Tag Archives: Art

Join us for our first Fall Social on Friday, September 28, 2018 at 7pm, Project Farmhouse, for the premiere of our video and annual report. We will also celebrate 20 years as stewards of the East River Park and profile our Artist-in-Residence Program, based at the E-waste Warehouse. There will be a special silent auction with creations […]

A one-on-one performance rooted in visualizing climate action through art presented by Chowaniec Projects in partnership with Evelyn Frances and NY Studio Factory. This piece guides each individual participant through the process of finding their own connection to nature and local trip planning via relevant, free resources. A takeaway journal with an extended guide accompanies. We will spend about […]

On Thursday, July 19, 6:00–9:00 PM, the MAS Urbanists will team up with AIA New York’s Archtober to host a summer scavenger hunt. Join us and put your knowledge of local urban activism to the test. The West Village, the old stomping grounds of Jane Jacobs and the birthplace of New York City’s LGBT rights movement, is a neighborhood steeped in civic […]

How does the city inspire designers and innovators? How do new technologies, inspirations, and ideas blend together? Consider art, fashion, and culture in ways you have never seen them before and bring these refreshed ideas into your own classrooms and practices. Spend the morning with Harlem-based fashion designer and innovator, EPPERSON, and hear how NYC inspires […]

Join artist Zaria Forman and the Climate Museum in toasting her window installation, part one of In Human Time. Hot spiked drinks—plus a raffle, Antarctic soundscapes, more. Free and open to all.

Given the imperative of fast action on climate, 2018 must be a year that prioritizes decisions rather than simply adds more detail to a story we already know. 2017 already brought three books that tell us enough about what we need to do and why: Peter Kalmus’s Being the Change, Brett Favaro’s The Carbon Code, […]

Join us as we close this inspiring month-long exhibit. Experience our best exhibit yet, hang out with our artists, see live performances, and see who gets this year’s Creative Climate Awards $2,000 grand prize. The Creative Climate Awards are an annual series of events from the Human Impacts Institute that showcase artists creating climate-inspired, public works and […]

Celebrate the opening of this highly anticipated exhibit in the heart of Manhattan. The Creative Climate Awards are an annual series of events that showcase artists creating climate-inspired, public works and actions. In an effort to inspire us to think more critically about our actions and their impacts, the Creative Climate Awards program uses the arts and creativity to […]

Our gallery is on the streets, and we want to share it, pointing out famous and hidden spots throughout the city. We’ll be covering the Williamsburg and Bushwick neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Tour includes NYC highlights, history and social implications of street art.

Plant Patterns features the work of Adam Frezza & Terri Chiao, Adrienne Elise Tarver, Karin Haas, Liesl Pfeffer, and Nick Wildermuth. The artists use plants’ impressive natural characteristics as a means to explore various themes in their graphic works. Domestic and wild flora have provided artists with inspiration for centuries. The diversity and multitude of […]

This event repeats every week on Tuesday between 6/13/2017 and 8/22/2017. Bring your child for a fun afternoon of painting the scenery around them, with the help of Art Student’s League’s Pedro Rodriguez. It’s a cool activity for a hot day. Supplies will be provided!

This event repeats every day between 7/15/2017 and 8/31/2017. Come to 99 Plymouth and see the brilliant, site-specific murals created by the talented students of the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation’s Summer Session. The paintings will celebrate the park as a place of natural beauty and respite in our often chaotic urban environment. The students will work […]

Central Park has long been revered as a masterpiece of living art. Visitors on this tour will admire Park vistas as if walking through a landscape painting, all while learning about the Park’s intricate design features. Discover the Park’s most artfully executed landscapes on this tour led by Central Park Conservancy guides. Highlights of this […]

The role of sports as a social tool is marked by the ways in which athletes challenge the structure of the game through their own representation within and beyond the field. This conversation, focusing on fútbol, aims to expand upon how the game is a critical and aesthetic tool that links indigenous heritage with current […]

We invite you to explore your inner artist with our Draw Your Park program. On July 20, from 5-7pm, spend the evening drawing alongside teaching artists who will provide their guidance. All materials will be provided by Madison Square Park Conservancy. Meeting locations will vary. This program is free and open to all, rain or shine. Photo […]

Artworks by world-renowned artist Dale Chihuly are now on view at NYBG in his first major garden exhibition in New York in more than ten years. CHIHULY, presented by Bank of America, showcases more than 20 installations and includes drawings and early works that reveal the evolution and development of Chihuly’s artistic process during his celebrated […]

Civic Art Lab’s opening event includes the artwork of: Yasmeen Abdallah, Zoey Hart, Veronika Szkudlarek, Sohee Koo, Isha Patel, Pavithra Sriram, Ishita Dimri, and Ankita Nalavade. Drinks will be served. Talks at 6pm. Performance at 7:15 pm. Artist Talks Resurrecting Refuse by Yasmeen Abdallah PULL it TOGETHER/PULL it APART by Zoey Hart Hybrid Painting As […]

Temple of Manufacturing presents COMPANY’s long-term project: SECRETS. Traveling to remote sites around the world to learn crafting processes unique to particular industries and places, the duo (comprised of Aamu Song and Johan Olin) has collaborated over the last decade with a variety of communities to rethink the very processes and knowledge embedded in these […]