This Week: Must-See Arts in the City
The portraiture of Alice Neel in Chelsea, the weird-grotesque films of a Swedish artist at the New Museum and the filmy interiors of a post-Impressionist at the Jewish Museum. Plus: photographic...
View ArticleArt by Teens Livens Up Manhattan Office
A floor of a midtown Manhattan office building has become an art gallery for work by 125 middle- and high-school students.The exhibition, called "Goals and Dreams," opened Wednesday night and features...
View ArticleNJ Gallery Celebrates WPA-Era Art and its Modern Appeal
Joblessness. Frustration. Doubt. These are issues that many Americans are still facing as the nation strives to recover from the worst recession seen since the Great Depression.During the 1930s,...
View ArticleSnapshot | Google Says 'Happy Birthday' to NY Artist Keith Haring
Google has used letters inspired by the work of the late New York artist Keith Haring for the "doodle" above its homepage search bar. Haring died tragically of AIDS in 1990. Friday would have been his...
View ArticleWhy You Shouldn’t Miss 'Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art'
Full Disclosure: I once took a trip to Detroit primarily to visit the Rivera fresco permanently installed at the Detroit Institute of Art there so admittedly, I’m an enthusiast for this formidable...
View ArticlePeek into the City's Past at the Archives' Visitor Center
A huge trove of New York City's archival photos is now available online.The city has digitized 870,000 of them dating back to the mid-1800s. They capture everything from 1950s crime scenes to striking...
View ArticleLook | See What They Were Wearing on the Met Gala Red Carpet
On Monday night, stars made their way up the Metropolitan Museum's red-carpeted stairs to attend The Costume Institute's annual gala.Chelsea Clinton, Donald Trump, Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Beyoncé, David...
View ArticleChristie's to Hold First Photojournalism Auction in Honor of Anton Hammerl
A New York auction house is getting ready for its first sale of contemporary photojournalism works.The sale, which takes place at Christie's on Tuesday, is being held in honor of the South African...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
Two Italian designers face off at the Met, a group of artists take on the art market and a moody photographer shows his latest in Chelsea. Plus, forget about Bushwick ... this weekend, it's all about...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
It seems like space is in the air this week: there is a Cloud City at the Met and a mission to Mars at the Armory. Not that there aren't other things to do. The International Center of Photography...
View ArticlePark Avenue Armory Gets Space-Age Makeover
NASA wants to take you on a mission to Mars. No, not that NASA -- the other one based out of the lower Manhattan studio of artist Tom Sachs.His installation, "Space Program: Mars," opened at the 55,000...
View ArticleBrooklyn’s Hasidic Art Scene Expands with New Gallery
The Brooklyn art scene is getting another retro infusion — this time from Crown Heights.The throwback references here depict a simpler time, when families were large and lived in the Old World shtetls...
View ArticleMuseums Free to Military Personnel and Their Families
The Metropolitan Museum, the Guggenheim and the New Museum are among the roughly 40 museums in New York City that will offer free admission to active-duty military service members and their families —...
View ArticleBanking Booms — and Busts — Through History
Financial crashes happen. That's one of themes that emerge from the new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, "Capital of Capital," a history of the nation’s banking sector.Starting at the end...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
Exhibits that are all about the artistic contributions of women, a 150th birthday party (with gilded cake) for Gustav Klimt, web-like installations by an Osaka-born artist and an exhibit that focuses...
View ArticlePolice Arrest Artist Setting Up 'I Love NY' Work
An artist who was setting up an illuminated "I Love New York"-themed public art display in Brooklyn was arrested after the wired contraption was mistaken for an explosive device.Takeshi Miyakawa, a...
View ArticleArtist Held for 'I Love NY' Work Released
An artist arrested on Saturday for setting up an illuminated "I Love New York"-themed public art display in Brooklyn that was mistaken for an explosive device has been released on his own...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
Art about sex, art about sci-fi landscapes, art about dilapidated industry and art in which the everyday is turned into abstraction. There is lots of trippy-weird stuff going on in New York City this...
View ArticleNY Art Handlers and Sotheby's Resolve Contract
Art handlers and Sotheby's auction house in New York have resolved their contract dispute.Teamsters Local 814 announced Thursday that workers had voted to approve a new agreement that includes pay...
View ArticleFrom Balloon Dogs to Paper Puppets, Jeff Koons Teaches Art to City Kids
An artist known for his monumental metal sculptures resembling balloon animals stopped by an East Harlem second grade classroom on Monday. Jeff Koons visited P.S. 112 Jose Celson Barbosa to teach the...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
Post-war abstraction gets international at the Guggenheim, Ellsworth Kelly's tender plant drawings hit the Met, Sikkema Jenkins organizes a group show that is all about small and the Museum of Arts and...
View ArticleRemembering Sendak at the Met
The life of artist and children's book author Maurice Sendak was celebrated at a memorial service at the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum on Tuesday. He died last month at the...
View ArticleFive Olympiads Artist LeRoy Neiman dies at 91
Painter and sketch artist LeRoy Neiman, best known for evoking the kinetic energy of the world's biggest sporting and leisure events with bright quick strokes, died Wednesday at age 91.Neiman was the...
View ArticleNYPD: Man Swipes Dali Painting from Art Gallery
Police are looking for a man who stole a $150,000 Salvador Dali painting from a New York art gallery.Police say the man walked into the Venus Over Manhattan art gallery on Madison Avenue in Manhattan...
View ArticleUS Seizes Dinosaur Skeleton in NY Friday
The U.S. government has seized a dinosaur skeleton in New York City that officials say was unjustly taken from the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.The head paleontologist with the American Museum of Natural...
View ArticleArtist Depicts New York City Legends on East Village Scaffolding
Joey Ramone, Charlie “Bird” Parker and Ellen Stewart are among the late New York City legends who now have their likenesses up on scaffolding in the East Village.Artist Tom Sanford painted the colorful...
View ArticleLook | Artists Design Blown Glass on Governors Island
Graphic artist Peter Buchanan-Smith braved Friday’s heat to help make a hand-blown glass buoy in front of a 2,200-degree Fahrenheit stove. He's one of several artists who, with the help of professional...
View ArticleAn Original Copy of the Declaration Goes on Display
In honor of Independence Day, the New York Historical Society will display the Declaration of Independence — or at least a copy of it.Known as a 'Stone' facsimile, the document is one of 50 surviving...
View ArticleStolen Salvador Dali Painting Mailed Back to NYC
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service says a stolen Salvador Dali painting has been mailed back to New York from Europe and intercepted at Kennedy International Airport.The $150,000 work of art was swiped...
View ArticlePolka Dots, Psychedelic Patterns and Fireflies: Yayoi Kusama Comes to the...
Sixty years of artwork by the influential Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama will go on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art on Thursday.Kusama is probably best known for her use of bright polka dots...
View ArticleHong Kong Dragon Boat Festival Kicks Off in Central Park
The Central Park Lake hosted a dragon boat on Thursday as part of the festivities leading up to the 22nd annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in New York.The ceremony marked the start of the training...
View ArticleWhere Watching The Clock Is Celebrated
If you have time on your hands this summer in NYC, the moments just got more momentous. Contemporary artist Christian Marclay’s celebrated work The Clock will be on view at Lincoln Center’s David...
View ArticleThe Rat, as Art and Food, Takes Center Stage
It all started with a desire to learn survival skills.Laura Ginn moved back to Michigan, where she was born and raised, and where the economic situation was grim.“I was looking for ways to cope with...
View ArticleCity Sidewalks are an Artist’s Canvas
Most artists worry about people touching their work. Not Hani Shihada. He creates his elaborate chalk drawings on city sidewalks, where they — and sometimes he — are trod upon by people bustling to and...
View ArticleColumbus Statue Vanishes As Public Art Project Takes Shape
Standing atop a 70 foot pillar in a traffic island for over a century, the statue of Christopher Columbus at Columbus Circle has seen a lot of traffic go by. But soon the Italian explorer’s likeness...
View ArticleVideo Games as Art? MoMA Thinks So
Pac-Man and Tetris will soon be among the collection at the Museum of Modern Art.MoMA says it's acquired fourteen video games for a new exhibit opening in March. Senior Curator Paola Antonelli says...
View ArticleMural at I.S. 259 Teaches About 9/11 Attack
Leslie Rodriquez was 2 years old on Sept. 11, 2001, when she was sent home from day care in the swirl of the day’s catastrophic events. In the decade since, that day meant little more to her than a...
View ArticleDrawing The World's Most Wanted
When hearings began for Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr in 2006, no cameras were allowed inside the courtroom. Instead the Associated Press sent sketch artist Janet Hamlin to illustrate court...
View ArticleMacArthur fellow LaToya Ruby Frazier captures the town that survived
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Finally, a look at a photographer’s more-than-decade-long project documenting hope and despair in her hometown. Jeffrey Brown has that story. JEFFREY...
View ArticleHow drawing opens up doors for this documentarian
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioThe post How drawing opens up doors for this documentarian appeared first on PBS NewsHour.
View ArticleWhat makes a photographer when everyone is taking pictures
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: And now another in our Brief But Spectacular series, where we ask interesting people about their passions.For six decades, Ken Van Sickle has been...
View ArticleVestiges of an ancient Greek art form, preserved by catastrophe
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioBY FRANK CARLSONWASHINGTON — They are only with us now because once they were thought to have been lost forever.While marble statues are most popularly associated with...
View ArticleReview: Drawing’s Golden Age in New York
The art of drawing has always been overshadowed by flashier mediums, but this happens to be a moment when drawings are impossible to ignore. The main event is “Drawing Then,” a group show of uncommon...
View ArticleSeattle artist takes viewers on a voyage to other worlds
Step through an unassuming door, dwarfed by new apartment monoliths off Seattle’s Pike Street, and you are in Steve Jensen’s studio; one of the few grand loft/studio spaces left on Seattle’s Capitol...
View ArticleFew people can name five female artists — can you?
Frida Kahlo. Photo by Popperfoto/Getty ImagesCan you name five female artists? Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keefe … that’s two.If you can’t think of more, know that most people the National Museum of Women...
View ArticleAmerican teenagers remain behind on music and visual arts, study says
A youth orchestra, pictured from behind. When asked to listen to George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” as part of a new study, only about half of the students were able to identify that the opening solo...
View ArticleA Fast-Track to Get Artists Teaching in City Classrooms
New York City now has a record number of full-time, certified arts teachers in public schools. But many schools lag behind and a new program at Lincoln Center is trying to address the gap by providing...
View ArticleForging art and business in Dale Chihuly’s workshop
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJOHN YANG: Turning glass into art has been Dale Chihuly’s passion for more than 50 years.Working with such a fragile medium requires both brute strength and a delicate...
View ArticleThe Art of the Pandemic
Listeners share the art projects they're working on through the COVID-19 outbreak: whether they're making do with materials at hand, directly addressing the pandemic or finding a way to take their...
View ArticleWeekend Arts Planner: A new exhibition by Takashi Murakami, Hamlet meets the...
It's Memorial Day Weekend - a time for Americans to gather and honor those who died while serving in the military. It also marks the unofficial start of summer, with plenty of beach getaways and...
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