Drawing in Real Life Art Exhibit Nyc

Nov. 12-Jan. 8

Catherine Murphy

There is no doubt that Catherine Murphy is one of America's greatest living realist painters, but I wonder if...

Sept. 10-Feb. 20

"Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams"

The Dior show at the Brooklyn Museum is dazzling—a seemingly endless, and somehow soothing, parade of exquisite garments, enhanced by a no-holds-barred exhibition design. By the time visitors...

Apr. 16-Jan. 29

Dia Chelsea

Among the great legacies of the Dia Art Foundation, founded in 1974, in New York City, are the earthworks of...

Sept. 10-Apr. 10

E. McKnight Kauffer

This commercial poster designer, the subject of a startlingly spectacular show at the Cooper Hewitt, the Smithsonian Design Museum, was a magus of boundless resourcefulness in the nineteen-twenties and thirties....

Dec. 9-Jan. 15

Edie Fake

"12th House" is an apt title for this American artist's current show at the Broadway gallery—in astrology, the twelfth house governs secret lives and unseen realms, and...

Oct. 8-Apr. 18

"Greater New York"

This show of hundreds of works by forty-seven more or less contemporary artists was slated to open in 2020 and necessarily postponed. The result amounts to something of a time...

Nov. 4-Jan. 8

Helen Pashgian

Johannes Vermeer and the aerospace industry rarely come up in the same conversation. But they connect in the celestial sculptures...

Nov. 5-Feb. 5

Hilma af Klint

In 1906, the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint received a message during a séance: "You will commence a task that...

Dec. 10-Mar. 6

"Inspiring Walt Disney"

What explains the lasting wonderment of French rococo, the theatrically frivolous, flauntingly costly mode in art and décor that flourished in mid-eighteenth-century aristocratic circles before being squelched utterly by the...

Nov. 13-Jan. 16

James Ensor

Expressions of disgust approach the sublime in the barbed œuvre of this Belgian painter, who attracted scandal in the late nineteenth century with such iconic canvases as "Christ's Entry...

Sept. 29-Feb. 13

Jasper Johns

In 1954, having had a dream of painting the American flag, Jasper Johns did so, employing a technique that was unusual at the time: brushstrokes in pigmented, lumpy encaustic wax...

Oct. 30-Apr. 17

Jennifer Packer

In her superb portraits and paintings of flowers, Jennifer Packer is assured with her line, fearless in her use of...

Oct. 28-Jan. 8

Kandis Williams

52 Walker is more than the new Tribeca outpost of the Zwirner gallery—its director, Ebony L. Haynes, plans to run the space like a Kunsthalle rather than a...

Oct. 9-Mar. 31

"Labyrinth of Forms"

Borrowing its name from a 1945 aquatint etching by Alice Trumbull Mason, this exhibition at the Whitney features abstract works on paper from the museum's collection, all made by...

Sept. 30-Jan. 30

"Living Histories"

The Frick Collection has benefitted from a change in scenery: its stellar Old Masters, temporarily released from the ornate embrace of Henry Clay Frick's limestone mansion (while it undergoes...

Dec. 9-Jan. 22

Liz Collins and Gabrielle Shelton

These New York artists use contrasting mediums—Collins works with textiles, Shelton with powder-coated steel—but they share a bright palette and an interest in stairs, as both...

Dec. 9-Feb. 5

Lutz Bacher

The American Conceptualist Lutz Bacher, who died in 2019, at the age of seventy-five, built a brilliant career from evasive,...

Nov. 4-Jan. 8

Matthew Ronay

Looking at the exhilarating hand-carved and dyed sculptures of Matthew Ronay at the Casey Kaplan gallery, I found myself thinking...

Aug. 13-Apr. 3

"Puppets of New York"

Oscar the Grouch, whose distinctive voice was inspired by a Bronx cabdriver, may be the quintessential New York puppet. In this raucous treat of an exhibition, at the Museum of...

Nov. 22-Mar. 13

Sophie Taeuber-Arp

This wonderful retrospective at MOMA tracks the multifarious achievements of a Swiss virtuoso of many crafts—textiles, marionettes, stained glass, staggeringly labor-intensive beading—who worked under the...

Oct. 11-Jan. 30

"Surrealism Beyond Borders"

This huge, deliriously entertaining show, at the Met, surveys the transnational spread of Surrealism, a movement that was codified by the poet and polemicist André Breton in 1924, in Paris....

Jun. 10-Jan. 2

Suzie Zuzek

The pink-lemonade delirium of Lilly Pulitzer's iconic preppy sheath dresses—famously worn by the socialite-entrepreneur's onetime Chapin classmate Jackie Kennedy—relied on a hidden synergy. Pulitzer...

Oct. 8-Sept. 5

Vasily Kandinsky

Some eighty paintings, drawings, and woodcuts by Kandinsky, the Russian hierophant of abstraction, line the upper three-fifths of the Guggenheim's ramp, in the retrospective "Around the Circle." The show'...

Drawing in Real Life Art Exhibit Nyc

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