Spring is officially here, so why not take that time to enjoy some of the amazing ongoing and upcoming art shows that the greatest museums in New York have to offer! To help you decide which show or shows you want to check out, here are 10 exhibits for to put on your watch-list for the warmer months.
Peter Saul: From Pop to Punk
At Venus Over Manhattan through April 18, 2015
Peter Saul, Pinkville, acrylic on canvas, 90 x 131 inches.
Peter Saul’s cartoonish satire and Pop Art expressionism is returning to New York for a retrospective at the Upper East Side’s Venus over Manhattan. The eccentric artist has spent the better part of fifty years in cities like Chicago and San Francisco creating bold, impactful paintings that juxtapose political correctness with pop culture.
On Kawara: Silence
At the Guggenheim through May 3, 2015
Photo credit: David Heald
This is the first full representation of On Kawara’s work, which is especially touching as the artist passed last July at 81 years of age. The exhibition spans over 50 years of the conceptual artist’s work, with a special focus on his “One Million Years” series.
Three Photographers from the Bronx: Jules Aarons, Morton Broffman, and Joe Conzo
At the Bronx Museum through June 14, 2015
L-R: Joe Conzo, Fort Apache Demonstrations; Jules Aarons, Older Women in the Bronx, 170th Street, New York; Morton Broffman, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Prior to Delivering his Last Sermon.
These three photographers from the Bronx have all captured significant social moments in the borough and other urban communities. The exhibition features over 80 works from all three artists and focuses on Bronx culture and daily life, the Civil Rights Movement and the Bronx protests during the early 80s.
Trenton Doyle Hancock: Skin and Bones, 20 Years of Drawing
At the Studio Museum Harlem, March 26, 2015 to June 28, 2015
Trenton Doyle Hancock, Goober’s Intrusion, 2006, Mixed media on paper, 6 ¼ × 10 inches, Collection Jim and Paula Ohaus, Westfield, New Jersey, Courtesy the artist and James Cohan Gallery, New York.
The Studio Museum in Harlem is a great place for a seasoned artist to showcase his first large scale exhibition, which is exactly what Oklahoma artist Trent Doyle Hancock is doing. Hancock spent nearly twenty years in Houston sketching and drawing expressionist pieces to portray the way he views the world we live in.
Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks
At the Brooklyn Museum, April 3, 2015 to August 23, 2015
Tamra Davis (American, b. 1962). Still from A Conversation with Basquiat, 2006. 23 min., 22 sec. © Tamra Davis. Courtesy of the artist. By permission of the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, all rights reserved. Photo: Jonathan Dorado, Brooklyn Museum
Thanks to Netflix and Jay-Z, the famous Haitain-American NYC artist Jean-Michel Basquiat has grown immensely in hipster popularity. Nevertheless, we definitely won’t be missing a chance to check out the 160 pages of his thoughts sketches and personal observations scribbled in the notebooks on view at the Brooklyn Museum.
One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Works
At the Museum of Modern Art, April 3, 2015 to September 7, 2015
Jacob Lawrence. The Migration Series. 1940–41. Panel 31: “After arriving North the Negroes had better housing conditions.” Casein tempera on hardboard, 18 x 12″ (45.7 x 30.5 cm). The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. Acquired 1942. © 2015 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Digital image courtesy The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Jacob Lawrence has long been a beacon of artistry in American and African-American culture, and his Great Migration series is just one example of how he was able to reflect the Black experience in his work. The series will showcase Lawrence’s paintings depicting the Great Migration era of American culture, along other accounts from famous African-Americans who were prominent during that time.
America is Hard to See
At the new Whitney Museum of American Art, May 1, 2015 to September 27, 2015
Whitney Museum of American Art, December 2014. Photograph by Karin Jobst
The Whitney Museum of American Art is one of the world’s finest American art museums, and will move this spring to its new home in the Meatpacking District. It’s no surprise that the inaugural exhibition for the new and improved Whitney is already being heralded as “the largest and most comprehensive display to date of the Whitney’s unparalleled permanent collection of 20th and 21st century American art” to date.
China: Through the Looking Glass
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 7, 2015 to August 16, 2015
L-R: John Galliano for House of Dior; Christian Dior for House of Dior; Tom Ford for Yves Saint Laurent, Paris.
Photography © Platon
The Met has done a lot with exhibitions focusing on Far East artwork this year, and this upcoming summer exhibition on Chinese influence in pop culture is no different. The series will highlight China’s role in shaping the history of fashion, dissecting everything from costume design to haute couture.
Interface: Queer Artist Forming Community through Social Media
At the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, May 15 to August 2, 2015
Scooter LaForge, Masters of the Universe, 2011, Oil on canvas, 50 x 60 in. Collection of David W. Perkins and George Constant.
Curated by Walt Cessna, Interface is an eclectic showcase that features nearly 30 queer artists across a spectrum of styles and mediums all based out of New York. The exhibition seeks to highlight the role social media has played in developing a new way for artists to interact with each other and the public.
Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971
At the Museum of Modern Art, May 17, 2015 to September 7, 2015
L-R: Yoko Ono and John Lennon,
WAR IS OVER! if you want it., © Yoko Ono 2014 ; Cut Piece (1964) performed by Yoko Ono in New Works of Yoko Ono, © Minoru Niizuma. Courtesy Lenono Photo Archive, New York; Yoko Ono, Apple, © Yoko Ono 2014.
This is MoMA’s first exhibition dedicated exclusively to the work of Yoko Ono, a woman whose superior work is often known second to her tabloid filled personal life. Thankfully MoMA is putting together this full retrospective, curating 125 of her early projects, installations, performances, recordings and films into a one woman celebration of artistic expression and freedom.
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