-school students.The exhibition, called "Goals and Dreams," opened Wednesday night and features...
View ArticleNJ Gallery Celebrates WPA-Era Art and its Modern Appeal
Joblessness. Frustration. Doubt. These are issues that many Americans are still facing as the nation strives to recover from the worst recession seen since the Great Depression.During the 1930s,...
View ArticleSnapshot | Google Says 'Happy Birthday' to NY Artist Keith Haring
Google has used letters inspired by the work of the late New York artist Keith Haring for the "doodle" above its homepage search bar. Haring died tragically of AIDS in 1990. Friday would have been his...
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Why You Shouldn’t Miss 'Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art'
Full Disclosure: I once took a trip to Detroit primarily to visit the Rivera fresco permanently installed at the Detroit Institute of Art there so admittedly, I’m an enthusiast for this formidable...
View ArticlePeek into the City's Past at the Archives' Visitor Center
A huge trove of New York City's archival photos is now available online.The city has digitized 870,000 of them dating back to the mid-1800s. They capture everything from 1950s crime scenes to striking...
View ArticleLook | See What They Were Wearing on the Met Gala Red Carpet
On Monday night, stars made their way up the Metropolitan Museum's red-carpeted stairs to attend The Costume Institute's annual gala.Chelsea Clinton, Donald Trump, Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Beyoncé, David...
View ArticleChristie's to Hold First Photojournalism Auction in Honor of Anton Hammerl
A New York auction house is getting ready for its first sale of contemporary photojournalism works.The sale, which takes place at Christie's on Tuesday, is being held in honor of the South African...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
Two Italian designers face off at the Met, a group of artists take on the art market and a moody photographer shows his latest in Chelsea. Plus, forget about Bushwick ... this weekend, it's all about...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
It seems like space is in the air this week: there is a Cloud City at the Met and a mission to Mars at the Armory. Not that there aren't other things to do. The International Center of Photography...
View ArticlePark Avenue Armory Gets Space-Age Makeover
NASA wants to take you on a mission to Mars. No, not that NASA -- the other one based out of the lower Manhattan studio of artist Tom Sachs.His installation, "Space Program: Mars," opened at the 55,000...
View ArticleMural at I.S. 259 Teaches About 9/11 Attack
Leslie Rodriquez was 2 years old on Sept. 11, 2001, when she was sent home from day care in the swirl of the day’s catastrophic events. In the decade since, that day meant little more to her than a...
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Brooklyn’s Hasidic Art Scene Expands with New Gallery
The Brooklyn art scene is getting another retro infusion — this time from Crown Heights.The throwback references here depict a simpler time, when families were large and lived in the Old World shtetls...
View ArticleMuseums Free to Military Personnel and Their Families
The Metropolitan Museum, the Guggenheim and the New Museum are among the roughly 40 museums in New York City that will offer free admission to active-duty military service members and their families —...
View ArticleBanking Booms — and Busts — Through History
Financial crashes happen. That's one of themes that emerge from the new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, "Capital of Capital," a history of the nation’s banking sector.Starting at the end...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
Exhibits that are all about the artistic contributions of women, a 150th birthday party (with gilded cake) for Gustav Klimt, web-like installations by an Osaka-born artist and an exhibit that focuses...
View ArticlePolice Arrest Artist Setting Up 'I Love NY' Work
An artist who was setting up an illuminated "I Love New York"-themed public art display in Brooklyn was arrested after the wired contraption was mistaken for an explosive device.Takeshi Miyakawa, a...
View ArticleArtist Held for 'I Love NY' Work Released
An artist arrested on Saturday for setting up an illuminated "I Love New York"-themed public art display in Brooklyn that was mistaken for an explosive device has been released on his own...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
Art about sex, art about sci-fi landscapes, art about dilapidated industry and art in which the everyday is turned into abstraction. There is lots of trippy-weird stuff going on in New York City this...
View ArticleNY Art Handlers and Sotheby's Resolve Contract
Art handlers and Sotheby's auction house in New York have resolved their contract dispute.Teamsters Local 814 announced Thursday that workers had voted to approve a new agreement that includes pay...
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