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by Sarah Belmont Previously known as the Grey Art Gallery, the New York University museum is set to reopen on March 2 as the Grey Art Museum, at 18 Cooper Square, just a few blocks from its original location. Continue Reading

The Grey Art Museum recently relocated from Washington Square East to 18 Cooper Square (roughly at Fifth Street). The inaugural show for NYU’s fine art museum (fka, the Grey Art Gallery) opened on March 4 and is titled “Americans in Paris.” A description: Following World War II, hundreds of artists from the United States flocked to […]

Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962, the first major exhibition to examine the historical impact of the expatriate art scene in Paris after World War II, opens on Saturday, March 2, 2024, at the Grey Art Museum at New York University, formerly the Grey Art Gallery. This international loan exhibition is the […]

by Elena Claravino Though a lot of New Yorkers don’t know it, New York University owns a treasure trove of art. In 1973, the school’s collection became known as the Grey Art Gallery, and in 2023 it was renamed the Grey Art Museum. There are, of course, masterpieces by iconic Downtown artists—think Peter Hujar and […]

Projected to open in February 2024 at the Grey Art Gallery of NYU, Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962 examines the work of approximately seventy artists who lived in Paris for a period during the two decades following World War II. The following is the first of a two-part interview with the show’s curators, […]

This international loan exhibition chronicles the post-World War II expatriate artist community that emerged in Paris as a result of the GI Bill of 1944. Spanning a 17-year period, this expansive show is divided into two sections that showcase more than 130 works by approximately 70 artists, including Ellsworth Kelly, Norman Bluhm, Joan Mitchell, Sam […]

After nearly a half century on Washington Square, the Grey Art Gallery, New York University’s fine arts museum, reopened in a purpose-designed, larger, and more visible space at 18 Cooper Square in lower Manhattan on Saturday, this past March 2, 2024. With this transformational move, the Grey was renamed the Grey Art Museum. Continue Reading

by Mark Segal American Expats “Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962,” will open at New York University’s Grey Art Museum, 18 Cooper Square, on Saturday. Among the 70 exhibiting artists, those with past or present East End connections include Norman Bluhm, Claire Falkenstein, Al Held, Ellsworth Kelly, Joan Mitchell, Kimber Smith, and […]

“Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962,” at the Grey Art Museum, New York (opens March 2): For the opening this Saturday of its Grey Art Museum, formerly known as the Grey Art Gallery, New York University is looking beyond the New York School. “Americans in Paris,” the museum’s inaugural exhibition in its new […]

Following World War II, hundreds of artists from the United States flocked to the City of Light, which for centuries had been heralded as an artistic mecca and international cultural capital. “Americans in Paris” explores a vibrant community of expatriates who lived in France for a year or more during the period from 1946 to 1962. […]

This is the first major exhibition to examine the historical impact of the expatriate art scene in Paris after World War II. Opens on Saturday, March 2 at the Grey Art Museum at New York University, formerly the Grey Art Gallery. This international loan exhibition is the museum’s inaugural presentation in its new home at […]

Festivals, exhibitions, shows, walks, and a Portal to Ireland will be in full bloom during May, with the month ending on the high note of an exhibition of the work of Vivian Maier at Fotografiska, and the opening of The Roof Garden at The Met with its commissioned installation by Petrit Halilaj, ‘Abetare‘. Here are […]

The month of March is filled with excitement, from the opening of the Grey Art Museum in Cooper Square to The Whitney Biennial and Love Rocks NYC concert at The Beacon Theatre in support of Gods Love We Deliver. Fund for Park Avenue will unveil sculpture installations along the median by two artists, and Théâtre de la Dame de […]

Our staff and contributors look back on the city’s year in art, from blockbusters to under-the-radar art heroes and unsung histories. 2024 was a bustling year for art in New York, with blockbuster exhibitions at museums, museum-level shows at galleries — especially a few new, nearly museum-sized galleries in Tribeca, the city’s reigning art hub […]

Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in. Visual Arts Several New England Museums have been on summer vacation this year. They begin opening their doors again right after Labor Day. The Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover reopens […]

By Ian Volner “Our space always had lovely karama,” says Lynn Gumpert. “But it was a little small.” Since 1997, Gumpert has been director of the Grey Art Gallery, the distinguished—if admittedly petite—exhibition venue operated by New York University out of a corner storefront on Washington Square in Manhattan’s West Village. As of this month, however, Gumpert’s […]

by Globe Staff AMERICANS IN PARIS: ARTISTS WORKING IN POSTWAR FRANCE, 1946-1962 This exhibition sketches a nascent movement of American artists in Europe at thefoundation of late American Modernism: Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Noland, JackYoungerman, to name but a few. With 135 works by approximately 70 artists, the showboth looks back and projects forward to the […]

By Hilarie M. Sheets The Grey Art Museum’s inaugural exhibition at its new location at 18 Cooper Square is the kind of deep dive into a cultural moment that has long distinguished New York University’s art institution, formerly called the Grey Art Gallery. For its survey Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Post-war France, 1946-62, the […]

It was a treat to enter the Grey Art Museum’s “Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Post-War France, 1946–62” (on view through July 20). Taking in the museum’s first room, I immediately noticed that the pictures carried no didactic messages, were neither politically correct nor incorrect, and had no relation to racial or gender diversity. […]

by Daniel Felsenthal America lays claim to its expatriates by never letting them forget the nation they left. Whether paying Uncle Sam taxes after decades away or speaking incessantly about political strife back home, the expat wears the U.S.A. like scarlet letters on the chest — and simultaneously as a badge of honor. Americans are blustering, […]

by Chadd Scott What the American men of the so-called “Lost Generation”–Hemingway, Fitzgerald, that crowd–couldn’t find in early 20th century Paris, their female counterparts did. In abundance. Purpose. Love. Fulfillment. Between 1900 and the outbreak of World War II, American women such as Josephine Baker (1906–1975), Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), and Augusta Savage (1892–1962) left the States […]

by David Hiroshi Jager An inaugural show at New York University’s Grey Art Museum is challenging, or at least diversifying, the longtime consensus that places ew York City at the center of postwar painting. Pollock, De Kooning, Kline, Rothko, and Mitchell – the giants who occupy the mid-century collection of the Museum of Modern Art- […]

by Pat Lipsky It was a treat to enter the Grey Art Museum’s “Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Post-War France, 1946–62” (on view through July 20). Taking in the museum’s first room, I immediately noticed that the pictures carried no didactic messages, were neither politically correct nor incorrect, and had no relation to racial […]

by Gwenaël Kerlidou Earlier this winter, several galleries have presented the work of a few French painters who have recently elicited interest in the New York art world. Among them, in January, the Timothy Taylor Gallery showed works by Simon Hantaï in Tribeca, while in Chelsea, in March, the Matthew Marks Gallery exhibited a series […]

by Lilly Wei There was an epochal transition in the years immediately after World War II as the center of the art world, a position held by Paris for at least a century, pivoted to New York. The shift had begun earlier, as such shifts do, the ravages of two wars on European soil a […]

by Lara Cox The exhibition Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962, running between March and July 2024, examines the art of US expats in Paris following World War II. The following is the second of a two-part interview with the show’s curators, Debra Bricker Balken and Lynn Gumpert. In this second part, the curators discuss […]