Category: The Arts

Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound

You won’t find turquoise and silver in the new exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian. This is a stunning show that transcends conventional ideas about Native art, offering a series of glowing rooms lit in unusual ways, each an immersive space of potent color and sound. Take time to absorb each presentation;...
Raven Chacon's Still Life #3 (2015) is a multi-sensory exploration of belief and the understanding of the Diné creation story

Operation Finale

A new exhibition premiering at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City reveals the secret history behind the capture, extradition, and trial of one of the world’s most notorious war criminals: Adolf Eichmann. Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann, featuring recently declassified artifacts...
The bulletproof glass booth in which Adolf Eichmann testified during his trial in Jerusalem District Court is displayed in the "Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann" exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, in New York, Friday, July 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Jade for Eternity at the China Institute

The China Institute, located at 100 Washington Street, has a new gallery exhibition open for the summer: Dream of the Kings: A Jade Suit for Eternity. This solo exhibition from Xuzhou Museum, debuting in the U.S. for the first time, displays more than 100 newly-excavated artifacts of jade, terracotta soldiers, and bronzes from the Western...
An earthenware dancing figurine from the China Institute's new exhibit.

ART DOWNTOWN

Fred Gutzeit’s work can be best described as being in line. He shapes his paintings as an elegant expression of movement around the picture plane. The colorful paintings are based on the initials of friends and colleagues, which transcend into a lively story within every frame. In his own words, Gutzeit describes his work as...
SIGnature Fred Gutzeit

Liberty Community Gardens

Celebrating vivid spring flowers and seedlings full of promise, Liberty Community Gardeners gathered on April 29 for the first event of the season. Anne O’Neill, Director of Horticulture, Sustainability and Landscape Design, for Battery Park City Parks, dropped by in case anyone needed advice, and gardeners of all ages got busy. LCG’s 50+ garden plots...
Anne O'Neill, BPCPark's Director of Horticulture offers gardening advice to the members

Striking a Chord

High up in the skyscraper known as 28 Liberty, (formerly Chase Manhattan Plaza), 50 artists are toiling away, each painting, and creating art on a unique canvas of ebony and ivory. Their 50 different ideas will inspire, amuse and bring pleasure to New Yorkers this summer when these pianos are placed outdoors around the five...
Sing for Hope artists