WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

Some ways to celebrate talented, brave women throughout NYC for women's history month and all year long.

Exhibits

Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined

New Museum
Closes Jun 4

Look for hybrid, fantastical forms that fuse mythical and folkloric narratives with layered sociohistorical references  – crocodile women, mermaids and more – among over one hundred works from across Nairobi artist Wangechi Mutu’s twenty-five-year career.

Find the stories in collage-based works exploring camouflage, transformation, and mutation, plus paintings, drawings, sculptures, film, and performances.  Follow her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions. At once culturally specific and transnational in scope, Mutu’s work grapples with contemporary realities, while proffering new models for a radically changed future informed by feminism, Afrofuturism, and interspecies symbiosis.

DVF x Ashley Longshore Gallery

Diane von Furstenberg Store
Closes Dec 31

See Ashley Longshore’s paintings of inspirational women including Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Jackie Kennedy, Marlene Dietrich, Cleopatra, Oprah, Gloria Steinem, Nina Simone, Amelia Earhart, Rosa Parks and Jane Goodall in a photogenic gallery at the Diane von Furstenberg store.

Events

Poster Kids: East Meets West

Poster House

Join Poster House on select Sunday mornings for a family-friendly, interactive poster tour and a related art-making experience.

This month, Poster Kids will focus on the museum’s latest exhibition Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art. Learn to identify popular motifs in both traditional Japanese and modern Western design. Then create artwork using themes from both aesthetics.

For children 5–11 years old and their adults (siblings are welcome).