Art
The Art of Real New York: Through the Eyes of NYC’s Most Rebellious Artists
Church of Sweden 5 East 48th Street, New York, NY, United StatesIf you were a mainstream artist or photographer living in New York within the last 200 years, chances are you wanted to showcase the best the city had to offer — the elite, the beautiful gardens, the fabulous hustle and bustle. But within each generation of creatives, a handful of artists rebelled, and insisted on […]
Evening with Artist Dread Scott, Creator of “Slave Rebellion Reenactment”
Revolution Books 437 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY, United StatesA Benefit Evening to Save Revolution Books with artist Dread Scott, in conversation with Andy Zee, spokesperson for Revolution Books About this Event On November 8 and 9, 2019, hundreds of re-enactors retraced the path of the largest rebellion of enslaved people in United States history, embodying a story of resistance, freedom and revolutionary action. […]
The Big Thaw: Ancient Carbon, Modern Science, and a Race to Save the World
The Explorer's Club 46 E 70th Street, New York, NY, United StatesPermafrost—dark, ice-flaked, permanently frozen ground that lies under tundra and boreal forests across our northern regions—covers more than 12 percent of the earth’s land surface. It exists in places that seem otherworldly and unimaginably remote to most of us, but the changes taking place in the permafrost layer may ultimately affect the lives of every […]
Artist Talk with Sinan Antoon and Hadieh Shafie
Center For Book Arts Inc 28 West 27th St, New York, NY, United StatesCurator for “I open my eyes and see myself under a tree laden with fruit that I cannot name.” , Lila Nazemian will be in conversation with poet Sinan Antoon and artist Hadieh Shafie to discuss the themes in the exhibition, relative to narrative-making practices of language, translation, and the mechanics of the written word. “I open […]
Lequeu, Exceptional Draftsman?
The Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesIf it were not for his drawings at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Jean-Jacques Lequeu would be a simple footnote in the history of late eighteenth-century French architecture. Lequeu’s drawings reflect the way architects of his generation tended to rely more heavily on graphic communication than on textual or theoretical means of expressing their ideas. […]