Past Exhibits
Like the Waters, We Rise: Climate Justice in Print
The Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF) in collaboration with Interference Archive, is pleased to announce Like the Waters, We Rise: Climate Justice in Print, a celebration of the bold, graphic work of print-based artists on the frontlines of the climate justice movement. Like the Waters, We Rise documents the contemporary Climate Justice Movement (2005-present), which is in truth, a …
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Pasado y Presente: Art after the Young Lords
The Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF) in partnership with the Loisaida Center, is pleased to announce the opening of Pasado y Presente: Art After the Young Lords, an exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Young Lords Organization in New York. The show will be on view at the Nathan Cummings Foundation offices …
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Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity
The Nathan Cummings Foundation is pleased to announce Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity, a traveling photography exhibition that is centered in ideas of Black joy and oppositional fashion as resistance. Curated by Shantrelle P. Lewis and organized by the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, the participating artists for this iteration include: Akintola …
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Hold These Truths
The Nathan Cummings Foundation is proud to announce Hold These Truths, a group exhibition that responds to our complex and critical moment in United States history through the works of artists including Sol Aramendi, Alexandra Bell, Natalie Bookchin, Andrea Bowers, Nancy Chunn, Adinah Dancyger & Mykki Blanco, Nona Faustine, Ramiro Gomez & David Feldman, Cannupa Hanska …
JAZZ.COVERS.POLITICS: ALBUM ART IN AN AGE OF ACTIVISM
As described by co-curator Robert G. O’Meally, “This exhibition presents original album covers along with beautiful reproductions, surveying the history of jazz music as part of an ongoing struggle for justice in the United States and beyond. From Louis Armstrong’s ‘(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue’ and Billie Holiday’s ‘Strange Fruit’ …
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Kamoinge + En Foco: Advancing the Frame
Kamoinge + En Foco: Advancing the Frame is the first joint exhibition of two groups of art photographers celebrating 90 years of photography between them. This retrospective exhibition is dedicated to presenting the work of community-based photographers and their communities clearly in focus (“en foco”). The show is about moving forward together: about advancing the frame.
Bring in the Reality
Bring in the Reality features artwork at the intersection of storytelling and activism that examines economic, social and political inequality. The exhibition, curated by Rachel Gugelberger and organized by No Longer Empty, presents works in a variety of media that embody the rhetorical role of parrhesia: works that speak candidly, freely and boldly; works that …
HOME(WARD)
Drawing on MORE ART’s 12-year experience curating public art about housing, home, and homelessness, HOME(WARD) resonates with the tireless pursuit of New Yorkers who strive for a more equitable city. The multidisciplinary exhibition at the Nathan Cummings Foundation showcases the work of 10 contemporary artists redefining the boundaries of what it means to create a home within …
Re-Imagining A Safe Space
Exhibition Schedule October 26–December 15 Gulf + Western Gallery Dept. of Photography & Imaging Tisch School of the Arts 721 Broadway, Lobby & 8th Floor New York, NY 10003 Re-imagining A Safe Space will explore critical questions regarding the idea of a safe space. We hope to reach deeper and richer understanding of our needs …
(COUNTER)PUBLIC ART, INTERVENTION & PERFORMANCE IN LOWER MANHATTAN FROM 1978–1993
(Counter)Public Art, Intervention & Performance reflects a period of social, political, and artistic extremes in the downtown artistic community. This snapshot of a time and place presents a diverse range of projects while capturing each artist’s varied response to the overall political climate, including the HIV/AIDS crisis, civil rights violations, the changing public sphere, and the …
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Centrifuge
Centrifuge is a multimedia exhibition featuring work by 16 artists that explores the complexity of contemporary life in Israel through the marginalized communities that exist within the peripheries of society. Rather than depicting the country as a unified or stable entity, Centrifuge presents work that engages with Israel’s many diverse edges – whether ethnic, religious, cultural or …
Caribe Now: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Diaspora
The Nathan Cummings Foundation, in partnership with El Museo del Barrio, is proud to present Caribe Now: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Diaspora. The exhibition, an extension of El Museo del Barrio’s Caribbean: Crossroads of the World project, features artists of Caribbean descent who explore how the Caribbean, through its diaspora, continues to be conceived …
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