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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Sebastião Salgado makes striking photographs of our changing planet

Kuwait is at Sundaram Tagore Gallery Chelsea, Mar 30-Apr 29. Genesis is at the dealer’s Madison Avenue gallery, Apr 1-29, 2017.
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Lygia Pape Brazilian Artist “A Multitude of Forms” (Review)
March 21 – July 23, 2017 MET BREUER: Upper East Side, NYC
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Whitney Biennial 2017
Mexican & Puerto Rican artists Whitney Museum 99 Gansevoort, Meatpacking March 17 – June 11, 2017
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Raúl de Nieves is a New York-based sculptor and performance artist
2017 Whitney Biennial Greenwich Village March 17 – June 11, 2017
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Teresita Fernández is a Respected Cuban American Artist
The Cuban-American plays with the way we see landscapes in Fire (America) at Lehmann Maupin Chrystie Street Fri, Mar 17 – May 20, 2017
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Scope New York 2017 contemporary art fair at Met Pavilion
Argentine, ART, Art Fairs, Chilean, Dominican, French, Italian, Metropolitan Pavilion, Panamanian, SpanishCHELSEA; Armory Week, Mar 2-5, 2017; contemporary art fair ~ Argentine, Chilean, Dominican, French, Italian, Panamanian and Spanish galleries
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VOLTA NY 2017
Argentine, ART, Art Fairs, Chilean, Cuban, Dominican, French Canadian, Honduran NYC, Mexican, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, SpanishArgentine, Brazilian, Chilean, Cuban, French-Canadian, Honduran, Italian, Mexican, & Peruvian art at Pier 90 Mar 1-5, 2017
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Vik Muniz ‘Epistemes’ at Sikkema Jenkins & Co
PUBLIC ART “Perfect Strangers” mosaics (Q) (R) to 72nd Street Upper East Side, Manhattan ~ “Epistemes” Vik goes abstract while staying true to his process in this solo show of his new “Handmade” series. Sikkema Jenkins & Co Chelsea, Manhattan February 23 – April 1, 2017
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Mario de Vega the sound of space
The Mexican sound artist translates high and low frequencies into audible sounds to produce visceral, psychoacoustic reactions at Issue Project Room in Downtown, Brooklyn Thu, Feb 16, 2017








