Penn Station’s Art at Amtrak had a redo, and it’s impressive! Rico Gaston has a unique way of creating art, combining the unique elements that make living in New York City invigorating.... News 16 Jun 2024 | 02:03
Picque III, by Pablo Picasso, 1959. Photo: National Arts Club Breaking the Mold at the National Arts Club: Old Masters Next to the Moderns They’re breaking the mold at the National Arts Club. Its current show, “Prints: From Old Masters to Moderns,” places works... City Arts 19 Mar 2024 | 05:27
The Astor Place Cube (officially known as “Alamo”), pictured in its titular public square. It was originally completed by Tony Rosenthal in 1967. The Cube is currently being restored by the DOT and Versteeg Art Fabricators so that it can be “spun” in circles once again. ( @Epicsunwarrior via Wikimedia Commons. Greenwich Village, NYC) The Astor Place Cube will spin again...as long as it doesn’t spin too fast A plan to restore the “Alamo” sculpture at Astor Place in the East Village is aiming for a summer completion date, the New... News 09 May 2023 | 06:43
Artist Derrick Adams portrays NYC dwellers in the common spaces of parks, open to every resident. HIs art just began gracing the Rotunda in the upper level of Penn Station as part of railway company’s Art at Amtrak program. Photo: Ralph Spielman Towering Works at Amtrak Inspired by Three City Parks Artist Derrick Adams, an urban visionary artist with 20 years of public displays to his credit, says the city’s parks are... News 29 Jan 2023 | 08:13
Art historian Lauren Kaplan makes art approachable for anyone who’s interested. Photo: Jackie Weisberg An Art Historian for the People Lauren Kaplan is an art historian for the people. As a professor of art history at John Jay College and Hunter College, and... News 15 Nov 2022 | 12:23
Edward Hopper, “City Roofs,” 1932. Oil on canvas. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Josephine N. Hopper BequestP.2016.11. © 2022 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Hopper in the City Edward Hopper (1882-1967) had an enduring love affair with New York, a place he called home for nearly six decades. He was... City Arts 26 Oct 2022 | 12:34
Madame Rouillé, by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour. Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr. A Gift That Keeps Giving It’s literally the chance of a lifetime to see a collection of drawings in a history-making promised gift. The Frick Collection,... City Arts 19 Oct 2022 | 11:10
V (formerly known as Eve Ensler) giving the opening night talk at a new gallery exhibit in Chelsea. Photo: Gaby Messino ‘Sensing’ Some Women A block off the Hudson in the C24 gallery in Chelsea, a new exhibit focused solely on women. “Sensing Woman,” as the show... Home 01 Oct 2022 | 04:14
At The Met – Installation view of Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo: Bruce Schwarz, Courtesy of The Met Time Travel through Fall Art Exhibitions Museum-going counterparts of armchair travelers can cross the world and millennia in this season’s exhibitions. Here are... City Arts 06 Sep 2022 | 01:08
New York City skyline at sunset. Photo: Robin Glasser Sacknoff Senior Artists and Their Evolving Work For Eileen Millan, a 40-year Manhattan resident who has lived in the same Chelsea building, The Vermeer, for over 25 years,... News 16 Aug 2022 | 10:37
Graciela Cassel’s “radar kaleidoscope” is made of angled mirrors that reflect the surrounding river, sky, and city. Photo: Meryl Phair ‘River Dreams’ Aboard the Lilac The Lilac calmly sits in the Hudson River along Pier 25 in downtown Manhattan as New Yorkers stream by to enjoy a summer... City Arts 05 Jul 2022 | 02:34
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98 - 1543). “Sir Thomas More,” 1527. Oil on panel29 1/2 x 23 3/4 in. (74.9 x 60.3 cm). The Frick Collection, New York, 1912.1.77. Photo: Michael Bodycomb Renaissance Splendor at the Morgan Fans of the Frick Collection’s famous 16th century portrait duo, “Sir Thomas More” (1527) and “Thomas Cromwell” (1532-33),... City Arts 12 Apr 2022 | 12:39
Traci Johnson with “Freeform” soft sculpture. Photo: Kahdeem Prosper Traci Johnson’s ‘Safe Space’ The annual Affordable Art Fair made a return to Chelsea last week, bringing mazes of gallery booths to the Metropolitan Pavilion... News 27 Mar 2022 | 10:48
Jennifer Packer, A Lesson in Longing, 2019. Oil on canvas, 108 1/2 × 137 in. (275.6 × 348 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; promised gift of Dawn and David Lenhardt. © Jennifer Packer. Photograph by Ron Amstutz. Image courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, and Corvi-Mora, London Women Making Art and History Art is long. And as long as there has been art, there have been women artists. Research reported in National Geographic has... City Arts 09 Mar 2022 | 05:17
Olga Spiegel, Untitled, 1971, Oil on canvas, 22 x 26 inches. Photo courtesy of Collection Jacaeber Kastor The Outsider Art Fair is Back After a creative response to the pandemic last year where curated shows were presented across several local galleries along... News 20 Feb 2022 | 05:18
