Alexander Calder, “Butterfly, Mouse and Snail”, Gouache, Signed and dated 1968 lower right, 23” x 30 3/4”, Calder Foundation Registration #A06050, Photo courtesy Christopher Bishop Fine Art In the Galleries – East Side It’s January. Ready for a scene change? “The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes,” Marcel Proust... City Arts 21 Jan 2022 | 05:36
Dr. Arline Rubin says that Zoom “extended my interest in art.” Photo courtesy of Dr. Arline Rubin Crafting Her Way Through The Pandemic “I like Zoom a lot! It makes me feel like I’m part of the world,” says Dr. Arline Rubin, an 86-year-old retired Brooklyn... News 27 Dec 2021 | 10:22
Peter Robinson Smith at the Grand Bazaar Market. Photo: Xintian Wang Living With Shadow, Art Becomes the Cure As an after-school art class in Vermont was about to end, Peter Robinson Smith remembers asking the 12-year-olds to store... City Arts 20 Dec 2021 | 03:25
Anki King, Associate Director Gallery and Exhibitions, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, The Art Students League of New York. Photo: Karen Camela Watson ‘I Will Have That One, Please’ Whether you know a lot about art or just enjoy collecting interesting things, there’s sure to be something that catches your... News 12 Dec 2021 | 12:29
Maya Lin (American, b. 1959). Ghost Forest, 2021. Courtesy the artist and Madison Square Park Conservancy. Photo: Andy Romer For the Love of Trees Walking beneath the russet brown canopy of New York’s estimated 4-5 million trees, watching leaves drift and flutter, is... City Arts 10 Nov 2021 | 12:08
Andy Warhol’s “Flowers.” Photo: National Arts Club The Other Prince of Pop: Andy Warhol The Andy Warhol Show at the National Arts Club is a rare opportunity to explore a particular technique of the founder of... City Arts 30 Sep 2021 | 10:37
Ivy Brown in her gallery with a portait of her. Photo: Nathan Hughes Ivy Brown and Her Gallery Her two dogs, Buster and Keaton, greeted me at the door with assertive barks but a gentle demeanor. They appreciated my affection... City Arts 13 Aug 2021 | 08:57
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi), Italian, Urbino 1483–1520 Rome. “Lorenzo de’ Medici, Duke of Urbino.” 1518. Oil on canvas. 38 1/4 × 31 1/4 in. (97.2 × 79.4 cm). Private Collection/Bridgeman Images That Cosimo Show “The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512-1570” (until Oct. 11) could be the first post-pandemic blockbuster show, and an... City Arts 16 Jul 2021 | 12:58
Northwell’s Lenox Hill Hospital displays part of Sandra and William Nicholson’s “Women Who Dared” collection of art by women artists. Photo courtesy of Northwell Health The Art of Healing Collectors Sandra and William Nicholson spent 30 years collecting and preserving the work of women artists from around the... City Arts 25 May 2021 | 10:35
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
Ruth Asawa, Untitled (S.270, Hanging Six-Lobed, Complex Interlocking Continuous Form within a Form with Two Interior Spheres), 1955 is on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Photo: Adel Gorgy A Line Can Go Anywhere Since last summer, I’ve been posting letters with beautiful Ruth Asawa stamps. Like many art lovers, I read with eager anticipation... City Arts 07 Apr 2021 | 11:51
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
