The ‘Greater New York’ at the MoMA
Robin Graubard - Selection from Peripheral Vision - 1979-2021
From October 7, 2021 to April 18, 2022, MoMA PS1 presents the fifth edition of "Greater New York," its signature exhibition of artists living in the New York metropolitan area.
Source: MoMA. Image: Robin Graubard. Selection from "Peripheral Vision". 1979 - 2021. Digital c-print. 4 x 6 in. Digital c-print. 4 x 6 in. Courtesy of the artist and Office Baroque, Antwerp.
New York is undoubtedly one of the cultural capitals of the world, an extraordinarily large and diverse city, and precisely for this reason it is remarkably difficult to get a comprehensive overview of its creative pulse. Interdisciplinary and intergenerational, "Greater New York" presents the work of 47 artists and collectives to help achieve a better understanding of the creative currents of the capital of the world, through a presentation that, as MoMA puts it, "opens up geographic and historical boundaries by pinpointing both specific and expanded narratives of the local in a city that provokes a multitude of perspectives."
Planned for last year, this fifth edition of "Greater New York" had to be postponed due to the pandemic. Now, "after what could be described as an uncompromisingly transformative year socially, politically, and personally, we continue to be in a powerfully transitional moment in New York," declared MoMA PS1 director Kate Fowle. For her part, the curator of the exhibition, Ruba Katrib, explained that the exhibition seeks to contribute "to a more diverse and complex understanding of the incredible range of artists who give creative life to the city."
Among the works included in "Greater New York" are photographs by Hiram Maristany (b. 1945), Robin Graubard (b. 1951) and Diane Burns (1957-2006), paintings by Ahmed Morsi (b. 1930) and Sean-Kierre Lyons (b. 1991), as well as sculptures by Yuji Agematsu (b. 1956) and Kayode Ojo (b. 1990).

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