October 25, 2016 – January 8, 2017 Witness an extraordinary moment in the history of modern art, one fueled by cultural and political revolution. From the start of the Mexican Revolution in 1910 to the aftermath of World War II, artists and intellectuals in Mexico were at the center of a great debate about their […]

As America Heads to the Polls, Philip Guston’s Nixon Drawings Go On View in New York City  ‘Philip Guston: Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975′ Hauser & Wirth, 548 West 22nd Street, New York City 1 November 2016 – 14 January 2017 Opening: Tuesday 1 November, 6-8PM Beginning 1 November 2016, one […]

On view October 23, 2016–March 5, 2017 MoMA PS1 will present the first comprehensive U.S. survey of the pioneering British artist Mark Leckey and the largest exhibition of his work to date. Since coming to prominence in the late 1990s, Mark Leckey’s dynamic and varied practice has combined formal experimentation with pointed explorations of class […]

On view beginning October 15, 2016 Members’ Opening Reception Saturday, October 15, 5:30–7pm RSVP to 413.664.4481 x8112 or cweber@massmoca.org Please join us afterwards for a concert in the Hunter Center with Benjamin Clementine at 8:30pm. “A paradisiacal landscape where [black-faced lawn] jockeys appear — made from the crystals that would normally go into chandeliers, on a raised […]

For his first solo museum exhibition in the United States, Cheng Ran debuts a new multi-video installation in the New Museum’s Lobby Gallery. Cheng Ran: Diary of a Mad 10/19/16 – 01/15/17 Cheng Ran (b. 1981, Inner Mongolia, China) is one of the most promising Chinese artists of his generation. Since 2005, Cheng has been […]

Film-maker and Sanders supporter says he was so spooked by the shock Brexit vote he rushed his documentary out before the election to make the case for Clinton Everyone loves a surprise. Hours after announcing the existence of a new film, Michael Moore in TrumpLand, film-lovers, leftists and New Yorkers drawn to wherever the action […]

LIVE from the NYPL: Marina Abramović in Conversation with Debbie Harry Friday, October 28 @ 7pm The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street SOLD OUT Livestream available here nypl.org/live Known for her performance art, in which she bares her body and presence in the most intimate of ways, […]

Beginning October 28, 2016, Dominique Lévy will present Joel Shapiro, the first survey exhibition of early wood wall reliefs by renowned American sculptor Joel Shapiro. Created between 1978 and 1980, these colorful small-scale works will be complemented by a major new site-specific installation work by the artist. The exhibition aims to illuminate the trajectory of Shapiro’s career, […]

By Ron Johnson “What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.”  ~ Aristotle What is inspiration?  Where does it come from?  For J.T. Kirkland it was a fortuitous trip to Musee D’Orsay on a hot day in Paris.  Kirkland, who was studying and later received his degree in Economics, recalls this visit […]

“Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest” Opens October 26, 2016 Over the past thirty years, Pipilotti Rist has achieved international renown as a pioneer of video art and multimedia installations. Her mesmerizing works envelop viewers in sensual, vibrantly colored kaleidoscopic projections that fuse the natural world with the technological sublime. Referring to her art as a “glorification […]