Art in General
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
Hours: Tues – Sat 12-6pm
(212) 219-0473Founded in 1981, Art in General is a nonprofit organization that assists local and international artists to create groundbreaking and major new works that would otherwise not be realized, and engages the public with the key ideas that these artworks address. In its thirty-four years, the organization has emerged as one of New York City’s leading nonprofits devoted to supporting the creation of contemporary art, providing an environment in which artists can exhibit unconventional work and exchange ideas with their peers.
Upcoming Events
Exhibitions
Threat of Peace (Hiroshima!!!!!!)
Art in General is proud to present a major solo exhibition in New York by Tokyo-based collective Chim↑Pom (Ryuta Ushiro, Ellie, Yasutaka Hayashi, Masataka Okada, Toshinori Mizuno, and Motomu Inaoka), whose work traverses geographies to engage trans-historical moments that shape our conflicted present. The summer of 1945 brought a new geologic age to the planet. A migratory material body consisting of 141 pounds of Uranium extracted from Belgian colonial mines in Congo was shipped to New York City, processed in…
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Exhibitions
Don’t Follow the Wind: Non-Visitor Center
Beyond the threshold of the inhabitable, how does culture contest the crippling effects of long term catastrophe? Don’t Follow the Wind is a project situated inside the radioactive Fukushima exclusion zone in Japan, the inaccessible area surrounding the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant, established in the wake of the 2011 disaster that contaminated the environment separating residents from their homes, land, and community. As radiation knows no borders, transported on wind and water currents, it is a form of contamination…
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Talk
Exclusion Zone: On Representations of Slow Violence
Join us for a conversation between art historian Soyoung Yoon and curator Jason Waite in conjunction with exhibitions by Chim↑Pom and Don’t Follow the Wind currently on view at Art in General. At a moment when the United States is rearranging its long-standing nuclear agreements, Yoon and Waite explore art’s relationship to the temporal, psychological and environmental impact of the nuclear. How do we represent the slow violence of nuclear contamination that can be both elusive and pervasive, habitual and…
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