Museums

9 Scripts from a Nation at War

A 10-channel video installation responding to knowledge production and communication in the context of the Iraq war since the US invasion.

Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream

An exploration of new architectural possibilities for cities and suburbs in the aftermath of the recent foreclosure crisis.

Cindy Sherman

More than 170 photographs and the American premiere of her recent murals; a career-spanning retrospective.

James Rosenquist
F-111

A monumental work created in 1964, during the Vietnam War, installed the way it was first exhibited: wrapped around four walls.

Born out of Necessity

An exhibition in the Architecture and Design galleries about problem-solving design objects and the problems that inspired them.

Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration

An exhibition featuring work inspired by the Surrealist collaborative drawing game, by artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Joan Miró.

Projects 97: Mark Boulos

Two large-scale videos present two communities on opposite ends of the world, each locked in a struggle to control oil.

The Shaping of New Visions: Photography, Film, Photobook

Covering the period from 1910 to today, this exhibition studies photography's role in the avant-garde and neo-avant-garde movements.

Lara Favaretto
Just Knocked Out

MoMA PS1 presents the first survey of Lara Favaretto (b. Treviso, 1973), comprising a dozen works from the past fifteen years...

Dan Flavin
Drawings

swept away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design

Glasstress New York

New art form the Venice Biennales

America through a Chinese Lens

The Unfinished Grid: Design Speculations for Manhattan

Neil Goldberg
Stories the City Tells Itself

Colleen Browning
Colleen Browning: Urban Dweller – Exotic Traveler

Browning emerged as a significant figure in the realist movement of the 50s and continued to work through the realist revival of the 90s.

May Stevens
May Stevens: The Big Daddy Series

In the late 60s, artist and activist Stevens undertook a large series of works that were not only protests against the Vietnam war, but also

Nancy Grossman, Louise Bourgeois, Elizabeth Catlett
Women Sculptors of the National Academy

The 20 works in Women Sculptors of the National Academy reflect the evolution of American sculpture between the late 19th and 20th centuries

Stephen Antonakos, Valerie Jaudon, Robert Mangold, Dorothea Rockburne
White: The Anatomy of a Color

This dramatic exhibition explores the infinite properties of the color white presented in various ways and different media.

Robert Gwathmey, George Bellows, Reginald Marsh, Jane Wilson
An American Collection

Masterpieces and notable works from the Academy’s collections, featuring a salon-style installation of 120 paintings.

ALFRED STIEGLITZ AND EDWARD STEICHEN
HEINRICH KUEHN AND HIS AMERICAN CIRCLE

GUSTAV KLIMT: 150TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

Isa Genzken: Rose II

Klara Liden
Bodies of Society

curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Jenny Moore

Tacita Dean

Sculpture Garden, curated by Deborah Brown and Lesley Heller

Tom Sachs
Astronauts Training Manuel; Space Program 2.0: Mars

Graduate Fine Arts Exhibition 2012

Featuring work in all media by students receiving an MFA from Pratt Institute School of Art & Design’s Department of Fine Arts.

Rob Pruitt
The Andy Monument

Rob Pruitt's monument to Andy Warhol, the father of Pop Art is located at Union Square.

Michael Sailstorfer
Tornado

At Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park
(Corner of 60th Street and Fifth Avenue).

A Promise is a Cloud

Ohad Meromi, Adam Pendleton, Erin Shirreff, YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES.
At MetroTech Center Commons, Brooklyn.

Group Exhibition
Common Ground

At City Hall Park. Artists included are Elmgreen & Dragset, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Roger Hiorns, Jenny Holzer, Matthew Day Jackson

Bill Bollinger
The Retrospective

Natalie Jeremijenko, Mary Miss, Rirkrit Tiravanija and George Trakas
Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City

Artists proffer alternative visions for Long Island City through sculpture, performance, and social activities.

Who, What, Wear: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Who, What, Wear, features selections from the Museum’s permanent collection that highlight changing fashion and style.

Kira Lynn Harris
The Block | Bellona

Kira Lynn Harris reimagines The Block (1971), Romare Bearden’s iconic, six-panel, eighteen-foot-long collage depicting life in Harlem

Jason Nocito, Wu Tsang, Fatimah Tuggar, Leilah Weinraub
Harlem Postcards Spring 2012

Harlem Postcards invites contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site for artistic contemplation.

Jennie C. Jones, Lorraine O'Grady, John Outterbridge, and others
Shift Projects | Perspectives | Directions

Organized as a group of autonomous installations, Shift presents work in thematic groupings, and series of works by individual artists.

Ralph Lemon
1856 Cessna Road

Drawing from an eight-year project by Ralph Lemon in conjunction with Walter Carter, "1856 Cessna Road" explores their friendship.

Tending Toward the Untamed
Artists Respond to the Wild Garden

Featuring work by Isabella Kirkland, Anat Shiftan, Julie Evans, Rebecca Morales, Gary Carsley, Chris Doyle, Erik Sanner, and Janelle Lynch.

Whitney Biennial

Sculpture, painting, installations, and photography—as well as dance, theater, music, and film—fill the galleries of the Whitney Museum.