Art

Kai Althoff

A dreamy, surreal amalgam of Expressionist and Symbolist tropes characterizes the art of this German artist who works in multiple mediums, including ceramics, weaving, drawing, painting and sculpture. His creations range from discrete objects to room-size installations that seem to grow out of the artist’s fantasies, reveries and personal memories. The term unique is too often applied to artists, but in the case of Althoff’s oeuvre, the label fits perfectly. Some 200 works spanning Althoff’s career is brought together in this survey, his first in an American museum.

Agnes Martin

Along with Georgia O’Keeffe, Martin (1912–2004) is arguably the most important women artists in American art history, and certainly one of the most important painters of the 20th century, period. Her compositions utilized geometric grids, bands and lines, usually rendered in soft, subtle colors to create diaphanous objects of contemplation. She’s usually hailed as a forerunner of Minimalism, but she considered herself an Abstract Expression, who, like Barnett Newman, meditated on the nature of vision and perception. This retrospective is the first comprehensive career survey since her death.

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“Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction”

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Best art galleries on 57th Street

Mini-redwood trees to sprout in downtown Brooklyn

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Replica of lost ancient ruin to grace New York

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Check out these cool renderings for a condo/farm building next to The Highline

This condo/gallery/farm hybrid near The High Line takes the idea of urban farming and runs with it

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Get your photograph taken at this Times Square installation

Whitney Museum of American Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The American Museum of Natural History