NYC Names Bryan Joseph Lee as New Deputy Culture Commissioner
The cultural strategist and producer will work alongside curator and commissioner Diya Vij at the Department of Cultural Affairs.
Dean Millien’s Aluminum-Foil Animal World
A highlight of “Greater New York” at MoMA PS1, the artist’s remarkable sculptures made from the humble household material continue a practice he began as a child in Brooklyn.
RISD MFA Students Paint Through the Heartbreak
Each painting is like an island awash with yearning, sending out a lighthouse signal into a fractured world.
Should We See Peter Hujar’s Contact Sheets?
Though not made for public consumption, the darkroom work prints reveal his portraits as excerpts of a conversation, rather than memories snatched from the ether.
The Album Art Music Left Behind
Two projects examine the visual art and design that shape our perception of music, from Raymond Pettibon’s Foo Fighters record covers to the ephemera of bygone bands.
An Artist Duo’s Haven of Synthetic Hair
Merryn Omotayo Alaka and Sam Frésquez steamed, cut, and sewed together lengths of hair by hand to create an ecosystem of biomorphic sculptures.
Legionella Bacteria Found in Cooling Tower at NYC Guggenheim
A spokesperson said there was no present danger to the public at the museum, which is located in one of three zip codes where people have contracted Legionnaires’ disease.
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The Unruly Ceramic Beings of Kathy Butterly
The artist’s quasi-vessels incorporate folds, indentations, apertures, and coverts, which hint at bodily, biomorphic, and natural forms.
Which Artworks Will Grace the High Line’s Plinth Next?
After Iván Argote's iconic pigeon and Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s giant Buddha, the NYC organization is inviting public feedback on 62 proposals.
Danielle Mckinney’s Portraits of Black Women at Rest
Each figure in her paintings luxuriates in the dreaminess of space belonging to her and her alone.