New York
New York has got to be the most prominent art hub in America, and its art scene is fluid and ever-changing. There are established art centres, such as Long Island and Williamsburg, but there are also many new ones emerging, for example, in Harlem, Outer Brooklyn, Clinton Hill and Bedford Stuyvesant. Alongside the big and established museums and galleries, many new ones are also continually appearing.
Here is a short guide to some of the most exciting art shows that are happening right now.
Hilma af Klint
Exhibition at Upper East Side, until 3rd February 2019
The Swedish artist, Hilma af Klint, was a pioneer of abstract painting, creating purely non-objective paintings, well before Kasimir Malevich or Vassily Kandinsky. The pictures that are displayed here emerged as a result of Hilda’s involvement in mystical and occult practices and were personal to her. When she exhibited during her lifetime, she mostly showed conventional landscapes and portraits. Nonetheless, she clearly anticipated a crucial aesthetic revolution, in the twentieth century.
One: Do Ho Suh
Exhibition at Prospect Park, until 27th January 2019
The South Korean artist, Do Ho Suh, is a global travelling art star. This exhibition consists of one single work, which reconstructs the artists former New York City apartment, out of translucent nylon sheets stitched to wireframes. The material is coloured in a light bluish tone, which reminds of a faded blueprint, or a ghostly dream. Everything is precisely replicated, down to the kitchen appliances and bathroom fittings. The title of the work is ‘The Perfect Home II (2003)’.
Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy
Exhibition at the Met Breuer, Lenox Hill, until 6th January 2019
This show features works of art that show us the world through the conspiratorial lens. It is the first significant exhibition tackling the controversial topic of conspiracies. It shows two different kinds of art about conspiracy that have developed alongside each other. The first group of artists use their creativity to uncover webs of deceit based on reality, while the other ventures into the feverish dreams of the disaffected, creating fantastical works of art, that nevertheless reveal uncomfortable truths about living in a time of distrust, in public institutions and information overload.
Delacroix
Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, until 6th January 2019
This is the first ever exhibition devoted to Eugene Delacroix in North America. In collaboration with the Louvre in Paris, the Met shows more than 150 paintings, prints, manuscripts and drawings by this influential figure of nineteenth-century art. The works are helpfully presented in chronological order, allowing the visitor to follow the artist’s development over four decades, through a turbulent period that led to the birth of modernism.
Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera
Opens 27th November, at the Met Breuer
This long-term exhibition explores Am
that have developed alongside each other. The first group of artists use their creativity to uncover webs of deceit based on reality, while the other ventures into the feverish dreams of the disaffected, creating fantastical works of art, that nevertheless reveal uncomfortable truths about living in a time of distrust, in public institutions and information overload.
Delacroix
Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, until 6th January 2019
This is the first ever exhibition devoted to Eugene Delacroix in North America. In collaboration with the Louvre in Paris, the Met shows more than 150 paintings, prints, manuscripts and drawings by this influential figure of nineteenth-century art. The works are helpfully presented in chronological order, allowing the visitor to follow the artist’s development over four decades, through a turbulent period that led to the birth of modernism.
Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera
Opens 27th November, at the Met Breuer
This long-term exhibition explores American large-scale abstract sculpture, and painting, from the post-war era to the present.
