Discover the best art exhibitions in New York City with our fall show guide. Highlights include the grand reveal of the Studio Museum in Harlem鈥檚 new building, as well as exhibitions dedicated to Man Ray, Robert Rauschenberg and more.
鈥淚n [Sonia Delaunay鈥檚] studio,鈥 a 1927 advertising flyer promised, 鈥測ou will know that you are seeing something new, something that鈥 will transform your life into a work of art.鈥
If Wassily Kandinsky bent the visible world to the whims of his canvas, reducing concert hall scenes to puddles of color and line, Sonia Delaunay seems to have worked the other way around.
New York鈥檚 Bard Graduate Center highlights the underappreciated artist in a show that focuses on her colorful, pioneering work in graphic and commercial design.
A century since she established her commercial fashion and textile workshop, the interdisciplinary artist鈥檚 designs feel as fresh and avant-garde as ever.
Sonia Delaunay was many things: the Ukrainian Jewish daughter of a nail factory foreman who eventually made her way in the art world; the proprietor of a French fashion house; the only woman to have an exhibition at the Louvre in her lifetime.
SIGHTLINES on peace, power, and prestige: metal arts in africa builds a conversation between historic and contemporary works from Africa and the african diaspora...
SIGHTLINES increases the visibility of African art, bringing metal arts from the 19th and 20th centuries together with works by contemporary African artists.