CURRENT EXHIBITS [359]

This is a rare opportunity to view pastels and watercolors by America’s leading Impressionist artists including Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, Theodore Robinson, and Maurice Prendergast. Pastels and watercolors first gained recognition as finished works of art when French and American Impressionists exhibited them at the end of the 19th century. The artists in this exhibition us...   [more]

Opening: May 28th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Paintings of idyllic farmland and pristine parkland and are included in this exhibition of American art from the Arkell collections. Thomas Doughty's idealized depiction of early New England's backwoods and Albert Bierstadt's painting of the majesty of Yellowstone are among the wilderness views. The exhibition also features pastoral and poetic and landscapes by George Inness, Ralph Blakelock, Henry W....   [more]

Wu Guanzhong (1919–2010) stands as one of the most important artists of twentieth-century China. He was highly prolific both in oil and ink painting and is well known for his eloquent writings on art and creativity. For this exhibition, over 50 paintings spanning the mid-1970s to 2004 have been selected that focus on his best works in the medium of ink. Revolutionary Ink: The Paintings of Wu Guanzho...   [more]

Opening: April 25th, 2012   11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Inspired by Tagore is part of a series of exhibitions that presents the work of New York City students created in response to the great artistic traditions of Asia. This year the exhibition presents student artwork inspired by the art of Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore was a transformative figure in the modern cultural history of India. He is remembered not only as an artist, but also as a poet, playwrig...   [more]

Wang GongXin (born 1960, China) is credited as one of the first artists to have created a site-specific video installation in China in the mid-1990s. His video works typically deal with social and cultural clichés and misconceptions, often with a hint of humor. This exhibition features My Sun, his panoramic three channel video installation created in 2000, in which the artist explores the rise of...   [more]

IT CAME FROM chashama Austrian Cultural Forumunder the auspices of Wochenklausur 11 East 52nd Street New York, NY July 10 – 22, 2012 Opening Reception: Tuesday, July 10, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition Hours: Daily, 10 am – 6 pm IT CAME FROM chashama highlights works from the chashama Collection which accentuate the diversity of media and subject matter tackled by our artists. The collection...   [more]

Opening: July 10th, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Bard, born in France in 1959, attended the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and was selected for residency at the Casa Velázquez 1988-1990. He was a professor at the Ateliers des Beaux-Arts in Paris for 10 years. Bard’s work has been featured in major international art fairs, including Art Miami, the London Art Fair, Art Paris, FORM London, Art London and Art Karlsruhe Germany, an...   [more]

“He took an ordinary article of life… [and] created a new thought for that object.’ (M. Duchamp, ‘The Richard Mutt Case,’ The Blind Man, April 1917) Benrimon Contemporary is pleased to announce Love Me, a group exhibition featuring site specific installations, sculptures, and works on canvas created by Adam Bateman, Piper Brett, Michelle Carollo, Travis Childers, Alastair Levy and Hyung...   [more]

bitforms gallery is pleased to announce a summer group exhibition that features the work of seven artists: Marco Brambilla, Daniel Canogar, Yael Kanarek, Tim Knowles, Mark Napier, Casey Reas, and Marina Zurkow. Borrowing its title from World on a Wire, Rainer Fassbinder's 1973 sci-fi film set in a cybernetics and futurology lab, the exhibition explores behavioral complexity, madness and simulatio...   [more]

Opening: June 28th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Bortolami Gallery is pleased to present Constructs, Abrasions, Melons and Cucumbers, an exhibition of works by Barbara Kasten and Justin Beal. Though forty-two years apart in age, both artists are interested in challenging the potential of their chosen mediums; Kasten presents complex sculpture as photography; Beal incorporates sculptural elements into his paintings, as well as transforming natural o...   [more]

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

Mark Lewis constructs "Tulsa Streets" with paper and graphite. He works perceptually on site constructing collages over a period of time, discovering, realizing and compressing the experiences of each day into the recent collages and paintings. The streets scenes in Tulsa are universal and geographically unique at the same time. Lewis explores the light and sense of scale in the urban landscape un...   [more]

On July 11th, Teen Art Gallery will open T.A.G. : A New Chapter at BravinLee programs in Chelsea. This will be the first show curated by the second generation of T.A.G. members. T.A.G. was founded by Audrey Banks in 2010 with the mission of eliminating age based discrimination by giving teen artists, ages 12-19, the opportunity to contribute to the art world by exhibiting in a gallery space. As the...   [more]

Opening: July 11th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Brennan & Griffin is excited to present Michele O'Marah: Videos 1997 - 2002 an exhibition of the artist's first three video pieces: For Those About To Rock (1997), White Diamonds/Agent Orange (2001), and Valley Girl (2002).  This selection of works and selected hand-made props used in the videos will be displayed in the gallery and offer a survey of O'Marah's early development of examining...   [more]

Opening: June 10th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

INTER. Act, Reciprocity in Media, curated by Changhak Choi, as part of the Lori Ledis Emerging Curator Program, will examine the modern reciprocal relationship that can take place between ubiquitous multimedia technology and human emotion in both physical and virtual reality, through the work of interactive media artists. The work exhibited in INTER. Act by Brooklyn artists Sue G. Syn, and Hway...   [more]

Opening: January 9th   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Body Parts features thirty-five objects that represent individual body parts in ancient Egyptian art from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection, many of which will be displayed for the first time. While traditional exhibitions of ancient art focus on reconstructing damaged works, this exhibition uses fragmentary objects to illuminate the very realistic depiction of individual body parts in canonical...   [more]

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