CURRENT EXHIBITS [351]

Question Bridge: Black Males is an innovative video installation created by artists Hank Willis Thomas and Chris Johnson in collaboration with Bayeté Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair. The four collaborators spent several years traveling throughout the United States, speaking with 150 Black men living in 11 American cities and towns, including New York, Chicago, Oakland, Birmingham, and New Orleans. Fr...   [more]

Opening: January 13th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes, 1913–1919 is an exploration of the early journalistic career of American writer and women’s rights advocate Djuna Barnes (1892–1982). Though best known for her modernist novels and plays, including Nightwood (1936) and The Antiphon (1958), Barnes spent the period between 1913 and her departure for Europe in 1921 living in New York’...   [more]

Opening: January 20th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Rachel Kneebone: Regarding Rodin features fifteen iconic works by nineteenth-century French master Auguste Rodin, selected from the Museum's collection by British artist Rachel Kneebone and shown alongside eight of her own large-scale porcelain sculptures. The exhibition, Kneebone’s first major museum presentation, will highlight the artists’ shared interest in the representation of mourning, e...   [more]

Opening: January 27th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Playing House is the first in a series of installations that aim to engage visitors with the Brooklyn Museum’s period rooms. Artists Betty Woodman, Anne Chu, Ann Agee, and Mary Lucier have been invited to place site-specific artwork in eight of the Museum’s historic rooms, which have been interpreted by curators over the years to illustrate how Americans of various times, economic levels, and...   [more]

Opening: February 24th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Keith Haring: 1978–1982 is the first large-scale exhibition to explore the early career of one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century. Tracing the development of Haring’s extraordinary visual vocabulary, the exhibition includes 155 works on paper, numerous experimental videos, and over 150 archival objects, including rarely seen sketchbooks, journals, exhibition flyers, pos...   [more]

Opening: March 16th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

This exhibition highlights the nearly fifty-year career of ceramicist Edward Lycett (American, 1833–1910), creative director of the Faience Manufacturing Company from 1884 to 1890. The range of works illustrates Lycett’s talent and adaptability to stylistic changes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as his vision for Faience, a company based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, th...   [more]

Opening: May 3rd, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The fifth exhibition in the Raw/Cooked series presents the work of Sunset Park–based artist Ulrike Müller. With the goal of starting a conversation on the lesbian feminist movement and examining the visibility of queer bodies within mainstream culture and the Museum, Müller orchestrated a collaborative drawing project based on the inventory list of the feminist T-shirt collection at the Lesbian...   [more]

Opening: June 29th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Bruce Silverstein is pleased to present 10 Years: A Slideshow by the installation artist and photographer Zoe Strauss. This slideshow marks the culmination of Strauss’ I-95 project, a ten year long endeavor for which Strauss displayed her photographs by affixing them to the pilasters supporting the overpass of Interstate-95 in South Philadelphia. The slideshow featured at the gallery is the artist’...   [more]

Opening: June 28th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Bureau is pleased to announce a summer exhibition featuring new work by artist Sarah Dornner. Primavesi House comprises an eponymous video and installation at Bureau's lower east side gallery at 127 Henry Street in New York. An odyssey of pattern and rhythm, the video Primavesi House begins with a still image of Viennese modernist Josef Hoffmann's 1913-14 country house built for his patron Otto P...   [more]

Opening: June 24th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Callicoon Fine Arts is very pleased to present an exhibition by Luther Price opening on Friday, June 15 with a reception from 6 to 8pm and continuing through July 27th.  The installation includes projections of handmade slides and a selection of ink on wax paper paintings, some of the materials associated with Price’s practice, ongoing since the 1980s, as an artist and filmmaker. T...   [more]

Opening: June 15th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Casey Kaplan is pleased to announce, No. 17, an exhibition celebrating our seventeenth year with artworks by all twenty-one artists of the gallery. Included in the exhibition are newly commissioned artworks by Nathan Carter, Marlo Pascual, David Thorpe, and Garth Weiser, plus significant earlier pieces of Henning Bohl, Matthew Brannon, Jeff Burton, Jason Dodge, Trisha Donnelly, Geoffrey Farmer, Lia...   [more]

Boneyards James Cathcart June 1 – July 15, 2012   Causey Contemporary is pleased to present a solo exhibition of James Cathcart’s black and white photography.  Boneyards will feature two series; one documenting the rough, ghostly landscape of late-1980’s Williamsburg, Brooklyn; the other capturing rare views of the U.S. Military’s aircraft repository. Boneyards, Cathcart’s first so...   [more]

Opening: June 1st, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

One of the featured exhibitions of CCS Bard’s 20th anniversary year, and on view throughout the fifteen galleries of the Hessel Museum, Liam Gillick: From 199A-199Boffers a comprehensive survey of the artist’s seminal projects and installations which challenged the orthodox presentation and reception of art and its methods and practices during the 1990s. This exhibition, which will engage CCS...   [more]

Opening: June 23rd, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

The works in Anti-Establishment investigate artistic practices that, in various ways, radically utilize and recommit to the notion of “the institution”, while demanding new functions and effects of them. Institutions are very often discussed via shorthand, conflated with the “establishment”—monolithic, static, and hierarchical societal systems against which avant-garde and countercult...   [more]

Ceres Gallery is pleased to present Kathlene Tracy: BEING.  In an exhibition of 10 large scale charcoal drawings on paper, Tracy investigates the permanency of all living things and the exchange between nature and humans through figurative renderings of trees.  Using charcoal as a vehicle; line, perspective, and shadow fuse to capture each tree’s existence asking for identification from the viewer...   [more]

Opening: June 21st, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM