The Academy Blog

Eye to Eye: Untraditional Voices

Posted on January 3, 2020

 

“Eye to Eye: Untraditional Voices” explores how an artist might fall in love with another artist’s work. This fall, collector John L. Thomson toured the studios at the Academy and selected eleven works by second-year MFA students. Thomson, who serves on the board of trustees of MoMA PS1 and on the Modern Women’s Council of the Museum of Modern Art, has over 100 works in his home, and each student artist was invited to roam through and choose a piece from his extensive contemporary art collection to present alongside their own. Eye to Eye: Untraditional Voices thus exhibits pieces from the student artists side by side such masters as Peter Saul, Robin Williams, Dana Schutz, Red Grooms, Natalie Frank and Larry Rivers, in a dialogue about artistic influence and comparative value in the contemporary art world. This marks the second edition of Eye to Eye mounted at the Academy; in 2016 the collector Laura Skoler initiated the exhibition concept with eight student artists and works from her contemporary art collection. “Eye to Eye: Untraditional Voices” will be on view through February 23.

 

John L. Thomson’s collection as selected by New York Academy of Art students (left column) and New York Academy of Art student works selected by John L. Thomson (right column)

 

 

Video Tour Preview Provided by Eazel

 

 

Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Posted on December 16, 2019

The New York Academy of Art is pleased to announce a partnership with the producers of the critically acclaimed Moulin Rouge! The Musical to benefit the next generation of artists to reach its creative goals and artistic dreams.

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Inspired and informed by the life and artwork of the legendary painter Toulouse-Lautrec, this partnership aims to embody the Bohemian values of truth, beauty, freedom, and love by supporting the artists of today.

On Tuesday, February 18, 2020, Moulin Rouge! The Musical will host the Lautrec Gala Celebrating Art & Artists

Moulin Rouge! The Musical has generously provided a large block of tickets at no cost to the Academy, which we are now, in turn, offering to our patrons. The evening will include pre- and post-show cocktail receptions.

Funds raised by this collaboration will go to underwrite scholarships and programming at the New York Academy of Art

Please join us for a SPECTACULAR celebration benefiting the artists of tomorrow.

Art Miami 2019

Posted on November 7, 2019

 

Shipping is generously provided by Cadogan Tate

 

Mandarin Oriental, Miami: Bliss

Posted on October 30, 2019

Shipping is generously provided by Cadogan Tate

Chubb Fellows at Art Basel Miami 2019

Posted on October 30, 2019

 

AXA Art Prize 2019 Exhibition

Posted on October 29, 2019

 

AXA Art Prize 2019 Finalists

 

2019 Mexico Residency Exhibition

Posted on October 28, 2019

 

2019 Leipzig Residency Exhibition

Posted on September 3, 2019

 

Eddie Arroyo Artist Talk

Posted on August 26, 2019

Eddie Arroyo (b. 1976, Miami) documents the effects of gentrification through landscape paintings. He received a BFA in Painting from Florida International University and has exhibited at the Girls’ Club Collection, Bridge Red Studios, Spinello Projects, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida Atlantic University, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, and the Little Haiti Cultural Complex. Arroyo solo exhibitions include Developers Survey, Bakehouse Art Complex (2015), Aesthetics of Commerce, Swampspace (2015), and Witnessing the Effects of Gentrification, Haitian Heritage Museum (2017). Arroyo is a South Florida ​Consortium Grantee and is in the 2019 Whitney Biennale.

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Larry Ossei-Mensah in conversation with Dexter Wimberly

Posted on August 26, 2019

Photo Credit: Miranda Barnes

Photo Credit: Miranda Barnes

Larry Ossei-Mensah, MOCAD’s Susanne Feld Hilberry Senior Curator uses contemporary art as a vehicle to redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us. The Ghanaian-American curator and cultural critic has organized exhibitions and programs at commercial and nonprofit spaces around the globe from New York City to Rome featuring such artist as Firelei Baez, Allison Janae Hamilton, Brendan Fernandes, Ebony G. Patterson, and Stanley Whitney to name a few. Moreover, Ossei-Mensah has actively documented cultural happenings featuring the most dynamic visual artists working today such as Derrick Adams, Mickalene Thomas, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Federico Solmi, and Kehinde Wiley.

 

Ossei-Mensah is also the co-founder of ARTNOIR a global collective of culturalists who design multimodal experiences aimed to engage this generation’s dynamic and diverse creative class. Ossei-Mensah is a contributor to the first ever Ghanaian Pavilion for the 2019 Venice Biennial with an essay on the work of visual artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.

 

Ossei-Mensah also recently co-curated, with Dexter Wimberly, the critically acclaimed exhibition at MOAD in San Francisco Coffee, Rhum, Sugar, Gold: A Postcolonial Paradox co-curated. Fall 2019 Ossei-Mensah will be curating his second exhibition at the Susanne Feld Hilberry Senior Curator at MOCAD Crossing Night: Regional Identities x Global Context with Josh Ginsburg from the A4 Arts Foundation and Jova Lynne, Ford Curatorial Fellow at MOCAD.

 

Ossei-Mensah has been profiled in publications including The New York Times, Artsy, and Cultured Magazine, which recently named him one of seven curators to watch in 2019. Follow him on Instagram/Twitter at @youngglobal or www.larryosseimensah.com

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Dexter Wimberly