Willem De Kooning News

The 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been awarded to UK playwright Ava Pickett for her play 1536.  Awarded annually since 1978, The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize is the largest and oldest international award recognizing women+ who have written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre. See photos from inside the ceremony here.

The 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been awarded to UK playwright Ava Pickett for her play 1536. Learn more about Pickett and the award!

The 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has revealed the finalists for this prestigious international award honoring women+ playwrights.

Mitchell-Innes & Nash will feature new work by Marcus Leslie Singleton in his inaugural show with the gallery.

Discover the captivating art exhibition 'dOUbTsWISHes' by Keltie Ferris, now open at Mitchell-Innes & Nash. Don't miss this opportunity to see Ferris' unique and thought-provoking works.

It's a sure sign of the end of summer when the Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit (WSOAE) returns Labor Day weekend, September 2 - 4 and the following weekend, September 9 – 10 with its 92nd annual Fall Show. 

The Milwaukee Art Museum has announced that it has appointed Kristen Gaylord as the Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts, overseeing its collection of photography and media works. Gaylord comes to the Museum, among the first American institutions to collect photography, from the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, where she is currently the Associate Curator of Photographs. She will assume her new role beginning in September.  

In honor of the 45th Anniversary of the internationally prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 4th Wall Theatre Company is hosting a special one-night only reading of this year's Prize Winner, IN THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE PARKING LOT by U.S. playwright Sarah Mantell.  Presented on Sunday, June 4 at 7pm, the reading will be followed by a reception and conversation with the playwright.

The Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit  (WSOAE) returns with its 92nd annual Spring Show taking place Memorial Day weekend, May 27, 29, and the following weekend, June 3, 4.  

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center presents BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE AND MEXICO, June 2–September 9, 2023.

See photos from the 2023 Susan Smith Backburn Prize event.

The 2023 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been awarded to U.S. playwright Sarah Mantell for their play In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot.  

The 2023 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been awarded to U.S. playwright Sarah Mantell for their play In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot.

The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has announced 10 Finalists for its prestigious playwriting award, the oldest and largest international prize awarded to women+ playwrights.

Amy Williams performs Morton Feldman's Triadic Memories and JACK Quartet performs Morton Feldman's Piano & String Quartet featuring Amy Williams. Learn more about both performances here!

See Andy Warhol's Marilyn before she's gone! Come again or for the first time to experience Guild Hall: An Adventure in the Arts at the Washington Pavilion's Visual Arts Center before the exhibit closes on March 5.

The Visual Arts Center in the Washington Pavilion has partnered with Art Collective Sioux Falls to host one of the largest gatherings of local artists in the Sioux Falls area.

The Visual Arts Center in the Washington Pavilion is currently home to over 70 original works by more than 50 of the country's most celebrated artists including Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Chuck Close, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Thomas Moran and more.

Screenings will kick off with the Opening Night presentation of Mark Fletcher’s Patrick and the Whale, followed by the Centerpiece Selections of Ben Klein and Violet Columbus’ The Exiles and Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes, with Kathlyn Horan’s The Return of Tanya Tucker – Featuring Brandi Carlile screening on Closing Night.

STROKES OF GENIUS, a new play about maverick women artists in the 1950's, will be presented as part of the Dream Up Festival, at Theater For The New City.