New York Hours / The sections
Arts
Exhibitions, museums, artists and ideas shaping the city’s visual culture.
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A 1976 New York night out becomes a history lesson
In 1976, New York was in financial trouble and inventing new ways to dance.
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Harlem’s newest resident artists take the museum floor
Three artists have taken over the Studio Museum in Harlem’s fall residency exhibition.
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Arthur Jafa brings his unruly archive to the New Museum
Arthur Jafa’s video collages ask viewers to look at images they might otherwise turn away from.
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The Upper West Side gets a new house for photography
Aperture has opened a gallery and bookstore opposite the American Museum of Natural History.
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Brancusi’s Paris studio is coming to Manhattan
Constantin Brancusi spent decades rearranging a studio that was almost as carefully composed as his sculptures.
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Claire Danes and Zac Posen celebrate Lichtenstein’s return to the Whitney
Claire Danes, Zac Posen and Fran Drescher were among the guests celebrating the Whitney Museum of American Art’s new Roy Lichtenstein exhibition…
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The New Museum throws its doors open to the world
The New Museum’s latest Triennial takes its title from artists who challenged the authority of galleries. Can the expanded institution make room…
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At the Met, Lee Krasner steps out of Jackson Pollock’s shadow
The Met’s new exhibition puts Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock side by side across their full careers, changing the balance of a…
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The Surrealists Put Their Strangest Ideas Between Covers
MoMA’s new exhibition argues that Surrealism did some of its most radical work not on canvas, but inside books built to unsettle,…
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Roy Lichtenstein comes home to New York
The Whitney’s major new Lichtenstein retrospective brings Pop art back to the New York that made it famous, in a culture now…