Installation view of “Alexander Calder: Modern from the Start,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 14, 2021 – January 15, 2022 © 2021 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Denis Doorly Calder’s Universe Alexander Calder (1898-1976) had a decades-long history with MoMA, the organizing principle behind its latest exhibit of... City Arts 05 Aug 2021 | 11:41
Room 24: Four grand panels of Fragonard’s series “The Progress of Love” are shown together at Frick Madison in a gallery illuminated by one of Marcel Breuer’s trapezoidal windows. This view shows two of the 1771–72 paintings, with two later overdoors visible in the next gallery. Photo: Joe Coscia The Frick Goes Minimalist The opening of the Frick Collection on March 18 in new temporary quarters, just north of the Gilded Age mansion, has been... City Arts 21 Mar 2021 | 05:44
“The Sleeve Should Be Illegal” book jacket. Photo: Val Castronovo Falling into Art at the Frick On March 18, The Frick Collection will officially open to the public in new, temporary quarters at the Breuer building on... City Arts 23 Feb 2021 | 09:38
The Snowy Owl strikes a pose in the North Meadow of Central Park on January 27, 2021. Photo courtesy of Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark The Owl Whooo Came In From the Cold “Unless you visit the high arctic,” The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s website states, “you’ll mainly be looking for Snowy... News 28 Jan 2021 | 07:23
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, “The Progress of Love: The Pursuit,” 1771–72, oil on canvas, 125 1/8 x 84 7/8 inches, The Frick Collection, New York. Photo: Michael Bodycomb Fragrances and Fragonard As the virus persists and puts a damper on travel and adventure, the curators at the Frick have been bringing snapshots of... City Arts 03 Sep 2020 | 11:04
Faith Ringgold. American People Series #20: Die. 1967. Oil on canvas, two panels, 72 × 144″ (182.9 × 365.8 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the generosity of The Modern Women’s Fund, Ronnie F. Heyman, Eva and Glenn Dubin, Lonti Ebers, Michael S. Ovitz, Daniel and Brett Sundheim, and Gary and Karen Winnick ( Photo: Jonathan Muzikar) ‘Do Your Own Time and Place’ One of the most striking aspects of the rehang at the new Museum of Modern Art is the juxtaposition of two works on the fifth... City Arts 24 Jun 2020 | 11:38
Left, Museum Tower, 1982, architect, Cesar Pelli & Associates; center, The David and Peggy Rockefeller Building, 2004, architect, Yoshio Taniguchi; foreground, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, designed 1953, architect, Philip Johnson. ( Photo (c) 2005 Timothy Hursley) Art Under the Open Sky It’s the unofficial start of summer, and as New York City prepares to reopen, the itch to get outside and commune with nature... City Arts 19 May 2020 | 02:44
Donald Judd. Untitled. 1991. Enameled aluminum, 59″ × 24′ 7 1/4″ × 65″ (150 × 750 × 165 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Bequest of Richard S. Zeisler and gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (both by exchange) and gift of Kathy Fuld, Agnes Gund, Patricia Cisneros, Doris Fisher, Mimi Haas, Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis, and Emily Spiegel. © 2019 Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. ( Photo: John Wronn) Inside and Outside the Box As the shelter-in-place orders continue and New York City’s museums and cultural spaces remained closed indefinitely, art... City Arts 24 Apr 2020 | 11:23
Gerhard Richter. "Uncle Rudi," 1965. Oil on canvas. Památnik Lidice/Lidice Memorial. © Gerhard Richter 2019 (08102019) The Measure of the Unfathomable As New Yorkers hunker down and heed Governor Cuomo’s directive to stay home, one realizes that the new normal is a strange... City Arts 27 Mar 2020 | 02:57
Behnaz Sarafpour, white tulle and gold-brocaded evening dress, fall 2003, New York. Lent by Behnaz Sarafpour. ( Photo: Val Castronovo) Beauty, Poise and Style If you need a classical dance fix between now and the beginning of the New York City Ballet’s spring season in April, head... City Arts 27 Feb 2020 | 12:23
Kathy Fixing Her Hair in a Cigarette Machine Mirror, Coney Island, 1959. From Series: “Brooklyn Gang” ( Photo: Bruce Davidson) The Many Lives of a City Peter Stuyvesant’s map of his farm property. Milton Glaser’s “I [Heart] New York More Than Ever” poster following 9/11. A... City Arts 06 Feb 2020 | 10:47
Evening Dress, Jean Dessès (French, born Egypt, 1904-1970), fall/winter 1953-54. Promised gift of Sandy Schreier. Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ( Photo: © Nicholas Alan Cope) The Wow Parade Sandy Schreier, who is coy about her age, has been collecting clothes since she was a child. She would frequently tag along... City Arts 19 Dec 2019 | 08:59
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) Self-Portrait as a Soldier, 1915. Oil on canvas. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH. Charles F. Olney Fund In Love with Color Art fans may not be able to immediately place Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), the German Expressionist giant who achieved... City Arts 22 Nov 2019 | 11:27
Edith Halpert in 1955 with Georgia O'Keeffe's In the Patio IX, one of the prizes of her personal collection. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Downtown Gallery records Art for Everyday People New York art dealer Edith Halpert (1900-1970) may have zero name recognition, but the names of the artists she represented... Home 07 Nov 2019 | 12:50
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925). Sybil Sassoon, 1912. Charcoal on paper. ( Photo: Christopher Calnan) Charcoal Beauty For Sargent freaks, the wait is over. It’s been more than four years since the city has seen a major show dedicated to the... City Arts 18 Oct 2019 | 11:02
