Each year the DUMBO Arts Festival seeks to highlight Brooklyn’s commitment to and presence in the arts community by presenting the best in local, national, and international art amid the breathtaking backdrop of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline. DUMBO Arts Festival September 27-29, 2013 Multiple Locations DUMBO, Brooklyn dumboartsfestival.com

Drawn from an open call for submissions from the public that drew over 7,000 entries, the exhibition includes 100 works by more than 90 professional photographers, community members, and bystanders who photographed the effects of the devastating storm and the subsequent recovery efforts. Rising Waters: Photographs of Hurricane Sandy August 24-September 29, 2013 Governors Island, […]

Among the most prescient yet overlooked figures of her generation, Gretchen Bender (1951-2004) anticipated our current state of image saturation, using scaffolds of screens, hypnotic repetitions of appropriated television footage, and aggressive sound as a critical match for an emerging cultural field of special effects and immersive viewing experiences. Gretchen Bender: “Tracking the Thrill” August […]

In Fall 2013, Issue Project Room celebrates its ten year anniversary with Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain— a two-month festival revisiting seminal past projects and initiating new relationships with over 60 emerging and established artists working across and between the disciplines of sound, dance, film, performance, and literature Featuring: Omar Souleyman, Charlemagne Palestine, […]

“Untitled (As of Yet) takes its point of departure from events that first appear to be disruptive, even catastrophic, but eventually open the door to new thoughts, practices, and opportunities. Many of the artists in this exhibition examine the responses to unfamiliar circumstances and the breakdown of routine, while others deliberately incorporate these disruptions as […]

With raw materials such as canvas, smoke, and tarnished metal, Subkoff alludes to developments as disparate as Cave Painting and Arte Povera while embedding it in a more contemporary dialectic. Daniel Subkoff August 1 – September 8, 2013 James Fuentes Gallery 55 Delancey Street jamesfuentes.com

A key member of the Pictures Generation, Goldstein is well know for a diverse group of works ranging from films to paintings, sound, installation, and writing. Highly visible as a pinnacle member of the art world throughout the 70’s and 80’s, a large collection of his work is now on view at the Jewish Museum […]

Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present Summer Mixer, a spirited get-together of emerging and established voices from national and international galleries. The group exhibition will feature works by nine artists, all of whom are debuting at Joshua Liner Gallery. Each one takes a fresh approach to the material and historical bases of artmaking, flouting […]

Bortolami Gallery presents a group of new paintings by Warsaw-based artist Piotr Janas, Minotaurs. The artist refers the nine paintings as “figures” or “self-portraits”. The paintings are composed of geometric forms occupied by organic marks and scratches, while also including detailed body parts and fleshy organs. These grotesque paintings somehow also reflect the visual resonance […]

Celebrated artist Chuck Close will show his recent work at Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY, for the second time since his solo exhibition of large scale Polaroid photographs, Chuck Close Up Close, in 1991. Mr. Close always had been an experimental artist who consistently strive for new methods in making his art. In the […]