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The article offers information on the exhibitions in the U.S. as of April 2019 including "Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975" and "Tiffany Chung: Vietnam Past Is Prologue" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and "Jean-Michel Basquiat" at the Brant Foundation.

The article reviews an exhibition of the works of U.S. artist Dorothea Rockburne from the late 1960s and early 1970s at the Dia:Beacon museum in Beacon, New York.

The American art world has never gotten over its first love, Europe. And so, when the Occupy movement heated up last year, many art types reached instinctively for European theory and precedents. But in recent decades examples of direct action and a sustained movement made of small affinity groups have flourished in New York. An exhibition devoted to one such group, Gran Fury, is on view at New York University. Gran Fury existed as a collective with a core of around 10 members from the end of 1989 until the mid-'90s. It grew out of Act Up (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), which formed in 1987. The group's name is also suitably local, taken from the Plymouth Gran Fury, which was used as a squad car by the New York City police in the 1980s. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The 1980s were a complicated decade for American art. New York was back from the brink of bankruptcy, but gentrification was killing bohemianism. The art market flourished, but it also created a lopsided demand for painting and other market-friendly mediums. Art stars were born, but artists were dying of AIDS. All of this serves as a backdrop for ''Circa 1986'' at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill. The show features 65 works by 47 artists, made between 1981 and 1991, and was organized by John Newsom, Astrid Honold and Nicola Trezzi: a painter, a curator and an editor. The works are all drawn, however, from six private New York collections, including that of the founders of the art center, Marc and Livia Straus, and their children, Ari and Sarena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]