Whats New This Spring:

MUSEUM TOURS

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Metropolitan Museum of Art:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism. 

Thru July 28

*Covered on the front page of the NYTIMES! Through some 160 works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, and ephemera, it will explore the comprehensive and far-reaching ways in which Black artists portrayed everyday modern life in the new Black cities that took shape in the 1920s–40s in New York City’s Harlem and nationwide in the early decades of the Great Migration when millions of African Americans began to move away from the segregated rural South. The first art museum survey of the subject in New York City since 1987, the exhibition will establish the Harlem Renaissance and its radically new development of the modern Black subject as central to the development of international modern art.

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Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion

**MET GALA SPRING FASHION SHOW

May 10 - September 2

 

Approximately 250 garments and accessories spanning four centuries will be on view, visually united by iconography related to nature, which will serve as a metaphor for the fragility and ephemerality of fashion and a vehicle to examine the cyclical themes of rebirth and renewal. The exhibition will breathe new life into these storied objects through creative and immersive activations designed to convey the smells, sounds, textures, and motions of garments that can no longer directly interact with the body.

 

 

NEUE  MUSEUM

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KLIMT LANDSCAPES

Thru May 6

This major exhibition of Gustav Klimt's (1862–1918) idyllic depictions in the landscape genre features significant paintings made while the artist was on his Sommerfrische (summer holiday) in the Austrian countryside. It includes highlights from Neue Galerie New York's holdings alongside important loans from museums and private collections in Europe and the United States.

 

GUGGENHEIM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By Way Of: Material and Motion
March 15, 2024–January 12, 2025

One of the most prominent features of art from the late eighteenth century onwards, particularly after World War II, is artists’ tendency to evolve traditional artmaking methods outside the studio’s boundaries. This exhibition will examine the ways in which contemporary artists enacted new ideas formed by the social and historical contexts of their time and pushed the boundaries of artmaking and materials as a result.

 

BROOKLYN MUSEUM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys
Thru 7 July 2024

 
Grammy-winning singer Alicia Keys and Grammy-winning rapper and producer Kasseem Dean, known as Swizz Beatz, have spent years building a world-class art collection together that champions the work of Black artists. Giants will showcase a selection of works from the couple's collection by approximately 40 artists, including Arthur Java, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lorna Simpson and Nina Chanel Abney.  Giants will include physically immense pieces — including the largest ever by Meleko Mokgosi — as well as historically monumental works like Gordon Parks’ seminal photographs, Kehinde Wiley’s revolutionary portraits and Esther Mahlangu’s canvases. The native New Yorkers have long been passionate about supporting Black creatives and Swizz Beatz has established a robust reputation as hip hop’s foremost art collector.

 

WHITNEY

 

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Biennial 2024

March 20 -- August 11
 

The always important and often controversial Whitney Biennial is back in 2024. This prestigious assessment of contemporary art in America will celebrate its 81st installment when it opens in March 20, 2024. Since it first began in 1932, the Biennial has showcased more than 3,600 innovative artists. We don't know exactly what to expect yet for 2024, but as always with this show, expect the unexpected.

 

ASIA SOCIETY

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COAL + ICE 
February 13-August 11

Taking over the Asia Society from February 13 through August 11, this immersive photography and video exhibition will bring together the works of more than 50 photographers and video artists from China and around the world to visualize the causes and consequences of the climate crisis.
The show will take attendees from deep within coal mines to the melting glaciers of the greater Himalaya and beyond. 

 

MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

 

 

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This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture

Thru July 21

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In honor of the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Museum of the City of New York as the city’s storyteller, This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture explores the many ways that the city has inspired storytelling across art forms. It features both famous and lesser-known depictions of New York in film and television, visual and performing arts, music, poetry and literature, and even fashion, painting a collective, moving, and sometimes funny version of a city that has captured the imagination of the world. 

**FABULOUS SHOW!

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Byzantine Bembé: New York by Manny Vega

Thru December 8

The work of Bronx-born artist Manny Vega is a common sight in East Harlem, also known as El Barrio. His murals adorn building facades, and his vibrant mosaics line the walls of the 110th Street subway station. This show includes stories from the places he knows well: the Bronx, Spanish Harlem, and the Brazilian state of Bahia.

 

RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART

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REIMAGINE: HIMALAYAN ART NOW
MARCH 15–OCTOBER 6, 2024

 

Contemplate and celebrate what Himalayan art means now with a Museum-wide exhibition of artworks by over 30 contemporary artists, many from the Himalayan region and diaspora and others inspired by Himalayan art and cultures.

On the occasion of the Rubin’s 20th anniversary, Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now transforms the entire Museum with new commissions, some site-specific, and existing works juxtaposed with objects from the Museum’s collection, inviting new ways of encountering traditional Himalayan art.

**The Rubin Museum will be closing permanently in October of 2024. This is the last chance to see this world class collection. 

 

ART  FAIRS

I am giving private tours of the following NYC art fairs

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Affordable Art Fair

The Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan

March 20–24

 

True to its name, the Affordable Art Fair offers artworks priced between $100 and $12,000 for all the budding collectors out there. Back for its 37th edition, the show brings together pieces by hundreds of artists in a vast array of media, from paintings and prints to sculptures and photographs. Affordable Art Fair (affordableartfair.com)

 

 

Frieze New York

545 West 30th Street, Hudson Yards, Manhattan
May 1–5

Despite its big name in the art world, Frieze New York has recently become more intimate, and accordingly, sharper and more defined. Don’t miss the Focus Section, which showcases galleries still in their adolescence (10 years or younger), historically home to the strongest and most experimental booths on view.

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TEFAF New York

643 Park Ave, Upper East Side, Manhattan
May 10–14

TEFAF drops the word “prestigious” in the first sentence of its info page. Sure enough, the fair historically stocks the low-lit, hallowed halls of the Armory with works by canonical 20th-century artists, in addition to contemporary works and design objects. 
TEFAF New York (tefaf.com)

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Independent Art Fair

Spring Studios, 50 Varick Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
May 9–12

This fair of contemporary art is refreshingly digestible — and, thankfully, navigable. Its short history since its inception in 2010 boasts some of the first showings of now-established names, and more are likely to come in this year’s edition.
Independent Art Fair (independenthq.com)

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GALLERY TOURS

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I'm offering Chelsea gallery tours through late June. These tours visit at least three galleries and often more. Please let me know if you're interested. 

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Connecticut

I am offering tours of:

The Bruce Museum in Greenwich 

Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven

Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford

New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain

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As always, I offer themed tours and highlights tours of most NYC art museums, and we can always custom design a tour for your groups' interests. I also provide private entirely customisable tours for corporate events and special interest clubs, networks and conferences. Let's chat!

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