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The FLAG Art Foundation Nonprofit exhibition space for contemporary art.

The FLAG Art Foundation, founded in 2008 by art patron Glenn Fuhrman, is a non-profit exhibition space that encourages the appreciation of contemporary art among a diverse audience. FLAG presents four to six exhibitions a year that include artworks by international, established and emerging artists, borrowed from a variety of sources. FLAG invites a broad range of creative individuals to curate exhibitions and works in-depth with artists to provide curatorial support and a platform to realize their own solo exhibitions. Based in Manhattan's Chelsea art district, FLAG and
its related programs are free and open to the public

FLAG is open to the public Wednesday-Saturday 11am to 5pm.

𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗟𝗔𝗚: El Anatsui, Maurizio Cattelan, Alex Da Corte, Theaster Gates, Jeffrey Gibson, Lauren Halsey, David Hamm...
10/10/2026

𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗟𝗔𝗚: El Anatsui, Maurizio Cattelan, Alex Da Corte, Theaster Gates, Jeffrey Gibson, Lauren Halsey, David Hammons, Jenny Holzer, Rashid Johnson, Josh Kline, Simone Leigh, Kerry James Marshall, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Danielle Mckinney, Gerhard Richter, Taryn Simon, Lorna Simpson, Hank Willis Thomas, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Salman Toor were recently included in the "Time100" 2026 list of most influential people shaping the future of art.

FLAG is honored to have collaborated with and exhibited these visionary artists.
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Image(s): Installation view of “Spotlight: Lauren Halsey” at The FLAG Art Foundation, 2023. Photography by Steven Probert; Installation view of “Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing” at The FLAG Art Foundation, 2023. Photography by Steven Probert; Installation view of “Etel Adnan | Gerhard Richter” at The FLAG Art Foundation, 2017. Photography by Object Studies; Installation view of “Surface Tension” at The FLAG Art Foundation, 2015. Photography by ArtEcho LLC; Installation view of “As Above, So Below” at The FLAG Art Foundation, 2025. Photography by Steven Probert; Installation view of “A Rose Is” at The FLAG Art Foundation, 2025. Photography by Steven Probert; Installation view of “Spotlight: Hank Willis Thomas” at The FLAG Art Foundation, 2026. Photography by Steven Probert Studio; Installation view of “Among Friends: Three Views of a Collection” at The FLAG Art Foundation, 2022. Photography by Steven Probert; Installation view of “A Rose Is” at The FLAG Art Foundation, 2025. Photography by Steven Probert; Installation view of UNTIL THE MOON COMES OVER THE MOUNTAIN at The FLAG Art Foundation, 2026. Photography by Steven Probert Studio

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴: On the occasion of "Sable Elyse Smith: Clockwork," the artist will be in conversation with chief art critic...
10/09/2026

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴: On the occasion of "Sable Elyse Smith: Clockwork," the artist will be in conversation with chief art critic and editor of The Critics Table at Cultured Magazine, Johanna Fateman on Thursday, October 22, 6-8 PM. RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-conversation-sable-elyse-smith-and-johanna-fateman-tickets-1999707854022

FLAG's programming and exhibitions are free and open to the public.

"Clockwork," on view through February 13, 2027, has been featured in Harper's Bazaar, HYPEBEAST, Artforum, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, and Surface Magazine among others.
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Image: Installation view of "Sable Elyse Smith: Clockwork" at The FLAG Art Foundation, 2026. Photography by Steven Probert Studio

A page from FLAG's 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸: Machined from a single, 1,400lb piece of solid stainless steel, Charles Ray’s “S...
10/08/2026

A page from FLAG's 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸:

Machined from a single, 1,400lb piece of solid stainless steel, Charles Ray’s “Shoe Tie,” 2012, depicts the artist, naked, crouching down to tie a nonexistent shoe on his bare foot. Reminiscent of the highly copied Hellenistic Greco-Roman bronze “Boy with Thorn (Spinario),” ca. 1st century BCE, housed in the Capitoline Museums (second and third images), the idea for “Shoe Tie,” struck Ray while hiking before dawn in the Santa Monica Mountains. Here, hikers are warned never to bend down to tie their shoes because a crouching position exposes the back of the neck, making a person vulnerable to an ambush by a mountain lion. Ray has also noted that the concept for “Shoe Tie” grew from thinking that, if a ghost were to tie its shoe, it wouldn’t need a physical shoe or laces—the pure, familiar human gesture alone would be enough to communicate the act.

Charles Ray’s “Shoe Tie,” 2012, is included in the group exhibition, “The Way We Live Now,” co-curated by Hilton Als and Ann Philbin, in close collaboration with Skarlet Smatana, on view at the George Economou Collection, Athens, through March 2027.
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𝗢𝗻 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄: Ugo Rondinone's "Love Invents Us," 1999, on long-term view on FLAG’s ninth floor terrace.Rondinone's neon works...
10/07/2026

𝗢𝗻 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄: Ugo Rondinone's "Love Invents Us," 1999, on long-term view on FLAG’s ninth floor terrace.

Rondinone's neon works are among the Swiss artist’s most recognizable and celebrated, acting as vibrant, large-scale linguistic interventions in public and gallery spaces. Since creating his first neon rainbow sculpture in 1997, Rondinone has utilized rainbow-hued text installations to cast optimistic, poetic, and joyous exclamations into everyday environments. FLAG’s reinstallation of "Love Invents Us," 1999, serves as a love letter to its neighbors, only viewable from the surrounding streets and buildings of Chelsea.
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Image: Installation view of Ugo Rondinone’s Love Invents Us at The FLAG Art Foundation, 2026-ongoing. Photography by Steven Probert

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𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲: Naudline Pierre's "The Deepest Part," 2023, was featured in Pierre’s Spotlight exhibition, on view at ...
10/03/2026

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲: Naudline Pierre's "The Deepest Part," 2023, was featured in Pierre’s Spotlight exhibition, on view at FLAG April 1-23, 2023. A text by curator and writer Taylor Renee Aldridge accompanied the presentation.

Aldridge wrote, "'The Deepest Part' alludes to mythology of shadow lives and exemplifies the interior of one's subconscious world. The composition furnishes tonal greens and fluid figurative elements of water and fire, elements consistent with Pierre’s overall body of work. The central character codifies a material tension. A benevolent, light-green being, with their arm wrapped snugly around another character’s torso, who pulls them vertically, while the main figure reaches downward—into an abyss of darkness—to grab hold of celestials circling below. Pierre’s mark making is frantic: broad, swift brushstrokes embody a rage and contention that aim to be made palpable for the viewer. A serpent scythe is wielded, but it is impossible to deduce who is the antagonizer in this scene, given that all figures are in motion and contribute to some sort of attrition. The Deepest Part suggests that, perhaps all beings here have the power and possibility of antipathy, as well as goodwill. And perhaps, all exist in fruitful discord. Pierre’s painting begs consideration around anything other than singularity."
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Images: Installation view of “Spotlight: Naudline Pierre” at The FLAG Art Foundation, 2023. Photography by Steven Probert.

𝗢𝗻 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄: "Sable Elyse Smith: Clockwork" through February 13, 2027, and "Spotlight: Hank Willis Thomas" through November ...
09/30/2026

𝗢𝗻 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄: "Sable Elyse Smith: Clockwork" through February 13, 2027, and "Spotlight: Hank Willis Thomas" through November 7, 2026.

"Clockwork," a solo presentation of Sable Elyse Smith marks the fourth and final iteration of the Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize. Co-organized with The Contemporary Austin, the exhibition includes two new works, “LAUGH TRACK, OR WHO’S THAT PEEKING IN MY WINDOW” (2021) and “skin suit” (2026), created specifically for the prize. FLAG expands upon "Clockwork" and its more cinematic elements, transforming the exhibition into an immersive stage set environment, where video becomes an immediate means of visualizing unseen, ordinary violence. Smith's interrogation of fundamental systems of power that define contemporary society, as well as their cultural and psychological impacts, illustrates how systems of power not only overlap, but how they intertwine and mutually reinforce one another.

Smith will be in conversation with Johanna Fateman, chief art critic and editor of The Critics Table for Cultured Magazine on October 22, 6-8 PM.

"Spotlight: Hank Willis Thomas" features "Love Invents Us (column)" (2025) a new, text-based sculpture by Hank Willis Thomas. Considering the relationship between love and authority, the sculpture invites viewers to reflect on the rich layers of meaning embedded within the simple phrase. The presentation is accompanied by a text by Ashley James, Ph.D., Curator of Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Thomas and James will be in conversation at FLAG on Wednesday, September 30, 6-8 PM. (In Conversation: Hank Willis Thomas and Ashley James)
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Images: (1) Installation view of “Sable Elyse Smith: Clockwork” at The FLAG Art Foundation, 2026. Photography by Steven Probert Studio (2) Installation view of “Spotlight: Hank Willis Thomas” at The FLAG Art Foundation, 2026. Photography by Steven Probert Studio

𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: “Clockwork,” a solo presentation of Sable Elyse Smith, the 2026 recipient of the Suzanne Deal Booth / F...
09/24/2026

𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: “Clockwork,” a solo presentation of Sable Elyse Smith, the 2026 recipient of the Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize.

Including sculpture, video, neon, and photography, “Clockwork” interrogates the fundamental systems of power that define contemporary society, as well as their cultural and psychological impacts. Through formal strategies such as seriality and repetition, disorientation, and appropriation, Smith illustrates how systems of power not only overlap, but how they intertwine and mutually reinforce one another.

Join us at FLAG (525 W 25th St, Chelsea Arts Tower) tonight, 6-8 PM.
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𝗨𝗽𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴: “Spotlight: Hank Willis Thomas” will be on view at FLAG September 24-November 7, 2026. A conversation with the...
09/16/2026

𝗨𝗽𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴: “Spotlight: Hank Willis Thomas” will be on view at FLAG September 24-November 7, 2026. A conversation with the artist and Ashley James, PhD., Curator of Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, will take place Wednesday, September 30, 6-8 PM.

Thomas’s “Love Over Rules,” 2025, comprises a towering, mirror-polished steel sculpture that reflects the layers of meaning embedded within the simple phrase. The Spotlight presentation is accompanied by a commissioned piece of writing by James.

RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-conversation-hank-willis-thomas-and-ashley-james-tickets-1999706689539

Registration is free and open to the public.
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Image: Hank Willis Thomas © Hank Willis Thomas. Photography by Jai Lennard

A page from FLAG's 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸:Jeff Koons’s “Balloon Venus Lespugue (Orange),” 2013-2019, is part of a curatoria...
09/14/2026

A page from FLAG's 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸:

Jeff Koons’s “Balloon Venus Lespugue (Orange),” 2013-2019, is part of a curatorial conceit that juxtaposes Paleolithic and contemporary depictions of Venus, proposing a dialogue that spans more than 40,000 years of human history and creativity. Koons’s towering, mirror-polished stainless-steel sculpture stands in contrast to the diminutive “Venus of Lespugue,” a six-inch-tall mammoth tusk ivory figurine dating to between 26,000 and 24,000 BP. Discovered in the Rideaux cave of Lespugue, France, in 1922, the eponymous Venus—of all the steatopygous Venus figurines discovered from the Upper Paleolithic—is distinct for its exceedingly exaggerated form.

Curated by Panagiotis P. Iossif and Ioannis D. Fappas, the presentation is organized as a dialogue of forms and ideas that transcends the boundaries of time, exploring the following questions: How has the symbolic body evolved from the Paleolithic period to postmodernity? Is there a universal archetype of fertility and femininity that transcends epochs? How does material transformation (from mammoth ivory and limestone to mirror-finished stainless steel) alter or preserve the symbolic meaning?“Jeff Koons: ‘Venus’ Lespugue” is on view at the Museum of Cycladic Art through September 28, 2026.

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲: Lubaina Himid's "Make Do and Mend," previously on view from September 13, 2024-February 8, 2025. Recip...
09/10/2026

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲: Lubaina Himid's "Make Do and Mend," previously on view from September 13, 2024-February 8, 2025.

Recipient of the 2024 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize, Himid's solo exhibition "Make Do and Mend," comprised of two new bodies of work: a suite of "Strategy Paintings" depicting Black men and women seated around tables, imagining a specific problem to be solved, and an arrangement of sixty four plank paintings titled "Aunties," building on her previous works evoking funerary objects from East Africa. Co-organized by The Contemporary Austin, the exhibition was accompanied by a fully illustrated exhibition catalogue co-published by FLAG, The Contemporary Austin, and Dancing Foxes.

From September 24, 2026 through February 13, 2027, FLAG will present, "Clockwork," a solo exhibition of Sable Elyse Smith, the 2026 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize recipient.
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Image: Installation view of "Lubaina Himid: Make Do and Mend" at The FLAG Art Foundation, 2024. Photography by Steven Probert.

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