David Hammons – WEST HARLEM ART FUND

September 30, 2019New York City Upper East Side

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 in an East Village subway […]

June 5, 2019June 5, 2019New York City

IN MEMORIAM — JOE OVERSTREET

My paintings don’t let the onlooker glance over them, but rather take them deeply into them and let them out—many times by different routes,” the artist Joe Overstreet once said, describing viewing experiences that can be variously harrowing and exhilarating. “These trips are taken sometimes subtly and sometimes suddenly.” […]

June 13, 2018Meatpacking District New York City

DAYS END

New York based artist David Hammons (b. 1943) had his proposed public art project approved by the NYS Legislature this week.Day’s End would be located in Hudson River Park along the southern edge of Gansevoort Peninsula, directly across from the Museum. The project derives its inspiration and […]