After two stints as de facto director, Klaudio Rodriguez gets the top job, joining a growing group of Latino leaders of art museums. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “ART”
The Word at MoMA Is ‘Rotation, Rotation, Rotation’
By Gotham Rex on November 12, 2020
On Saturday, the museum opens with changes to 20 of its 60 permanent collection galleries. A critic’s guide to the standouts on each floor. Source: New York Times
Sky Hopinka: Songs of the Earth and the Road
By Gotham Rex on November 12, 2020
The Indigenous American artist and filmmaker is the subject of two concurrent shows. His work “rivals in visual and linguistic beauty any new art I’ve seen in some time,” our critic says. Source: New York Times
Voters in Jersey City Embrace a New Tax to Finance the Arts
By Gotham Rex on November 4, 2020
Officials had worried that a new arts tax may be too much to ask in a place still reeling financially from the pandemic, but 64 percent of New Jersey voters approved of the idea. Source: New York Times
‘I Still Believe in Our City’: A Public Art Series Takes On Racism
By Gotham Rex on November 2, 2020
After a wave of anti-Asian discrimination, the artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya wanted to “turn these hurts into something beautiful.” Her panels will transform a Brooklyn subway station. Source: New York Times
Two Museums Tried to Sell Art. Only One Caught Grief About it.
By Gotham Rex on October 30, 2020
The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum both planned on selling works last Wednesday at auction, but Baltimore paused the sale after much criticism. Source: New York Times
At the Queens Museum, Home and the World
By Gotham Rex on October 30, 2020
In three post-lockdown exhibitions, the museum stakes out its role in the life of its neighborhood’s multiethnic citizens. Source: New York Times
Halloween’s Not Canceled: Here’s How to Make It Spooky but Safe
By Gotham Rex on October 23, 2020
Movies, podcasts, cemetery walks and more: Our guide to enjoying a socially distant fright fest. Source: New York Times
A First-Time Survey of Asian Art Gets a Second Chance to Dazzle
By Gotham Rex on October 22, 2020
The curators of the Asia Society Triennial planned a really big show. They didn’t plan on reconfiguring it for a city dealing with a pandemic. Source: New York Times
Honoring Latinx Art, Personal and Political
By Gotham Rex on October 15, 2020
El Museo del Barrio celebrates its own electric history, and present, in a show about the Puerto Rican workshop Taller Boricua. Source: New York Times
2 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now
By Gotham Rex on October 14, 2020
Justine Hill makes more with less in her multipart abstract paintings; Kevin Beasley mixes the political with the personal in “Reunion.” Source: New York Times
How a Medusa Sculpture From a Decade Ago Became #MeToo Art
By Gotham Rex on October 13, 2020
Some criticized the fact that the artist behind the work, which was unveiled on Tuesday, was a man. One backer says men need to be in the conversation. Source: New York Times
A Gallery Resurgence in Chelsea
By Gotham Rex on October 8, 2020
In the face of economic unknowns, the message from the city’s galleries is: we’re not taking this lying down. Roberta Smith on 16 of the neighborhood’s most riveting painting shows. Source: New York Times
Guggenheim’s Top Curator Is Out as Inquiry Into Basquiat Show Ends
By Gotham Rex on October 8, 2020
An independent investigation found no mistreatment of a Black curator, Chaédria LaBouvier, but the chief curator, Nancy Spector, who is white, is leaving after 34 years. Source: New York Times
The Artist John Newman Says a Fake Check Scam Cost Him $12,000
By Gotham Rex on October 7, 2020
A payment for a pair of drawings by Newman showed up in his bank account — then vanished a few days later. Source: New York Times