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Presents the art exhibition "Fight or Flight" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Featured artists; Highlights of the exhibition.

Focuses on the exhibition of politics-based art works of several artists at Exit Art gallery in New York City.

Focuses on the exhibition of the works of Donald Sultan at Ameringer Yohe gallery in New York City.

Focuses on the exhibit of the works of artist Will Ryman at the Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Gallery in New York City scheduled until July 23, 2004. Themes of the featured pieces; Highlights of the event.

Focuses on the exhibit of the works of artist, Jeff Gabel at the Spencer Brownstone Gallery in New York City scheduled until July 16, 2004. Highlights of the event; Theme of his featured pieces.

The article reviews art exhibitions held in New York City from 2015-2017 including "Excursus: Homage to the Square³" featuring work of artist Robert Irwin, "Enigmas: The Art of Bada Shanren (1626-1705)" & "Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 'Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia."

History put the squeeze on American artists in the first decade and a half after World War II. There was the no-poetry-after-Auschwitz problem: What could an artist do that would not seem trivial after the unprecedented horrors of the recent war, not to mention the new threat of nuclear annihilation? There was a politically fraught climate, with the Soviet Union emerging as a scary rival superpower, and anti-Communist paranoia blossoming and putting a major damper on the expression of leftist sentiments that many artists and intellectuals had openly embraced before the war. Adding insult to injury, capitalist consumerism was increasing and beginning to deliver mountains of shiny new products to eager customers in rapidly developing suburbs. For a certain breed of vanguardist, the solution was passive-aggressive withdrawal into archaic myth, oracular symbolism and private language. ''Signs & Symbols'' at the Whitney Museum of American Art illuminates that trend. Organized by Donna De Salvo, the museum's chief curator, in collaboration with Jane Panetta, the exhibition gathers 63 works by 44 artists from the Whitney's permanent collection, including pieces from future hall of famers like Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and David Smith and many less famous journeyman players. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

FIN de siecle Paris may have been a hotbed of debauchery, but the most compelling painter of that time, EDOUARD VUILLARD (1868-1940), stayed home and painted his mother and sisters in their modest rooms pursuing ordinary domestic activities. Compact, flattened and densely patterned, yet mysteriously atmospheric, those works gained early success for the young Vuillard and remain among the most beloved paintings of the Post-Impressionist era. Conventional wisdom has it that Vuillard failed to live up to his early promise. Unlike his coevals Matisse and Bonnard, after 1900 Vuillard took a traditionalist turn to realistic portraiture and decorative wall painting. Viewers may judge for themselves whether his critics have been unkind this week when ''Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940'' opens Friday at the Jewish Museum. The first major museum show in New York to focus on Vuillard in 20 years, the exhibition will present more than 50 paintings as well as prints and photographs. It also will examine the influence of friends, supporters, critics and benefactors -- many of whom were Jewish -- on the artist's life and work. Through Sept. 23, 1109 Fifth Avenue, at 92nd Street; (212) 423-3200, thejewishmuseum.org. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Lower East Side is not the new Chelsea and probably never will be. The exhibition spaces are comparatively small, and except for Lehmann Maupin, there are no big-box commercial vendors showing internationally acclaimed talents. Furthermore, the neighborhood is crisscrossed by busy thoroughfares, and the galleries are widely dispersed among all kinds of nonart businesses. There are lots of bars, restaurants and boutiques, and many galleries are open on Sunday, unlike those in other parts of Manhattan. But while this can make gallery hopping fun for casual visitors, the geography can make it a chore for those mainly looking for art. The gallery scene here is more sober than that of the East Village of the 1980s, and not as hip as Williamsburg was in the '90s. It is a little like what SoHo was B.C. (Before Chelsea). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

What a long, strange trip it's been. Over the course of his five-decade career the comic artist R. Crumb has gone from hero of the hippie underground to toast of the international art world. Founder of the deliriously psychedelic and ribald Zap Comix during the Haight-Ashbury wonder years, he has more recently contributed comic strips made in collaboration with his wife, Aline Kominsky Crumb, to The New Yorker. In 2004 he was included in the Carnegie International and had a career retrospective at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany. Now the Institute of Contemporary Art here offers ''R. Crumb's Underground,'' an excellent opportunity to ponder Mr. Crumb's incredible journey. This enthralling selection of more than 100 works from all phases of his career was organized by Todd Hignite, the publisher and editor of Comic Art magazine, for the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, where it was on view in 2007. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Previews the art exhibition "Fight or Flight," at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.

Previews the art exhibition "Constructed Image," at Kent Gallery in Chelsea, New York City.

Previews the art exhibition of Fabian Birgfeld at the Josée Bienvenu Gallery in Chelsea, New York City.

Previews the art exhibition of Charlotte Becket at the Taxter & Spengemann Gallery in Chelsea, New York City.

Previews the art exhibition of Thomas Ashcraft at the CUE Gallery in Chelsea, New York City.

Focuses on the National Academy of Design Museum's "The 179th Annual" contemporary exhibition. Featured artists; Art collections; Highlights of the exhibition; Major attractions.