exhibits
The 2019 Met Gala exhibit is about excess, not camp
Monday’s Met Gala wasn’t your typical museum fund-raiser. Lady Gaga performed a 15-minute striptease, Kacey Musgraves, dressed as Barbie, arrived in a pink Corvette convertible and Billy Porter, decked out...
Exhibit explores how Leonard Cohen embraced Buddhism, Judaism and wit
An interviewer once asked Leonard Cohen if he ever thought about changing his name. It was 1966, when ethnic wasn’t exactly in. The singer/songwriter told her he liked the sound...
Frieze New York brings funky, free art to Rockefeller Center
They're part of this year’s annual Frieze art fair, but don’t let the name fool you: The nearly two-dozen sculptures that touched down this week at Rockefeller Center are generating...
Met rooftop's Kwade exhibit dazzles with skyline views
Care for a cosmo to go with the cosmos? The Met’s serving $18 cosmopolitans — and Manhattans, martinis and a bevy of beers and soft drinks — on its roof...
Trump inspires new 'museum' by controversial artist
This exhibition, it’s going to be yuge! Provocative New York artist Andres Serrano is showing off hundreds of examples of Donald Trump memorabilia in a new installation devoted to the...
Affordable Art Fair star ditched test tubes for paintbrushes
Most of us aren’t able to shell out tens of millions of dollars for a Basquiat or a Warhol. But there are countless artists’ works to be had for considerably...
Pioneering artist rediscovered with help from granddaughter she never met
Virginia Bayer never met her grandmother, Marguerita Mergentime, but she knew she was some kind of artist. Growing up on the Upper West Side, Bayer ate off boldly patterned place...
Romantic Japanese opus 'Genji' has inspired for 1,000 years
The “Game of Thrones” fan base is nothing compared to the one for “The Tale of Genji.” That 1,300-page romantic epic has captivated readers for 1,000 years, inspiring a whole...
T. rex exhibit features terrifying beast with a feathery mullet
Tyrannosaurus rex, the 67-million-year-old king of dinosaurs, is taking the throne once again — this time, on the Upper West Side, and with a 21st century twist. The centerpiece of...
Inside the splashy, bird-brained genius of Joan Miró
Before there were Colorforms, there was Joan Miró. Few artists before, during or after left such a colorful legacy, let alone a work built around a stuffed parrot. That last,...
Check out the low-tech precursor to modern movie trailers
Long before big-budget trailers — even before those cute dancing popcorn kernels — moviegoers were treated to a pre-feature parade of 3 ¹/₂- by-4-inch pictures. “When you went to a...
Even Frida Kahlo’s prosthetic leg is a fabulous work of art
In 1933, Frida Kahlo visited Detroit, where her husband, the famed painter Diego Rivera, was at work on one of his monumental murals. But when asked by a reporter what...
Jackie Robinson was a target, but he still came out swinging
During a visit to the Museum of the City of New York earlier this week, a dugout photograph of Brooklyn Dodgers stars Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese caught the...
Now's your chance to revisit James Baldwin's lasting cultural genius
The wide release this weekend of the Barry Jenkins film “If Beale Street Could Talk” makes a new exhibition at Chelsea’s David Zwirner gallery all the more relevant. “God Made...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's shoes to be showcased in exhibit
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez invites you to walk a mile in her shoes. The New York congresswoman-elect’s first pair of campaign trail shoes are being loaned out to the Cornell Costume Collection...
'Corduroy' the teddy bear turns 50 at Museum of the City of NY
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who discovered “Corduroy” as a child, and those who fell in love with the tale while reading it to their...
Mariah Carey's Experience is a glitter bomb for fans
There was the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the late ’60s band fronted by the legendary guitar god. But the Mariah Experience — a new installation at Sony Square NYC celebrating the...
#BlackGirlMagic on display in Harlem art retrospective
Enough about the naked white prostitute in Manet’s 1863 masterpiece, “Olympia”: What’s with the black maid in the pink dress, hovering in the corner? Denise Murrell was determined to find...
200 years later, Frankenstein still freaks out fans
The world’s first science-fiction tale started with a dare. Stranded by bad weather in Switzerland, Mary Shelley, her poet husband, Percy and their friends vied to see who could come...
How the Velvet Underground became a cultural juggernaut
David Bowie, the Ramones, Blondie and Talking Heads all owe a big debt to another Rock & Roll Hall of Fame act: the Velvet Underground. And although it’s been five...