The Bronx Museum News

The Bronx gala, which raised funds for the Bronx Museum of the Arts, brought together patrons of the arts who bid on priceless pieces of artwork while mingling with like-minded art enthusiasts and notable attendees including Swizz Beatz. The event, celebrating art and social justice, was held at Capitale and raised over $1 million, making…

These machines and machine-made art provide a philosophical counter to our market-driven economy.

This April, at a gala at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York, musician and arts advocate Swizz Beatz will present a new award for social justice. The first winners of the award will be Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman, who are being honored for their organization For Freedoms.

The City of New York announced on Monday that $2.8 million it had received as a result of allowing the Metropolitan Museum of Art to change its admissions policy would be allocated to more than 175 other cultural organizations.

Forty-five years ago, the artist predicted that we would one day live out our lives on screens.

The Bronx Museum of the Arts announced today that it has welcomed seven new members to its board of trustees. “They embody the tremendous resources our community has to offer, and will serve to help us continue realizing the potential of this museum through their range of skills and experiences,” executive director Deborah Cullen said.

On Thursday, 21 February at 6pm, the Kumu Art Museum will open its Great Hall for the joint exhibition of the US artist Gordon Matta-Clark, who became famous for his radical urban spatial practices, and the Estonian artist Anu Vahtra. The exhibition is called Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect. Anu Vahtra: Completion through removal.

With abstract artists, it’s hard to talk about why one painter is more interesting than the next without getting deep in the weeds. Suffice it to say that some blobs and bloops are arranged in a way that energize and engage the mind more powerfully than others. Eddie Martinez makes good blobs. He’s been the…

Rochelle Feinstein talks about her survey at the Bronx Museum of the Arts

New Yorkers looking for an affordable and engaging date spot should consider visiting the Bronx Museum of the Arts. This contemporary art museum is open from Wednesday through Sunday until 6 p.m. (8 p.m. on Fridays) and admission is free, so it’s a perfect substitute for an expensive and crowded bar. Couples may also want…

This small contemporary-art museum “regularly hits above its weight,” Ms. Smith wrote in her recent review of “Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect,” running through April 8. That “beautifully staged” exhibition, she said, “creates a remarkably full picture of an irrepressible and unfailingly D.I.Y. maverick who is revered as one of the prime movers in the juggernaut of…

Tracing how women have been depicted in art history as objects of purity or desire, Diana Al-Hadid will exhibit new architecturally scaled sculptures riffing off timeworn female types at Madison Square Park in New York this May. Titled “Delirious Matter,” the show will be the first major outdoor public art project for Ms. Al-Hadid, a…