Tommy Hartung

The week is of course dominated by two news items: The Whitney Biennial and The Wintery Downfall.

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

The curators of the 2017 Whitney Biennial, the Whitney’s Nancy and Fred Poses Associate Curator Christopher Y. Lew and independent curator Mia Locks, have spent the run-up to the U.S. art scene’s celebrated biannual checkup visiting artists’ studios from coast to coast. What they’ve brought back shows a diverse and engaged art community in this country, pushing the limits of medium and subject. The Biennial offers opportunities to reassess the works of older artists and how they continue to contribute to the conversation—some of the venerable established artists represented this year include Jo Baer, Larry Bell, and John Divola. But it’s that glimpse and glimmer of what is up and coming, fresh, and new in contemporary art that draws us in, and keeps the debate lively, year after year. Below we’ve picked 10 young artists to keep an eye out for at this year’s Whitney Biennial, with works fresh from the studio, in painting, sculpture, installation, and video.

The Whitney Museum of American Art has revealed a lineup of 63 participants for the 2017 Whitney Biennial – the first Biennial held in the Whitney’s home in the Meatpacking District.

The 2017 Whitney Biennial, opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art on 17 March, and running through June 11 will include 'Formation of self and the individual’s place in a turbulent society’ as a key theme reflected in the work of the artists selected.

The Whitney has released the list of artists who have been chosen to participate in the 2017 Whitney Biennial.

The Whitney has released the list of artists who have been chosen to participate in the 2017 Whitney Biennial.

Heaven knows the tired old New York art world could use a fresh story or two. This summer it gets one, secondhand, in “Lush Life,” a big and unusually

With an ever-growing number of galleries scattered around New York, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. Where to begin?

How little does an artist need in a moving image to tell a story? That’s the (less than million-dollar) question aimed at artist Tommy Hartung, lives and works in his studio in Queens, NY, producing “underground movies” out of basic household objects, mundane materials, and some classic camera-wielding.

How little does an artist need in a moving image to tell a story? That’s the (less than million-dollar) question aimed at artist Tommy Hartung, lives and works in his studio in Queens, NY, producing “underground movies” out of basic household objects, mundane materials, and some classic camera-wielding.

How does an artist find relief from the pressures of the studio? In this film artist Tommy Hartung leaves his Ridgewood, Queens studio and takes an extended run through the streets and woods of the surrounding neighborhoods.

Lehmann Maupin presents LUSH LIFE, an exhibition curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez-Chahoud and inspired by Richard Price's 2008

New York Close Up is Art21’s new online documentary series profiling the lives and works of New York-based artists in the first phase of their career.

Scaramouche presents LUSH LIFE, an exhibition curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez-Chahoud which takes place at nine Lower East Side

This article present a diverse selection of twenty unique art events to watch this week. The selection includes sculpture and installation, film, photography and painting exhibitions from around the world.

For his first solo show at the Orchard Street gallery On Stellar Rays, The Ascent of Man (2009), Tommy Hartung created a video inspired by scientist