As art-lovers living in Manhattan, we sometimes feel like kids in a candy shop. At any given time there are dozens of art shows and exhibits we’re hoping to check out. Right now, there are three New York City art exhibits that are on our must-see list.
- The Civil War and American Art: This exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, going on through September 2, 2013, features 60 paintings and 18 photographs created from 1852 through 1877. The exhibit, which coincides with the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, is meant to show the effect of war on the American psyche.
- Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art: The Folk Art Museum is currently hosting a show of the work of self-taught Alabama artist Bill Traylor. Traylor, who was born a slave in 1854, began creating art at the age of 85. His work largely relates both to his memories of working as a sharecropper, and life in post–Emancipation Montgomery.
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- James Turrell: The Guggenheim will host the first New York City exhibition of the work of the artist, known for playing with perception of light and color, since 1980. The show is supposed to be a dramatic one. According to the Guggenheim’s website, “At [the exhibit’s] core is Aten Reign (2013), a major new project that recasts the Guggenheim rotunda as an enormous volume filled with shifting artificial and natural light.”