Slow Looking at The James Gallery on Fifth Avenue
Emotionally resonant contemporary art inside a historic CUNY building, with forums that extend the shows.
A Gallery Inside a Working School
The gallery sits inside a historic CUNY building on Fifth Avenue, which sets the pace before you reach the art: classrooms, then a room built for looking. Exhibitions lean on emotionally resonant contemporary work, and the forums and multidisciplinary programmes run alongside the shows, giving a picture a second life weeks after you saw it. Go midweek when the building is in use; the gallery reads as part of a school rather than a museum stop.
