The Bronx Museum News

It’s been a tumultuous, exciting year for visual art in New York City, with no shortage of controversy; beloved artists getting their due; and exciting, inventive curation from major museums to independent galleries. New York art lovers seem ever more willing to get off the beaten path, and museums in the Bronx and Queens were…

For Susannah Ray to get into the centre of New York city, she must first travel over a series of bridges and waterways. Whether driving across Jamaica Bay or taking the subway from her home in Rockaway Beach, Queens to Brooklyn or Manhattan, she repeatedly finds herself captivated by the sights she encounters – the…

An exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts aims to critique the borough’s architecture. Artist Gordon Matta-Clark first came up with the idea for a so-called “garbage wall” for Earth Day in the 1970s as a way to recycle material, according to his co-curator and stepdaughter Jessamyn Fiore. Matta-Clark took the materials from underneath…

The Bronx Museum of the Arts is a fitting home for this retrospective of the late Gordon Matta-Clark. Some of his best known site-specific pieces were created in the borough, including Bronx Floors (1973), which involved cutting a wood-and-linoleum fragment out of a disheveled, unoccupied building. Under the title “Anarchitect,” Matta-Clark’s Bronx Museum show will include…

The Bronx Museum of the Arts (1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx) opens “Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect” on November 8 and on view until April 8, 2018. This is a major exhibition of works by a New York artist who died in 1978 at the age of 35; and, literally, made a mark on NYC in the 70s…

This exhibition focuses on the significant role the Bronx played in the development of Matta-Clark’s practice. Best known for his monumental holes, apertures, and excisions to the façades of derelict homes and historic buildings in 1970s New York City, Matta-Clark’s work provides a potent critique of architecture’s role within the capitalist system. This exhibition includes…

In the cash-strapped New York City of the late 1960s and early ’70s, piles of uncollected garbage consumed sidewalks, abandoned buildings turned neighborhoods into ghost towns, and the homeless population seeped far beyond the Bowery. This civic squalor was too much for the late Gordon Matta-Clark to ignore when he returned to his native New…

The artist Gordon Matta-Clark fused art, architecture, and anarchy and found a new way to see the city.

A deceptively thoughtful sculpture series​ ​engages with Randalls and Wards Islands’ erased and less visible histories.

Like so many recent group exhibitions of its kind, this year’s Bronx Biennial deals with widespread political problems. Climate change, racism, glaring economic disparity — these are our perennial issues, and therefore our perennial curatorial themes. It can become a bit monotonous, to say the least, but “Bronx Calling: The Fourth AIM Biennial” largelyavoids that…

GORDON MATTA-CLARK: ANARCHITECT The Cornell-trained architect and downtown Pied Piper, who produced a wide and exciting range of work before his untimely death of cancer at 35, made some of his early “cuts,” sections of wall and floor cut right out of usually derelict buildings in ornamental shapes, in the Bronx; this large show emphasizes…

This exhibition promises to explore dimensions of Matta-Clark only touched on in previous retrospectives, homing in on his architectural projects of the 1970s. The artist adopted the sobriquet anarchitect, with a bow to the art brut painter Jean Dubuffet and in explicit opposition to his professional education at Cornell. But the work to be exhibited…