Live Cinema/Anita Sieff: Films
October 3, 2008 - January 4, 2009: This installment of Live Cinema focuses on the video work of Italian artist Anita Sieff. Inspired by filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, and Luchino Visconti, Sieff explores in non-linear narratives the interactions between disparate characters bestowed with allegorical qualities.

World in a Bottle
Giorgio Morandi found himself in his vessels and vases.

March 2008 National Women’s History Month Women’s Art : Women’s Vision
Each year, March is designated as National Women’s History Month to ensure that the history of American women will be recognized and celebrated in schools, workplaces, and communities throughout the country. The stories of women's historic achievements present an expanded view of the complexity and contradiction of living a full and purposeful life. The knowledge of women's history provides a more expansive vision of what a woman can do. This perspective can encourage girls and women to think larger and bolder and can give boys and men a fuller understanding of the female experience.

Photo Mandalas: Bill Armstrong and Milan Fano Blatný
September 6, 2008 - February 1, 2009: This visually bold exhibition of more than thirty photographs brings together two contemporary artists, Bill Armstrong and Milan Fano Blatný, whose work has been inspired by the ancient form of the mandala.

New Obama Portrait Unveiled
Shortly after the US Presidential race was called, portraitist Elizabeth Peyton added a new work to her exhibition Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton (on view at the New Museum October 8,...

023 Gustave Courbet
Curator Gary Tinterow visits the New York studio of the painter John Currin to discuss the special exhibition Gustave Courbet.

Museums Fear Lean Days Ahead
Across the country museum directors are bracing for the effects of an economic crisis that could change everything from exhibitions to endowment funds.