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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La Frontera Encounters Along the Border crosses over the MAD Museum

March 1 – September 23, 2018 Tuesday – Sunday ~ Museum of Arts and Design Midtown, Manhattan ~ A meditation of thoughtful jewelry inspired by the hope and pain spread along the 2,000 mile-long Mexican – American border.
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ADAA The Art Show 2018
UPPER EAST SIDE; Armory Week, Preview Tue Feb 27, Show Wed-Sun Feb 28 – Mar 4, 2018 ~ The art fair of the association of America’s leading art galleries
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Michael Alvarez ‘We’re Out Here’ at Marlborough Contemporary
Resonating work by the David Hockney of East LA. Marlborough Contemporary Chelsea, Manhattan February 15 – March 17, 2018
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New Museum Triennnial : Songs for Sabotage
Brazilian, Haitian, Mexican, Peruvian, Portuguese, & Spanish contemporary artists. New Museum Lower East Side, Manhattan Tuesday – Sunday February 13 – May 27, 2018
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Tarsila do Amaral ‘Inventing Modern Art in Brazil’ at MoMA
Tarsila was deeply engaged in the 1920s Paris Cubist art scene. Back home she created a modernism that could only be Brazilian. Then she evolved a social consciousness that is a hallmark of the great Brazilian artists of the 20th century. MoMA in Midtown, Manhattan Daily February 11 – June 3, 2018
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Patrick Demarchelier 1992 – 2017 at Staley-Wise Gallery
The world-renowned French fashion photographer makes beauty more beautiful. Staley-Wise Gallery SoHo, Manhattan February 8 – April 14, 2018 EXTENDED Saturday, April 21, 2018
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Copy, Translate, Repeat: Contemporary Art from the Colección Cisneros
One of America’s first looks at the world’s most important Contemporary Latin American Art collection. 205 Hudson Gallery Tribeca, Manhattan Wednesday – Sunday February 8 – April 1, 2018
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Tania Bruguera : ‘Untitled’ (Havana, 2000)
February 3 – March 11, 2018 MOMA, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART Midtown, NYC
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Robert Calafiore ‘Muses’ uses a pinhole camera to turn family glass into art
Photography professor connects with his Italian-American family roots through long-abandoned hand-made processes. ClampArt Chelsea, Manhattan Tuesday – Saturday February 1 – March 24, 2018
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Basquiat comes home to the Brooklyn Museum that inspired a young artist
BROOKLN MUSEUM, Prospect Park, Brooklyn 🇭🇹 🇵🇷






