ARTISTS
2025
The grande dame of the city鈥檚 museums, the Metropolitan is overwhelming. The museum is best enjoyed in small bites, if you are able to make repeat visits.
Madalena Santos Reinbolt is an artist who began making art in the early 1950s and continued making work until her death in 1976.
These days, seemingly everywhere you turn in New York, there are weavings stretched taut, installations spilling forth with wool, and canvases adorned with thread, bridging the gap between textile art and painting. Welcome to fiber art supremacy.
The exhibitions below, featuring such artists as Deborah-Joyce Holman and Luis Fernando Benedit, ask viewers to spend time with art that鈥檚 slower to reveal itself.
A new list released by the Department of Cultural Affairs highlights dozens of free or pay-what-you-wish museums and institutions.
Kamari Carter鈥檚 political art, visionary Shaker art, and Esther Mahlangu鈥檚 colorful geometries, along with many other in-person and online shows will beat your winter blues.
2024
At a time when the United States is in the midst of a national mental-health crisis鈥攐wing in part to a dearth of quality care (or any care at all, really)...
Chess, Parcheesi and Chinese checkers, Monopoly and Chutes and Ladders 鈥� the many manifestations of the gameboard are the focus of this exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum in New York (13 September鈥�26 January 2025).
The art conveys a 鈥渃reative vibrancy鈥� that changes perceptions of Shaker culture, says Emelie Gevalt, the coordinating curator of 鈥淎nything but Simple: Gift Drawings and the Shaker Aesthetic鈥� at the American Folk Art Museum in New York.
The American Folk Art Museum announced a gift of gameboards and photographs from the collection of Bruce and Doranna Wendel.
Your ultimate guide to this season鈥檚 major exhibitions and art events around the city.
The exhibition Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut currently at the American Folk Art Museum begins with an indelible image:...
A show at the American Folk Art Museum spotlights a Catalan doctor鈥檚 revolutionary contributions to 20th-century psychiatry and their connections with modern art and Art Brut.
Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut finds itself a long way from home.
The institution鈥檚 new union, formed under UAW Local 2110, will represent workers across departments including curatorial, information technology, retail and more.