Exhibitions to see this month

  • Where: Glyndor House Gallery, Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center, 675 W 249th St, Bronx, NY 10471
  • When: August 31 – December 8, 2024
  • Description: Multidisciplinary artist Dario Mohr inaugurates the newly renovated Glyndor Terrace Garden with QuadroPod: Seeds of Kenya, a site-specific monument to the 42 ethnic groups of Kenya. Working across painting, sculpture, installation, digital art and video, he creates sacred structures that draw from his personal ancestry and our cultural zeitgeist to honor the African Diaspora. A first-generation American of Grenadian, West African and Italian heritage, Mohr’s work references a burgeoning reclamation of the spiritual practices of Africa that have been obscured by legacies of colonialism and slavery.
  • https://www.wavehill.org/calendar/dario-mohr-seeds-of-kenya
  • Where: BRIC House 647 Fulton Street
  • When: Through December 22, 2024
  • Description: Honoring the many interconnected relationships that facilitate making and being, to hold a we features newly commissioned and recent work by fourteen emerging and early-career disabled artists and collectives from the BRIClab residency program. Across drawing, text, sculpture, video, photography, installation, and performance, the artists continually turn to memory, intimacy, grief, and the archive as both a source of inspiration and a means of connection. 
  • https://bricartsmedia.org/exhibition/to-hold-a-we/
  • Where: Asia Society 
  • When: September 17 2024 – January 5 2025
  • Description: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala presents a watershed moment in global art history, sharing with the American public a history of Aboriginal Australian bark painting curated by Yolŋu knowledge holders from Arnhem Land in Northern Australia. For millennia, Yolŋu have painted their sacred clan designs on their bodies and ceremonial objects. These designs—called miny’tji—are not merely decorative: they are the patterns of the ancestral land itself. Yolŋu describe them as maḏayin: a term that encompasses both the sacred and the beautiful. In the early twentieth century, they turned to the medium of painting with natural pigments on eucalyptus bark, creating shimmering artworks to share their identities through trade, political activism, and diplomacy. Expressing the power and beauty of their culture, these artists continue to find new and innovative ways to transform their ancient clan designs into compelling contemporary statements.
  • Noŋgirrŋa Marawili, born ca. 1939; Maḏarrpa clan Baratjala, 2018 Natural pigments on eucalyptus bark H. 63 25/32 x W. 44 1/2 in. (162 x 113 cm) Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia. The 2017-2019 Kluge- Ruhe Maḏayin Commission. Museum purchase, 2020, 2020.0007.002 *Image courtesy of the Asia Society
  • Dhambit Munuŋgurr, born 1968; Gupa-Djapu’ clan Bänhdharra (Ocean), 2019 Natural pigments on eucalyptus bark H. 78 11/32 x W. 42 17/32 in. (199 x 108 cm) Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia. The 2017-2019 Kluge- Ruhe Maḏayin Commission. Museum purchase with funds provided by Roslyn Oxley OAM and Tony Oxley OAM, 2020, 2020.0007.001 *Image courtesy of the Asia Society
  • Woŋgu Munuŋgurr, ca. 1880–1959; Gupa-Djapu’ clan Djapu Miny’tji, 1942 Natural pigments on bark H. 74 1/2 x W. 41 7/16 in. (189.2 x 105.3 cm) Donald Thomson Collection, The University of Melbourne *Image courtesy of the Asia Society
  • Where: Museum of the City of New York
  • When: Through January 6, 2025
  • Description: The experience of walking El Barrio—the Museum of the City of New York’s own neighborhood—would be vastly different without the artworks of Manny Vega (b. Bronx, 1956). His mosaics and murals adorn street walls, subway stations, cultural centers, and business facades throughout East Harlem. Many of these works celebrate important figures—particularly women—in the history of the Puerto Rican and Latinx communities. Vega has proven himself deft at negotiating the sophisticated tastes and appetite for spectacle of an extremely diverse and fast-moving population. His style has been dubbed “Byzantine Hip-Hop” for his uncompromising technical command that encompasses ancient Mediterranean mosaic-making and the electrifying lines of hyper-detailed Sharpie pen-and-ink drawings. 
  • Manny Vega. Bomba Celestial. 2009–2010. Collection of Bobbito García a.k.a. Kool Bob Love. Courtesy of Manny Vega
  • Where: Hauser and Wirth, 542 West 22nd Street
  • When: 2 November 2024 – 11 January 2025 
  • Description: Beginning 2 November, we will present an exhibition of large-scale paintings and assemblages by late American master Thornton Dial (1928 – 2016), featuring major works from each period of his extraordinary career. Drawing upon a history of critical literature on Dial and shaped by insights from such preeminent writers as Toni Morrison and Amiri Baraka, the exhibition will seek to highlight Dial’s accomplishments as a maker of powerfully physical works (‘the visible’), while drawing out the often obscured patterns of systemic trauma and exclusion (‘the invisible’) that drove his life and art. Including works that have not been exhibited in over three decades, ‘The Visible and Invisible’ will reintroduce visitors to an oeuvre endowed with undeniable potency and continued relevance.
  • Image Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth
  • Image Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth
  • Where: DC Moore Gallery 535 West 22nd Street, NYC
  • When: November 14, 2024 to January 11, 2025.
  • Description: DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Romare Bearden: Paris Blues/Jazz and Other Works, bringing to light the series known as Paris Blues, or Jazz, created in 1981. Exhibited here in a rare opportunity to view the series of 19 collages, Romare Bearden’s Paris Blues/Jazz makes a major statement on the relationships between visual art, jazz music, and urban spaces. In these works, Bearden translates the patterns and rhythms of jazz into visual compositions, the medium of collage paralleling its improvisational and collaborative nature.
  • Where: Leslie Lohman Museum of Art 
  • When: Mar 15, 2024 – Jan 12, 2025
  • Description: Taking its title from a drawing by artist and queer icon Candy Darling, this exhibition brings together a selection of works recently acquired by the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. Darling’s words evoke the multidimensionality of queer and trans life and artistic practices that insist on defining art and life entirely on one’s own terms. Taken together, the exhibited works—across various media and representational styles—embrace a spectral, prismatic approach to rendering LGBTQIA+ existence. Both contemporary and historical, the works elide the demand for authenticity and easy legibility, instead holding space for plurality, reinvention, and fantasy.
  • https://leslielohman.org/exhibitions/i-am-a-thousand-different-people-everyone-is-real
  • Where: Queens Museum
  • When: Through January 19, 2025
  • Description: In 9999, Cameron A. Granger uses the framework of video games and magic to imagine an alternative method of liberation for Black communities from the compounding effects of racist urban planning. In early role playing video games, due to low computer processing capacity, 9,999 was the numerical damage limit done to a character that could be registered on screen. Yet sometimes, additional damage continued to accrue off-screen – incapacitating, yet unseen. Granger takes this concept of the concealed yet relentless harm, and applies it to the cumulative corrosion of segregative design, environmental racism, and gentrification.
  • https://queensmuseum.org/exhibition/cameron-a-granger-9999/
  • Where: Brooklyn Museum
  • When: September 13, 2024–January 19, 2025
  • Description: A defining Black woman artist of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012) has not received the mainstream art-world attention afforded many of her peers. The Brooklyn Museum, in partnership with the National Gallery of Art, closes this gap with Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies, an exhibition of over 200 works that gives this revolutionary artist and radical activist her due.
  • https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/elizabeth-catlett
  • Where: National Museum of the American Indian
  • Description: This exhibition features a narrative creation by the Salish artist known for his bold blend of Northwest Coast formline and pop-culture figures. The site-specific work includes an epic battle between Marvel characters and aliens invading the streets of New York City.
  • https://americanindian.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/item?id=1007

Opportunities to put on your radar

Artslife Internship at the Museum of Art and Design
  • Application Deadline: 11:59 pm on Mon, April 21, 2025.
  • Artslife is a paid summer internship program for 10 rising sophomores and juniors enrolled in New York City public and charter high schools. The internship combines art and design with leadership training, museum studies, and community engagement.
  • https://madmuseum.org/programs/teen-programs-mad
Whitney Museum Youth Insights – WI Arts Career
  • Application Deadline: Applications for Summer 2025 YI Introductions will open in early 2025 
  • YI Arts Careers is a free summer program that offers teens the opportunity to explore arts careers and arts institutions throughout New York City. Teens meet with Whitney Museum staff, arts professionals, and other teens. Free MetroCards and all supplies provided. 
  • https://whitney.org/education/teens/youth-insights
The Saturday Program at The Cooper Union
  • Application Deadline: Spring 2025 Registration is currently open and will close on Friday, January 10th
  • Introductory Saturday Program classes are open to 9-12th grade students and are taught by current Cooper Union undergraduate students, which allows high schoolers to learn from “near peer” mentors. 11th and 12th graders hoping to pursue art in college can apply for the Portfolio Prep classes, which are specifically designed to assist students with the creation of college-ready portfolios. Portfolio Prep classes are led by a team of professional artists and undergraduate instructors.  
  • https://cooper.edu/academics/outreach-and-pre-college/saturday-program
ArtsConnection Teen Programs
Brooklyn Museum – By Teens for Teens Teen Nights
  • 2025 Teen Nights | Select Fridays, 5–7:30 pm
  • June 6: LGBTQ+ Teen Night

 

 

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