Art Galleries In New York: NYU's Grey
On the corner of Washington Square Park, amid thousands of sweatpants-wearing college students, rests one of New York's most prestigious and progressive art galleries. The Grey Art Gallery is New York University's fine arts museum. Since the gallery is foremost a place for young artists and art enthusiasts to learn, it's free to experiment more than a gallery that aims to sell paintings.
Take, for example, the current exhibit, The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection. The gallery says it's the most comprehensive overview to date of geometrical abstraction in Latin America from the 1930s to the 1970s.
We won't point out that it's easy to be the "biggest" or "most comprehensive" if you define a category so narrowly that it could only fit your specific show. And we certainly enjoy Latin American geometrical abstractions... But only those made between 1930 and 1970.
Related Stories:
· Grey Art Gallery [Official Site]
· Art Galleries in New York coverage [Jaunted]
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