Feature

Beyond Armory Week

02 Mar 2016

ArtRabbit

It may be called Armory Week, with The Armory Show as the main event, but New York has plenty more to offer beyond the art fair circuit.

While you’re in town, make sure to pay a visit to the extraordinary museums, galleries and independent spaces in the area. We’ve listed some of our favourite shows currently on view.

Forever Coney at the Brooklyn Museum of Art

Forever Coney: Photographs from the Brooklyn Museum Collection features images that celebrate the people and places that make up Coney Island.

Jackson Pollock at MoMA

MoMA's most recent installment of Jackson Pollock's works offers a concise but detailed survey.

Hilton Als at the Artist's Institute

The Artist's Institute devotes this season to writer and critic Hilton Als.

Peter Fischli and David Weiss at Guggenheim

Over three hundred sculptures, photographs, videos, and installations form the most complete overview of Peter Fischli and David Weiss's work to date.

Unorthodox at the Jewish Museum

Group exhibition features 55 contemporary artists from around the world whose practices mix forms and genres without concern for artistic conventions.

Nasreen Mohamedi at The Met Breuer

Nasreen Mohamedi is one of the most significant artists to emerge in post-Independence India. Spanning Mohamedi's entire career and bringing together more than 130 paintings, drawings, photographs, and rarely seen diaries, the exhibition traces the conceptual complexity and visual subtlety of the artist's oeuvre.

Cheryl Donegan at the New Museum

Working across video, painting, and performance, Cheryl Donegan explores the production and consumption of images in mass culture, middlebrow design, and art history.

Tayeba Begum Lipi at Sundaram Tagore Gallery

Sundaram Tagore Gallery presents Tayeba Begum Lipi, one of Bangladesh’s foremost contemporary artists. This exhibition showcases the Dhaka-based artist’s innovative use of materials.

Laura Poitras at the Whitney Museum

Astro Noise is the first solo museum exhibition by artist, filmmaker, and journalist Laura Poitras. This immersive installation reveals the scale of the post-9/11 surveillance state.

Martin Wong at the Bronx Museum of Art

This museum retrospective of the work of Chinese-American painter Martin Wong features over 90 of his paintings with rarely-seen archival materials from the Martin Wong Papers at the Fales Library of New York University.​

Low at Lyles & King

Low has gathered compelling responses to the question: what is an object in the age of the image?

Larry Bamburg at Simone Subal Gallery

Larry Bamburg's TalctoTile, PL’d to MDO brings together a body of new work that plays with the never resolved relationship between an original and its copy.


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