Category: Upper East Side
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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…
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A NEW DECADE
The West Harlem Art Fund will turn 22 years old on January 1, 2020. A double digit year like 2020. Number 4 resonates with the vibrations and energies of practicality, organization and exactitude, service, patience, devotion, application, pragmatism, patriotism, dignity, trust, worthiness, endurance, loyalty, mastery, building solid foundations, conservatism, determination,…
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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…
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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…
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has received an endowment from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to establish a conservation fellowship to preserve, care for, and conduct research on photography by a diverse range of established and emerging artists in the Guggenheim’s collection. In addition to the endowed fellowship, the Guggenheim will…
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NEWS WORKS BY DERRICK ADAMS
Luxembourg & Dayan based in the Upper East Side is pleased to announce Interior Life, an exhibition of new works by artist Derrick Adams, curated by Francesco Bonami. Inspired by a tenet of Catholic theology that describes “a life which seeks God in every- thing,” Interior Life is a…
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ED CLARK — A SURVEY
GALLERY REVIEW BY JOHN YAU I don’t think that I can begin to enumerate all the different ways that Ed Clark is important to the history of postwar American painting. Perhaps I should start by identifying some of the ways he has been left out. As Corinne Robins observed in a 1997…
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DERRICK ADAMS NEW WORKS
Tilton Gallery presents Derrick Adams’ newest body of work, Figures in the Urban Landscape through January 6th, 2018. It will be his fourth solo show with the gallery. A reception for the artist will be held Wednesday, November 8th from 6 to 8pm. Derrick Adams is a New…
