ARTSPEAK.NYC

Independent online magazine dedicated to contemporary art in New York

artspeak.nyc (22,000 unique visits every month) is a comprehensive digital handbook for contemporary art from various aspects, consolidating the ample scope New York art scene through refined listings and concise interviews. Since 2016 our editorial content is independently researched and commissioned by the editorial team and the ‘on view’ section is available to galleries, artists, events to list/advertise their exhibitions.

12/09/2024

Join in celebrating the legacy of James Baldwin with an exhibition showcasing photographs of Baldwin’s life in Istanbul and his ongoing significance to our culture and struggles for liberation.

Co-curated by Atesh M. Gundogdu.

Thursday, December 12, 2024
6-8 PM
Central Library

📸

09/27/2024

OPENS NOW: Celebrate the life and legacy of Alvin Ailey in a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition. Explore his choreography, artistic vision, and lasting global impact at Open through February 9, 2025. .

08/03/2024

Belated happy hundredth birthday to our hero, James Baldwin! GOAT!

01/17/2023

Y.Z. Kami’s solo exhibition “ Night and Day “ opens tonight

Night and Day juxtaposes two distinct bodies of work by Kami: the portrait paintings that have been at the center of his practice for more than three decades, and Night Paintings, a series that he began in 2017.
In conjunction with Endless Prayers, Dome paintings, and other ongoing projects, the Iranian American artist’s oeuvre represents a deep consideration of representation and abstraction, humanism and spirituality.

through February 25, 2023

12/23/2022

Jessica Westhafer’s solo exhibition Somewhere That’s Green” is on view
through January 7, 2023

Taking its title from the song “Somewhere That's Green” from the 1982 Off-Broadway musical Little Shop of Horrors, Westhafer’s presentation alludes to an idealized realm that seems realistic and attainable, but that in fact lies just beyond reach. The paintings on view depict memories of childhood events and sites that may or may not have existed.

12/13/2022

Louise Lawler’s latest exhibition “NOT ENOUGH TO SEE” is on view

This latest series of dye sublimation prints focuses on images of Jasper Johns' iconic painting Three Flags (1958), taken earlier this year at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Lawler is a steadfast investigator of the making of pictures. Using long exposures, swift camera movements and cropping, Lawler creates abstract images of this well-known motif. Here, these analog techniques both manipulate the image and comment on both perception and the fast-paced flood of images that marks everyday life in the digital era.

through December 23, 2022

10/19/2022

Alex Katz :“Gathering” is on view

Emerging as an artist in the mid-20th century, Katz forged a mode of figurative painting that fused the energy of Abstract Expressionist canvases with the American vernaculars of the magazine, billboard, and movie screen. Throughout his practice, he has turned to his surroundings in downtown New York City and coastal Maine as his primary subject matter, documenting an evolving community of poets, artists, critics, dancers, and filmmakers who have animated the cultural avant-garde from the postwar period to the present.

through February 20, 2023

09/13/2022

Hank Willis Thomas: “Everything We See Hides Another Thing” is on view
Gallery

Thomas’ retroreflective works exhibit an interest in the repetition of mass-produced imagery and attention to the hand of the artist, referencing works by Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. Trained as a photographer, Thomas has always focused on framing and context, and often appropriates archival images along with new or rarely used technical processes.

through October 29, 2022

09/12/2022

Jason Martin: “Vortex” is on view don’t miss!

In Jason Martin’s paintings paint is both the material and the motif. In his first exhibition in New York since 2018, the artist’s monochromatic oil works explore their own materiality, sculptural presence and transmutative nature. Martin begins on these paintings with only the essentials – a small selection of colors in similar tones, a few brushes or tools and a number of square aluminum panels.

through 15 October, 2022

08/24/2022

Matisse: “Red Studio” exhibition is on through September 10,2022
Paintings and drawings closely related to The Red Studio will help to illuminate the picture’s history: its rejection by the patron who commissioned it, its international travels, and its eventual acquisition by MoMA. A rich selection of archival materials, including photographs and letters, will reveal new information about the painting’s subject and history. The exhibition also explores the radical nature of its almost entirely red surface and present recent discoveries about the process of its making.

through September 10, 2022

07/29/2022

Lyn Liu’ latest solo exhibition “Dogville” is on view

Liu’s work addresses the psychological tension underpinning relationships between individuals through a sequence of uncanny cinematic tableaux. Comprised of paintings realized between 2019–2022, the exhibition draws from the artist’s personal experiences of alienation, utilizing symbolism and an atmosphere of the absurd to provoke reflections on what Liu considers our oppressive social reality.

through August 12, 2022

07/28/2022

Don’t miss Barbara Kruger’s latest exhibition

The exhibition features nine large-scale video works and installations, as well as sound installations and vinyl wallpaper, that not only reaffirm the cultural prominence of Kruger’s iconic visual language but reveal the radical inventiveness and lasting relevance of her incisive work with pictures and words.
See it before it ends!

through August 12, 2022

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