Who Was at This Year’s Party in the Garden at MoMA?
Refik Anadol was one of this year’s MoMA Party in the Garden honorees. Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Museum of Modern Art Arguably a highlight of the spring party …
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Inside the Dia Art Foundation’s 2024 Spring Benefit | Observer Arts
Maja Hoffmann, Theaster Gates and Julianne Moore. Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com Dia Art Foundation has been a staple of New York’s cultural scene for more than three decades. Dia Chelsea, in particular, …
Odd one out like James Baldwin: black artist Glenn Ligon on writer’s essay about alienation that inspires him, and his first Greater China solo show
The experience of being the odd one out at school might have drawn him to Baldwin’s essay, he says. Although New York was and is full of black people, Ligon …
Review: ‘Bronx Calling Sixth AIM Biennial’ at Bronx Museum of the Arts
An installation view of ‘Bronx Calling: Sixth AIM Biennial.’ Courtesy The Bronx Museum of the Arts The Bronx Museum of the Arts is way up there, but if you can …
Review: ‘Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971’ at DIA
Recently I attended a talk given by an artist and a film professor about the history and influence of Black cinema, a nebulous term that was among the first topics …
Miami’s Rubell Museum to Stage Plays Inspired By Its Art Collection
Playwrights will create performances based on specific works of art. Courtesy Rubell Museum Visitors checking out Miami’s Rubell Museum in the coming weeks can take in its vast collection of …