"This special installation celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of Robert A. Caro's The Power Broker, the monumental work that has been called “surely the greatest book ever written about a city.” This groundbreaking book made known for the first time how Robert Moses, over more than four decades and without ever being elected […]
"Framed around the key themes of money, density, diversity, and creativity, New York City’s history and future come alive in this first-of-its-kind exhibition, through the stories of innovation, energy, struggle, and the vision of generations of immigrants, politicians, tycoons, dreamers, master builders, and ordinary New Yorkers. New York at Its Core captures the human energy […]
"The career of photographer Weegee (born Arthur Fellig, 1899-1968) is often divided into two distinct phases, one gritty, the other glamorous. Celebrated for his sensationalist images of crime scenes, fires, car crashes, and the onlookers who witnessed these harrowing events across New York City in the 1930s and ‘40s, Weegee also spent time in his […]
"Drawing from works by more than 40 photographers in the ICP collection, with the addition of exhibition prints from contemporary photographers, American Job: 1940-2011 highlights the collection’s breadth and contemporary relevance by surveying the photographic response to labor organizing and strike activity, race and gender discrimination in labor, organized labor’s role in politics, labor and […]
"And this beauty carries within itself the intimation that the past can never die because it still exists, intact, on some other plane of time, around which we cannot see directly. —Clarence John Laughlin The way we disappear. And reappear. —Robin Coste Lewis Gagosian is pleased to announce Ghost Images, an exhibition of new works […]
"This exhibition of photographs by Denis Piel is an overview of his varied career. It includes his sensual and cinematic photographs for VOGUE and designers such as Donna Karan in the 1980s, and his abstract Padièscapes works, which are inspired by his organic sustainable farm in southwest France. Denis Piel was born in France in […]
"The exhibition Seconds of My Life: Photographs from 1975-2024, by Brooklyn-based photographer Jamel Shabazz, offers a comprehensive look at his work from the 1970s to the early 2000s, including iconic photo albums, early images of his junior high classmates and photography spanning fashion, street and documentary styles. It highlights Shabazz’s talent for capturing powerful stories […]
"The New York Public Library's new major exhibition A Century of The New Yorker draws on NYPL's collections, including the magazine's voluminous archives and the papers of many of its contributors, to bring to life the people, stories, and ideas that made The New Yorker. Over the past 100 years, The New Yorker has created […]
"Baxter St, in partnership with YoungArts, presents Sueños Senos Exhumadas del Cenote Yemaya, a solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Coralina Rodriguez Meyer. Engaging sculpture, documentary photography, and video installation, the exhibition space is transformed into an immersive psychic interior womb, tracing the survival of diasporic and integrated, Indigenous knowledge systems that have endured or adapted […]
"S M I L E R S, in its East Village basement, honors the legacy and persistence of the New York City club scene in its second exhibition—BEFORE THE CLEAN-UP. Nick Waplington and Lizzi Bougatsos coexist as foils in this exploration of a clandestine, oft-mythologized subculture—both participants but playing radically different roles, with Bougatsos channeling […]
"Curated by Sara Ickow, Associate Director of Exhibitions, Keisha Scarville Guest Curator, and Elisabeth Sherman, Senior Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections at ICP, To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography brings together the work of seven artists primarily working in photography—Widline Cadet, Koyoltzintli, Tarrah Krajnak, Shala Miller, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Keisha Scarville, and […]
