BRIC and Bronx Children’s Museum Join Cultural Institutions Group

Five New York arts nonprofits — BRIC in Brooklyn, the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, the Bronx Children’s Museum, the Noble Maritime Collection on Staten Island, and the Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater — have joined the city’s Cultural Institutions...

The Seductive Repetition of Susan Rothenberg

“Growth is more important to me than talent,” a 39-year-old Susan Rothenberg told Grace Glueck in a 1984 New York Times profile. At the time, the artist was “in the prime of a barely 10-year-old career,” as Glueck describes it, attempting to...

Four New York City Art Shows to See Right Now 

Lorna Simpson, “Ice 8” (2018), ink and acrylic on gessoed wood (photo Julia Curl/Hyperallergic) Some of our favorite shows this week allude to communal histories and identities in innovative and beautiful ways. While John Yau looks at Indian-American artist Sangram...

How Black Women Ceramicists Shaped Art History

An exhibition at the Ford Foundation Gallery captures how Black women artists mold clay and, through their labors, shape art history itself. Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics & Contemporary Art, which spans three generations of artists, begins with Ladi...

Lorna Simpson’s Black American Sublime 

I’m a staunch believer that Lorna Simpson is one of the most important photographers of her generation, so I’m pained to report that Source Notes — a monographic exhibition of the artist’s paintings at The Met — is a mixed bag. Conceptually, the work is just as strong...

A Couple’s Quest to Heal Through Psychedelic Art

WAPPINGERS FALLS, New York — In 1974, Alex and Allyson Grey met at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, now part of Tufts University. They were both in an art class they described to me as “performance, conceptual art, and mixed media.” Over 50 years later,...

An Animated Guide to Using Art to Get in Touch with Your Emotions

Say you visit a highly anticipated exhibition one Saturday afternoon and find yourself in a crowded gallery, shoulder-to-shoulder with a pack of rabid art goers. As you stealthily maneuver toward your viewing target, an over-stimulated (or, depending on the show,...

Announcement

This year we are delighted to present curated by, Vienna. This art festival celebrates curation and outside curators are brought in to organize exhibitions at galleries all over the city. We present the full archive of the 2025 edition here.