Alexander Calder, “Butterfly, Mouse and Snail”, Gouache, Signed and dated 1968 lower right, 23” x 30 3/4”, Calder Foundation Registration #A06050, Photo courtesy Christopher Bishop Fine Art In the Galleries – East Side It’s January. Ready for a scene change? “The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes,” Marcel Proust... City Arts 21 Jan 2022 | 05:36
Maya Lin (American, b. 1959). Ghost Forest, 2021. Courtesy the artist and Madison Square Park Conservancy. Photo: Andy Romer For the Love of Trees Walking beneath the russet brown canopy of New York’s estimated 4-5 million trees, watching leaves drift and flutter, is... City Arts 10 Nov 2021 | 12:08
Michele Kennedy of the Open Gates Project. Photo: Joshua South Musical Gems by Women Bring Diversity to the Stage What’s old can be new again, in the right hands. Musicians and musical scholars soprano Michele Kennedy, bass-baritone Joe... City Arts 04 Nov 2021 | 05:45
Etel Adnan, Untitled, 2010. Oil on canvas, 7 7/8 × 9 7/8 in. (20 × 25 cm). Collection of Karen E. Wagner and David L. Caplan, New York. © Etel Adnan Must-See Fall Exhibitions From outdoor art to in-depth explorations, the season’s exhibitions span millennia and cross continents all while seeming... City Arts 31 Aug 2021 | 10:02
Paul Cézanne. Still Life with Blue Pot. 1900-06. Pencil and watercolor on paper, 18 15/16 × 24 7/8″ (48.1 × 63.2 cm). The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Drawing Comparisons Drawings are not less than paintings. In some ways, they’re more. More immediate. More fresh. More spontaneous. And for many,... City Arts 01 Jul 2021 | 03:06
David Hammons, “Day’s End,” 2014 - 2021. Stainless steel and precast concrete, overall: 52 ft high, 325 ft long, 65 ft wide. © David Hammons. Photo: Timothy Schenck Outstanding Outdoor Art When Black Lives Matter protests led individuals as well as institutions to reassess, reconsider and redress racial injustices... City Arts 03 Jun 2021 | 10:17
Northwell’s Lenox Hill Hospital displays part of Sandra and William Nicholson’s “Women Who Dared” collection of art by women artists. Photo courtesy of Northwell Health The Art of Healing Collectors Sandra and William Nicholson spent 30 years collecting and preserving the work of women artists from around the... City Arts 25 May 2021 | 10:35
American Symphony Orchestra musicians will be presenting free concerts at Bryant Park’s Fountain Terrace and 34th St. Herald Square Plaza in May. Photo courtesy American Symphony Orchestra Ready for a Renaissance It’s been over a year since Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and other iconic New York performing arts venues went dark. But... City Arts 30 Apr 2021 | 03:26
Ruth Asawa, Untitled (S.270, Hanging Six-Lobed, Complex Interlocking Continuous Form within a Form with Two Interior Spheres), 1955 is on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Photo: Adel Gorgy A Line Can Go Anywhere Since last summer, I’ve been posting letters with beautiful Ruth Asawa stamps. Like many art lovers, I read with eager anticipation... City Arts 07 Apr 2021 | 11:51
Giovanna Garzoni , Still Life with Bowl of Citrons, c. 1640, Tempera on vellum, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Public Domain image Alternative Art History: Women’s Work For Women’s History Month, let me share a secret with you. There’s a whole art world out there outside of what you see at... City Arts 09 Mar 2021 | 10:12
Julie Mehretu, Retopistics: A Renegade Excavation, 2001. Ink and acrylic on canvas, 101 ½ × 208 ½ inches (257.81 × 529.59 cm). Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas 2013.28. © Julie Mehretu Looking Forward to Spring Exhibitions We’re all looking forward to a season of renewal, and this spring, New York’s museum exhibitions offer interest, excitement... City Arts 09 Feb 2021 | 12:55
Leon Botstein, music director and principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra. Photo: Ric Kallaher ( Ric Kallaher / photo by Ric Kallaher) ‘United We Play’ On March 12, 2020, the American Symphony Orchestra, along with pianist and composer Marcus Roberts and The Modern Jazz Generation,... City Arts 09 Feb 2021 | 12:36
“Zapatistas” (1932) by Alfredo Ramos Martínez from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Adel Gorgy ‘Vida Americana’ at the Whitney There’s still time to see the Whitney’s “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945,” one of the best... City Arts 05 Jan 2021 | 04:15
Maryam Banikarim of NYCNext said “it was hard not to cry” at their Broadway event where Bernadette Peters (bottom left) and others sang on the TKTS steps. Photo courtesy of NYCNext Share Gratitude 2020 Gale Brewer Manhattan Borough President This year has seen an amazing outpouring of volunteers. I have seen them in every corner... Features 22 Dec 2020 | 01:31
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo performing “Paquita.” Photo by Marcello Orselli. Dancers Dancing Many of us have learned over the past months that art is a form of self-care. Emotional and intellectual vistas are opened,... Home 04 Dec 2020 | 04:25
