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Wangechi Mutu,The End of carrying All, 2015 (still). 3-channel animated video, color, sound, 10:45 min.
Wangechi Mutu’s Magically Intertwined World

Thematically and stylistically, Wangechi Mutu’s art is a bubbling stew of ingredients that don’t always cohere. Part Afro-Futurism, part cyber-punk, and part…

6 Museum Exhibitions to See in 2023
Welcome to the new year, dear readers! It’s 2023, which means a new year, a new beginning, and new art exhibitions to check out. Luckily for you, we put together a round up of the most exciting US…
Theaster Gates, Black Madonna, 2017. Bronze and tar, 58 x 26 x 21 in. 
Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces

While summarizing a career as varied and complex as …

"Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott," 2022. New Museum, New York. (L-R) See Colescott's We Await Thee, (1964), Nubian Queen (1966), and Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet (1968).
Colescott Retrospective “Art and Race Matters” is a Must-See
Fresh off its survey of Faith Ringgold, the New Museum presents a retrospective of another veteran African American painter whose aesthetic DNA courses through subsequent generations of black artists…
Exhibition view featuring The Wake and Resurrection of the Bicentennial Negro (1975–89). 
“Faith Ringgold: American People” Finally Pays the Artist Her Dues
The New Museum’s retrospective of Faith Ringgold seems especially timely. The exhibition reveals how Ringgold’s work sees race not only as a matter of identity politics, but also as foundational to U…
Battery Maritime Building. Courtesy of Etienne Frossard and Independent New York.
5 NYC Art Events You Can’t Miss This Fall
It’s too soon to say, and this preview doesn’t presume to provide an answer. But it does offer a look at the art events to be excited for in the coming months.
Black and white photo of seated Fred Stewart II and Tyler Collins. Both look at camera.
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America
The exhibition brings together works that address black grief as a national emergency in the face of a politically orchestrated white grievance.
Genesis Belanger ceramic sculpture of a box of chocolate with facial features instead of chocolates
Reshaping Reality: An Interview with Genesis Belanger
With a background in animation, fashion design, and advertising, Genesis Belanger constructs colorful staged scenarios that seem enchantingly dreamlike. 
Peter Saul, Ice Box, 1960.
Peter Saul’s Big, Life-Changing Break
For Peter Saul, the road to his major retrospective at the New Museum was a bumpy one.
Daytime View of new addition from Prince Street
New Museum to Double Exhibition Space with Expansion
The New Museum announced today plans for its second building, designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with Cooper Robertson. This will be OMA’s first public…
Installation view, Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel, at the Hammer Museum through September 1
Feminism, Fruit, and Phalluses: Sarah Lucas at the Hammer Museum
If you plan to see Au Naturel, the current survey of Sarah Lucas at Los Angeles’ Hammer Museum, best leave your penis at home. The show has plenty to spare, whether it’s the feminist artist…
Don't Cross the Bridge Before You Get to the River (Strait of Gibraltar, Morocco-Spain)
Artists Reflect on the Global Refugee Crisis in new Exhibition
The Phillips Collection, in partnership with the New Museum, New York, is proud to announce the major exhibition “The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement,” featuring over 60…
Nari Ward: We the People
“Nari Ward: We the People” features over thirty sculptures, paintings, videos, and large-scale installations from throughout Ward’s twenty-five-year career, highlighting his status as one of the most…
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The Past is Present in Nari Ward's "We the People"

Sculptor Nari Ward brings his perspective on the American experience to the New Museum this week. Ward, who was born in Jamaica, has lived and worked in Harlem for much of his twenty-…

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Sarah Lucas Lets it All Hang Out in "Au Naturel"
For the past 30 years, British sculptor Sarah Lucas has been making waves and making audiences chuckle with her dark sense of humor and unique use of materials. Bringing together important works from…