NYC Art is in museums, galleries, fairs, auctions, parks and on the street.
Thursday is NYC’s main art gallery opening night. It’s fun to walk around the Chelsea art district around 6-8pm. The art is great and so is the people watching. Being a New Yorker is an art form unto itself.
NYC Art News
Brasil Summerfest 2022 Brings the Latest Brazilian Music, Dance, Art & Film to NYC
Sunday, July 24, 2022
BAILE FUNK DANCE PARTY
House of Yes
Bushwick, Brooklyn
FESTIVAL
Wednesday, June 29 – Sunday, July 24, 2022
Art, Baile Funk, Dance, Film, Jazz, MPB, Samba
Brooklyn Public Library, DUMBO Archway, House of Yes, Le Poisson Rouge, Lincoln Center, Nublu, Museum of the Moving Image, Steven Amedee Gallery
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Remember Francisco Oller, the Puerto Rican Impressionist!
Friday, June 17, 2022
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The Frieze New York Contemporary Art Fair Celebrates NYC’s Creative Spirit at The Shed
Wednesday-Sunday, May 18-22, 2022
THE SHED
Hudson Yards
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NYC Art Exhibitions
Upper Manhattan | Uptown | Midtown | Downtown
Brooklyn | Bronx | Queens | Staten Island
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
Modern, Contemporary, and African Mask auction exhibitions are on view at Christie’s in Rockefeller Center Apr 30 – May 13.
The Modern and Contemporary auction exhibitions are on view at Sotheby’s in the Upper East Side, Fri, May 6-17.
NYC Art Exhibitions
These exhibitions are on view now. If you are visiting a neighborhood, you might as well see other things in the hood.
Upper Manhattan | Uptown | Midtown | Downtown
Brooklyn | Queens | The Bronx | Staten Island
NYC Art
Upper Manhattan
Above
110th St | Central Park | 96th St
Harlem Art
- Studio Museum 🇺🇸
El Barrio Art
Raphael Montañez Ortiz : A Contextual Retrospective explores identity, decolonization and ethno-aesthetics through a founder’s work at El Museo del Barrio in El Barrio East Harlem Thu, Apr 14 – Sep 11. 🇵🇷
Washington Heights Art
- Hispanic Society 🇪🇸
- Met Cloisters 🇫🇷
NYC Art
Uptown Manhattan
110th St | Central Park | 96th St
59th St
Museum Mile is on Fifth Avenue. Madison Avenue is chic.
Upper West Side Art
Fifth Avenue Museum Mile
- Bernard Museum
- Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
- Frick Collection (Frick Madison)
- Guggenheim Museum
- Jewish Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman, about the leading Neoclassicist working during and after the French Revolution, is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park, Thu, Feb 17 – May 15. 🇫🇷
Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, exposes the duplicity of colonial representations of the Black figure, in contrast to the ways important contemporary artists such as Kara Walker and Kehinde Wiley represent themselves, at the Met Museum in Central Park, Thu, Mar 10, 2022 – Mar 5, 2023. 🇫🇷🇺🇸
The African Origin of Civilization features West African, Central African and Egyptian art at the Met Museum in Central Park from Tue, Dec 14 ongoing. 🇧🇯🇨🇩🇪🇬🇨🇮🇬🇭🇲🇱🇬🇳🇳🇬🇸🇸
Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room is at The Met Fifth Avenue in Central Park Nov 5, 2021 – ongoing. 🇺🇸
Upper East Side Art
- Acquavella
- Americas Society
- Gagosian
- Henrique Faria
- Hunter College
- Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary
- Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA)
- Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art 🇲🇽
- Sotheby’s
This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965-1975 is at Americas Society in the Upper East Side, Sep 22, 2021 – May 14, 2022. FREE
Born of Informalismo: Marta Minujín and the Nascent Body of Performance, follows the Argentine artist’s career from painting to performance, at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) in the Upper East Side, Thu, Mar 3 from 2-7pm. It runs to Jun 3. 🇦🇷
Propagazioni: Giuseppe Penone at Sèvres is an installation of very meditative Arte Povera porcelains made by the Italian artist at the Sèvres factory in France, at The Frick Collection in the Upper East Side, Thu, Mar 17 – Aug 28. 🇮🇹🇫🇷d
Midtown Manhattan Art
Midtown runs from 14th St to 59th St. We break it down into:
- 42nd-59th St
- 34th-42nd St
- 14-34th St includes Chelsea, NYC’s main Contemporary Art district.
NYC Art
Midtown 42nd-59th St
Midtown Art
Henri Matisse : The Red Studio (1911), looks back at one of the foundational works of Modern Art, at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Sun, May 1 – Sep 10. 🇫🇷
Midtown East Art
- Phillips auction house
- Throckmorton Fine Art 🇲🇽
NYC Art
Midtown 34th-42nd St
HELL’s kitchen Art
New York Museum of Contemporary Art
Garment District Art
NYC Art
Midtown 14th-34th St
Chelsea is NYC’s main Contemporary Art district.
Chelsea Art
Fun Zone, an exhibition that includes work by Bronx Puerto Rican graffiti legend turned artist John “Crash” Matos, at Joanne Artman Gallery in Chelsea, opens with a reception on Thu, Mar 10 from 6-8pm, and runs to May 31. joanneartmangallery.com 🇵🇷
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré : L’Artiste Expose Ses Ouvres, an exhibition of the Ivorian artist, opens with a reception at Ethan Cohen in Chelsea on Thu, Mar 31 from 6-8pm, and runs to May 31. ecfa.com 🇨🇮
Oscar Murillo : Ourself behind ourself concealed, new paintings on the dark spirits in the news, opens with a reception at David Zwirner (19th St) in Chelsea, Thu, Apr 28 from 6-8pm and runs to Jun 4. davidzwirner.com 🇨🇴
Carmen Herrera, The 1970s: Part 1 shows the legendary Cuban abstractionist’s 1970s work at Lisson Gallery in Chelsea, Tue, May 3 – Jun 11. lissongallery.com 🇨🇺
Bernard Piffaretti : Pick Up shows new repetitions by the French abstractionist at Lisson Gallery in Chelsea, Wed, May 4 – Jun 11. lissongallery.com 🇫🇷
Richard Serra : Sculpture & Drawings shows new sculpture and drawings by the iconic Spanish American artist at David Zwirner (20th St) in Chelsea, Wed, May 4 – Jul 15. davidzwirner.com 🇪🇸
GramERCY
Lamin Fofana: Blues shows photos and video on the African Diaspora experience by the New York Sierra Leonean artist at Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College in Gramercy, Manhattan Mon, Mar 21 – May 6. 🇸🇱
NYC Art
Downtown Manhattan
Below 14th St.
Chinatown and the Lower East Side are up and coming. Meatpacking is chic. Soho is photography and commercial art. Tribeca is chic.
Chinatown Art / Lower East Side Art
- International Center of Photography Museum
- New Museum of Contemporary Art
Wendy Cabrera Rubio : The Body of the Conquistador, an exhibition exploring the extreme right, biotech and colonialism, opens with a reception at Anonymous Gallery in Manhattan Chinatown on Wed, Apr 6 from 6-8pm and runs to May 7. anonymousgallery.com🇲🇽
Joel Gaìtan : Lágrimas de Oro, a show of terracotta vessels by the Nicaraguan American artist, opens with a reception at 56 Henry in the Lower East Side on Sat, Mar 26 from 6-8pm, and runs to May 8. 56henry.nyc 🇳🇮
Faith Ringgold: American People, by the Harlem woman famous for narrative quilts, is at the New Museum in the Lower East Side, Feb 17 – Jun 5. 🇺🇸
Raúl de Nieves : Carnage Composition, new work by the New York Mexican artist, is at Company gallery in Nolita, Thu, May 5 – Jun 11. companygallery.us 🇲🇽
Meatpacking Art
The 2022 Whitney Biennial “Quiet as It’s Kept” features sixty-three artists and collectives at the Whitney Museum in the Meatpacking District, Wed, Apr 6 – Sep 5, 2022. 🇨🇱🇫🇷🇲🇽🇹🇹🇺🇸🇻🇪
SoHo Art / Tribeca Art
- Drawing Center
- Staley-Wise Gallery
Fernanda Laguna, paintings by the Argentine artist and activist, are at Bortolami Gallery in Tribeca, Fri, Mar 18 – Apr 30. bortolamigallery.com 🇦🇷
Recontarnos (Rewriting Us), a show of multidisciplinary work by Central American women artists opens with a reception at ApexArt in Tribeca, Fri, Mar 25 from 6-8pm, and runs to May 21. apexart.org
Drawing in the Continuous Present shows thirteen international artists in the context of contemporary culture, at the Drawing Center in SoHo, Thu, Mar 10 – May 22. 🇦🇷🇧🇫🇨🇱🇨🇩🇰🇪🇲🇽
Fernanda Laguna: The Path of the Heart is, a retrospective of the Argentine artist’s career, at the Drawing Center in SoHo, Thu, Mar 10 – May 22. 🇦🇷
Downtown Manhattan Art Museums
International Center of Photography Museum
National Museum of the American Indian
NYC Art
Brooklyn
Archivo Itinerante de Gráfica Zapatista, print graphics from the EZLN Zapatista Army, opens with a reception at Interference Archive in Park Slope, Brooklyn, Sat, Mar 19 from 2-4pm, and runs to May 7. interferencearchive.org 🇲🇽
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: A Crack in the Hourglass, An Ongoing COVID-19 Memorial is at the Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Park, Fri, Oct 29 – June 26. $16. 🇲🇽
New York Salvadoran artist Guadalupe Maravilla : Tierra Blanca Joven, works to heal undocumented and cancer communities at the Brooklyn Museum, Fri, Apr 8 – Sep 18. 🇸🇻
NYC Art
Queens
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Queens Art Museums
MoMA PS1, in Long Island City, is the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s experimental art space.
Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria is a museum of film, television and video.
Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, is one of the anchors of Latin art in Queens.
Queens Sculpture Museums
Noguchi Museum in Astoria is a sculpture museum. noguchi.org 🇯🇵
SculptureCenter in Long Island City is a contemporary art museum. sculpture-center.org
Socrates Sculpture Park in Astoria, is a waterfront sculpture park with gorgeous Manhattan views. It’s next to the studio of renowned Abstract Expressionist sculptor, Mark di Suvero.
NYC Art
The Bronx
Jamel Shabazz : Eyes on the Street, 40-years of New York street photography, is at the Bronx Museum in Concourse Village, The Bronx, Wed, Apr 6 – Sep 4. Free.
Perspectives / Past / Forward, the Bronx Museum’s 50th anniversary exhibition, shows the art of the people of the Bronx, at the Bronx Museum in Concourse Village, The Bronx, Wed, Apr 27 – Oct 9.
NYC Art Calendar
NYC Art
January
Americana Week (antiques) is mid-January. Masters Week is late-January.
Americana Week antique auctions are at Christie’s in Rockefeller Center, Jan 11 – Feb 2.
Americana Week antique auctions are at Sotheby’s in the Upper East Side, Jan 13-25.
Masters Week auctions are at Sotheby’s in the Upper East Side, Jan 18-29.
NYC Art
February
The Outsider Art auction at Christie’s in Rockefeller Center is Thu, Feb 3 at 10am.
The Outsider Art Fair of art created outside the art industrial complex, is at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, Thu-Sun, Feb 3-6. outsiderfair.com
NYC Art
March
Contemporary Art Fair
The Spring Affordable Art Fair of contemporary art under $10,000, is at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, Wed-Sun, Mar 23-27, 2022. From $30. 🇨🇦🇫🇷🇮🇹
Artist’s Eye: Viva Ruiz on Andy Warhol is an exhibition walkthrough with the Ecuadorian Queer artist explaining Warhol’s Catholic imagery at the Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Park on Thu, Mar 3 from 7-8pm. 🇪🇨🏳️🌈
NYC Art
April
The 2022 Whitney Biennial “Quiet as It’s Kept” features sixty-three artists and collectives at the Whitney Museum in the Meatpacking District, Wed, Apr 6 – Sep 5, 2022. 🇨🇱🇫🇷🇲🇽🇹🇹🇺🇸🇻🇪
ArtExpo New York is Apr 7-10. redwoodartgroup.com
Bianca Nemelc – Austral Summer, paintings by the New York Dominican artist, opens with a reception at Hashimoto Contemporary, Sat, Apr 16 from 12-6pm, and runs to May 7. hashimotocontemporary.com 🇩🇴
NYC Art
May
It’s the spring auctions and Frieze Week.
Impressionism
Henri Matisse: The Red Studio explores the artist’s foundational work in Modern Art at MoMA in Midtown, May 1 – Sep 10, 2022. 🇫🇷
Gala
The 50th Anniversary Gala and Auction at the Bronx Museum in Concourse Village, The Bronx, is Tue, May 10, 2022 from 6-10pm.
Art Fairs
ANTIQUES FAIR
The 8th TEFAF New York Spring antiques fair is at the Park Avenue Armory in the Upper East Side, Fri-Tue, May 6-10, 2022. From $55. 🇧🇷🇨🇦🇨🇺🇫🇷🇮🇹🇪🇸
FINE ART DESIGN fair
NYCxDESIGN festival is May 10-20. nycxdesign.org
AFRICAN DIASPORA ART fair
The 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair is at Harlem Parish in Harlem May 19-22, 2022. $20. 1-54.com
FINE ART Photography fair
The Photography Show by AIPAD at Center415 in Murray Hill, opens with a preview May 19 and show May 20-22, 2022. From $45. aipad.com
CONTEMPORARY ART fair
The Frieze New York contemporary art fair is at The Shed in Hudson Yards, May 18-22, 2022. From $70. frieze.com
CONTEMPORARY ART fair
The Volta New York contemporary art fair is at 548 West 22nd St in Chelsea, May 18-22, 2022. From $20. voltaartfairs.com
Art Auctions
Spring Auctions
Modern, Contemporary, and African Mask auction exhibitions are view at Christie’s in Rockefeller Center Apr 30 – May 13, 2022.
Spring Auctions
The Modern and Contemporary auction exhibitions are on view at Sotheby’s in the Upper East Side, Fri, May 6-17, 2022.
NYC Art
September
Fall Art Fair
The Fall Affordable Art Fair of contemporary art under $10,000, is at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, Thu-Sun, Sep 22-25, 2022.
NYC Art
December
Art Basel Miami
NYC’s art world goes south for Art Basel Miami, Dec 1-3, 2022. artbasel.com
Previous NYC Art
Lenapehoking, the first ever Lenape-curated exhibition in NYC, shows Lenape artists of the past and present at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center, Jan 20 – Apr 30. bklynlibrary.org
Joana Choumali: It Still Feels Like the Right Time, photographs by the Ivorian artist, is at Sperone Westwater in the Lower East Side, Mar 17 – Apr 30. speronewestwater.com 🇨🇮
Angiola Gatti: Momenti di Luce, works by the Italian artist in ballpoint pen on canvas, is at Ryan Lee Gallery in Chelsea, Thu, Mar 17 – Apr 30. ryanleegallery.com 🇮🇹
Mariana Oushiro : Supernova, is a show of large paintings that capture the forces of nature in the picture plane, at Vito Schnabel Gallery in Chelsea, Sat, Mar 26 – Apr 30. vitoschnabel.com 🇧🇷
Fernando Botero: Sphinx is unveiled at 14th St Square in the Meatpacking District on Wed, Mar 9 at 2pm, and remains to Apr 19. davidbenrimon.com 🇨🇴
Carlos Motta and Tiamat Legion Medusa: When I Leave This World opens with a reception at OCDChinatown in Two Bridges, Manhattan on Fri, Feb 11 from 6-8pm, and runs Sat-Sun to Apr 10. ocdchinatown.com 🇨🇴🏳️🌈
Greater New York 2021 is at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens to Apr 18, 2022. 🇵🇷|🇲🇽|🇦🇷|🇪🇬🇳🇬|🇺🇸
Luján Pérez: With Our Roots Entwined, a love story told with plants, opens with a reception at Kapp Kapp in Chinatown, Manhattan on Fri, Mar 11 from 5-7pm, and runs to Apr 16. 🇪🇸
Kira Dominguez Hultgren: Luz Jiménez, weavings inspired by Indigenous Nahua-Mexican weaver Luz Jiménez, is at Heroes Gallery in the Lower East Side, Mar 17 – Apr 23. heroesgallery.gallery 🇲🇽
Raúl Cordero : Heaven is a Place in the Mind, paintings and installations on the age of distraction, is at Richard Taittinger Gallery in the Lower East Side, Mar 10 – Apr 24. richardtaittinger.com 🇨🇺
Pier Paolo Calzolari: Painting as a Butterfly, new paintings made by the Italian Portuguese artist during pandemic isolation, is at Marianne Boesky Gallery in Chelsea, Mar 18 – Apr 23. marianneboeskygallery.com 🇮🇹🇵🇹
The first US show of Brazilian artist Marcelo Silveira focuses on his practice with “leftovers” of Cajacatinga wood and old magazines, at Nara Roesler in Chelsea, Wed, Mar 9 – Apr 23. 🇧🇷
Jesús Bubu Negrón / Tarsila Do Amaral, abstractions by the Puerto Rican and Brazilian artists, is at Henrique Faria in the Upper East Side, Fri, Mar 18 – Apr 23. henriquefaria.com 🇵🇷🇧🇷
Fernando Botero, an exhibition of paintings, sculpture and works on paper by the 90-year-old Colombian artist, opens with a reception at David Benrimon Fine Art in Midtown East, Thu, Mar 10 from 6-8pm, and runs to Apr 19. davidbenrimon.com 🇨🇴
Fabiola Burgos: Con su abrigo color Marengo, ni plomo ni negro, an installation of alternative textiles by the Chilean artist, is at Open Source Gallery in South Slope, Brooklyn, Fri, Mar 18 – Apr 12. open-source-gallery.org 🇨🇱
The rescheduled 2022 Winter Show antiques and design fair is at 660 Madison (the old Barneys) in the Upper East Side, Fri, Apr 1-10. From $30. 🇫🇷🇮🇹🇲🇽
Vik Muniz: Scraps, a new series of photo mosaics based on the artist’s “Surfaces” series, opens with a reception at Sikkema Jenkins in Chelsea, on Thu, Feb 17 from 6-8pm and runs to Apr 9. 🇧🇷
March 2022
The El Museo del Barrio Spring Benefit honors Willy Chavarria and Karla Martinez de Salas with performances by Yendry and Christian Martir at the Edition Times Square on Tue, Mar 29 from 7-10pm. From $600.🇵🇷
The Spring Affordable Art Fair of contemporary art under $10,000, is at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, Wed-Sun, Mar 23-27, 2022. From $30. 🇨🇦🇫🇷🇮🇹
Bruno Smith: Las Ruinas de Buenas Vibras y Malos Actos (The Ruins of Good Times and Bad Actors) Part II, explores the colonial legacy on Latin communities, with a reception at Ki Smith Gallery in the Lower East Side, on Fri, Mar 4 from 6-8pm, and runs to Mar 27. kismithgallery.com 🇲🇽
Tomás Saraceno: Silent Autumn explores the relationship between humans and other life forms at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in Chelsea from Sat, Feb 12 – Mar 26. tanyabonakdargallery.com 🇦🇷
Bronx Calling: The Fifth AIM Biennial is at the Bronx Museum in Concourse Village, The Bronx, Nov 10, 2021 – Mar 20, 2022.
Nina Childress: Who’s That Girl?, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures about the youth and beauty of women, opens at Nathalie Karg Gallery in the Lower East Side on Thu, Feb 10, and runs to Mar 19. nathaliekarg.com 🇫🇷🇺🇸
Join Cuban fashion and art evangelist Evan Elkowitz at the William Pérez open studio celebrating his Cuban Fund residency at 208 East 51st St, 2nd Floor in Midtown East on Fri, Mar 18 from 5-8pm. startupcuba.tv 🇨🇺
Contemporary Edition (Prints and Multiples), Post-War to Present and Latin American Art auction items go on view at Christie’s in Rockefeller Center on Wed, Mar 2 at 10am for auctions Mar 9-11. 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇨🇺🇪🇨🇫🇷🇬🇭🇬🇹🇮🇱🇮🇹🇲🇽🇳🇮🇵🇪🇻🇪
Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts is at The Met Fifth Avenue in Central Park from Fri, Dec 10, 2021 – March 6, 2022. 🇫🇷
Artist’s Eye: Viva Ruiz on Andy Warhol is an exhibition walkthrough with the Ecuadorian Queer artist explaining Warhol’s Catholic imagery at the Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Park on Thu, Mar 3 from 7-8pm. 🇪🇨🏳️🌈
February 2022
Popular Painters & Other Visionaries, an exhibition of “outsider artists,” is at El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem, Fri, Nov 12, 2021 – Feb 27, 2022. $9. 🇧🇷🇨🇺🇭🇹🇲🇽🇳🇮🇵🇷🇺🇸🇻🇪
En Foco: The New York Puerto Rican Experience, 1973-74, an exhibition by founders of En Foco, the Puerto Rican photography group, is at El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem, Fri, Nov 12, 2021 – Feb 27, 2022. $9. 🇵🇷
Calicho Arevalo: Gold Oro Puro, an exhibition contrasting the natural vibrance of Colombia with the architectural vibrance of NYC, opens with a reception at One Art Space in the Financial District on Tue, Feb 22 from 6-9pm, and runs to Sat, Feb 26. oneartspace.com 🇨🇴
Amelia Toledo: Frieze Los Angeles, explores connections between art, nature and society at Nara Roesler in Chelsea, Feb 17-20. nararoesler.art 🇧🇷
José Antonio Fernández-Muro: Geometry in Transfer is at ISLAA – Institute for Studies on Latin American Art in the Upper East Side, Thu, Nov 11, 2021 – Feb 12, 2022. islaa.org 🇪🇸🇦🇷
Lina Puerta: Migration, Nature, and the Feminine is at Hunter East Harlem Gallery in El Barrio to Feb 5, 2022. kodalab.org 🇨🇴
Remember Carmen Herrera, legendary New York Cuban abstract artist, 1915-2022. 🇨🇺
Mexican American draftsman Martín Ramírez: Memory Portals opens with a reception at Ricco / Maresca Gallery in Chelsea on Sat, Dec 11 from 5-7pm, and runs to Feb 12, 2022. riccomaresca.com 🇲🇽
The Outsider Art Fair of art created outside the art industrial complex, is at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, Thu-Sun, Feb 3-6. outsiderfair.com
January 2022
Lucio Pozzi: Time and Again 1974 / 2018 / 2021 is at Hal Bromm Gallery in the Financial District to Jan 25, 2022. 🇮🇹
The New Museum 2021 Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone is at the New Museum in the Lower East Side to Jan 23, 2022. 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇯🇲🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇸|🇨🇩🇿🇦|🇮🇳🇵🇭|🇫🇷
French photographer Marcel Bascoulard: Being Marcel Bascoulard opens with a reception at Andrew Edlin Gallery in NoLita on Sat, Dec 11 from 6-8pm, and runs to Jan 22, 2022. edlingallery.com 🇫🇷
Colette Lumiere: Notes on Baroque Living: Colette and Her Living Environment, 1972-1983 is at Company Gallery in the Lower East Side, Sat, Nov 20 – Jan 22, 2022. companygallery.us 🇹🇳
Gustavo Pérez Monzón: Recent Works is at Marlborough in Chelsea, Thu, Nov 18 – Jan 22. marlboroughnewyork.com 🇨🇺
Tomás Sánchez: Inner Landscape is at Marlborough in Chelsea, Thu, Nov 18 – Jan 22. marlboroughnewyork.com 🇨🇺
Brazilian abstractionist Júlio Villani: Conflicting Perspectives opens with a reception at Slag Gallery in Chelsea on Thu, Dec 9 from 6-8pm, and runs to Jan 22, 2022. slaggallery.com 🇫🇷🇧🇷
French German painter Pierre Knop: Paysage Wonderlust opens with a reception at Yossi Milo Gallery in Chelsea on Thu, Dec 16 from 6-8pm, and runs to Jan 22, 2022. yossimilo.com 🇫🇷 🇩🇪
The Outsider Art auction at Christie’s in Rockefeller Center is Thu, Feb 3 at 10am.
Surrealism Beyond Borders is at The Met Fifth Avenue in Central Park to Jan 30, 2022. 🇨🇺🇭🇹🇲🇶🇵🇷 | 🇦🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴 | 🇫🇷🇮🇹🇪🇸
Spain, 1000-1200: Art at the Frontiers of Faith is at The Met Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park until January 30, 2022. 🇪🇸
The Winter Show is postponed until spring.
The 16th Master Drawings New York is hybrid at Upper East Side art galleries and online, Sat, Jan 22-29 with a Preview on Fri, Jan 21. FREE. 🇨🇴🇫🇷🇮🇹🇪🇸
Masters Week auctions are at Sotheby’s in the Upper East Side, Jan 18-29.
Americana Week antique auctions are at Sotheby’s in the Upper East Side, Jan 13-25.
Americana Week antique auctions are at Christie’s in Rockefeller Center, Jan 11 – Feb 2.
Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Revolution, Resistance, and Activism is at The Met Fifth Avenue in Central Park until Jan 17, 2022. 🇫🇷🇭🇹🇮🇳🇲🇽🇪🇸
Artist’s Choice: Yto Barrada – A Raft at MoMA in Midtown ends Jan 9, 2022 🇫🇷🇲🇦
The Met Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Central Park, Tue, Nov 23, 2021 and runs to Jan 9, 2022. $25. 🇮🇹
Majolica Mania is at Bard Graduate Center Gallery in the Upper West Side to Jan 2, 2022. bard.edu 🇪🇸
December 2021
Carrie Mae Weems: The Shape of Things is an installation and performance series produced by the renowned photographer of African American life, at the Park Avenue Armory in the Upper East Side Thu, Dec 2-31. $18. 🇺🇸
Mónica Palma: Linea Alba is at Soloway Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Nov 7 – Dec 12. solowaygallery.com 🇲🇽
Francisco G. Pinzón Samper is at Thierry Goldberg Gallery in the Lower East Side, Thu, Nov 18 – Dec 23. thierrygoldberg.com 🇨🇴🇫🇷
Felix Gonzalez-Torres: inbetweenness is at the Judd Foundation in SoHo from Oct 22 – Dec 18. 🇨🇺🏳️🌈
Athi-Patra Ruga: Act One…In Travesti is at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in SoHo, Nov 5 – Dec 18. presenhuber.com 🇿🇦
Buscando Recuerdos, a group show of Latinx femme-identifying artists, is at Hashimoto Contemporary in the Lower East Side, Sat, Nov 20 – Dec 11. hashimotocontemporary.com
Wilfredo Lam: The Imagination at Work is at PACE Gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan Wed, Nov 10 – Dec 21. pacegallery.com 🇨🇺
Kara Walker: Prince McVeigh and the Turner Blasphemies examines American mythmaking at Sikkema Jenkins in Chelsea, Manhattan Fri, Oct 29 – Dec 18. 🇺🇸
This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965-1975 is at Americas Society in the Upper East Side to Dec 18.
Lionel Sabatté: Possible Remains of our Future is at Ceysson & Bénétière in the Upper East Side Wed, Nov 10 – Dec 18. ceyssonbenetiere.com 🇫🇷
Jaume Plensa: NEST is at Galerie Lelong in Chelsea Fri, Oct 29 – Dec 3. 🇪🇸
NYC’s art world is quiet during the holidays, but head’s south for Art Basel Miami Beach Dec 2-4. artbasel.com
Jules Tavernier and the Elem Promo, an exhibition of the artist’s collaboration with the Indigenous Pomo community in northern California, at The Met Fifth Avenue in Central Park ends Nov 28. metmuseum.org 🇺🇸
Mariano Ferrante: Monocromo is at Art Projects International in Tribeca to Nov 20. artprojects.com 🇦🇷
The 16th National Puerto Rican Artisans Fair & Book Expo is at Hostos Community College, Sat, Nov 20 from 12-5pm and virtual. 🇵🇷
Natalia Bravo-Barbee: Flores de Femicidio is at the York College gallery in Jamaica, Queens to Nov 19. cuny.edu 🇦🇷
Tanino Liberatore: Poetry Interrupted! is at Philippe Labaune Gallery in Chelsea to Sat, Nov 13. philippelabuane.com 🇮🇹
Eva Davidova Global Mode Omnívoros is a mind-bending digital installation at Instituto Cervantes in Midtown East to Nov 10. 🇪🇸
Natalia Bravo-Barbee: Flores de Femicidio is at the York College gallery in Jamaica, Queens to Nov 19. cuny.edu 🇦🇷
Vera Girivi is at Sargent’s Daughters in Two Bridges, Manhattan to Nov 7. sargentsdaughters.com 🇮🇹
Lino Tagliapietra: Journey (blown glass) is at Heller Gallery in Chelsea to Nov 6. hellergallery.com 🇮🇹
Raquel Rabinovich: Portals is at Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary in the Upper East Side to Nov 5, Mon-Fri, 12-5pm. hutchinsonmodern.com 🇦🇷
Alex Da Corte, As Long as the Sun Lasts on the roof garden at The Met Fifth Avenue in Central Park ends Oct 31. $25. 🇻🇪
Nicolás Guagnini: Heads and Torsos is at Bortolami in Tribeca to Oct 30. bortolamigallery.com 🇦🇷
Tatiana Trouvé: From March to May is at Gagosian Madison Ave in the Upper East Side to Oct 30. gagosian.com 🇮🇹
From Surface to Space: Max Bill and Concrete Sculpture in Buenos Aires is at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art in the Upper East Side to Oct 30. islaa.org 🇦🇷
The Medici: Portraits & Politics 1512-1570 is at The Met Fifth Avenue in Central Park to Oct 11. $25. 🇮🇹
Claudia Coca: Landscapes of Desire and Oblivion is at Ethan Cohen Gallery in Chelsea to Oct 11. ecfa.com 🇵🇪
Dave McKenzie: The Story I Tell Myself is at The Whitney in Meatpacking to Oct 4. 🇺🇸
Dawoud Bey: An American Project is at The Whitney in Meatpacking to Oct 3 whitney.org 🇺🇸
Estamos Bien – La Trienal 20/21 at El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem ends Sep 26. 🇦🇷🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇫🇷🇭🇹🇵🇪🇵🇷🇺🇸
Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography 1946-1964 at MoMA in Midtown ends Sun, Sep 26. $25 🇧🇷
Cézanne Drawing at MoMA in Midtown ends Sat, Sep 25. $25 🇫🇷
Gaudalupe Maravilla’s “Planeta Abuelx” is outdoors at Socrates Sculpture Park in Astoria, Queens through Sep 6, 2021. FREE 🇸🇻
Point of View Can be Blinding
Like most human culture, art begins as an expression of faith to soften the journey through life and death. From there it grows into a hundred flowers.
If you look at American art the same way you look at European art, your own bias will blind you. They are different world views. The art world is beginning to recognize that one isn’t better than the other. European art is more European, American art is more American. Whether art is made from diamonds or trash is irrelevant. In fact art made from trash is probably more real. Diamonds are a sucker’s artifice.
There is great art everywhere. There is art on New York City streets too. In a way, being a New Yorker is an art form in and of itself.
The Most Famous Latin Art in New York City That You Will Never See
In 1933 Mexican muralist Diego Rivera painted “Man at the Crossroads” (1933) over the atrium inside 30 Rock in Rockefeller Center.
The mural contrasts capitalism and socialism. Nelson Rockefeller was upset about the portrait of Lenin, so he had it torn down. It’s the most famous painting in New York City that you will never see.
Rivera recreated the masterwork as “Man, Controller of the Universe” (1934), inside Palacio de Bellas Arts in Mexico City.