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31/07/2025

80th Anniversary of the USA-JAPAN Atomic Bombings: Sowing seeds for the future
The Children’s Art Carnival presents Seed Bomb, an exhibition marking the 80th anniversary of the devastating atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Coinciding with this solemn milestone, the exhibition and its accompanying workshops take place in a deeply resonant location—Harlem, just blocks from Manhattanville, where research for the Manhattan Project was once conducted.

Featured Show: Seed Bomb
Featured Artists:
Blanka Amezkua, Michele Brody, Noreen Dean Dresser, Garry Grant, Laura King, Eiko Nishida, Nazanin No androozi, Tomo Mori, Nancy Paredes, Yasuyo Tanaka, TAFA, and Tammy Wofsey
Featured Venue: Children’s Art Carnival
Show Curator: Yasuyo Tanaka
August 1 – 31 | Fridays 5:30–7:30 PM | Sat/Sun 12–5 PM

“Seed Bomb: 80th Anniversary of the USA–Japan Atomic Bombings”
at Manhattanville Community Center
530 W 133rd St, NYC
July 10 – August 15 | Thurs–Sat, 4:30–8:30 PM

30/07/2025

Beverly’s is well-known, amongst artists and locals alike, and has been a main fixture of the art community for years. Found on the Lower East Side, right on Grand Street, artists, gallery owners, writers, and curators come here to spend their time after their day is done. Beverly’s owner and creator, Leah Dixon, wanted to make this gallery space an opportunity to get thousands of eyes on work and thousands of conversations started. With their current exhibition, Sunrise, intertwined with the bar, there are many stories to be had.

Special thanks to our writer Taylor Bielecki .bielecki
Featured Show: Sunrise
Featured Artists:
Camille Rouzaud
Ryan Oskin
Lamar Robillard
Daniel Barragán
Nicole Mouriño
Sabrina Mendoza Malavé
Featured Venue: Beverly
297 Grand Street, Chinatown, New York NY

29/07/2025

Landscapes, Ronit Goldschmidt‘s solo exhibition at Gordon Gallery, is as unpretentious and straightforward as its title. This group of paintings ranges from 6×4 to 23×27-inch panels—tiny but mighty. Their strength derives from the apparent skill of the painter to transport the viewer to a place so specific that it feels familiar. She successfully translates the full spectrum of a real moment by simple means of acrylic or gouache.

Special thanks to our writer: Noa Charuvi
Featured Show: Landscapes
Featured Artist: Ronit Goldschmidt .gold
Featured Venue: Gordon Gallery

28/07/2025

Seeing John Knuth’s exhibition, The Hot Garden, at Hollis Taggart’s new downtown outpost was wonderful, surreal, energetic, and unexpected. This is Knuth’s first major body of work following the devastating Eaton Fire in January 2025, which destroyed the artist’s home and archive. This exhibition gives us an opportunity to see fragments of the past and the birth or rebirth of something entirely new out of the ashes, embodying the quote in the press release from Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, writer and once Altadena resident, “All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you.”

Special thanks to our writer Taylor Bielecki .bielecki
Featured Show: The Hot Garden
Featured Artist: John Knuth
Featured Venue: Hollis Taggart Gallery (Downtown)
On View through: August 16, 2025

26/07/2025

Featured Exhibition: By Land, By Sea, By Air
On View through July 27, 2025
Location: 325 Project Space, Ridgewood, NY
Hours: Saturdays & Sundays, 12–5 PM and by appointment
Artists: Doreen McCarthy , Guy Nelson , Rand Hardy .hardy

Curated by Patricia Zarate and Jeff Feld

23/07/2025

Susan Mastrangelo’s solo show, The Beat Goes On, at The Pocket Gallery of Katherine Markel Fine Arts features work completed from 2022 to 2025, with the majority of the pieces completed in 2025. Mastrangelo creates bold reliefs that transform a variety of materials into bold abstract and biomorphic forms.

Special thanks to our writer Etty Yaniv .yaniv
Artist in Dialogue: Susan Mastrangelo
Venue: Kathryn Markel Fine Arts

22/07/2025

A person who can sit through a Survey of Art lecture set to a Leonard Cohen soundtrack while reading The Waves may be well equipped to navigate Emily Sundblad’s Adolescent Ocean. Personal history intermingles with cultural and art iconography, forming a tide of debris that floats to the surface in this show of collage-like, collective memory-dreams.

Special thanks to our writer: Peter Schroth
Featured Artist: Emily Sundblad
Featured Venue: Bortolami

21/07/2025

There is a hidden gem on view at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City—an art book group show of 15 artists carefully curated by the directors and curators of Monira Foundation and Mana Contemporary. The exhibition unfolds across two rooms. In the first space, the viewer encounters a dimly lit room of suspended tables uniquely designed by Kele McComsey. On each table, there is a carefully curated display of artist books—a rare opportunity to view this uniquely expressive form of art. During the run of the show, the curators periodically shift some books, while others are welcome to be handled. This is an incredible opportunity to see artist books and experience their magic. Blurring the lines between book and sculpture, these magnetic art objects have always been a curatorial challenge. They are meant to be experienced, unlike most other art pieces.

Special thanks to our writer: Anna Shukeylo
Featured Artists: Amy Wilson, Ana Paula Cordeiro, Ann Messner, Anne Muntges, Colleen Topping, Ernesto Carozzo, Geraldine Neuwirth, Jean Wolff, John O’Connor, Kelly Driscoll, Liz Ndoye, Pol Morton, Renate Aller, Rowan Renee, and Rujuta Rao
Featured Venue: Mana Contemporary in collaboration with the Monira Foundation
Curator: Ysabel Pinyol Blasi

18/07/2025

Vojislav Radovanović’s multidisciplinary practice spans painting, drawing, installation, video, and performance. His work touches upon themes of queerness, memory, the immigrant experience, spirituality, and the complex relationship between humans and the natural world. Influenced by his upbringing in Serbia during a time of war and social upheaval, Radovanović approaches art as a therapeutic space for healing and transformation. His process-driven works often combine recycled materials, vibrant color, and symbolic imagery to create poetic, emotionally resonant narratives. Through layered compositions and dreamlike logic, he invites viewers into a shared space of reflection, imagination, and emotional release.

Special thanks to the writer: Vita Eruhimovitz
Artist in Dialogue: Vojislav Radovanović .voicelove

17/07/2025

Why do we need art in this moment? What art sustains both practitioners and audience in difficult times? These urgent questions pulse at the heart of curator and artist Olivia Baldwin’s extraordinary exhibition at the Kniznick Gallery, part of Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Center—and the answers she’s assembled are luminous.
In an era where artists grapple with creating meaningful work amid political turbulence and global fragility, Baldwin has curated something rare: a collection that doesn’t merely respond to our moment but transforms it. Drawing from her own artistic sensibilities, she sought work defined by materiality, color, and above all, care. Through studio visits and intimate conversations with artists from New England and New York, two words emerged like a mantra: community and care. The result is a provocative gathering of contemporary works that pulse with urgency and tenderness in equal measure.

Special thanks to our writer: Adria Arch
Featured Artists: Bhen Alan | Liza Bingham | Dara Benno | Marisa Finos | Lu Heintz | Damien Hoar de Galvan | Kate Holcomb Hale | Kristy Hughes | Lavaughan Jenkins | Crystalle Lacouture | Destiny Palmer | Orli Swergold | Kevin Umaña | Eva Zasloff
Featured Venue: Kniznick Gallery, Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center
Curator: Olivia Badwin
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16/07/2025

Since the beginning of time, artists have drawn inspiration from and found it within the natural world. This month, Philly boasts a variety of work where artists are going deeper to discover what can be imitated and learned from the evolutionary beings around us. Some artists take direct motifs like coqui sounds or daffodil patterns, while others venture into new utopias or dreamworlds to live in as the real world diminishes underneath their feet. Studio 105 at RAY presents a bold reimagining of electrical current and vibrations that echoes the power of communication and sound. Philadelphia Magic Gardens reframes the purpose of the mushroom not just as a decomposer but as a symbol of rebirth and perseverance. The Arts Leagues suggests a world where the organic is depleted and society must build again. Arch Enemy Arts throws logic out the window as they find mercy in the mystical realm.

Special thanks to our writer Jessica Aguilar

Featured Shows:
Raúl Romero: Sound Check at Studio 105 at RAY Philly
Of Earthen Kin: Works by Katie Kaplan at Philadelphia Magic Gardens
What World? at The Arts League
Beatriz Bradaschii: The Seasons in Between at Arch Enemy Arts

14/07/2025

This group exhibition at the IW Gallery brings together a wide array of artists, visions, and mediums. Each of the eighteen artists in the show is connected in some way, whether it be from Pratt Institute, they are former international students who have decided to stay and continue making work, all the way to friends and former classmates. This grouping is an eclectic amalgam of stories and inspirations that diverge in their own ways and reconverge to create new conversations. Many of the artists in this exhibition use their work to embody their stories, memories, and histories. Pieces of their lineages, carrying across various places to join together in one location starting an ever expanding dialogue with each other.

Special thanks to our writer: Taylor Bielecki .bielecki
Featured Venue: IW Gallery
Curator: Vida Sabbaghi
Featured Artists:
Aileen Schretzmayer, Avery Shuster, Claire Heidinger, Elizabeth Hackenberg, Eric Geithner, Greta Schneider, Herok, Hyun Sun Ohm, Monique Kevita Edwards, Nazli Efe, Rodrigo Tafur, Siha Park, Susan Luss,,Wei Yuan, Yedda Ye, Yeon Jong Jeong, Yerang Moon, and Zakariya Abdul-Qadir

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