Alexandra Munroe News

 Voices of Ascension will bring back its Candlelight Christmas Concerts next month at the Church of the Ascension. Learn more about the upcoming performances here!

Rogue Theatre Festival (RTF) returns with a bold and eclectic lineup for their 7th annual celebration of new works. This year, the festival will showcase 37 original plays and musicals, including fully staged productions, short plays, staged readings, and digital streaming performances.

Discover the comedic misadventures of Dr. Nicholas A. Laurenstein, an archeology professor, in the new queer farce at the Tank Theater, NYC. Directed by Alexandra Munroe. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Experience the world premiere of TO THE BODY by Nico Muhly, a live concert at the Guggenheim's Peter B. Lewis Theater. Discover an immersive soundscape crafted for the exhibition.

During the fall 2024 Works & Process season, a full slate of dynamic events will take place at the Guggenheim Museum, Manhattan West, and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Immerse yourself in the magical world of Bari: The Abandoned Princess. Based on a Korean folktale, this new musical tells the story of Bari's journey to the Underworld to find a cure for her father. Experience a tale of family, forgiveness, and self-discovery at Spark Theatre Festival NYC. Get your tickets now!

In the coming season, LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton's beloved 16-acre sculpture garden and nature reserve, will display significant new works of art including two large scale sculptures by Maren Hassinger and three by Wyatt Kahn, plus a special exhibition curated by Glenn Adamson and designed by Colin King.

The Sackler Center for Arts Education at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents the following public programs and film festival in conjunction with the exhibitions Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892-1897 and Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World. On the occasion of Archtober, New York's architecture and design month, the museum offers architecture-focused events and tours in addition to evening programming, including a special Halloween iteration of Art After Dark.

The thirteenth annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature will focus its lens on today's fractious relationship between gender and power. Taking place in New York City, May 1-7, 2017, the weeklong Festival will use literature and the arts to address how gender both enables and impairs full participation in politics and society.

PEN America has announced that leading Russian and American journalist and author Masha Gessen, will deliver the Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, followed by a conversation with comedian and political commentator Samantha Bee on the closing night of the PEN World Voices Festival. This year the thirteenth annual Festival, taking place in New York from May 1-7, will address some of the vital issues of the Trump era, with a special focus on the fractious relationship between gender and power. At a moment of historic threats to freedom and truth, Ms. Gessen and Ms. Bee, both activists in their own rights, will speak to Gessen's experience with Russian censorship and suppression of dissent, and parallels between the current administration and other authoritarian regimes.

The thirteenth annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature will focus its lens on today's fractious relationship between gender and power. Taking place in New York City, May 1-7, 2017, the weeklong Festival will use literature and the arts to address how gender both enables and impairs full participation in politics and society.

The Works & Process Rotunda Projects Initiative Gala at the Guggenheim Museum raised more than $450,000 in commissioning funds for the Works & Process Rotunda Projects program. The announced initiative will expand the Guggenheim's Works & Process program's commissioned performances into the museum's iconic rotunda. BroadwayWorld has photos from the event below!

NEW YORK, Oct. 30, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents new work by Wang Jianwei, an influential Beijing-based artist noted for his bold conceptual practice and decades-long contributions to the Chinese avant-garde.Wang Jianwei: Time Temple, the artist's first solo museum exhibition in the United States, will be on view from October 31, 2014 to February 16, 2015.

It received international attention from the likes of the New York Times, which called it 'a mind-shifting exhibition about Japan's best-known postwar art movement.' And now Ming Tiampo's Gutai: Splendid Playground exhibition, an exploration of the Japan's Gutai art movement held in early 2013 at New York's Guggenheim Museum, is being recognized by the International Art Critics Association (AICA-USA) for exceptional aesthetic and scholarly accomplishments in the visual arts. The exhibition was named Best Thematic Museum Show in New York.

HUGO BOSS and the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai announce the inauguration of the HUGO BOSS ASIA ART Award. Conceived and curated by the Rockbund Art Museum, the biennial award will focus on contemporary art in Asia in support of the thriving emerging artist community.

Program Encompasses Commissions, Exhibitions, Publications, Educational and Public Programs

Today, February 15 to May 8, 2013, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present Gutai: Splendid Playground, a retrospective of the Gutai Art Association (1954-72), the radically inventive and influential Japanese art collective whose innovative and playful approaches to installation and performance yielded one of the most important international avant-garde movements to emerge after World War II.

From February 15 to May 8, 2013, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present Gutai: Splendid Playground, a retrospective of the Gutai Art Association (1954-72), the radically inventive and influential Japanese art collective whose innovative and playful approaches to installation and performance yielded one of the most important international avant-garde movements to emerge after World War II.

This retrospective of Indian-born American artist Zarina Hashmi is the first major exploration of the master printmaker's career, charting a developmental arc from her work in the 1960s to the present and including many seminal works from the late 1960s and early 1970s, woodblock prints, etchings and lithographs, and a small selection of related sculptures in bronze and cast paper.