Category: New York City

  • JORDAN NASSAR NEW SOLO EXHIBITION

    JORDAN NASSAR NEW SOLO EXHIBITION

    James Cohan is pleased to present I Cut The Sky In Two, an exhibition of new work by Jordan Nassar, on view from October 23 through November 21 at 291 Grand Street. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with James Cohan. Jordan Nassar’s hand-embroidered works address intersecting fields of…

  • THEASTER GATES IN NEW YORK

    THEASTER GATES IN NEW YORK

    It’s not really about the material. It’s about our capacity to shape things. — Theater Gates Theaster Gates is finally in New York! Gates’s first-ever solo exhibition in New York. Gates’s oeuvre is among the most conceptually and materially rich in contemporary art, anchored equally in the canons of art…

  • CITY OF WATER DAY INSTALLATION

    CITY OF WATER DAY INSTALLATION

    New York, NY… The West Harlem Art Fund is proud to present for City of Water Day, Brooklyn-based floral designer Joshua Werber. Werber will “flower bomb” an outdoor sculptural work adjoining Building 10B on Governors Island in Nolan Park. Joshua Werber’s installation “Goals are Fluid” is a site specific reaction…

  • ADAM PENDLETON

    ADAM PENDLETON

    I think language that stands it’s ground is ‘Black Lives Matter.’ Adam Pendleton (born 1984, Richmond, Virginia) is an American conceptual artist known for his multi-disciplinary practice, involving painting, silkscreen, collage, video and performance. His work often involves the investigation of language and the recontextualization of history through appropriated imagery. His art has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, the New Museum, and other…

  • ADGER COWANS

    ADGER COWANS

    Whether you’re using film, digital, print-making, it’s all about the emotion in the photograph or painting or whatever. Capturing those feelings that come through you—if you’re honest and true, it translates so that other people can feel them. Cowans is one the most influential artists of his generation. Adger Cowans…

  • LIBERATING AUNT JEMINA

    LIBERATING AUNT JEMINA

      Who’s Afraid of Aunt Jemima? This is Ringgold’s first story quilt and the first quilt project she made by herself, without the help of her mother, who died the previous year. Squares along the borders depict African American women of varying ages from all walks of life, and the…

  • GRADA KILOMBA: HEROINES, BIRDS AND MONSTER

    GRADA KILOMBA: HEROINES, BIRDS AND MONSTER

      GRADA KILOMBA Heroines, Birds and Monsters series, Antigone, 2020 GRADA KILOMBA Heroines, Birds and Monsters series, Creon and Haemon, 2020 GRADA KILOMBA Heroines, Birds and Monsters series, Sphinx Act I, 2020 Goodman Gallery is pleased to present Heroines, Birds and Monsters, Grada Kilomba’s new series of photographic works, in…

  • FEYZ STUDIO

    FEYZ STUDIO

    Feyza Koksal was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey. She completed her Bachelor’s of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, and her Master’s in Architecture and Urban Design at Columbia University GSAPP in New York City. Her training in architecture, art, glassblowing and woodworking pushed her to launch her own architecture…

  • LORNA SIMPSON IN PLACE

    LORNA SIMPSON IN PLACE

    A selection of collaged work by the acclaimed artist is part of a new online solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, titled “Give Me Some Moments.” The digital show encompasses works originally created for a planned solo exhibition at the gallery’s Hong Kong location for early March, as well as…

  • NEW WORKS BY FIRELEI BAEZ

    NEW WORKS BY FIRELEI BAEZ

    James Cohan is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Firelei Báez, on view at 48 Walker Street and online through May 10, 2020. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with James Cohan. Firelei Báez casts diasporic histories into an imaginative realm, reworking visual references drawn from the past…

  • EBONY G PATTERSON … WHERE THE DEW IS STILL ON THE ROSES

    EBONY G PATTERSON … WHERE THE DEW IS STILL ON THE ROSES

    The title of Ebony Patterson’s exhibition comes from a gospel song. According to the artist, she wants visitors to really see the subjects in her garden. Perhaps the show demands an intense reflection about people of color and how society projects an unbalanced view. The softness of the show permits…

  • SAHEL: ART AND EMPIRES ON THE SHORES OF THE SAHARA

    SAHEL: ART AND EMPIRES ON THE SHORES OF THE SAHARA

    Self-governed for all but sixty-five years of French colonial rule, the peoples of the western Sahel formed a succession of storied empires and kingdoms, from ancient Ghana (ca. 300–1200), Mali (ca. 1230–1600), and Songhay (ca. 1464–1591) to Bamana Segu (ca. 1712–1861) and the Umarian state (ca. 1850–90). As these shifting…

  • TAKE THE HOUSE

    TAKE THE HOUSE

    Malin Gallery is presenting an exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Oliver Lee Jackson: Take the House. Based in Oakland, the 84-year-old artist has been pursuing his singular artistic vision for over five decades.Take the House is the gallery’s third solo exhibition of work by Jackson and follows his acclaimed…

  • JORDAN CASTEEL  DEBUTS AT THE NEW MUSEUM

    JORDAN CASTEEL DEBUTS AT THE NEW MUSEUM

    Jordan Casteel is having her first New York solo museum show at the tender age of 31.  An exhibition of nearly 40 canvases spanning seven years — opens at the New Museum on Feb. 19th.  Many of the paintings are from her series “Nights in Harlem,” which depict African American…

  • 10,000 PHOTOS DOCUMENT ALVIN AILEY’S GROUNDBREAKING DANCES

    10,000 PHOTOS DOCUMENT ALVIN AILEY’S GROUNDBREAKING DANCES

    Images of Alvin Ailey and his eponymous dance company taken by the photographer Jack Mitchell are now available via the Smithsonian’s Online Virtual Archives. For those of us who appreciate Ailey’s distinctively African-American rendition of modern and contemporary dance since the early ’60s it is a privilege being able to…

  • JOHN DOWELL– PHOTO EXHIBITION ON COTTON

    JOHN DOWELL– PHOTO EXHIBITION ON COTTON

    Laurence Miller Gallery presents the New York City debut of John Dowell’s COTTON: Symbol of the Forgotten. Dowell blends a unique mixture of spiritualism, historical awareness, racial angst and deft technique to create photographic works that inspire the viewer to recognize the injustices imposed upon the black community, especially in New…

  • TXEMA YESTE: SOLO EXHIBITION

    TXEMA YESTE: SOLO EXHIBITION

    Staley-Wise Gallery presents the photographs of Txema Yeste in his first solo exhibition. Yeste began his career as a photojournalist and has maintained a long-time commitment to photographing vibrant traditional Spanish costume. Both influences are reflected in his fashion photographs. This exhibition provides a glimpse into a world of powerful…

  • VANESSA GERMAN

    VANESSA GERMAN

    Fort Gansevoort, in association with Pavel Zoubok Fine Art presents Vanessa German, TRAMPOLINE: Resilience & Black Body & Soul, opening Thursday, November 7th, 2019 in the Meatpacking District near Little 12th Street and Ninth Avenue. German’s exhibition will showcase her richly encrusted sculptures, which she refers to as power-figures, alongside…

  • BASQUIAT’S “DEFACEMENT”: THE UNTOLD STORY

    BASQUIAT’S “DEFACEMENT”: THE UNTOLD STORY

      This exhibition takes as its starting point the painting The Death of Michael Stewart, informally known as Defacement, created by Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) in 1983. The work commemorates the fate of the young, black artist Michael Stewart at the hands of New York City Transit Police after allegedly tagging a wall…

  • THE FACADE COMMISSION BY WANGECHI MUTU

    THE FACADE COMMISSION BY WANGECHI MUTU

    Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu has been selected to create sculptures for The Met’s Fifth Avenue facade niches—the first-ever such installation on the Museum’s historic exterior—inaugurating a new annual artist commission series. The works will be unveiled on September 9, 2019, and be on view through January 12, 2020. The museum’s facade niches have…