Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now at the Guggenheim Museum
Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue January 25, 2019–January 5, 2020 Click here for more information.
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A Discerning Lens: Selections from the Fred W. McDarrah Gay Pride Photographs Collection at NYU Kimmel Windows
A Discerning Lens: Selections from the Fred W. McDarrah Gay Pride Photographs Collection NYU Kimmel Windows LaGuardia Place and West 3rd Street May 6 – June 30, 2019 Photo © Estate of Fred W. McDarrah. All Rights Reserved
Violet Holdings: LGBTQ+ Highlights from the NYU Special Collections at Bobst Library
Violet Holdings: LGBTQ+ Highlights from the NYU Special Collections at Bobst NYU Bobst Library 70 Washington Square South Ground floor April 22 – December 31, 2019 Gay and Lesbian Pulp Fiction Collection. Photo courtesy of Fales Library.
What to See in New York Art Galleries Right Now
The New York Times, March 6, 2019
Wally Reinhardt reviewed in The New York Times the week of March 6, 2019.
Spotlight: An Interview with Professor Dennis Geronimus
March 4, 2019 by Reshma Persaud We are delighted to kick off a new season of The Grey Area with an exciting interview with Dennis Geronimus, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at NYU. In addition to serving as professor and mentor to many students, including myself, he has authored numerous […]
Give Now to the Art after Stonewall Exhibition Fund!
The Grey Art Gallery is raising funds for one of its most ambitious exhibitions to date! Please help support Art after Stonewall, 1969–1989, the first-ever exhibition to extensively survey art of the LGBTQ civil rights movement as we honor the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprisings. Click on the image below to access the campaign on Rising Violets, […]
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Art after Stonewall, 1969–1989
Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprisings, Art after Stonewall, 1969–1989 is a long-awaited and groundbreaking survey that features over 200 works of art and related visual materials exploring the impact of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) liberation movement on visual culture. Presented in two parts—at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art—the exhibition features artworks by openly LGBTQ artists such as Vaginal Davis, Louise Fishman, Nan Goldin, Lyle Ashton Harris, Barbara Hammer, Holly Hughes, Greer Lankton, Robert Mapplethorpe, Catherine Opie, Joan Snyder, and Andy Warhol. On view at the Grey Art Gallery from April 24 through July 20, 2019 and at the Leslie-Lohman Museum from April 24 through July 21, 2019, the exhibition is organized by the Columbus Museum of Art.
Finally at Home With the Greats
Wall Street Journal, January 8, 2019
Tom L. Freudenheim reviews Fritz Ascher: Expressionist for the Wall Street Journal.
10 Under-the-Radar Art Shows to See Now
The New York Times, November 22, 2018
"NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932–1960" reviewed in The New York Times by Jillian Steinhauer.
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Metamorphoses: Ovid According to Wally Reinhardt
For centuries, Greek and Roman myths have inspired artists. New York University’s Grey Art Gallery is pleased to present a solo museum exhibition of the New York–based octogenarian artist Wally Reinhardt, who continues in this time-honored tradition. On view from January 9 through April 6, 2019 in the Grey’s Lower Level Gallery, Metamorphoses: Ovid According to Wally Reinhardt features some 50 watercolor, gouache, and colored pencil illustrations from a series that numbers nearly 200. Reinhardt, who began working on this project in 1984, has focused solely on interpreting Ovid’s most acclaimed work of Latin poetry, Metamorphoses.