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Zohran Mamdani Has Visited MoMA PS1’s Greater New York

Zohran Mamdani Has Visited MoMA PS1’s Greater New York

Published by Jenni Sidey

Greater New York, MoMA PS1’s recurring survey of artists based in the city, has managed to lure one of New York’s most high-profile sensations: Mayor Zohran Mamdani. On her Instagram, PS1 director Connie Butler posted news that Mamdani had personally visited Greater New York alongside Claire Valdez, a New York State Representative who is currently running for a seat in the House of Representatives. Valdez, like Mamdani, is affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America; Mamdani previously held a fundraiser in support of her campaign. Related Articles “A great way to start the day with a visit from the mayor!” wrote Butler on her Instagram Story. In a follow-up Story, Butler posted an image of Mamdani and Valdez with an installation by Dean Majd, a Palestinian American photographer based in Queens. Majd’s contribution to Greater New York is an all-over presentation of pictures of people from communities in New York and the West Bank, often with an eye toward places of intersection between the two locales. Among those photographs is a portrait of Mahmoud Khalil, …

How an Artist and Museum Conspired to Give a Delivery Worker PTO

How an Artist and Museum Conspired to Give a Delivery Worker PTO

Published by José Betancourt

fields harrington was biking through the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn one day when a delivery worker sped past him, only to be clipped by a car. The worker’s groceries flew everywhere as he fell, and harrington, wanting to help, asked if they could call his boss. “That was a realization for me,” harrington told me. “There is no boss to call. You’re working for an algorithm.” harrington, an artist and cyclist, had been on a somewhat more leisurely bike ride, headed to see friends. But in that moment, he came to see bike lanes as a kind of office for so many workers—many of them migrant, many of them precarious. Delivery workers are too often derided, blamed for the ways e-bikes are making city streets more chaotic and dangerous. In New York especially, they are framed as simultaneously a convenience and a threat. Related Articles Ever since the accident, harrington has made a point of staying alert to the changing cityscape from the workers’ perspective. Since 2024, he has been photographing delivery bikes across the …

Our Critics Offer Their Thoughts

Our Critics Offer Their Thoughts

Published by José Betancourt

When New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani took his oath at the start of this year, he vowed to tell a “new story of our city.” MoMA PS1, one of the city’s defining contemporary art institutions, has now endeavored to do the same with Greater New York, its quinquennial for artists who live and work in all five boroughs. The occasion is a grand one, and not only because it’s the first Greater New York since the Covid-era 2021 edition. This one, the exhibition’s sixth, is being held during MoMA PS1’s 50th anniversary year, and in tribute to the institution’s might, the museum has relied entirely on its own curatorial staff instead of bringing on outside contributors to organize the show. Some 53 artists are showing at the exhibition this time. Related Articles What new story of our city is this edition of Greater New York telling? One having to do with vulnerability resulting from weakened infrastructure and failing systems of support. Whether that story is a sad one or a hopeful one has split …

MoMA PS1 Names Artists for 2026 Greater New York

MoMA PS1 Names Artists for 2026 Greater New York

Published by José Betancourt

MoMA PS1 has revealed the 53 artists who will participate in Greater New York, the Queens museum’s quinquennial devoted to New York City’s art scene. Opening on April 16, this edition of Greater New York will mark PS1’s 50th anniversary, and rather than bringing on any outside curators, the museum has this time leaned on its staff to organize the show. The exhibition’s curatorial team includes director Connie Butler, chief curator and director of curatorial affairs Ruba Katrib, associate curators Jody Graf and Elena Ketelsen, assistant curator Kari Rittenbach, curatorial assistant Sheldon Gooch, and curatorial coordinator Andrea Sánchez. Related Articles Unlike the Whitney Biennial, which has historically revolved around a theme chosen by its curators, Greater New York is defined by the location where its artists are based. This time around, the show is heavy on artists in the early and middle stages of their career. Largely bucking a trend seen at biennials around the world, it features just one dead artist: the painter Jay Carrier, who died not long before the exhibition was first …