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
“Doors for Doris,” Sam Moyer, 2020, Bluestone, poured concrete, assorted marble, and steel. Presented by Public Art Fund at Doris C. Freedman Plaza, September 16, 2020—September 12, 2021. Courtesy Sam Moyer Studio and Sean Kelly, New York. Photo: Nicholas Knight, Courtesy Public Art Fund, NY Walk With Women Artists Last year, museums, galleries, universities and arts centers around the country announced that 2020 would be a year to celebrate... City Arts 20 Nov 2020 | 03:42
“Invictus,” a newly commissioned work by composer Anthony Barfield, premiered on September 1. Art Therapy Painters can retreat to a garret, island, barn or the kitchen table. Writers mostly need keyboards and quiet. Performing... City Arts 09 Sep 2020 | 05:10
Yoko Ono (b. 1933, Japan), DREAM TOGETHER, 2020, installed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art © Yoko Ono. Image credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photo by Anna-Marie Kellen NYC Museums Begin to Reopen DREAM TOGETHER Those are the larger than life words emblazoned on the front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Yoko Ono... City Arts 29 Aug 2020 | 05:31
The Oculus at the World Trade Center station holds a secret that ties it to sites like Stonehenge and Karnak. Photo: Anthony Quintano -www.flickr.com/photos/quintanomedia/28992861302/in/photostream/ The City as Art “There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting,” Robert Rauschenberg once said. Like so many in our... City Arts 03 Aug 2020 | 05:18
Alice Neel, “Andy Warhol,” 1970, Oil and acrylic on linen, 60 × 40in., Gift of Timothy Collins, Whitney Museum of American Art. ( Photo: Adel Gorgy) A Portrait for Today What will the soundtrack of 2020 be like? What will its poetry say? How will artists capture all that’s happening? Right... City Arts 02 Jul 2020 | 11:12
Alma W. Thomas (American, 1895-1978). “Wind, Sunshine and Flowers,” 1968. Acrylic on canvas, 71 3/4 x 51 7/8 in. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David K. Anderson, 76.120. © artist or artist’s estate. ( Photo: Brooklyn Museum) Living Color Art is a language, written without words, sending urgent messages or soothing reassurances. One artistic voice that has called... City Arts 10 Jun 2020 | 11:44
Wynton Marsalis and friends launched Lincoln Center's "Memorial For Us All" series on May 3. ( Photo courtesy of Lincoln Center) Voices Lifted in Love, Comfort and Hope Writers aren't ordinarily at a loss for words, but these are not ordinary times. Watching Lincoln Center's Sunday evening... City Arts 20 May 2020 | 10:35
Johannes Vermeer, "Young Woman with a Water Pitcher" ca. 1662, is waiting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ( Image: Public domain ) A Lesson in Solitude, Quiet and Light As I look out the window at a patch of grape hyacinths and yellow daffodils, I'm reminded of Johannes Vermeer, the 17th century... City Arts 07 May 2020 | 02:43
