Hi the Whitney Museum Exhibition~ The Lost World of Minnie Evans~ Opens August 22, 2026. see details below

 

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART PRESENTS THE FIRST MAJOR SOLO MUSEUM EXHIBITION OF MINNIE EVANS IN MORE THAN FIVE DECADES Marking fifty years since the Whitney debuted the artist's first museum solo exhibition, this landmark survey celebrates the visionary work of one of America's most revered self-taught artists. — The Whitney Museum of American Art presents The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans, opening August 22, 2026, just over fifty years after the Whitney organized Evans's groundbreaking first solo museum exhibition in 1975. The exhibition reintroduces audiences to one of the most extraordinary and original artistic voices in twentieth-century America.  Minnie Evans began making art in her early forties and spent the following four decades creating radiant drawings, paintings, and collages inspired by dreams, visions, spiritual revelation, mythology, popular culture, and the natural world. Guided by a profound religious faith and a vivid inner life, Evans transformed flowers, birds, angels, and human faces into intricate compositions that blur the boundaries between the earthly and the divine. She described these visionary works as portals into a Biblical Eden she called the "lost world."  Bringing together works created between 1935 and 1981 in Wilmington, North Carolina during the Jim Crow era, the exhibition reveals the artist's remarkable ability to envision harmony and transcendence amid a world of social and racial tensions. Through densely layered imagery, luminous color, and recurring spiritual motifs, Evans created a body of work that remains as relevant and resonant today as when it was first made.  The exhibition arrives at a moment of renewed interest in Evans's work. While her drawings and paintings have appeared in influential exhibitions such as The Milk of Dreams at the 2022 Venice Biennale, Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art (2022) at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940 (2024) at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Evans has not been the subject of a major solo museum presentation since the 1990s. This landmark exhibition offers an unprecedented opportunity to experience the full breadth of her artistic vision and legacy.  “Evans is part of a long tradition of American artists who found sacred meaning in the natural world,” said Barbara Haskell, Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. “Her decades of working at the Airlie Gardens gave her a profoundly personal relationship to nature. In filtering her experience of the gardens through dreams and visions that resonated with her inner life, fears, and religious faith, she created images of a lost paradise whose abundance can feel simultaneously ecstatic and claustrophobic.”   "The Whitney’s 1975 exhibition played a transformative role in introducing Evans's work to museum audiences in New York and beyond,” said Kim Conaty, the Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator at the Whitney. “Fifty years later, we’re thrilled to train our focus once again on this exceptional artist, whose exquisite works offer a powerful lens through which to examine American history, spirituality, creativity, and resilience.”    The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans returns the artist to the institution where a historic milestone began and reflects the Whitney's ongoing commitment to expanding the story of American art by highlighting artists whose contributions have historically been overlooked. The exhibition showcases an extraordinary range of creative expression, foregrounding the achievements of a Black woman artist working independently in the American South during much of the twentieth century.   The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans is organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and curated by Katherine Jentleson, the High Museum’s Senior Curator of American Art and Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art. The presentation at the Whitney Museum of American Art is organized by Barbara Haskell, Curator, with Caroline Webb, Curatorial Assistant.  PRESS CONTACT For press materials and image requests, please visit our press site at whitney.org/press or contact: Cree Solomon-Bonhomme, Publicist    Whitney Museum of American Art   (212)-671-1845 Cree_Solomon@whitney.org   Whitney Press Office whitney.org/press (212) 570-3633 pressoffice@whitney.org EXHIBITION SUPPORT Major support for The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans is provided by the Barbara Haskell American Fellows Legacy Fund and the Kapadia Equity Fund. ABOUT THE WHITNEY The Whitney Museum of American Art, founded in 1930 by the artist and philanthropist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), houses the foremost collection of American art from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Mrs. Whitney, an early and ardent supporter of modern American art, nurtured groundbreaking artists when audiences were still largely preoccupied with the Old Masters. From her vision arose the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has been championing the most innovative art of the United States for ninety years. The core of the Whitney’s mission is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit American art of our time and serve a wide variety of audiences in celebration of the complexity and diversity of art and culture in the United States. Through this mission and a steadfast commitment to artists, the Whitney has long been a powerful force in support of modern and contemporary art and continues to help define what is innovative and influential in American art today. Whitney Museum Land Acknowledgment The Whitney is located in Lenapehoking, the ancestral homeland of the Lenape. The name Manhattan comes from their word Mannahatta, meaning “island of many hills.” The Museum’s current site is close to land that was a Lenape fishing and planting site called Sapponckanikan (“tobacco field”). The Whitney acknowledges the displacement of this region’s original inhabitants and the Lenape diaspora that exists today. As a museum of American art in a city with vital and diverse communities of Indigenous people, the Whitney recognizes the historical exclusion of Indigenous artists from its collection and program. The Museum is committed to addressing these erasures and honoring the perspectives of Indigenous artists and communities as we work for a more equitable future. To read more about the Museum’s Land Acknowledgment, visit the Museum’s website. VISITOR INFORMATION The Whitney Museum of American Art is located at 99 Gansevoort Street between Washington and West Streets, New York City. Public hours are Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 10:30 am–6 pm; Friday, 10:30 am–10 pm; and Saturday and Sunday, 10:30 am–6 pm. Closed Tuesday. Visitors twenty-five years and under and Whitney members: FREE. The Museum offers FREE admission and special programming for visitors of all ages every Friday evening from 5–10 pm and on the second Sunday of every month.

Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street New York, NY 10014 whitney.org                                Discover the Whitney’s audio guides and accessible content on Bloomberg Connects.  Update your preferences to change the types of emails you receive from the Whitney. Forward this email to a friend. Unsubscribe from all Whitney emails. Image credit: Minnie Evans, Untitled (Three Figures and Angels Collage), 1961–1967. Oil, crayon, and pencil on paper and canvas, 14 × 19 in. (35.56 × 48.26 cm). Collection of John Jerit. © The Estate of Minnie Evans  Minnie Evans, Untitled (The Lions of Judah Collage), 1968. Oil and crayon on paper and board, 19 1/2 × 23 1/2 in. (49.53 × 59.69 cm). Collection of Christian Daniel. © The Estate of Minnie Evans  #thewhitneymuseum#fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com#sunstormfineartmagazine.com#artfunfantasy #artfunnow#artfun

The New Museum Exhibition covers 400 years of history ~The Bowery : Devil's Mile~ opens September 24, 2026

 

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New Museum Exhibition Traces 400 Years of Cultural History on the Bowery  The Bowery: Devil’s Mile Opens September 24, 2026 The Bowery: Devil’s Mile is the first exhibition to trace the rich cultural history of New York’s oldest thoroughfare, illuminating the Bowery—now home to the New Museum—as one of the most infamous yet astonishingly underexplored streets in the world.   Known in the twentieth century as a notorious skid row, the Bowery has had many incarnations: a Lenape footpath; a home to farms and cattle drives; the site of racetracks and pleasure gardens; a center of popular entertainment with theaters, concert halls, tattoo parlors, and dime museums; and most recently, the spine of a thriving artist community. This exhibition is an introduction to the richness and complexity of the Bowery and its generative power and concentrated energy as a street, a neighborhood, and a state of mind. For centuries, the Bowery has been a place of transformation and invention, a gateway for immigrants, a refuge for drifters and dreamers. Described as “a democratic vortex” by Jacob Riis and “the great highway of humanity” by Theodore Roosevelt, the Bowery has been a place of openness and experimentation, vice and deviance, that was also once known as “Devil’s Mile.” On view from September 24, 2026, through January 31, 2027, the exhibition brings together artifacts and artworks stretching back centuries, from an 1830s hand pump fire engine to a nineteenth century dime museum attraction called the “Feejee Mermaid,” to Jacob Riis’s revolutionary images How the Other Half Lives revealing previously hidden interior views through newly invented flash photography. Underscoring the Bowery as a site of perpetual reinvention, the exhibition will reveal the Bowery’s rich evolution through archival materials, historical artifacts, and through the works of successive waves of artists of all stripes who have lived or worked there, from Abstract Expressionism to Pop, Beats to punks, street artists, and beyond, featuring works by Lynda Benglis, John Giorno, Nan Goldin, Adolph Gottlieb, Keith Haring, Eva Hesse, Robert Indiana, Brad Kahlhamer, June Leaf, Reginald Marsh, Martha Rosler, Bill Sullivan, Cy Twombly, and Tom Wesselman, among others. The Bowery: Devil’s Mile builds on twenty years of research including the New Museum’s own archive and oral history project: The Bowery Artists Tribute and the associated exhibition Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969–1989. The Bowery: Devil’s Mile is curated by Lisa Phillips, Director Emeritus, with Thalia Stefaniuk, Curatorial Assistant. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog co-published by the New Museum and Delmonico Press with essays by Lisa Phillips and Thalia Stefaniuk, and reflections by Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Sara Driver, Debbie Harry, Bob Holman, and Richard Price.     Sarah Morris, Director of Marketing and Communications, New Museum    press@newmuseum.org    212-219-1222 x 217 SUPPORT Major support is provided by the International Leadership Council of the New Museum, Donald Capoccia and Tommie Pegues, and an anonymous donor. Generous support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.   ABOUT NEW MUSEUM The New Museum is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to contemporary art. Founded in 1977, the New Museum is a center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists from around the world. From its beginnings as a one-room office on Hudson Street, to the inauguration of its SANAA-designed flagship building in 2007, to the OMA-designed expansion of its home on the Bowery in 2026, the New Museum continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.    Image: Weegee, The Foreman Of The Devils Was Peeved... because the assistant devils were not in costume, 1945. © Weegee / International Center of Photography #newmuseum#fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com#sunstormfineartmagazine.com#artfunnew#artfunculture #artfunhistory#artfunnow#artfunnyc

The Morgan Library & Museum receives $2.5 Million dollar award to preserve illuminated medieval manuscripts digitaly.

 Preserving history at the Morgan Library & Museum see below details. 

| The Morgan Library & Museum Awarded $2.5 Million from the Lilly Endowment

The Morgan Library & Museum Awarded $2.5 Million from the Lilly Endowment’s Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative to Make Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Collection Accessible to All Through Digitalization, Education, and Outreach   New York, NY (August 5, 2026) – The Morgan Library & Museum has received a $2.5 million grant from the Lilly Endowment's Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative to support The Morgan Illuminated, a major project that will expand access to the Morgan's renowned collection of medieval and Renaissance religious manuscripts through a new digital portal, educational resources, and public programming. Hosted on the Morgan’s website, The Morgan Illuminated will provide free, cover-to-cover access to hundreds of the collection’s most significant illuminated manuscripts through a searchable digital portal, scheduled to launch in 2029. In addition to high-resolution images and robust search tools, the platform will feature educational resources and interpretive content exploring these manuscripts and the role of religion in shaping history, art, and culture. Through programming and research, which will launch prior to the digital portal, the project will also examine how the Morgan engages audiences with complex ideas related to religion and spirituality more broadly, encouraging dialogue and understanding about a variety of objects and related themes. #morganlibrarymuseum#fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com #sunstormfineartmagazine.com#artfunlibrary#artfunhistory#artfunreading #artfunnow,=#artfunnyc

Catch The Whitney Biennial to see the entire exhibition of artists, and works on display throughout the museum. Details nelow.

 

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LAST CHANCE: WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2026 CLOSING SOON

Don’t miss the opportunity to see the art event of the season in its entirety!

New York, NY, August 5, 2026 — The Whitney Museum of American Art marks the final weeks of the 82nd edition of the Museum’s landmark exhibition series, Whitney Biennial 2026. A showcase of the evolving notions of American art, the 2026 Biennial features the work of 56 artists, duos, and collectives working across painting, sculpture, performance, digital art, and more. The exhibition, presented across most of the Museum’s gallery spaces, will be on view in its entirety through August 23. Select artworks displayed throughout the building and on the Museum’s 6th floor will remain on view through October 12. Whitney Biennial 2026 offers a vivid, atmospheric survey shaped by a moment of profound complexity. The work on view examines varied forms of relationality, from interspecies and familial kinships to geopolitical entanglements, technological affinities, shared mythologies, and the infrastructures that support and constrain contemporary life. Rather than offering a definitive answer to life today, the exhibition foregrounds mood and texture, inviting visitors into environments that evoke tension, tenderness, humor, and unease, while proposing imaginative, unruly, and unexpected forms of coexistence. To experience Whitney Biennial 2026 in its final weeks, visitors can reserve timed tickets at whitney.org/admission. The Whitney offers free admission to visitors of all ages during Free Friday Nights, every Friday from 5–10 pm, and during Free Second Sundays, from 10:30 am–6 pm each month. Visitors twenty-five years and under and Whitney Museum Members are free anytime. Whitney Biennial 2026 is organized by Marcela Guerrero, DeMartini Family Curator, and Drew Sawyer, Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography, with Beatriz Cifuentes, Biennial Curatorial Assistant, and Carina Martinez, Rubio Butterfield Family Fellow. For press materials and additional assets, please visit the Whitney Biennial 2026 press kit here: whitney.org/press/2026-biennial. #whitneyartmuseum#fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com#sunstormfineartmagazine.com#artfunmodern #artfunnow#artfunnyc#artfuncreative#artfunvisit

Art Deco Society of New York August listings. Other events see below details.

Dear Deco Friends, I hope you’ve been enjoying your summer, even as it races by. We've had our busiest summer yet - our full range of programs have been filling quickly and we are already gearing up for a new ADSNY season full of exciting and irresistible events that you won't want to miss. (Speaking of which, have you reserved your spot for Destination Deco Pittsburgh: Steel City Deco? We have only 4 spots left!) Here's a sneak preview of what’s next: Discover Art Deco in the Far East, far East Midtown, that is Erté up close – An in-depth look at the life and work of one of the most influential designers of the Art Deco period Jules Leleu, up close – A rare chance to learn about Leleu and see some of his original pieces in person Find details on these events and more in this issue of Deco Doings. Enjoy August and see you in September, as the song goes... With Warmest Regards, Ellyn Villar Executive Director JOIN US THIS FALL Destination Deco: Steel City Deco ONLY 4 SPOTS LEFT Friday, October 16 - Sunday, October 18, 2026 The Art Deco wonders of Pittsburgh await, but time is running out. Only four spaces remain for our unforgettable getaway, designed especially for the most passionate Art Deco enthusiasts. Marvel at the magnificent Carrara-glass clad Deco aerie designed by Joseph Urban atop the William Penn Hotel. Experience the three-story marble and bronze Art Deco lobby of the Koppers building. See The Chariot of Aurora, a treasure that survived the great Normandie fire. All this -- and see Fallingwater perfectly framed by autumn colors, too. Don't delay...Reserve your place today. CLAIM YOUR SPOT HAPPENING THIS MONTH A Deco Stroll Through Midtown East In-person Walking Tour - FEW SPOTS REMAINING Thursday, August 6, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET Welcome to East Midtown, where, during the 1930s, a neighborhood of factories, slaughterhouses, breweries, and tenements gave way to a collection of posh luxury buildings, stylish middle class apartment houses, even a residence for sorority women. We will also stop at two of the city’s most beloved Deco icons, including the Waldorf Astoria, where you can treat yourself to a cocktail in Peacock Alley after the tour ends. LEARN MORE AND REGISTER HERE 08/14 Deco After Dark - Yacht Club – WAITLIST ONLY 08/20 Shalimar and the Jazz Age - WAITLIST ONLY COMING SOON Costumes by Erté: From Paris Couture to Broadway Revues and Hollywood Glamour Online Event Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM ET Erté is one of the most influential designers of the Art Deco period, and his costume work shaped the visual language of the modern showgirl. Join us as fashion historian Summer Anne Lee traces his career from Paris with Paul Poiret to the Ziegfeld Follies and Hollywood, with a richly illustrated presentation that brings his stunning work into brilliant focus. LEARN MORE AND REGISTER HERE Can't join us at the time of the live Zoom event? No problem! Those who register will receive a recording of the entire program a few days after the live presentation. When you sign up for the program you can watch, or rewatch, the recording at a time more convenient for you. Jules Leleu and French Art Deco (MEMBERS ONLY) In-person Event - LIMITED CAPACITY Thursday, September 24, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET Join us for an exceptional evening learning about the life and legacy of Jules Leleu with 20th-century French Art Deco and Leleu expert, Benoist F. Drut. In this rare opportunity only for ADSNY members, we will also get to see original archival Leleu furniture up close — pieces that represent some of the finest examples of French Art Deco craftsmanship in existence. LEARN MORE AND REGISTER HERE Photo Credit: © Jean-Pierre Dalbéra  IT’S NEVER TOO LATE Missed the Deco Filipino Zoom? Watch the replay and join curator Ivan Man Dy to go behind the scenes of Art Deco: Design and Modernity in the Philippines, 1925–1950, now on view at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Manila. During the event we announced a special offer: Donate $300 or more to receive a personally inscribed copy of Deco Filipino, hand-carried back to New York for you. Only 4 copies remain, and your donation supports ADSNY's Documenting Deco school program, bringing free Art Deco education to NYC students. MEET OUR VOLUNTEERS Liv Elniski Liv Elniski is a researcher, writer, and events programmer based in New York City. She will begin her MA in Fashion & Textile Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology this Fall, with the hopes of working in museums and academia. Liv’s interest in Art Deco history is rooted in her love for queer culture, fashion, and film costume design of the 20s and 30s. Outside of work and school, she can often be found reading, at museums, or movie theaters that screen classic Hollywood films. As a vintage wearer, she enjoys self fashioning inspired by some of her favorite glamorous figures of this period such as Alla Nazimova, Natacha Rambova, Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich.  “I joined the ADSNY social media team and events committee with the goal of introducing more fashion-related content into the organization's programming and digital presence. I enjoy working with ADSNY because it allows me to be a part of a community driven by a shared love for history and a commitment to preserving early twentieth-century material culture, my favorite area of study. I have especially enjoyed learning more about architecture of the period, an area I was previously less familiar with. Volunteering with ADSNY has become a deeply fulfilling part of my life in New York, and I greatly enjoy being able to contribute to an organization whose work I admire!” Photo Credit: Elijah Christian @stowkelly VOLUNTEER WITH US Join ADSNY's Event Planning Team We're looking for volunteers to help shape our Event Calendar. You'll be part of our team and conceptualize new events, reach out to potential venue partners, and join our monthly events meetings to learn the ropes from the rest of the team.  It's hands on experience in event planning, and you'll be helping preserve Art Deco heritage in New York City and beyond. Interested? Email us at info@artdeco.org Know someone who'd love this? Forward this email or send them to artdeco.org to join our list. Help us spread the love of Art Deco! Follow us on Instagram and Facebook for lots of great Art Deco images and photos from our events! Questions? Email us at info@artdeco.org and we’ll be happy to help!

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