Concrete Jungles: Dzia’s Street Art Menagerie
Belgium Street artist Dzia creates monumental depictions of wildlife, from insects and birds to elephants and rhinos, in a style that is instantly recognizable.
Evyrein: Street Art Amid Venice’s Medieval Masterpieces
Meet Evyrein, one of the few street artists to carve out a niche for himself in this Medieval city where fine art, particularly of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, is the enduring currency.
The Exhilarating and Exhausting Art of Jason McLean
I’m as Normal as Blueberry Pie a solo-show of new work from Jason McLean at Van Der Plas Gallery on Orchard Street in the LES.
Mike Kelley’s Eternal High School Hell at The Brant Foundation
Mike Kelley’s Singles Mixer is a terrifying three-channel video drama at the Brant Foundation in the East Village.
Ernest Pignon-Ernest at the Venice Biennale
A solo exhibition of new work and iconic images by French street art progenitor Ernest Pignon-Ernest at Espace Louis Vuitton at the Venice Biennale.
At Gagosian: Photography’s Tragic Heroine Francesca Woodman
Francisca Woodman’s stunning solo exhibition at Gagosian’s includes terrifying and sad portraits of decay and invisibility, of subjects obscured by their surroundings or fading into nothingness, of faceless figures surrendering to hopelessness and entropy.
Bruna D'Alessandro: Working Magic With Metal
Brooklyn-based Italian artist Bruna D'Alessandro uses steel to render magic wands, along with organics like flowers, leaves and twigs; soft things like pillows and bed linens; a teddy bear, a loaf of bread, tomatoes, mushrooms, flowing abstract terrains, even human breasts.
At Ki Smith Gallery, Warhol’s Screen Tests
Andy Warhol’s 1960s screen tests are running continuously on a dozen screens at Ki Smith Gallery on the Lower East Side.
At 14BC Gallery: A Gothic Look at Feminity
Daughters of Darkness, Daughters of Memory, Daughters of Light, a disquieting gothic look at femininity, opens Friday, March 15, at 14BC Gallery
David Smith: A Man of Steel’s Closing Statements
“No One Thing. David Smith, Late Sculptures,” a collection of seven monumental pieces from this most productive period of Smith’s legendary career, at Hauser & Wirth’s 22nd Street gallery.
Getting Hyper-Real: A Conversation With Carole A. Feuerman
Nine monumental sculptures by Carole A. Feuerman, the New York-based doyenne of hyperrealistic sculpture, are on display on the Park Avenue median, from 34th to 39th Streets.
Daniel Root: Transcending Closing Time
A new book from East Village photographer Daniel Root, New York Bars at Dawn, captures watering holes in the Lower East Side and across New York City at their most revealing.
Beggars Banquet at Not for Them
Beggars Banquet a group art show that defies expectations opens Nov. 20, 6 to 9 p.m., at Not For Them, 28 Locust Street, Brooklyn.
Warhol and Basquiat: Exploring an Unprecedented Artistic Collaboration
Almost 40 years after they were created, more than 30 collaborative works by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel return to New York as part of Basquiat x Warhol at the Brant Foundation in the East Village.
At Van Der Plas: Al Diaz and Danny Cortes
New work by NYC street art legend Al Diaz and Danny Cortez, the emerging superstar of hyperrealistic urban grit sculpture, at Van Der Plas Gallery, 156 Orchard Street, opening Friday, Oct. 20, 6 PM.
Warhol and Basquiat to be Reunited in the East Village
Contemporary art icons Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol will be reunited in the East Village on Nov. 1 in a show at The Brant Foundation.
Norwegian Artist Martin Whatson at Harman Projects in the LES
A solo show of work by Norwegian street artist Martin Whatson runs through September at Harman Projects, 210 Rivington Street, in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Ed Ruscha at MOMA: A Pop Art Career Fueled Along Route 66
Ed Ruscha / Now Then, a monumental, career-spanning retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, pays due appreciation to Ruscha’s early fascination with Route 66’s fuel franchises before accelerating to trace the 85-year-old pop art pioneer’s six-decade career.
Barkley L. Hendricks Joins the Old Masters at Frick Madison
The work of Barkley L. Hendricks, the American contemporary artist whose early portraits captured the courage, strength and style of Black America at a critical moment in its history, is featured in a widely anticipated solo exhibition at the Frick Madison.
Future Pop Nostalgia: William Nelson at Cavalier Gallery
Love and Science, an exhibition of new works by William Nelson, is on display at Cavalier Gallery through Sept. 30.