Fred McDarrah’s New York

Exhibits

A new exhibit takes visitors to a time when the Village was both the center and the cutting edge of American Culture.

The women renegades of New York’s Victorian era.

New York in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s was un-soiled by gentrification and alive with the energy of sexual, activist…

Review: ‘Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon’
New Museum
235 Bowery
Through Jan. 21

Contemporary political theorist Chantal Mouffe argues that all art is inherently political in that all aesthetic forms can be…

Mike Newton Nov 21, 2017

Reviewed:
‘Proof: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo’
Brooklyn Museum | brooklynmuseum.org
Through Jan. 7

“Expanded Visions: 50 Years of Collecting”
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art
leslielohman.org
Through Oct. 29

‘The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America’
Brooklyn Museum
Thru Oct. 8

Mike Newton Jun 3, 2017

At first, Emma Amos’s Flower Sniffer (1966) doesn’t seem all that confrontational. In this piece, Amos paints herself as…

As I write this, you can read about Caitlyn Jenner’s gender reassignment surgery; a trans Survivor star, Zeke Smith,…