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Public Art can help address climate change
The Burrow and Reflections on Sunnyslope The citizens of Phoenix Arizona came together to create Sombra, a public art exhibition that creatively deal with the rising heat index in that city. With support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, nine artists were selected to present temporary public art. The ¡Sombra! artists are experimenting with innovative materials and processes,…
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METAMORPHOSIS: Chinese Imagination And Transformation to Open at China Institute Gallery
A new contemporary exhibition at China Institute Gallery this fall will explore how artists approach issues of profound change ranging from experiencing powerful spiritual journeys to calling attention to serious environmental issues. Metamorphosis: Chinese Imagination and Transformation will be exhibited from September 10, 2025 through January 11, 2026. Many of the works are on view…
Ah Xian, art, Bingyi, Bouie Choi, China Institute, Chu Chu, Cui Fei, Fiona Wong Lai Ching, food, Fung Ming Chip, installation, Irene Chou, Jennifer Wen Ma, jewelry, Kelly Wang, Lin Guocheng, Liu Xiaodong, Lu Yang, Lui Shou-Kwan, Man Fungyi, Ming Fay, painting, photography, Ren Light Pan, sculpture, Su Xiaobai, Sun Xun, Tao Aimin, video, Wang Tiande, Yin Xiuzhen, Yun-Fei Ji, Zhang Jian-Jun, Zhang Yu, Zheng Chongbin, Zheng Lu
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Harlem Sculpture Gardens 2025 Highlights
Images of three works in Harlem Sculpture Gardens that caught the imagination of viewers. Skateboarding Cat by Eunkyung Lee in Jackie Robinson Park. The Beacon at Montefiore Park by artist Shervone Neckles and the Beam Center, a youth based organization in Brooklyn. Then we have the Gates at Morningside Park by Motohiro Takeda.
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Curator Azu Nwagbogu
Azu Nwagbogu is an internationally acclaimed curator, interested in evolving new models of engagement with questions of decolonization, restitution, and repatriation. In his practice, the exhibition becomes an experimental site for reflection, civic engagement, ecology and repatriation – both tangible and symbolic. Nwagbogu is the Founder and Director of African Artists’ Foundation (AAF), a…
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History of Land Art
Land Art is an artistic movement that emerged in the 1960s, using nature as both material and the primary setting for creation. Land artists sculpt, transform, or directly intervene in natural landscapes to create works that are often monumental, ephemeral, or permanent. This movement transcends the limits of galleries and museums, questioning our relationship with nature…
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Romance in the Garden
Nika Antuanette will animate on Saturday, August 16th at 2 pm, the sculptural installation Romance in the Park with a 20-minute dance, embodying the spirit of romance woven into the artwork in Morningside Park, Harlem. Inspired by the fleeting, joyful encounters that Romance in the Park celebrates, the performance is an ode to the elation, excitement,…
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The meaning behind the 3 Sisters
Dianne Hebbert takes us on a journey to her indigenous culture. Her family is from Nicaragua and she shares her traditions and heroes in several paintings that compliments the Native history on Governors Island and the site specific work of Elizabeth Knowles. Corn, bean and squash were grown together as companion crops which sustained Native…
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Harlem Sculpture Gardens presents Ukrainian culture and art to Morningside Park
Post-Tango by artist Mikhailo Levchenko, is a sculpture about the aftermath of human devastation. The state where one has to face unpleasant circumstances, where emotions may have passed, but the body still remembers the physical pain. It is about the search for form after destruction — about a dance turned into an architecture of survival. …
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Harlem Sculpture Gardens expands this summer to the Broadway corridor with two new important works
This summer, Harlem Sculpture Gardens will expand to reach residents along upper Broadway in Manhattan with the help of new partners. As part of a collaboration between the Beam Center, a youth-based organization, fabricator Gary Linares, and the Lewis Latimer House Museum, NYS Senator Cordell Cleare and the Broadway Mall Association sponsored the works, Trinity…
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Convergence on Governors Island
Artist Statement by Elizabeth Knowles Installation can be seen on Governors Island, Nolan Park, Building 10B/West Harlem Art Fund through August 31, 2025 Natural patterns inspire my work. Some are biological patterns atthe cellular level of organisms. Others are geological patternsfound in the earth’s natural landscapes. By working site-specifically with a variety of media in…
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Notable Women from Harlem
On Friday, June 6, 2025, NYC Department of Transportation in partnership with artist Fitgi Saint-Louis and the West Harlem Art Fund will unveil the sculp- ture “Aunties” on the 124th Street and Lenox Avenue median. The work presents three figures, each standing 6.5 feet high, 6 inches deep, and 16 inches wide. This sculpture is…
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Public Art in Harlem and Beyond
This Friday, at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, panelists will discuss how contemporary presentation styles for public art affect urban communities like Harlem today. Among the panelists are Kendal Henry, Assistant Commissioner, Public Art, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and Harlem-based artists Fitgi Saint-Louis and Dianne Smith. The West Harlem Art Fund’s…
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Amoako Boafo is now at Gagosian London
I make paintings that allow me to celebrate where I come from and what I aspire to be, while sharing unique perspectives and understanding. —Amoako Boafo Gagosian is pleased to announce I Do Not Come to You by Chance, an exhibition of new work by Amoako Boafo. Titled after Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani’s 2009 novel, it marks…
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South African artist James Delaney
James Delaney is a multidisciplinary artist with a current focus on sculpture and art as a tool for placemaking. Standing at the intersection between art and landscape, James creates pieces that bring their surroundings into relief, highlighting how the spaces we inhabit, be they city streets, wild spaces or man-made parks, affect and are affected…
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Tribute exhibition for Denis Brihat (1928-2024)
is honored to present an online memorial exhibition for the celebrated French artist Denis Brihat, who passed away last month at the age of 96 in Bonnieux in the Luberon region of Provence, where he had lived for over sixty years. A pioneering figure in the history of photography, Brihat was one of the first to…
and National Foundation for Contemporary Art, Centre Pompidou, Denis Brihat, French artist, London; the Musée des Beaux Arts, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Marseille; and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MoMA; the Center for Creative Photography, Nailya Alexander Gallery, nature works, Neuchâtel; the Musée Cantini, Paris, photographer, photographic engraving, photographic paintings, printmaker, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie festival, Tucson; the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Botanical Drawings
As we begin to celebrate daylight savings time, we thought it would be great to note individuals who gently shared their love of nature. Francesca Anderson is a botanical artist who specializes in natural history drawings in pen and ink. Her illustrations have been featured in prominent scientific publications, field guides, as well as books…
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Moody Nolan
Moody and Associates was founded in 1982. The office’s first location was in Columbus, Moody’s hometown. Years later, Howard Nolan, an engineer, teamed up with Curt Moody to form Moody Nolan. That firm eventually grew into a massive enterprise with more than 350 employees and 12 different offices. In 2021, it was the recipient of The…
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The German Renaissance
The German Renaissance, part of the Northern Renaissance, was a cultural and artistic movement that spread among German thinkers in the 15th and 16th centuries, which developed from the Italian Renaissance. Many areas of the arts and sciences were influenced, notably by the spread of Renaissance humanism to the various German states and principalities.…
15th century Europe, Albrecht Dürer, and Tilman Riemenschneider., ans Baldung Grien, architecture, artistic movement, Christianity, cultural movement, drawings, engraving, German Renaissance, German thinkers, Germania, Hans Burgkmair, Hans Holbein the Elder, Hans Holbein the Younger, humanism, Italian Renaissance, Johann Reuchlin, Konrad Celtis, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Matthias Grünewald, Northern Renaissancem, painted portraits, printmaking, Protestant Reformation, resistance movement, West Europe, woodcuts
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Serge Alain Nitegeka | Configurations in Black
Marianne Boesky Gallery 509 West 24th Street Through March 8, 2025 Deploying the visual language of minimalism and geometric abstraction, Serge Alain Nitegeka reappropriates modernism’s formal preoccupations with color, line, and space to examine the lingering effects—both personal and political—of forced migration. Drawing on his own history as a refugee, Nitegeka erects—at times quite literally—barriers,…
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Impacts on Modern Design — Fitgi Saint-Louis
Fitgi Saint-Louis is a multidisciplinary artist based in Harlem, NY. Her work considers the intertwined nature of identity, remembrance and community within African, American and Caribbean cultures. Appearing in paint, textiles and sculpture, her abstracted figures honor the multifaceted ancestry of the African diaspora. With a background in design, Saint-Louis utilizes form and color to…
