Sanford Biggers, Félix Fénéon and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s history of itself are some of the exhibitions that remain open to the public. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “ART”
Ronald Lauder Gives Major Arms and Armor Gift to the Met
By Gotham Rex on December 9, 2020
The galleries will be named after the collector, whose 91-object gift is the museum’s most significant since 1942. Source: New York Times
Portraits of Nurses, By the Designer Rebecca Moses
By Gotham Rex on December 7, 2020
The designer Rebecca Moses turns a quarantine art project into a gift of thanks and tribute. Source: New York Times
Cliff Joseph, Artist, Activist and Therapist, Dies at 98
By Gotham Rex on December 4, 2020
After agitating for the inclusion of Black artists in New York museums, he helped introduce a multicultural perspective to the field of art therapy. Source: New York Times
Black Voguers Populate Billboards in a Times Square ‘Midnight Moment’
By Gotham Rex on November 29, 2020
The opportunity to stage “Black Magic” in Times Square “was a great proposition to do something transgressive,” said the artist Rashaad Newsome. Source: New York Times
5 Things to Do This Weekend
By Gotham Rex on November 19, 2020
Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually or in person in New York City. Source: New York Times
Frederick Weston, Outsider Artist Who Was Finally Let In, Dies at 73
By Gotham Rex on November 18, 2020
For decades he made his art in dingy Manhattan hotel rooms, living hand-to-mouth, hoping for his big break. It finally arrived, just a few years before his death. Source: New York Times
Klaudio Rodriguez Named Director for the Bronx Museum of the Arts
By Gotham Rex on November 14, 2020
After two stints as de facto director, Klaudio Rodriguez gets the top job, joining a growing group of Latino leaders of art museums. Source: New York Times
The Word at MoMA Is ‘Rotation, Rotation, Rotation’
By Gotham Rex on November 12, 2020
On Saturday, the museum opens with changes to 20 of its 60 permanent collection galleries. A critic’s guide to the standouts on each floor. Source: New York Times
Sky Hopinka: Songs of the Earth and the Road
By Gotham Rex on November 12, 2020
The Indigenous American artist and filmmaker is the subject of two concurrent shows. His work “rivals in visual and linguistic beauty any new art I’ve seen in some time,” our critic says. Source: New York Times
Voters in Jersey City Embrace a New Tax to Finance the Arts
By Gotham Rex on November 4, 2020
Officials had worried that a new arts tax may be too much to ask in a place still reeling financially from the pandemic, but 64 percent of New Jersey voters approved of the idea. Source: New York Times
‘I Still Believe in Our City’: A Public Art Series Takes On Racism
By Gotham Rex on November 2, 2020
After a wave of anti-Asian discrimination, the artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya wanted to “turn these hurts into something beautiful.” Her panels will transform a Brooklyn subway station. Source: New York Times
Two Museums Tried to Sell Art. Only One Caught Grief About it.
By Gotham Rex on October 30, 2020
The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum both planned on selling works last Wednesday at auction, but Baltimore paused the sale after much criticism. Source: New York Times
At the Queens Museum, Home and the World
By Gotham Rex on October 30, 2020
In three post-lockdown exhibitions, the museum stakes out its role in the life of its neighborhood’s multiethnic citizens. Source: New York Times
Halloween’s Not Canceled: Here’s How to Make It Spooky but Safe
By Gotham Rex on October 23, 2020
Movies, podcasts, cemetery walks and more: Our guide to enjoying a socially distant fright fest. Source: New York Times