Author Archives: Nicholas Burkhalter

Salman Toor

Salman Toor’s sumptuous and insightful figurative paintings depict intimate, quotidian moments in the lives of fictional young, brown, queer men ensconced in contemporary cosmopolitan culture. Toor playfully engages the history of European painting, particularly certain Baroque, Rococo, Romantic, and Impressionist masters with whom he shares an aesthetic kinship; he disrupts entrenched attitudes toward gender and race prevalent within this tradition… Read More

Kate Fowle

  Kate Fowle is the director of MoMA PS1. She was appointed in 2019 after six years as the inaugural chief curator of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, and director-at-large at Independent Curators International, New York. During her tenure at Garage, she oversaw the institution’s transition from art center to internationally recognized, public-facing museum, establishing new infrastructure… Read More

Conversation with the Critics

Johanna Fateman is a writer, art critic, and owner of Seagull salon in New York. She writes art reviews regularly for the New Yorker and 4Columns, and she is a contributing editor for Artforum. She is a 2019 Creative Capital awardee and currently at work on a novel.       Photo Credit: George Chinsee Alex Greenberger is senior editor of ARTnews, where he began as… Read More

Coronavirus

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Tribeca Ball 2020 Student Work

As most of you know, Tribeca Ball is a truly spectacular night. It gives our friends and patrons the chance to preview work of Academy rising stars and visit the artists in their studios.  Not only does it generate crucial support for the school, it also helps these emerging artists get “discovered” in the best possible way, by giving our supporters… Read More

Doron Langberg in conversation with Dexter Wimberly

Doron Langberg in conversation with Dexter Wimberly from New York Academy of Art on Vimeo.   Doron Langberg (b. 1985, Yokneam, Israel) lives and works in New York. He received his MFA from Yale University and holds a BFA from UPenn and a Certificate from PAFA (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts). Langberg has attended the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program,… Read More

David Antonio Cruz in conversation with Dexter Wimberly

David Antonio Cruz is a multidisciplinary artist. Cruz fuses painting, video, and performance to explore the visibility and intersectionality of brown, black, and queer bodies. Cruz received a BFA in painting from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Yale University. He attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and completed the AIM Program at the Bronx Museum. Recent residencies include the… Read More