Arts

Memes draw comparisons to The Matrix, Kelsey Grammer, and seemingly everyone except Miami Heat’s star player.

Note: This article will use People First Language since we do not know the reader’s preference. You have a stack of IEPs and 504 plans archived in your email and you’re not quite sure what to do with them. What exactly are they? What do they mean for you, the art teacher, in the art room? You […]

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Legacies examines the varied strategies Asian-American artists used to navigate New York from 1969 through 2001, offering lessons for the future.

An exhibition at the New York Public Library shows that these modes share deep roots. 

The artist explores sonic reverberations, the relationship between the sacred and material realms, and the ways in which artworks might be activated by a participant.

At the New-York Historical Society, a new exhibition chronicles the lives of pets and their owners since the 18th century.

This week: Courbet gets the electoral treatment, the politics of the waistline, ugly medieval dogs, and what happens when you fall out of love with an artwork?

The artist unspools a playful and dark-edged narrative that refracts art deco and noir melodrama through the late-modern styles of video games, manga, and fantasy.

“I have a day job, too, so studio time is precious.”

Future Imaginaries gathers work by a range of Native artists who are wielding fashion, technology, and sci-fi to carry ancestral knowledge forward.

A stellar curation of stirring contemporary works and archival material expose the links between labor and health. The show calls, in turn, for a bit of visitor effort.

Nicole Eisenman’s new public artwork has everything to do with land use decisions and urban development in New York City.

We live in an infographic-saturated world, surrounded by custom t-shirts, mugs, and posters. What a prime opportunity to harness the stencil printmaking process to make functional art to captivate students! While there are many printmaking processes, this particular one bridges the gap between artistic expression and everyday life. Students also gain a deeper understanding of […]

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This year’s theme, “Gowanus Under Construction,” invited participants to reflect on the gentrification of the historically industrial Brooklyn neighborhood. 

The inaugural Indigenous Puppetry Institute saw the convening of contemporary practitioners of a form practiced for centuries.

Fluorescent ’90s vagina art, looped films, and tender papier-mâché sculptures were on display as part of the South Brooklyn neighborhood’s annual open studios.

Rhee’s paintings change from pictorial presentations of a lush, dreamy world to a tangled web of different viscosities when we approach the surface. 

The artist reminds us that decay is full of energy — not just an ending, but part of an endless circle of life.

Meeson Pae’s work creates safe space to contend with the phenomenon of our biological inner-workings and the opulent worlds they create.

Coiffed canines and their decked-out humans took to the streets of Manhattan for a chaotic yet celebratory iteration of the beloved annual parade, which may be on its last leg.