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With New York’s art scene being so prominent yet ever changing, you’ll want to be sure to catch significant shows. Time Out New York rounds up the top five art exhibitions of the week, from offerings at the best photography and art galleries in NYC to shows at renowned institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim.
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In a kind of collaborative installation exploring the line between functionality and aesthetics, the author and artist best known for impeccable installations of exquisitely minimalist porcelain ceramics has been given the run of the Frick, where his objects are being displayed alongside items from the museum’s holdings of Old Master paintings and antiques.
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Street art was born in NYC during the 1970s, a time when the city was bankrupt and wracked by crime. Almost as a response to the chaos, young kids from the Bronx and Brooklyn began bombing subway cars and buildings with graffiti tags. It was an illegal and sometimes dangerous activity, but it created an art form that would spread around the world, and find its way into NYC galleries and art museums. Photograph: © Martha Cooper Now an epic new show coming to NYC will revisit the storied history of street art with contributions by just every name ever associated with the genre. Starting June 21, “Beyond The Streets” will be taking over two floors of 25 Kent, a creative hub and office space in Williamsburg. The massive exhibit debuted in Los Angeles to critical raves and features 150 artists from around the world. Photograph: Courtesy Husk Mit Navn The participants include graffiti pioneers such as CORNBREAD, CRASH, DAZE and FUTURA 2000, as well as artists who connected the worlds of street art and fine art—among them Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Jenny Holzer, Takashi Murakami and Charlie Ahearn, producer and director of seminal graffiti and hip-hop film, Wild Style, from 1983. BANKSY puts in an appearance, as does Shepard Fairey, who is the subject of a survey covering his 30-year career. A special Beastie Boys installation featuring artifacts and ephemera from the band’s history will be there, along with a working tattoo parlor staffed b
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It’s that time once again for the Whitney Biennial to take top billing on the museum’s schedule of exhibitions, and this edition (which marks the second since the Whitney moved to the Meatpacking District in 2015) presents 75 artists working in all mediums, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, installation, video and outdoor art. The show opens on Friday, but since we’ve already had a look, we thought we’d give you a taste of what to expect with our choices for the five works you're not going to want to miss this year. Photograph: Hollis Johnson Nicole Eisenman, Procession, 2019 Eisenman’s monumental hit parade of horribles features a cast of grotesque characters around a float with square tires and a passenger on all fours who emits smoke from its ass at regular intervals Photograph: Hollis Johnson Josh Kline, Skyline, San Francisco, 2019 Kline’s photo sculptures literally weep for the social media–besotted state of America today, in which politics have become broken and income disparity begets economic despair. Recirculating water pumps sealed inside light boxes shoot jets of water across images like this one of San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower, which doubles as a warning about rising sea-levels. Photograph: Hollis Johnson Marlon Mullen, Untitled, 2018 Exhibition announcements, art magazine covers and auction house catalogs are some of the source materials that Mullen, who is both autistic snd self-taught, draws upon to create his thick
A Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece is coming to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This year marks the 500th Anniversary of the death Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), one of the greatest—if not the greatest—artists of all time, and to honor the occasion, The Metropolitan Museum Of Art is bringing one of Leonardo's masterpieces to New York City. From July 15 through October 6, The Met will be exhibiting the artist’s St. Jerome Praying in the Wilderness (begun around 1483), which will be on special loan from the Vatican Museums. Leonardo da Vinci, St. Jerome Praying in the Wilderness, begun circa 1483 Photograph: Courtesy Vatican City, Musei Vaticani, © Governatorate of the Vatican City State–Vatican Museums The work portrays St Jerome (A.D. 347–420), one of the key theologians of the early Christian Church, during a two-year period when he lived as a hermit in a desert in Syria. Leonardo has him seated, holding a rock in one hand, which he used to beat his chest in penance, according to lore. Likewise, tradition holds that the lion curled in front of Jerome became his companion after the Saint extracted a thorn from the animal’s paw. Being the consummate Renaissance man and all, Leonardo had many interests, including science, designing weapons for the military and trying to figure the mechanics of flight. Presumably, this distracted him from his art because he sometimes rushed his projects to deleterious effect (a prime example being The Last Supper, which began deteriorating almost immediately after Leonardo abjured traditional methods of painti
Artist Tom Fruin has installed a multicolored glass house outside Time Out Market
Dumbo just got a lot more colorful. As the launch date draws closer for Time Out Market, artist Tom Fruin has brightened up the courtyard outside the soon-to-open venue with one of his signature brightly-colored glass houses. The installation allows visitors to step through and experience shimmering light in a bold spectrum of vivid colors. It also makes for some pretty killer pics. (Trust us. We shot the duo behind High Maintenance last year at one of the artist's installations at North Brooklyn Farms.) View this post on Instagram #maxikiosco Today’s install @empirestoresdumbo @timeoutmarketnewyork !! A post shared by Tom Fruin (@tomfruin) on May 1, 2019 at 8:44am PDT The newly-installed house is a bit of a homecoming for Fruin who worked out of a studio in the neighborhood for years. The Time Out Markets and editorial team visited his studio a few months ago to facilitate the new installation in anticipation of the upcoming launch of Time Out Market (date announcement coming soon!) But you don't have to wait to check out this piece which is already on view. The house is Fruin's first work to appear on the site, but he's definitely not a stranger to the surrounding area. The artist also has a number of pieces installed at theatrical powerhouse St. Ann's Warehouse just next door.
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