Nov. 26, 2024 By Colum Motherway Woodbine Community Center in Ridgewood is hosting its fifth annual Holiday Market on Sunday, Dec. 1, and due to overwhelming demand, the market will be held at two locations. The market will run from noon to 6 p.m. at the Banatul Folklore & Soccer Club, 1880 Menahan St.,…
Sept. 5, 2024 By Shane O’Brien MoMA PS1 will host the first institutional exhibition in the US by artist Jasmine Gregory, featuring a number of new works exploring the difficulties of creating art in modern-day society and themes of generational inheritance. Gregory, who was born in Washington D.C. but lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland,… Read more »
Aug. 27, 2024 By Shane O’Brien ART BreakOUT, a platform for artists from underrepresented backgrounds, will host a month-long exhibition at the Local NY next month, showcasing dozens of marginalized and predominately self-taught artists. “The Art of Solitude” will run at the Local NY, located at 13-02 44th Ave. in Long Island City, from Sep…. Read more »
Aug. 19, 2024 By Shane O’Brien A new exhibition is set to open at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City on Sep. 26 featuring the Studio Museum in Harlem, called “Pass Carry Hold: Studio Museum Artists in Residence.” Pass Carry Hold features the work of this year’s artists in residence: Sonia Louise Davis, Malcolm Peacock… Read more »
Aug. 16, 2024 By Shane O’Brien Socrates Sculpture Park has announced the Socrates Annual 2024, a new exhibition embracing invasive species and exploring the legacy of species migration. The new exhibition, which will be on display from Sept. 14 through April 6, 2024, features nine site-specific projects that consider the politics of settlement and the… Read more »
June 28, 2024 By Ramy Mahmoud and Queens Post Staff The Variety Boys and Girls Club of Queens unveiled a vibrant, clean energy-inspired mural, designed and painted by children in their after-school program with the creative guidance of artists from the Community-Word Project, on Tuesday, June 18. The visual artists worked with children aged 6-14… Read more »
Feb. 26, 2024 By Rachel Butler A Bayside-based arts organization is launching a month-long exhibition at Queens College located in Flushing next month in celebration of March being women’s history month. The Garage Art Center, a non-profit, is showcasing the work of 23 women in a show called “Femina Creativa: Celebrating Women in New York,”…
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Feb. 16, 2024 By Athena Dawson The Downtown Jamaica Partnership launched three free new interactive street art installations in the heart of downtown Jamaica. The temporary installment dubbed the ‘‘Light Lane ” features colorful lights and music that emits from the three stationary bikes that make up the installments. When pedaled, different graphics appear on…
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Aug. 28, 2023 By Bill Parry One of the borough’s foremost conservationists, Don Riepe, is currently exhibiting photos of his favorite subject at the Red Wall Art Gallery at Resorts World New York City. The 83-year-old Broad Channel resident was the longtime manager of the National Park System’s Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and in 2003 he became the director of the Northeast Chapter of the Littoral Society where he coordinated the annual International Coastal Cleanup for the state of New York, initiated the derelict boat removal program known as Jamaica Bay Clean Sweep and spearheaded countless community-based marsh restoration efforts…
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Aug. 21, 2023 By Tammy Scileppi Art lovers have been enjoying a memorable exhibition – the first in the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning’s (JCAL) Visual Voices curatorial program – which showcases attention-grabbing works by 44 Queens-based creatives from different backgrounds. Experience “Free Your Mind” at the JCAL galleries until Sept. 1 and explore…
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