For this new installation at Dia:Beacon, the artist redesigned Excursus to engage with the museum’s architectural and lighting specificities, a technique he has articulated as “site-conditioned,” in which “the sculptural response draws all its cues (reasons for being) from its surroundings.” Realized almost thirty years later, Excursus: Homage to the Square3 furthere...

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Comprised of nearly 70 esteemed artists and architects, The Annual 2015: The Depth of the Surface is a celebration of the Academy’s members and, as in years past, features a broad range of styles employed by several generations of National Academicians. Now in its 189th year, this storied exhibition will be on view. A paradox, The Depth of the Surface seeks to delve beneath the surface of th...

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Bringing together over one hundred works from the Guggenheim’s contemporary collection, Storylines examines the diverse ways in which artists today engage narrative through installation, painting, photography, sculpture, video, and performance.  In projects created through extensive research, acts of appropriation, or performance, the artists in Storylines uncover layers of meaning, tur...

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Depicting quotidian life in the country, urban scenes, and imagined views of timeless Arcadian realms, this selection of rarely exhibited landscape drawings from the Frick’s small but superb collection of works on paper reveals thematic continuities across four centuries. The watercolor finds an ideal context among drawings by Vollon’s contemporaries and forebears — including Cla...

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Celebrating the Creative Spirit of New York City Kids - This year marks the thirteenth anniversary of P.S. Art, an annual exhibition of talented young artists from New York City's public schools. The selection showcases the creativity of eighty-eight prekindergarten through grade 12 students from all five boroughs and includes paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs, mixed-media works, coll...

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Flaming June makes its first public appearance in New York City in more than thirty-five years, exhibited alongside the Frick’s four full-length portraits by James McNeill Whistler, another major proponent of “art for art’s sake.” Sunday hours are - 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Closed Mondays and holidays

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“Albert Oehlen: Home and Garden” is the first New York museum exhibition of the work of the pioneering German painter Albert Oehlen (b. 1954, Krefeld, Germany). The range of imagery and techniques that Oehlen has deployed throughout his career is staggering. His canvases capture haunting interiors, mutating self-portraits, archaic and digital landscapes, cryptic fragments of language,...

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Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the Dream Festival that was organized by Dia Art Foundation in 1975 and demonstrating the institution’s commitment to long-term support for artists, Dia presents a newly acquired, site-specific iteration of Dream House by La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, and Jung Hee Choi at 545 West 22nd Street in New York City. Titled Dia 15 VI 13 545 West 22 Street D...

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Exhibition  includes:  Lead  Belly’s  12-­‐string  guitar,Odetta’s  iconic  guitar  “Baby,”  handwritten  manuscript of  Bob  Dylan’s  “Blowin’  in  the  Wind,”Woody  Guthrieand  Pete  Seeger  letters.  a  celebration  of  the...

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George Caleb Bingham and the River - One of the foremost American genre painters of the nineteenth century, George Caleb Bingham is best known for his compelling depictions of frontier life along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. This exhibition brings together for the first time sixteen of Bingham's iconic river paintings, with such highlights as The Jolly Flatboatmen (1846; National Galle...

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