Winter Art Guide
nycgo.com staff
Every season brings exciting new art events to New York City, and the winter of 2017–18 offers an especially auspicious crop. Highlights include Times Square Arts embracing the area's status as a selfie magnet with a 3-D-printed installation in Duffy Square; the Brooklyn Museum's highly anticipated David Bowie exhibition; a visiting series of 17th-century Spanish paintings at the Frick Collection; and the New Museum's Triennial showcase of emerging and international artists. Check out these and more happenings in our full guide, below.
Nancy Baker Cahill: Liberty Bell
Liberty Bell reflects on the evolution of liberty, freedom and democracy and encourages viewers to do the same.
Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine: Inspired by "What Is Left"
This text-based installation by Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine, a Crown Heights–based arts collective, uses the words of the late poet Lucille Clifton to convey resiliency and perseverance.
Madison Square Park: Abigail DeVille: Light of Freedom
Abigail DeVille's Light of Freedom serves as a centerpiece for Madison Square Park Conservancy's exploration of the roles of public art and civic spaces in these times.
Women March
Celebration of the centennial of 19th Amendment and other women's victories.
Away from the Easel: Jackson Pollock's Mural
Exhibition of artist Jackson Pollock's famed large-scale painting.
Exhibition dissecting the relationship between fashion and time.
We Fight to Build a Free Worl
Artist-curated exhibition showcasing responses to social injustice.
We Do Not Dream Alone, the Asia Society Triennial
This far-ranging event includes exhibitions, interdisciplinary panels and performances.
Bruce Davidson: Outsider on the Inside
More than 100 images from Davidson's work in photojournalism are on display at the Queens Museum.
The Nature of Color
an exploration of the many roles of color
Sophie Calle: Here Lie the Secrets of the Visitors of Green-Wood Cemetery
Near Green-Wood's main entrance, artist Sophie Calle has created an ongoing site-specific installation in the form of a headstone.
Museum of the City of New York: New York Responds
This exhibit continues the museum's tradition of collecting New York City's stories.