The Bronx Museum News

For nearly four decades, the museum’s program Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) has been training small cohorts of emerging artists in the professional practicalities—from negotiating with galleries to retirement planning—that M.F.A. programs leave out. But there’s nothing commercial about this exhibition of works by the latest crop of seventy-two participants, co-curated by Christine Licata, Aylet…

This has already been a banner year for LGBTQ-themed art exhibitions around the world, and still more are heading to top museums across the U.S. and Europe this fall. From gay comics in the Bronx to forgotten queer Chicano artists in Los Angeles to Hockney in Spain, here are our picks for the shows not…

‘Wild Noise/Ruido Salvaje’ at The Bronx Museum of The Arts This group show, closing on July 23, was planned as a two-part exchange of permanent-collection work between the Bronx Museum and the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, but the shipment of Cuban art to New York hit a roadblock when authorities refused to…

The Bronx Museum has just announced it will stage an exhibition on Gordon Matta-Clark and his work in and around the Bronx. The exhibit Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitecture will examine “the artist’s pioneering social, relational, and activist” work. There have been scores of Matta-Clark exhibits, but few connect the artist’s work to the underserved and troubled urban…

Antonio Sergio Bessa doesn’t consider himself a big-time collector. Yet there’s a blue-chip quality to the art on the walls of the apartment he shares with his husband, Ed Yanisch, in the Sugar Hill area of Harlem. There are museum-caliber names in the mix, like Raymond Pettibon, Kay Rosen, Ivan Serpa and Peter Saul. But…

A conversation with Shahpour Pouyan, an Iranian artist whose works range from drawing and painting to sculpture and performance art. NYC-ARTS also visits MoMA and the American Folk Art Museum.

Bronx locals will tell you that their borough is many things: the birthplace of hip-hop, a living gallery of street art, a global food crawl of family-run restaurants, a destination for world-class attractions including the New York Botanical Garden, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the Bronx Zoo. But recently, as the South Bronx…

Art has always been the forefront of Daniel Hauben’s life. When he was a kid, he found ways to have his mother keep him home from school. And when his father returned from work, Hauben would immediately throw all of his new drawings at him.

A few months ago, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy watched students visiting the Bronx Museum of the Arts study a large drawing of a border fence. The fence was part of a new exhibition at the museum Cuy is curating. But what surprised her was the students wondering aloud if the fence was separating the Bronx…

Bronx, New York, August 31, 2016—The Bronx Museum today announced the appointment of newinterim board leadership, naming Joseph Mizzi as Chair and Joan Krevlin as Co-Vice Chair of theMuseum. Marilyn Greene continues to serve as Co-Vice Chair and Elliot Brownstein as Treasurer. Theappointments have been made due to the sudden resignation last week of the…

The Bronx Museum of the Arts, whose attendance has quadrupled since it instituted free admission in 2012, announced Wednesday that it had started a $25 million capital campaign to renovate and expand its building along the Grand Concourse and to establish an endowment for the first time. The building project, which has already received around…