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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Boom for Real is the Story of Young Jean-Michel Basquiat

IFC CENTER, West Village, Manhattan ~ Documentary about the iconic Haitian Puerto Rican artist’s early years and the City that formed him. 🇭🇹 🇵🇷
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The Salon Art + Design Fair 2018 is a matter of taste
November 8 – 12, 2018 ~ PREVIEW, November 8 Nathalie and Laura de Gunzburg Benefits Dia Art Foundation ~ Park Avenue Arrmory Upper East Side, Manhattan ~ Historic, modern and contemporary furniture and groundbreaking design
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Raul Conti shows 58 years of Argentine Art at Quebracho
OPENING RECEPTION Friday, October 19, 2018 ~ EXHIBITION October 19 – 26, 2018 Monday – Friday ~ Quebracho Bushwick, Brooklyn ~ Seasoned Argentine artist inspired by pre-Columbian cultures
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Tintoretto Italian art at the Metropolitan Museum
UPPER EAST SIDE, Daily, Oct 16, 2018 to Jan 27, 2019 ~ Italian Renaissance art exhibition. The Met celebrates the 500th anniversary of the Venetian Renaissance artist known for working rapidly in a Mannerist style.
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Socrates Annual 2018 at Socrates Sculpture Park
ART, Astoria Queens, Dominican, French, Indigenous, Italian, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, Socrates Sculpture Park QueensDaily, October 7, 2018 to March 24, 2019 Dominican French Peruvian & Puerto Rican sculpture ASTORIA, Queens ~ Annual outdoor sculpture show in the NYC park. FREE
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NY Art Book Fair 2018 ~ the world of books
Argentine, ART, Art Fairs, Books, Brazilian, Chilean, French, Jewish, Long Island City Queens, Mexican, MoMA PS1, Portuguese, Puerto RicanFAIR (FREE) Friday – Sunday September 21 – 23, 2018 ~ TICKETED PREVIEW Thursday, September 20, 2018 ~ MoMA PS1 Long Island City, Queens ~ Argentine, Brazilian, Chilean, French, Jewish, Mexican, Portuguese and Puerto Rican books.
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Lola Alvarez Bravo & Mariana Yampolsky Time of Change
September 21 – November 10, 2018 THROCKMORTON FINE ART Midtown East, NYC
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Delacroix
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, UPPER EAST SIDE, Daily, September 17, 2018 to January 6, 2019 ~ The rich colors and emotions of this Romantic painter inspired the Impressionists and all who followed #FRENCH #ROMANTIC #PAINTER
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Marguerite Humeau: Birth Canal
NEW MUSEUM, LOWER EAST SIDE, Tue-Sun, September 4, 2018 to January 6, 2019 ~ French artist channels the Goddess of prehistoric Venus figurines #FRENCH #CONTEMPORARY #SCULPTOR








