Muhammad Ali, when he was still known as Cassius Clay, delivers a playful KO to the Beatles who dropped by Miami’s Fifth St. Gym in Feb. 1964, only days before his championship bout with Sonny Liston. It’s among the tabloid photos on display at the Howard Greenberg Gallery through Nov. 16. ( Photo: Photographer unknown, courtesy the Howard Greenberg Gallery) Six Great Art Shows to See This Fall Extra! Extra!: News Photographs From 1908-1975 Newspaper editors know that a picture can sometimes be better than a thousand... City Arts 20 Sep 2024 | 12:53
Gego installing “Reticulárea,” Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, 1969. Photo: Juan Santana © Fundación Gego Five Must See Shows This Spring Gego: Measuring Infinity” and Sarah Sze “Timelapse What’s a Gego? If you know, you know. And if you go to the Guggenheim’s... News 04 Apr 2023 | 03:07
Nina Chanel Abney’s art featuring the San Juan Hill neighborhood that was knocked down to make way for Lincoln Center is now being featured in an exhibit at the very site in the David Geffen Hall. Photo: Courtesy Nicholas Knight/Lincoln Center ( NICHOLAS KNIGHT) Major Museums Feature Things to Do in Black History Month That Often Last Beyond Feb. By Mary Gregory February, Black History Month, offers countless ways to celebrate the immense contributions of Black creators,... News 10 Feb 2023 | 02:14
Installation view of “Pentachrome” by Michael Lin, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo by Paul Lachenauer, courtesy of The Met New Art in Old Places at The Met What’s an institution to do when it only has two million square feet and countless ideas? The Metropolitan Museum of Art... City Arts 27 Sep 2022 | 12:42
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
Installation view, “Barbara Kruger,” David Zwirner, New York, through August 12, 2022. Photo courtesy of David Zwirner Feminist Artists at the Fore Feminist artists have the floor this summer, and they have lots to say. In, around, and out of town, take some time to explore... City Arts 21 Jul 2022 | 10:06
Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will perform “The Best of Duke Ellington” June 10–11. Photo: Frank Stewart The Sounds of Sunshine Spring and summer in the city just sound different. Catch the buzz with live music indoors, outdoors, or online. It’ll be... City Arts 13 Apr 2022 | 03:01
The Whitney Biennial 2022 includes Ellen Gallagher’s “Ecstatic Draught of Fishes,” 2022. Oil, pigment, palladium leaf, and paper on canvas, 89 3/4 × 118 1/8 in. (248 × 300 cm). Collection of the artist; courtesy the artist; Gagosian, New York; and Hauser & Wirth, New York Art ... It’s About Time These days, we seem to think of those days. There are movie remakes, revivals on Broadway, and popular television characters... City Arts 03 Apr 2022 | 06:18
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
Faith Ringgold, “Dancing at the Louvre: The French Collection Part I, #1”, 1991. Quilted fabric and acrylic paint, 73 ½ x 80 ½ in. (186.7 x 204.5 cm). The Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, Gift of David Horvitz ’74 and Francie Bishop Good, 2017.5.6. © Faith Ringgold / ARS, NY and DACS, London, courtesy ACA Galleries, New York 2022 Black History in Museums and Galleries February is a great time to be inspired and enriched by Black artists of the past and present, and New York’s museums and... City Arts 11 Feb 2022 | 10:41
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
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
Michele Kennedy of the Open Gates Project. Photo: Joshua South Musical Gems by Women Bring Diversity to the Stage What’s old can be new again, in the right hands. Musicians and musical scholars soprano Michele Kennedy, bass-baritone Joe... City Arts 04 Nov 2021 | 05:45
Etel Adnan, Untitled, 2010. Oil on canvas, 7 7/8 × 9 7/8 in. (20 × 25 cm). Collection of Karen E. Wagner and David L. Caplan, New York. © Etel Adnan Must-See Fall Exhibitions From outdoor art to in-depth explorations, the season’s exhibitions span millennia and cross continents all while seeming... City Arts 31 Aug 2021 | 10:02
Paul Cézanne. Still Life with Blue Pot. 1900-06. Pencil and watercolor on paper, 18 15/16 × 24 7/8″ (48.1 × 63.2 cm). The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Drawing Comparisons Drawings are not less than paintings. In some ways, they’re more. More immediate. More fresh. More spontaneous. And for many,... City Arts 01 Jul 2021 | 03:06
