Pairing flamenco with ancient Greek tragedy is the kind of idea that makes the brow furrow. But in Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca’s dark and explosive dance drama, adapted from Sophocles’s “Antigone,” the odd-couple match makes an “Aha!” kind of sense. Choreographed by Ms. Barrio, who plays the title role with arresting intensity, this is a union of two fierc...

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This exhibition features approximately 45 paintings by five contemporary artists.  Each artist's work represents the land in a way that envelopes, calms and invites the viewer to stay and become part of the scenery.  Escape to Tranquility features landscapes without human interaction and presence. Visitors will experience the artists' interest in changing light, contemplative spi...

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The exhibition features an array of paintings and furniture, many on display for the first time, with a particular emphasis on portraits of children, which illustrate the folk artists' unique approach to using color and towards the figurative treatment of their subjects. Explore the rich folk art tradition that flourished in the mid-19th-century in more than 40 works from an important private ...

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The first New York City solo museum exhibition of the work of a painter (born Philadelphia, 1946) whose intensely color-based abstractions have won steadily mounting recognition since the mid-1990s. The exhibition will feature twenty-eight paintings and works on paper created between 2008 and 2015, including the 2013 title work. - See more at: http://www.studiomuseum.org/exhibition/stanley-whitney...

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Everything, Everyday presents three emerging artists whose innovative works, while diverse in form and subject matter, reflect overlapping affinities. Sadie Barnette, Lauren Halsey and Eric Mack explore ideas of disappearance and reemergence, shifting visibilities and the beauty of the everyday. Each artist closely considers matters of artistic process by playing with scale, the ephemeral quality ...

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Over the course of more than three decades, artist and cultural critic Lorraine O’Grady has won acclaim for her installations, performances and texts addressing the subjects of diaspora, hybridity and black female subjectivity.. These color slides were taken by various people who witnessed the performance, and were later collected by O’Grady to compose the series. The forty images on ...

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One Stop Down references a technical choice in photography to allow less light into the camera, which can increase depth of field, image sharpness and effectively convey intention.. Some of this year’s students have composed narratives that require more light to illuminate subjects or ideas, while others deliberately kept light from entering to offer dramatic readings of an image and invite ...

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Harlem Postcards is an ongoing project that invites contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site of cultural activity, political vitality, visual stimuli, artistic contemplation and creative production. Representing intimate and dynamic perspectives of Harlem, the images reflect the idiosyncratic visions of contemporary artists from a wide range of backgrounds and loc...

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This summer we present an exhibition of paintings by Maurice Freedman in Light, Palette, Action! A prolific artist with a true love of the New England subject matter, he captured the essence of that time. His many canvasses include historical references to implements and life in Provincetown that no longer exist. What is unique about this exhibit is curator Mary Sherman’s recogniti...

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In the early years of the twentieth century, a group of young and pivotal American modernists began to equate the straightforwardness, abstracted forms, and delight in color of early folk art with the new modernist art they had studied in Europe and were pioneering in America. The exhibition highlights folk art owned, collected, and exhibited by early art-world luminaries. In regarding folk art a...

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