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At first glance, you'd be hard pressed to come up with a reason why the artsy crowd gathered at the downtown gallery Arsenal Contemporary during New York Fashion Week on Tuesday to watch a parade of models decked out in oversized bows and Renaissance-like corsets would have any connection at all to Bruce Willis.
Read MoreLou Dallas designer Raffaella Hanley presented her new collection at Arsenal Contemporary NY, an art gallery on the Bowery this afternoon. The look of downtown style has cycled through various modes over the years—CBGB, the nightclub widely recognized as the birthplace of New York punk, existed just a few blocks up.
Read MoreWhile Eye to eye’s opening at Arsenal Contemporary last week proffered the anticipated beer-handed Bowery art crowd, a few steps deeper into the white space, it became clear that something more was happening here.
Read MoreSanctuary for Families is New York’s leading service provider and advocate for survivors of domestic violence, sex trafficking, and related forms of gender violence.
Read MoreArsenal Contemporary has organized its upcoming group show to benefit Sanctuary for Families, a New York nonprofit that assists survivors of domestic violence. Featured artists include Carol Rama, Diana Al-Hadid, Chloe Wise, Ivy Haldeman, and Rita Ackermann.
Read MoreArsenal Contemporary is pleased to present Cloud Paintings, an exhibition by Benoît Maire, bringing together a series of new paintings completed during a residency at Arsenal Contemporary Montréal.
Clouds are an elemental resource valued by their mutability.
Listen to an illuminating conversation between acclaimed artists Rodney Graham and Gerard Byrne, recorded in November at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Read MoreThis week, we bring you the top end-of-the-year shows in New York you won’t want to miss. On view now through the holidays, here’s what to see around the city.
Read MoreArsenal Contemporary is proud to present Pink Hook Iron Eyes, Kathleen Ryan’s first solo exhibition in New York. In five large sculptures, industrial tools coalesce with tropical fruit, pearls, crystals and flesh.
Read MoreMobilize is part of Souvenir, a four-film series commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada to address Aboriginal identity and representation by reworking material in the NFB’s archives.
Read MoreArsenal Contemporary is proud to present Pink Hook Iron Eyes, Kathleen Ryan’s first solo exhibition in New York. In five large sculptures, industrial tools coalesce with tropical fruit, pearls, crystals and flesh.
Read MoreNotre ambassadrice Vanessa Pilon discute avec Marc Séguin au sujet de son oeuvre Sans Titre ; une toile dont l'histoire touchante relève d'une grande sensibilité.
Read More“Kathleen Ryan: Pink Hook Iron Eyes” at Arsenal Contemporary
Kathleen Ryan’s first New York solo show is like Shel Silverstein’s poemabout the man who planted a diamond come to life: giant, cast-iron queen palm seed pods bear fruit of rose quartz and jade. Other works include a massive pearl necklace made from bowling balls and a pink granite block, carved as if an invisible figure was perched on her throne.
If August tends to be a sleepy time for New York City, the art world in particular can seemingly come to a standstill.
Read MoreHannah Perry’s densely layered photo-based works at Arsenal Contemporary also addressed this never-ending stream of images. Pictures of eyes, palm trees, and hands, all sourced from the Web, are superimposed on each other in these silkscreened pieces, along with text that hints at violence, both emotional and physical. “Get out of my life,” reads one.
Read MoreArsenal Contemporary Art presents a series of major works by Jon Rafman.
Read MoreThis exhibition views the human body through its dehumanization. The show’s title alone, “Sticky Fingers,” evokes all manner of flesh, tainted and tantalizing. Caroline Mesquita’s carnival of sheet-metal monsters, displayed here as sculptures, also surrounds the artist in her video The Ballad, 2017, where they engage in standoffs and sexual acts.
Read MoreMartha Kirszenbaum has curated this group show, featuring Meriem Bennani, Elizabeth Jaeger, Wanda Koop, Piotr Łakomy, An Te Liu, Elizabeth McIntosh, Caroline Mesquita, and Louise Sartor, by bringing together works that “evoke the fragile tangibility of the human body, intertwining materiality with theatrical playfulness” to “ultimately disclose the vast disconnectedness and loneliness of modern existence.”
Read MoreAs soon as the summer show was mounted at Arsenal Contemporary in Toronto, concerned neighbors began calling the police. They were worried about two people sitting on the roof of the building, a sheet thrown over their heads. Despite their perch atop an art gallery, and their obvious lack of movement, onlookers were convinced these were real people.
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