Founded in 1977, the New Museum is a leading destination for new art and new ideas. It is Manhattan's only dedicated contemporary art museum and is respected internationally for the adventurousness and global scope of its curatorial program.
This distinctive form derives directly from the architects' defining solution to fundamental challenges of their site. They arrived at a dense and ambitious program that would allow for open, flexible gallery spaces of different heights and atmospheres within a tight zoning envelope on a footprint a mere seventy-one feet wide and 112-feet deep.
"A.K. Burns: Shabby but Thriving" marks a new chapter in artist A.K. Burns' serial work drawing on theater, science fiction, philosophy, and ecological anxieties. Presented as part of the Department of Education and Public Engagement's R&D Season: BODY, the project is organized around five elements: power (the sun), water, land, void, and body.
A collaborative project, GOD enables two individual artists known for their work in other mediums to come together as video-makers, experimenting anonymously and thus outside their usual comfort zones. GOD was formed in 2013 and has produced a series of atmospheric, largely non-narrative works that evoke a contemporary American Gothic sensibility. Framing spontaneously filmed, everyday-even banal-moments by way of longstanding classical tropes, GOD's work offers a lush hybrid of postmodern appropriation and post-apocalyptic fairy tale.
For over thirty years, Raymond Pettibon (b. 1957, Tucson, AZ) has been chronicling the history, mythology, and culture of America with a prodigious and distinctive voice. Through his drawings' signature interplay between image and text, he moves between historical reflection, emotional longing, poetic wit, and strident critique.
"Jonathas de Andrade: O Peixe" is the first solo museum presentation in the US of the work of Jonathas de Andrade (b. 1982), one of the most promising Brazilian artists of his generation. Over the last decade, de Andrade has developed works in photography, video, and installation that stem from observations of everyday life in Brazil and what he regards as its "urgencies and discomforts." In particular, many of de Andrade's works consider how Brazilian national identity and labor conditions have been constructed against a backdrop of colonialism and slavery.