The exibition is a monographic show by Jamaican artist Ebony G. Patterson, who splits her time between Kingston, Jamaica and Lexington, KY.  Incorporating a wide variety of media, Patterson embellishes tapestries, sculptures, and paintings to talk about visibility in terms of class, gender, race, and the media. Her highly embellished, almost illuminated images and objects are intended to attr...

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Film director Jennie Livingston will present her groundbreaking 1990 documentary, Paris Is Burning. Filmed during the mid-to-late 1980s, this intimate portrait of the Harlem drag balls was a winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize. Time magazine called it “one of the most influential cultural works to come out of New York City in 40 years.” On hand for a discussion with Livingston afte...

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Using images, artifacts, interactives, and oral histories, the exhibition will look back at local innovations that were key to computer development, from vacuum tubes and punched cards to transistors. And it will highlight pioneering work after the 1964 Fair, such as the computer graphics revolution born in New York City a decade later. Long before Silicon Valley became synonymous with all things ...

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The exhibition presents a diverse landscape of masterpieces from the museum’s collection that incorporate poetic inscriptions in their composition or have direct relationships to America’s rich poetic traditions.  Sound and Sense: Poetic Musings in American Art will explore the connections between American poetry and painting, sculpture, and decorative arts from the Wadsworth Athe...

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On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of MoMA’s The Responsive Eye, this exhibition presents a Latin American perspective that both celebrates and challenges the 1965 show. Illusive Eye reexamines the phenomenon of op art and geometrical abstraction. El Museo’s exhibition will feature works from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Uruguay, a...

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This Costume Institute exhibition will focus on the internationally renowned style icon Countess Jacqueline de Ribes, whose originality and elegance established her as one of the most celebrated fashion personas of the twentieth century. The thematic show will feature about sixty ensembles of haute couture and ready-to-wear primarily from de Ribes's personal archive, dating from 1959 to the presen...

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This exhibition, from The Andy Warhol Museum, includes Canis Major: Andy Warhol’s Dogs and Cats, and features 65 objects including paintings, photographs, video and archival materials.  Pop master Andy Warhol explored the theme of romantic love in images of hearts and cupids and images of his paramours. Monday: Closed Sundays: 12 noon - 5:00 p.m.

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This installation presents three works that play on notions of fame, originality, and the cult of personality, including a copy of the Mona Lisa, Andy Warhol's Mao, and Aaron T Stephan's Girl With a Pearl Earring—Tangled Process. When juxtaposed, these works ask provocative questions about the traditions of artistic copying and the celebrity of images. The context in which we see ima...

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The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue will examine an important development in contemporary photography, offering an opportunity to define the concerns of a younger generation of artists and contextualize their work within the history of art and visual culture. Drawing on the legacies of Conceptualism, these artists pursue a largely studio-based approach to still-life photography that cent...

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This exhibition charts shifts in artistic styles and national moods through approximately 140 objects. Included are paintings of the Coney Island shore in the 1870s by William Merritt Chase and John Henry Twachtman; modernist depictions of the amusement park by Joseph Stella; Depression-era scenes of cheap thrills by Reginald Marsh; photographs by Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, Weegee, and Bruce David...

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