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The Armory Show 2022 has a Latin American and LatinX Focus at Javits Center

The Armory Show is one of NYC's major contemporary art fairs. it started in 1994. The name is a reference to the New York Armory Show of 1913 which introduced Modern Art to American audiences. Armory Week is a cluster of contemporary art fairs at the same time as the Armory Show. Armory Show 2022 The Armory Show contemporary art fair is at Javits Center … [Read more...] about The Armory Show 2022 has a Latin American and LatinX Focus at Javits Center

The Spring Break Art Show 2022 Bleeding Edge, Independent Curator’s Art Fair is at 625 Madison

The Spring Break Art Show 2022 is a playful, bleeding-edge, independent curator's art fair produced in unused office space. Invited curators do their thing in a maze of rooms that you can explore at your leisure. Rooms may be fabulous, sophisticated or trashy (at least at first glance), but they always make you think. Some will make you smile. Some will make you scratch … [Read more...] about The Spring Break Art Show 2022 Bleeding Edge, Independent Curator’s Art Fair is at 625 Madison

The Independent 20th Century Art Fair Reframes Contemporary Art History

The inaugural Independent 20th Century contemporary art fair reframes Contemporary Art history from today's inclusive perspective. The social shocks of #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, the pandemic, inflation, environmental collapse, global hunger, and war are forcing everyone to see the world in a different way. The art world can be academic and backwards looking, but … [Read more...] about The Independent 20th Century Art Fair Reframes Contemporary Art History

Brasil Summerfest 2022 Brings the Latest Brazilian Music, Dance, Art & Film to NYC

Brasil Summerfest 2022 brings the latest music, art and film from Brazil to Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens from June 29 - July 24, 2022 with both ticketed and free events. Brasil Summerfest in New York City is the biggest Brazilian music and arts festival outside of Brazil. Legal! Brasil Summerfest 2022 Brings the Latest Brazilian Music, Dance, Art & Film to … [Read more...] about Brasil Summerfest 2022 Brings the Latest Brazilian Music, Dance, Art & Film to NYC

The Frieze New York Contemporary Art Fair Celebrates NYC’s Creative Spirit at The Shed

Frieze New York 2022 is at The Shed in Hudson Yards, May 18-22, 2022. frieze.com This season over 65 major galleries focus on New York City's creative spirit. The Frieze Viewing Room offers a virtual first look at the art fair from May 13-22. Free. frieze.com Latin Galleries at Frieze New York 2022 Frieze is a great opportunity to see artists represented by major … [Read more...] about The Frieze New York Contemporary Art Fair Celebrates NYC’s Creative Spirit at The Shed

Crown of the Andes and the Atahualpa Emerald are at the Met Museum

The Crown of the Andes is a votive crown from a statue of the Virgin at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption in Popayán, Colombia. One of the most important surviving examples of colonial Spanish American gold work, a piece used for centuries in Holy Week ceremonies, is on display in Gallery 757 at the Met Museum in Central Park. The Atahualpa … [Read more...] about Crown of the Andes and the Atahualpa Emerald are at the Met Museum

Anabella Bergero Queerceañera

Constructing Identities: Queerceañeras, by New York Italian Argentine Mexican fashion designer Anabella Bergero is a bright contribution to the X Journal and Pattern exhibition in the Art and Design Gallery at FIT, the Fashion Institute of Technology in Chelsea, Manhattan, Dec 13, 2021 - Jan 23, 2022. fitnyc.edu 🇮🇹🇦🇷🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈 Queerceañera Queerceañera is a cultural … [Read more...] about Anabella Bergero Queerceañera

National Puerto Rican Artisans Fair & Book Expo 2021 is at Hostos College

The 16th National Puerto Rican Artisans Fair & Book Expo 2021 is live at Hostos Community College, Sat, Nov 20 from 12-5pm and virtual at comitenoviembrevirtualfair.org 🇵🇷 Puerto Rican art is different from European art. Puerto Rican artisanal crafts are not just pretty. They both reflect and are a living part of Puerto Rican culture. Some of these are pure craft, … [Read more...] about National Puerto Rican Artisans Fair & Book Expo 2021 is at Hostos College

The Art Show 2021 (ADAA) Brings America’s Top Galleries to New York

The Art Show 2021 art fair at the Park Avenue Armory in the Upper East Side, opens with a benefit preview on Wednesday, November 3 and to the public from November 4-7, 2021. artdealers.org Benefits Henry Street Settlement The preview and ticket proceeds benefit Henry Street Settlement (Abrons Arts Center) in the Lower East Side, one of New York’s leading social service, … [Read more...] about The Art Show 2021 (ADAA) Brings America’s Top Galleries to New York

The IFPDA Print Fair 2021 is Virtual with Several Spanish Galleries

The IFPDA Print Fair 2021 is virtual at fineartprintfair.org Oct 15-31, 2021. FREE The IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair is the annual art fair of the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA). The biggest and the longest-running fine art print fair is normally held a Javits Center in October with Spring and Fall online editions. Printmaking originated during China's … [Read more...] about The IFPDA Print Fair 2021 is Virtual with Several Spanish Galleries

Eva Davidova “Global Mode Omnívoros” is a Good Reason to Visit Instituto Cervantes

Eva Davidova "Global Mode Omnívoros" is a thoughtful digital art installation at Instituto Cervantes in Midtown East from Oct 6 - Nov 10, 2021. FREE nyork.cervantes.es 🇪🇸 Eva Davidova For some reason, many Spanish artists are using digital technology to reimagine our shared future. Eva Davidova is one of these new media artists. Davidova has an interesting vision. She … [Read more...] about Eva Davidova “Global Mode Omnívoros” is a Good Reason to Visit Instituto Cervantes

The Future Fair 2021 is Showing More Women and Artists of Color

The Future Fair is a new art fair. It opened virtually in 2020 because of the pandemic. Sometimes life's interruptions force us to grow. The fair is co-founded by Rachel Mijares Fick and Rebeca Laliberte. They consciously work to be more inclusive of artists and dealers who are women and people of color. The curators also encourage collaboration. This really is the … [Read more...] about The Future Fair 2021 is Showing More Women and Artists of Color

The Armory Show 2021 is the Big International Art Fair

The Armory Show, modern and contemporary art fair, opens at Javits Center in Hudson Yards, NYC with an invitation only VIP Preview on Thursday, September 9, 2021 and the public fair, Friday-Sunday, September 10-12, 2021. This is a big change from showing in March on the West Side piers. The shutdown of Pier 92 forced the venue change, and the COVID-19 pandemic forced the … [Read more...] about The Armory Show 2021 is the Big International Art Fair

The Independent Art Fair 2021 Is All About the New York Scene

The Independent Art Fair 2021 contemporary art fair is at Cipriani South Street in Manhattan's Financial District, during Armory Week, Thursday-Sunday, September 9-12, 2021. Independent Art Fair 2021 Tickets Get Independent Art Fair 2021 tickets at independenthq.comGeneral admission is $55. Students are $28. The Art Fair That Isn't an Art Fair The Independent is … [Read more...] about The Independent Art Fair 2021 Is All About the New York Scene

The Spring Break Art Show 2021 is a Fun Trip Down the Rabbit Hole

The Spring Break Art Show 2021 is at 625 Madison Ave in Midtown East, Wed-Mon, September 8-13, 2021. From $30 springbreakartshow.com Spring Break is a curator's art fair. It turns unused office space around Manhattan into an art show. Each curator gets a room. Some get a wall. As you walk through, one room will look more chaotic than a teenager's bedroom, and the next will … [Read more...] about The Spring Break Art Show 2021 is a Fun Trip Down the Rabbit Hole

The Latin American Foto Festival 2021 at Bronx Documentary Center Sees the Latin World in All its Pain & Glory

The Latin American Foto Festival 2021 opens with a reception at the Bronx Documentary Center in Melrose, The Bronx on Thursday, July 15, 2021 from 6-9pm. The exhibition continues there and at large-scale street installations (map) around Melrose through August 1, 2021. FREE bronxdoc.org 🇦🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴🇸🇻🇲🇽🇵🇪🇻🇪 The exhibition is curated by Michael Kamber and Cynthia Rivera. Large … [Read more...] about The Latin American Foto Festival 2021 at Bronx Documentary Center Sees the Latin World in All its Pain & Glory

Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute Launches “On Protest and Mourning” Exhibition and Student Curriculum

On Protest and Mourning is a virtual exhibition that includes a junior high and high school student curriculum designed by the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute to help young New Yorkers make sense of our current reckoning with systemic racism and police violence at onprotestandmourning.digital through June 30, 2021. #onprotestandmourning On Protest and … [Read more...] about Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute Launches “On Protest and Mourning” Exhibition and Student Curriculum

Beto De Volder Contrasts the Finite Edge with the Infinite Line at Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary

An exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Argentine abstract artist Beto De Volder: Landscapes & Drawings is at Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary in the Upper East Side from June 17 to August 20, 2021. On view Monday-Friday by appointment. hutchinsonmodern.com Argentine artists excel at abstraction and conceptual art. Beto de Volder is in this line. You can … [Read more...] about Beto De Volder Contrasts the Finite Edge with the Infinite Line at Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary

New York City’s 1980s Rebound Revolutionized the Music World(s)

The multimedia exhibition New York, New Music: 1980-1986 opens at the Museum of the City of New York in "El Barrio" East Harlem on Friday, June 11, 2021. mcny.org #80sMusicNYC After peaking in power and influence in the 1950s, social change, civil unrest, the pull of the suburbs, the building of the Cross Bronx Expressway, and the development of public housing put New … [Read more...] about New York City’s 1980s Rebound Revolutionized the Music World(s)

Guadalupe Maravilla’s “Planeta Abuelx” at Socrates Sculpture Park

New York Salvadoran artist Guadalupe Maravilla's "Planeta Abuelx" sculpture exhibition opens at Socrates Sculpture Park in Astoria, Queens on Saturday, May 15, 2021 and remains on view through September 6, 2021. The work is an extension of his "Disease Throwers" sculpture series, some of which were recently exhibited at PPOW Gallery ppowgallery.com which represents the … [Read more...] about Guadalupe Maravilla’s “Planeta Abuelx” at Socrates Sculpture Park

Héctor Méndez Caratini Discusses a Life Photographing Indigenous and African Spirituality in the Caribbean

Héctor Méndez Caratini is a Puerto Rican photographer who made his life's work photographing the spiritual expressions of Indigenous and African diaspora communities in the Caribbean, the Americas, and around the world. Héctor Méndez Caratini is an Original As far as we know, Caratini is the first and foremost photographer of Caribbean Indigenous and African diaspora … [Read more...] about Héctor Méndez Caratini Discusses a Life Photographing Indigenous and African Spirituality in the Caribbean

New York Portraitist Alice Neel Captured the Spirit of El Barrio

The Alice Neel: People Come First exhibition is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park, March 22 - August 1, 2021. The exhibition is a full-career retrospective with about a hundred paintings, drawings and watercolors. #MetAliceNeal Neel (1900-1984) was an American portraitist who is known for painting regular people from the female point of view. She saw the … [Read more...] about New York Portraitist Alice Neel Captured the Spirit of El Barrio

The Outsider Art Fair 2021 Brings Art Without the Art World Artifice to New York

The 29th Outsider Art Fair is a hybrid that is virtual at outsiderartfair.com and live with COVID-19 precautions at several Manhattan galleries from January 28 to February 7, 2021. FREE Hirschl & Adler on 57th St in Midtown East @hirschlandadlerSalon 94 Freemans on Freeman Alley in the Lower East Side @salon94Shin Gallery on Orchard St in the Lower East Side … [Read more...] about The Outsider Art Fair 2021 Brings Art Without the Art World Artifice to New York

The Winter Show 2021, America’s Leading Antiques Show, Goes Virtual

The Winter Show 2021 is America's leading fine art antiques show. It is normally held at the Park Avenue Armory in the Upper East Side in late January. The Winter Show used to be called "The Winter Antiques Show." It's the only place in New York City we know where you can buy a real suit of armor. Buying antiques can be a tricky business, but objects sold at this antiques … [Read more...] about The Winter Show 2021, America’s Leading Antiques Show, Goes Virtual

Start Master Drawings New York 2021 Online and End in a Gallery

The 15th Master Drawings New York 2021 art fair is both virtual at masterdrawingsnewyork.com and in select Upper East Side galleries Saturday, January 22-30, 2021. There are usually both New York and European dealers showing Mexican, Italian, French, and Spanish works at a cluster of art galleries in New York's Upper East Side. 15th Master Drawings New York 2021 In … [Read more...] about Start Master Drawings New York 2021 Online and End in a Gallery

To See the World Through the Eyes of a Child at the Harlem Silent Parade 2020

The annual Children's March for Justice at Harlem's Sugar Hill Museum becomes a virtual art exhibition this year opening at sugarhillmuseum.org on July 28, 2020. FREE Children's March for Justice The Children's March for Justice is a commemoration of the NAACP Silent Protest Parade of 1917. On that day ten thousand Black families and children marched in silence down … [Read more...] about To See the World Through the Eyes of a Child at the Harlem Silent Parade 2020