ART
New York’s art world runs on more traditions than any single label can hold, and this is where those threads come together. From gallery openings in Chelsea to blue-chip fairs like Frieze, Armory, and Independent, this category tracks visual art shaped by Latin American, Indigenous, African diaspora, and global roots traditions across the city.
Expect coverage of painters, sculptors, muralists, and multimedia artists whose work carries the weight of migration, colonization, and cultural survival, alongside the museums, galleries, and fairs giving that work a stage. Whether it’s a Bogotá-born painter showing at NADA or a Yoruba-rooted installation at a Harlem gallery, this is art that tells New York’s deeper cultural story.
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Mexico is Mexico: Contemporary Mexican Design
Tuesday-Saturday Oct 24, 2019 – Feb 8, 2020 HENRIQUE FARIA FINE ART Upper East Side, NYC A century after the first exposition of Mexican folk art, contemporary design objects continue to show the diversity and unity of contemporary Mexican culture
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Vik Muniz: Museum of Ashes
Tue-Sat, Oct 10-Nov 16, 2019 CHELSEA, NYC ~ Like a phoenix, the renowned Brazilian sculptor and photographer recreates objects lost in the Brazilian National Museum fire, from their own ashes at Sikkema Jenkins
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Socrates Annual 2019
October 5, 2019 – March 8, 2020 SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK, Astoria, Queens
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Pia Camil: Here Comes the Sun
Friday, November 8, 2019 UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ This Guggenheim 60th Anniversary commission by a Mexican artist is a wonderful performance based on Lygia Pape’s ‘Divisor’ (1969) that shines a bright light on people at the Guggenheim Museum
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Camp: Notes on Fashion
Daily, May 9 – September 8, 2019 French, French-Canadian, Italian, Spanish fashion art exhibition UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ The Costume Institute’s 2019 exhibition explores how camp fashion goes mainstream
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Leonard Cohen Saw A Crack in Everything at the Jewish Museum
April 12 – September 8, 2019 Closed Wednesdays UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ One of the great poets of the 20th Century also knew exactly where the light enters you
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Havana Biennial 2019
HAVANA, CUBA; daily Apr 12 – May 12, 2019; Cuban art fair ~ “The Construction of the Possible” theme welcomes back the 13th Havana Biennial after Hurricane Irma


