Joanne McFarland, “Selfie With Lilies.” Photo courtesy of Joanne McFarland Their Art Continued ... They are three women who, in many ways, could not be more different. Yet, they have all managed to continue — and even elevate... City Arts 13 Apr 2021 | 03:06
Room 24: Four grand panels of Fragonard’s series “The Progress of Love” are shown together at Frick Madison in a gallery illuminated by one of Marcel Breuer’s trapezoidal windows. This view shows two of the 1771–72 paintings, with two later overdoors visible in the next gallery. Photo: Joe Coscia The Frick Goes Minimalist The opening of the Frick Collection on March 18 in new temporary quarters, just north of the Gilded Age mansion, has been... City Arts 21 Mar 2021 | 05:44
Julie Mehretu, Retopistics: A Renegade Excavation, 2001. Ink and acrylic on canvas, 101 ½ × 208 ½ inches (257.81 × 529.59 cm). Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas 2013.28. © Julie Mehretu Looking Forward to Spring Exhibitions We’re all looking forward to a season of renewal, and this spring, New York’s museum exhibitions offer interest, excitement... City Arts 09 Feb 2021 | 12:55
Yoko Ono (b. 1933, Japan), DREAM TOGETHER, 2020, installed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art © Yoko Ono. Image credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photo by Anna-Marie Kellen NYC Museums Begin to Reopen DREAM TOGETHER Those are the larger than life words emblazoned on the front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Yoko Ono... City Arts 29 Aug 2020 | 05:31
“Love Power” hanging in the storefront of Cote a Coast. ( Courtesy of Sono Kuwayama) Bowery’s Mural Mishap Up until late July, colorful murals adorned the windows of Bowery businesses. The Bringing Back Bowery project used the plywood... Home 10 Aug 2020 | 06:58
The Oculus at the World Trade Center station holds a secret that ties it to sites like Stonehenge and Karnak. Photo: Anthony Quintano -www.flickr.com/photos/quintanomedia/28992861302/in/photostream/ The City as Art “There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting,” Robert Rauschenberg once said. Like so many in our... City Arts 03 Aug 2020 | 05:18
J.J. Pinckney’s “2511 Atlantic Ave” (mix medium on wood). (Photo courtesy of J.J. Pinckney) An Artistic Reckoning in Chelsea As race and inequity are brought to the fore in every aspect of the American social fabric — major league sports, media institutions,... News 28 Jul 2020 | 11:05
The program aims to allow parents to learn about artists with their kids. (Photo: The Whitney Museum) American Art at Home A pandemic (when you’re safe) can be unproductive. A pandemic (again, when you’re safe) can be mentally draining. A pandemic... City Arts 28 Jul 2020 | 10:17
Photo: @bringing_back_bowery, via Instagram Giving Life Back to a Shuttered Street The stretch of Bowery between Houston and Third Avenue is usually an eclectic mix of busy bars, coffee shops and art galleries,... News 14 Jul 2020 | 02:10
Giovanni Bellini's "St. Francis in the Desert" at the Frick Collection. ( Photo courtesy of the Frick Collection.) St. Francis at the Frick Move over, Metropolitan Museum of Art: if you want to see what’s been called by many “the most important Renaissance painting... City Arts 29 Apr 2020 | 10:19
At a sneak preview for students. ( Photo: Elena Olivo (FIAF)) France Comes to Manhattan Do you miss the Louvre and the Musée D’Orsay? Can’t get to Paris or don’t want to risk the manifestations (strikes)? Well,... News 03 Jan 2020 | 03:23
City Council Member Ben Kallos, a longtime anime fan, helped kick off Anime NYC at the Javits Convention Center on November 15th. ( Photo: Office of Council Member Ben Kallos via Twitter) Anime Rocks the City What do City Council Member Ben Kallos, Japanese Ambassador to the U.N. Kanji Yamanouchi and an estimated 40,000 fans of... News 18 Nov 2019 | 02:46
64th Street Red-Necked Grebe (only on view through November 2019). ( Photo: Val Castronovo) Broadway's Fine-Feathered Friends Call it a show for the birds — an open-air exhibition on the Broadway Malls that raises awareness of avian species threatened... Newsletter 25 Sep 2019 | 02:32
A collection of Zuni beaded necklaces from the early 20th century is a highlight of "Jewelry for America." ( Photo: Adel Gorgy) American Bling Arranged along a narrow gallery, flanked by portraits of early Americans gazing into the central row of vitrines, are old... City Arts 16 Aug 2019 | 02:50
Lucian Freud, “Woman in a White Shirt,” 1958-60. © Devonshire Collection. ( Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees) A collector’s paradise Who can forget Keira Knightley, as Elizabeth Bennet, roaming the sculpture gallery at Pemberley, Mr. Darcy’s manse, in the... City Arts 02 Aug 2019 | 12:42
