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- Constantin Brancusi at MOMAConstantin Brancusi at MOMATime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Constantin Brancusi carved his work directly from wood or stone, or cast it in bronze. Simultaneously, he rejected realism, preferring that his sculptures evoke rather than resemble the subjects named in their titles. Brancusi made bases for many of his sculptures, themselves complex constructions that became part of the work. The exhibit runs from July 22 through February 18, 2018 at MOMA.
- The Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western CameroonThe Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western CameroonTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
The Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western Cameroon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Sept. 3). In the African wing, a show of just four commanding wooden crowns constitutes a blockbuster in its own right. These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met’s recent acquisition of an 18th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths and brows incised with involute geometric patterns. Ritual objects like these were decisive for the development of Western modernist painting, and a Cameroonian crest was even shown at MoMA in the 1930s, as a “sculpture” divorced from ethnography. But these crests had legal and diplomatic significance as well as aesthetic appeal, and their anonymous African creators had a political understanding of art not so far from our own.
- Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. GuggenhiemAlberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. GuggenhiemTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. Guggenhiem Museum thru September 12, 2018, a preeminent artist of the twentieth century who investigated the human figure for more than forty years. This comprehensive exhibition, a collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti in Paris, examines anew the artist’s practice and his unmistakable aesthetic vocabulary. Featuring important works in bronze and in oil, as well as plaster sculptures and drawings never before seen in this country, the exhibition aims to provide a deeper understanding of this artist, whose intensive focus on the human condition continues to provoke and inspire new generations.
- Firelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire at the Studio Museum HarlemFirelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire at the Studio Museum HarlemTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Firelei Báez continues the artist’s longstanding interest in representations of women, particularly Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latina women in visual culture and history. In this exhibition, Báez features women whose legacies are preserved and maintained by the archives of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, reimagining them in conversation through imaginative portraits that incorporate materials such as reproductions of archival photographs, notes, diaries, letters, and manuscripts.
- Constantin Brancusi at MOMAConstantin Brancusi at MOMATime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Upcoming Events
- July 20, 2018
- Firelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire at the Studio Museum HarlemFirelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire at the Studio Museum HarlemTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmFirelei Báez continues the artist’s longstanding interest in representations of women, particularly Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latina women in visual culture and history. In this exhibition, Báez features women whose legacies are preserved and maintained by the archives of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, reimagining them in conversation through imaginative portraits that incorporate materials such as reproductions of archival photographs, notes, diaries, letters, and manuscripts.
- Equalizer 2- movie openingEqualizer 2- movie openingTime: 10:00 am
Denzel Washington returns in Equalizer 2 to one of his signature roles in the first sequel of his career. Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed - but how far will he go when that is someone he loves?
- The Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western CameroonThe Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western CameroonTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmThe Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western Cameroon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Sept. 3). In the African wing, a show of just four commanding wooden crowns constitutes a blockbuster in its own right. These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met’s recent acquisition of an 18th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths and brows incised with involute geometric patterns. Ritual objects like these were decisive for the development of Western modernist painting, and a Cameroonian crest was even shown at MoMA in the 1930s, as a “sculpture” divorced from ethnography. But these crests had legal and diplomatic significance as well as aesthetic appeal, and their anonymous African creators had a political understanding of art not so far from our own.
- Constantin Brancusi at MOMAConstantin Brancusi at MOMATime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmConstantin Brancusi carved his work directly from wood or stone, or cast it in bronze. Simultaneously, he rejected realism, preferring that his sculptures evoke rather than resemble the subjects named in their titles. Brancusi made bases for many of his sculptures, themselves complex constructions that became part of the work. The exhibit runs from July 22 through February 18, 2018 at MOMA.
- Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. GuggenhiemAlberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. GuggenhiemTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmAlberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. Guggenhiem Museum thru September 12, 2018, a preeminent artist of the twentieth century who investigated the human figure for more than forty years. This comprehensive exhibition, a collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti in Paris, examines anew the artist’s practice and his unmistakable aesthetic vocabulary. Featuring important works in bronze and in oil, as well as plaster sculptures and drawings never before seen in this country, the exhibition aims to provide a deeper understanding of this artist, whose intensive focus on the human condition continues to provoke and inspire new generations.
- TEXTURE: Joffrey Ballet SchoolTEXTURE: Joffrey Ballet SchoolTime: 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
TEXTURE the Joffrey Ballet School's New York City Summer Ballet Intensive's culminating performances at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre/ Symphony Space on July 20, 2:30 and 7:30pm . Directed by Artistic Directors Josie Walsh and Jo Matos featuring our talented students from around the globe in original works by our world-class choreographers.
- Anoushka Shankar and My Brightest DiamondAnoushka Shankar and My Brightest DiamondTime: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Anoushka Shankar and My Brightest Diamond will perform at the Bandshell as part of BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival on July 20, 7:30pm presented in partnership with Prospect Park Alliance. Melding Indian classical raga with other world music influences and electronica beats in her new project Land of Gold, the sitar master Anoushka Shankar creates a sound “whose shimmering textures seem to offer a hotline to the divine,” (The Australian) honoring tradition while boldly embracing the future. The indie experimentalist Shara Nova, who as My Brightest Diamond makes music that “feels simultaneously micro-orchestrated and entirely, ecstatically spontaneous,” (NPR) brings a brand new lineup to the Bandshell in advance of a new record out this fall.
- TEXTURE: Joffrey Ballet SchoolTEXTURE: Joffrey Ballet SchoolTime: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pmTEXTURE the Joffrey Ballet School's New York City Summer Ballet Intensive's culminating performances at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre/ Symphony Space on July 20, 2:30 and 7:30pm . Directed by Artistic Directors Josie Walsh and Jo Matos featuring our talented students from around the globe in original works by our world-class choreographers.
- FrankieFridays at The Happiness LoungeFrankieFridays at The Happiness LoungeTime: 10:00 pm - 4:00 am
FrankieFridays at The Happiness Lounge, 1458 St. Johns Place (bet. Utica Avenue and Rochester Avenue, Brooklyn), presents legendary DJ Frankie Paradise spinning House Soulful Classic every Friday.
- Firelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire at the Studio Museum HarlemFirelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire at the Studio Museum HarlemTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
- July 21, 2018
- Firelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire at the Studio Museum HarlemFirelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire at the Studio Museum HarlemTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmFirelei Báez continues the artist’s longstanding interest in representations of women, particularly Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latina women in visual culture and history. In this exhibition, Báez features women whose legacies are preserved and maintained by the archives of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, reimagining them in conversation through imaginative portraits that incorporate materials such as reproductions of archival photographs, notes, diaries, letters, and manuscripts.
- The Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western CameroonThe Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western CameroonTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmThe Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western Cameroon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Sept. 3). In the African wing, a show of just four commanding wooden crowns constitutes a blockbuster in its own right. These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met’s recent acquisition of an 18th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths and brows incised with involute geometric patterns. Ritual objects like these were decisive for the development of Western modernist painting, and a Cameroonian crest was even shown at MoMA in the 1930s, as a “sculpture” divorced from ethnography. But these crests had legal and diplomatic significance as well as aesthetic appeal, and their anonymous African creators had a political understanding of art not so far from our own.
- Constantin Brancusi at MOMAConstantin Brancusi at MOMATime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmConstantin Brancusi carved his work directly from wood or stone, or cast it in bronze. Simultaneously, he rejected realism, preferring that his sculptures evoke rather than resemble the subjects named in their titles. Brancusi made bases for many of his sculptures, themselves complex constructions that became part of the work. The exhibit runs from July 22 through February 18, 2018 at MOMA.
- Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. GuggenhiemAlberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. GuggenhiemTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmAlberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. Guggenhiem Museum thru September 12, 2018, a preeminent artist of the twentieth century who investigated the human figure for more than forty years. This comprehensive exhibition, a collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti in Paris, examines anew the artist’s practice and his unmistakable aesthetic vocabulary. Featuring important works in bronze and in oil, as well as plaster sculptures and drawings never before seen in this country, the exhibition aims to provide a deeper understanding of this artist, whose intensive focus on the human condition continues to provoke and inspire new generations.
- Fire Island Dance FestivalFire Island Dance FestivalTime: 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Fire Island Dance Festival (July 20- 22) is a weekend of world-class dance, breathtaking views and unparalleled culture. Immerse yourself in dance with a diverse lineup of companies and choreographers, performing on a stunning waterfront stage in the Fire Island Pines. This year’s lineup includes works by choreographers Gemma Bond, James Kinney, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Jamar Roberts and Christopher Wheeldon, and performances by Caleb Teicher & Company, Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Cirio Collective and Paul Taylor Dance Company.
- Fire Island Dance FestivalFire Island Dance FestivalTime: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Fire Island Dance Festival (July 20- 22) is a weekend of world-class dance, breathtaking views and unparalleled culture. Immerse yourself in dance with a diverse lineup of companies and choreographers, performing on a stunning waterfront stage in the Fire Island Pines. This year’s lineup includes works by choreographers Gemma Bond, James Kinney, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Jamar Roberts and Christopher Wheeldon, and performances by Caleb Teicher & Company, Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Cirio Collective and Paul Taylor Dance Company.
- Mummenschanz: You & MeMummenschanz: You & MeTime: 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Mummenschanz: You & Me at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College through July 22. Best known for its three-year Broadway run in the late 1970s, this Swiss troupe performs visually arresting mask theater without music or sound. Its new show, created by company cofounder Floriana Frassetto, brings the troupe back to New York for the first time since 2014.
- Firelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire at the Studio Museum HarlemFirelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire at the Studio Museum HarlemTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
- July 22, 2018
- Firelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire at the Studio Museum HarlemFirelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire at the Studio Museum HarlemTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmFirelei Báez continues the artist’s longstanding interest in representations of women, particularly Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latina women in visual culture and history. In this exhibition, Báez features women whose legacies are preserved and maintained by the archives of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, reimagining them in conversation through imaginative portraits that incorporate materials such as reproductions of archival photographs, notes, diaries, letters, and manuscripts.
- The Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western CameroonThe Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western CameroonTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmThe Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western Cameroon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Sept. 3). In the African wing, a show of just four commanding wooden crowns constitutes a blockbuster in its own right. These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met’s recent acquisition of an 18th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths and brows incised with involute geometric patterns. Ritual objects like these were decisive for the development of Western modernist painting, and a Cameroonian crest was even shown at MoMA in the 1930s, as a “sculpture” divorced from ethnography. But these crests had legal and diplomatic significance as well as aesthetic appeal, and their anonymous African creators had a political understanding of art not so far from our own.
- Constantin Brancusi at MOMAConstantin Brancusi at MOMATime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmConstantin Brancusi carved his work directly from wood or stone, or cast it in bronze. Simultaneously, he rejected realism, preferring that his sculptures evoke rather than resemble the subjects named in their titles. Brancusi made bases for many of his sculptures, themselves complex constructions that became part of the work. The exhibit runs from July 22 through February 18, 2018 at MOMA.
- Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. GuggenhiemAlberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. GuggenhiemTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmAlberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. Guggenhiem Museum thru September 12, 2018, a preeminent artist of the twentieth century who investigated the human figure for more than forty years. This comprehensive exhibition, a collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti in Paris, examines anew the artist’s practice and his unmistakable aesthetic vocabulary. Featuring important works in bronze and in oil, as well as plaster sculptures and drawings never before seen in this country, the exhibition aims to provide a deeper understanding of this artist, whose intensive focus on the human condition continues to provoke and inspire new generations.
- Bolshoi Summer Series: Giselle (Encore)Bolshoi Summer Series: Giselle (Encore)Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Bolshoi Summer Series: Giselle (Encore) on July 22, 1pm. at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre Prima ballerina Svetlana Zakharova personifies this ultimate ballerina role in the classical repertoire, alongside the sensational Sergei Polunin as Albrecht, in this chilling, yet luminous ballet that continues to captivate audiences for over 150 years at the Bolshoi.
- Mummenschanz: You & MeMummenschanz: You & MeTime: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pmMummenschanz: You & Me at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College through July 22. Best known for its three-year Broadway run in the late 1970s, this Swiss troupe performs visually arresting mask theater without music or sound. Its new show, created by company cofounder Floriana Frassetto, brings the troupe back to New York for the first time since 2014.
- Fire Island Dance FestivalFire Island Dance FestivalTime: 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmFire Island Dance Festival (July 20- 22) is a weekend of world-class dance, breathtaking views and unparalleled culture. Immerse yourself in dance with a diverse lineup of companies and choreographers, performing on a stunning waterfront stage in the Fire Island Pines. This year’s lineup includes works by choreographers Gemma Bond, James Kinney, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Jamar Roberts and Christopher Wheeldon, and performances by Caleb Teicher & Company, Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Cirio Collective and Paul Taylor Dance Company.
- Firelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire at the Studio Museum HarlemFirelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire at the Studio Museum HarlemTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
- July 23, 2018
- Constantin Brancusi at MOMAConstantin Brancusi at MOMATime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmConstantin Brancusi carved his work directly from wood or stone, or cast it in bronze. Simultaneously, he rejected realism, preferring that his sculptures evoke rather than resemble the subjects named in their titles. Brancusi made bases for many of his sculptures, themselves complex constructions that became part of the work. The exhibit runs from July 22 through February 18, 2018 at MOMA.
- The Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western CameroonThe Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western CameroonTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmThe Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western Cameroon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Sept. 3). In the African wing, a show of just four commanding wooden crowns constitutes a blockbuster in its own right. These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met’s recent acquisition of an 18th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths and brows incised with involute geometric patterns. Ritual objects like these were decisive for the development of Western modernist painting, and a Cameroonian crest was even shown at MoMA in the 1930s, as a “sculpture” divorced from ethnography. But these crests had legal and diplomatic significance as well as aesthetic appeal, and their anonymous African creators had a political understanding of art not so far from our own.
- Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. GuggenhiemAlberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. GuggenhiemTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmAlberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. Guggenhiem Museum thru September 12, 2018, a preeminent artist of the twentieth century who investigated the human figure for more than forty years. This comprehensive exhibition, a collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti in Paris, examines anew the artist’s practice and his unmistakable aesthetic vocabulary. Featuring important works in bronze and in oil, as well as plaster sculptures and drawings never before seen in this country, the exhibition aims to provide a deeper understanding of this artist, whose intensive focus on the human condition continues to provoke and inspire new generations.
- Firelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire at the Studio Museum HarlemFirelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire at the Studio Museum HarlemTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmFirelei Báez continues the artist’s longstanding interest in representations of women, particularly Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latina women in visual culture and history. In this exhibition, Báez features women whose legacies are preserved and maintained by the archives of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, reimagining them in conversation through imaginative portraits that incorporate materials such as reproductions of archival photographs, notes, diaries, letters, and manuscripts.
- Constantin Brancusi at MOMAConstantin Brancusi at MOMATime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
- July 24, 2018
- Constantin Brancusi at MOMAConstantin Brancusi at MOMATime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmConstantin Brancusi carved his work directly from wood or stone, or cast it in bronze. Simultaneously, he rejected realism, preferring that his sculptures evoke rather than resemble the subjects named in their titles. Brancusi made bases for many of his sculptures, themselves complex constructions that became part of the work. The exhibit runs from July 22 through February 18, 2018 at MOMA.
- The Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western CameroonThe Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western CameroonTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmThe Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western Cameroon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Sept. 3). In the African wing, a show of just four commanding wooden crowns constitutes a blockbuster in its own right. These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met’s recent acquisition of an 18th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths and brows incised with involute geometric patterns. Ritual objects like these were decisive for the development of Western modernist painting, and a Cameroonian crest was even shown at MoMA in the 1930s, as a “sculpture” divorced from ethnography. But these crests had legal and diplomatic significance as well as aesthetic appeal, and their anonymous African creators had a political understanding of art not so far from our own.
- Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. GuggenhiemAlberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. GuggenhiemTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmAlberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. Guggenhiem Museum thru September 12, 2018, a preeminent artist of the twentieth century who investigated the human figure for more than forty years. This comprehensive exhibition, a collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti in Paris, examines anew the artist’s practice and his unmistakable aesthetic vocabulary. Featuring important works in bronze and in oil, as well as plaster sculptures and drawings never before seen in this country, the exhibition aims to provide a deeper understanding of this artist, whose intensive focus on the human condition continues to provoke and inspire new generations.
- Firelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire at the Studio Museum HarlemFirelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire at the Studio Museum HarlemTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmFirelei Báez continues the artist’s longstanding interest in representations of women, particularly Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latina women in visual culture and history. In this exhibition, Báez features women whose legacies are preserved and maintained by the archives of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, reimagining them in conversation through imaginative portraits that incorporate materials such as reproductions of archival photographs, notes, diaries, letters, and manuscripts.
- Constantin Brancusi at MOMAConstantin Brancusi at MOMATime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
- July 25, 2018
- Constantin Brancusi at MOMAConstantin Brancusi at MOMATime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmConstantin Brancusi carved his work directly from wood or stone, or cast it in bronze. Simultaneously, he rejected realism, preferring that his sculptures evoke rather than resemble the subjects named in their titles. Brancusi made bases for many of his sculptures, themselves complex constructions that became part of the work. The exhibit runs from July 22 through February 18, 2018 at MOMA.
- The Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western CameroonThe Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western CameroonTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmThe Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western Cameroon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Sept. 3). In the African wing, a show of just four commanding wooden crowns constitutes a blockbuster in its own right. These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met’s recent acquisition of an 18th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths and brows incised with involute geometric patterns. Ritual objects like these were decisive for the development of Western modernist painting, and a Cameroonian crest was even shown at MoMA in the 1930s, as a “sculpture” divorced from ethnography. But these crests had legal and diplomatic significance as well as aesthetic appeal, and their anonymous African creators had a political understanding of art not so far from our own.
- Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. GuggenhiemAlberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. GuggenhiemTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmAlberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. Guggenhiem Museum thru September 12, 2018, a preeminent artist of the twentieth century who investigated the human figure for more than forty years. This comprehensive exhibition, a collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti in Paris, examines anew the artist’s practice and his unmistakable aesthetic vocabulary. Featuring important works in bronze and in oil, as well as plaster sculptures and drawings never before seen in this country, the exhibition aims to provide a deeper understanding of this artist, whose intensive focus on the human condition continues to provoke and inspire new generations.
- Firelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire at the Studio Museum HarlemFirelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire at the Studio Museum HarlemTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmFirelei Báez continues the artist’s longstanding interest in representations of women, particularly Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latina women in visual culture and history. In this exhibition, Báez features women whose legacies are preserved and maintained by the archives of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, reimagining them in conversation through imaginative portraits that incorporate materials such as reproductions of archival photographs, notes, diaries, letters, and manuscripts.
- Constantin Brancusi at MOMAConstantin Brancusi at MOMATime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
- July 26, 2018
- Constantin Brancusi at MOMAConstantin Brancusi at MOMATime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmConstantin Brancusi carved his work directly from wood or stone, or cast it in bronze. Simultaneously, he rejected realism, preferring that his sculptures evoke rather than resemble the subjects named in their titles. Brancusi made bases for many of his sculptures, themselves complex constructions that became part of the work. The exhibit runs from July 22 through February 18, 2018 at MOMA.
- The Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western CameroonThe Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western CameroonTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmThe Face Of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western Cameroon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Sept. 3). In the African wing, a show of just four commanding wooden crowns constitutes a blockbuster in its own right. These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met’s recent acquisition of an 18th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths and brows incised with involute geometric patterns. Ritual objects like these were decisive for the development of Western modernist painting, and a Cameroonian crest was even shown at MoMA in the 1930s, as a “sculpture” divorced from ethnography. But these crests had legal and diplomatic significance as well as aesthetic appeal, and their anonymous African creators had a political understanding of art not so far from our own.
- Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. GuggenhiemAlberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. GuggenhiemTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmAlberto Giacometti (1901–1966) at the Solomon R. Guggenhiem Museum thru September 12, 2018, a preeminent artist of the twentieth century who investigated the human figure for more than forty years. This comprehensive exhibition, a collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti in Paris, examines anew the artist’s practice and his unmistakable aesthetic vocabulary. Featuring important works in bronze and in oil, as well as plaster sculptures and drawings never before seen in this country, the exhibition aims to provide a deeper understanding of this artist, whose intensive focus on the human condition continues to provoke and inspire new generations.
- Firelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire at the Studio Museum HarlemFirelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire at the Studio Museum HarlemTime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pmFirelei Báez continues the artist’s longstanding interest in representations of women, particularly Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latina women in visual culture and history. In this exhibition, Báez features women whose legacies are preserved and maintained by the archives of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, reimagining them in conversation through imaginative portraits that incorporate materials such as reproductions of archival photographs, notes, diaries, letters, and manuscripts.
- Constantin Brancusi at MOMAConstantin Brancusi at MOMATime: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
- July 20, 2018