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Portraits & interviews

Interview with Korean-born artist Jiwon Rhie about her immigrant experience, how it influences her sculptures, and broader artistic practice in New York.

Jiwon Rhie is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work deals with ideas around boundaries, human relationships, cultural identities, and communication across installations, sculptures, and video. Exploring ideas through research and a project-based process, she visualizes personal and social experiences into art forms by capturing her sensitivity and a feeling of adaptation.

Culture & events

Two documentaries about immigrant women artists to watch today

These free screenings shed light on the extraordinary lives of creative women in the face of adversity In honor of Cuban-born artist Carmen Herrera’s birthday, the documentary The 100 years Show is available for free streaming today. From Cuba to New York and Paris, Herrera’s life has spanned continents and art movements. Her hard-edged canvases emerged at the same time that Ellsworth Kelly, whose period in France overlapped with Herrera’s in the 1950s. She also started making her abstractions when...

Culture & events

NWNY’s Cultural Trips: An exhibit at the Mayor’s House Chronicles the Resilience of Women in New York

An art show honors women whose setbacks and accomplishments have helped make New York an iconic city while examining the most pressing issues of our times, including race, class and gender Written by Bruna Shapira At Gracie Mansion, the mayor’s official residence, a dark bronze sculpture is displayed near the entrance. This faceless figure, with big, injured feet, is a reminder of a complicated past. The house’s first owner, shipping merchant Archibald Gracie, had slaves who built it as a...

Frida Kahlo in NYC

Culture & events

¡Que Viva Frida!

An exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum traces how and why the Mexican artist crafted her own image and artistic practice in ways that challenged long-held assumptions on gender, sexuality, and identity. Written by Bruna Shapira Sixty-five years after her passing, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is everywhere. From tattoos, Barbie dolls, Carnival and Halloween customs to an Instagram account with nearly a million subscribers, she has became a pop culture icon. Just to use a word recently incorporated to our vernacular,...