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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Melissa Misla’s APT 9D is Nuyorican art in two places at once
QUEENS COLLEGE, KEW GARDENS HILLS; Apr 9-13, 2019; New York Puerto Rican Indigenous Taíno art exhibition ~ RECEPTIONS Tue, Apr 9 & Sat, Apr 13
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Mundos Alternos
Argentine, ART, Chilean, Cuban, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Queens, Mexican, Portuguese, Puerto Rican, Queens Museum, SalvadoranWednesday-Sunday, April 7 – August 18, 2019 QUEENS MUSEUM Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens – Welcome to the Latin world(s). You might not have a heard of most of these artists, but each and every one will make you think (as in Kidnapped by Aliens).
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ArtExpo 2019 contemporary art & photography fair at Pier 90
African American, Argentine, ART, Art Fairs, Brazilian, Colombian, Filipino, French, French Canadian, Italian, Jewish, Romanian, Spanish, VenezuelanHELL’S KITCHEN; Fri-Sun, Apr 4-7, 2019 ~ One of New York City’s big contemporary art fairs has independent artist [SOLO] and photography [FOTO SOLO] sections
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Graciela Iturbide 50 Years of Mexican Photography
March 28 – May 18, 2019 THROCKMORTON FINE ART Midtown East, NYC
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Macy’s Flower Show 2019
GARMENT DISTRICT; Mar 24 – Apr 7, 2019; Spring flower exhibition shopping ~ A space-inspired floral fantasy featuring marvelous celestial blooms
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Scope New York 2019 contemporary art fair at Met Pavilion
CHELSEA; Armory Week Thu-Sun, Mar 7-10, 2019; contemporary art fair ~ 60 emerging galleries are exhibiting including Argentine, Cuban, French, French-Canadian, Italian and Panamanian galleries and artists
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Art on Paper 2019
Thursday-Sun, March 7-10, 2019 ARMORY WEEK PIER 36 Lower East Side, NYC – Works on paper and works made from paper from Argentine, French, French-Canadian, Italian and Spanish galleries
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Volta New York 2019
HELL’S KITCHEN; Armory Week Mar 6-10, 2019; contemporary art fair ~ Volta New York 2019 was suspended when a failing pier forced its sister Armory Show to move exhibitors into the Volta space
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Spring Break Art Show 2019
MIDTOWN EAST; Armory Week Tue-Mon, Mar 5-11, 2019; contemporary art fair ~ A curator’s art fair with installations that range from wonderful to trashy
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ADAA The Art Show 2019
African American, Argentine, ART, Art Fairs, French, Italian, Mexican, Park Avenue Armory, Puerto Rican, Spanish, The Art Show (ADAA), UruguayanUPPER EAST SIDE; pre-Armory Week, Gala preview Wed Feb 27; Fair Feb 28-Mar 3, 2019 ~ The art fair of the association of America’s leading art dealers