CURRENT EXHIBITS [249]

Globalization creates unexpected relationships and contrasts in contemporary art. This series focuses on the significance of exhibiting a variety of works in a pluralistic art world. Inspired by salon-style hanging, most commonly attributed to the Salon de Paris held during the 18th and 19th centuries; Broadway Gallery NYC continues this legacy with a contemporary and fresh outlook. Following a tr...   [more]

Opening: August 19th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

This group exhibition, named after Carlos Monsivais' book of the same title, takes the work of Mexico's renowned photojournalist, Enrique Metinides, as a departure point and complements it with the work of contemporary artists who also capture the human experience in the metropolis. The photographs and video-based works provide a glimpse into the emotions and events that run rampant in cities where m...   [more]

A forum and test site for new ideas, BRONX LAB engages audiences in topics relevant to our surrounding communities. Through different social media platforms as well as hands-on activities, viewers will be asked to interact with the exhibition's main themes and exercise their critical views. Drawing primarily from the Museum's permanent collection, BRONX LAB's first exhibition will look at the explo...   [more]

Inspired by Gil Scott-Heron's famous song-poem from 1970 that detected a wave of cultural changes imperceptible to the mainstream, revolution not televised features works by contemporary Cuban artists from the Bronx Museum Permanent Collection, with additional works from The Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection; Alice Kosmin Private Collection, and Jane Wesman Private Collection. Featured artist...   [more]

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]

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

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

Causey Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of their summer exhibition, Boys with Toys, featuring sculpture by Alan Binstock, Steven Dobbin, Jerry Ehrlich, Bob Emser, Arthur Mednick, Norman Mooney, John J. Richardson, Gunnar Theel and Michael Whiting.  The exhibition opens on July 20th and will be on view through August 26, 2012. An opening reception with the artists will be held on July 20t...   [more]

Opening: July 20th, 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]

A group show of “ARTIST FRIENDS” who help support Ceres Gallery and it’s mission   [more]

Opening: July 19th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent work by photographer Alex Van Gelder.Van Gelder’s most recent photographic series is a meditation on death, disintegration, and decay. In subtly toned platinum prints, he takes as his subject matter glass-printed sepulchral portraits found on gravestones, mausoleums, and family tombs, depicting those now buried below. The original images, expo...   [more]

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

Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent works by multi-media artist Bianca Casady. The show will present installation works, drawings, collages, photographs, audio and projected video works. Casady’s recent group of works address ideas of gender and race, especially as they are played out in prison. Themes of wounds/scars/reconstruction, monsters, power and subordination are ex...   [more]

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